We performed a comparison between Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"Its lightweight and fast processing are valuable."
"Imageflow is a visual tool that helps make it easier for business people to understand complex workflows."
"I like that Databricks is a unified platform that lets you do streaming and batch processing in the same place. You can do analytics, too. They have added something called Databricks SQL Analytics, allowing users to connect to the data lake to perform analytics. Databricks also will enable you to share your data securely. It integrates with your reporting system as well."
"Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"Databricks has helped us have a good presence in data."
"It is scalable."
"The features that are most valuable in SAP Analytics Cloud are the planning feature and the predictive analytics feature, though the planning feature needs to be more efficient."
"Data integration is very good."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"It is a comprehensive BI solution that provides reporting, planning, and predictive analytics in one solution. You don't have to buy three different products. It is very flexible. It can be implemented very quickly. It has a lot of out-of-the-box scenarios that you can use for quick deployment."
"Real-time data makes for a single version of the truth."
"I like the predictive features of SAP. It's easy to use tools for an end-user."
"The product could be improved by offering an expansion of their visualization capabilities, which currently assists in development in their notebook environment."
"The stability of the clusters or the instances of Databricks would be better if it was a much more stable environment. We've had issues with crashes."
"I would like more integration with SQL for using data in different workspaces."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"The tool should improve its integration with other products."
"It would be great if Databricks could integrate all the cloud platforms."
"The product needs samples and templates to help invite users to see results and understand what the product can do."
"I would like it if Databricks adopted an interface more like R Studio. When I create a data frame or a table, R Studio provides a preview of the data. In R Studio, I can see that it created a table with so many columns or rows. Then I can click on it and open a preview of that data."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
"The connection works only for importing data. Currently, there is no real-time integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and CRM. There are some features present in the classic but not in the optimized version. If I need to create something specific, I often have to switch the versions. It would be more convenient to have a single product that incorporates all the necessary features."
"SAC, which is the cloud version, lost some good features from the previous planning product, like BPC or BPS."
"It should have the flexibility for scoping the story and models. When you use it in a three-layer architecture, you struggle with the fact that you usually have just one SAP Analytics Cloud tenant, and you have to switch the connections, which might be an issue for bigger developments. For the development role, there should be an option to switch between development and production scenarios."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
"The scope is limited to a few accounts."
"However, there are areas of improvement, particularly in terms of visualization. The front-end interface of SAP Analytics Cloud is not as impressive as Tableau and Power BI. The charts in other solutions have a more visually appealing and customizable look, while in SAP Analytics Cloud, there's a lack of alignment between numbers and charts. This graphical aspect, especially concerning charts, is not as satisfactory in SAP Analytics Cloud compared to its counterparts."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Anaplan.
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