We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and SAP IQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that it's robust."
"The solution is based on SAP ERP, so there's some business content already included. For customers who use SAP ERP, SAP BW4HANA is a good choice for their DW implementation."
"It is a very stable solution."
"You can do hierarchical alert slicing and dicing out-of-box, which is not available in other solutions. I haven't come across that in Oracle or any other software provider."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The primary benefit of SAP IQ is its ability to limit the expansion of the costly SAP HANA database, which has limited storage capacity. This necessitates a form of data management that involves moving data from SAP HANA to SAP NLS, which is essentially archiving. This allows us to retain access to the data via a link whenever it is required."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"There's one area where the other vendors have an upper edge, which is the data lake. I think SAP is trying to figure out whether to stick with IQ, their own data lake solution, or push customers toward customer-preferred vendors, like Azure Data Lake, AWS, or any other provider."
"The dashboard should be simplified and made easier for exploration and decision making."
"The tool is not easy to use for an end user."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"It's complicated to use. You need to spend a lot of time learning about it. The interface could be improved. It's not intuitive to build a data model and use their ETL tools."
"The cost of the product might be an area that might introduce some restrictions or limitations to customers, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"Multiplex is very problematic. There are consistency problems in the metadata, meaning it is possible to lose metadata consistency. You should make sure you have healthy backups."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 16th in Data Warehouse with 17 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and Apache Hadoop, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server, Apache Hadoop and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. SAP IQ report.
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