We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and SAP BW4HANA 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."Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"We have complete control over our data."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"It performs very well overall."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"The most valuable feature is that it's robust."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"I like how it blends no-code and ABAP code for complex transformations during data loading."
"Some of the main features of this solution are that it uses HANA and it has good performance."
"The ability to instantly pull data is the most valuable feature."
"We benefited from BW/4HANA's ability to utilize predefined content inside. We didn't need to start from scratch."
"The solution is easier to maintain than traditional SAP products."
"The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"I would like more integration."
"BW/4HANA could improve query optimization. For example, there could be an error message that pops up when you hover over it if any query fails. That would make it easier to find out what went gone wrong. Guided SAP help tools would make it easier for us to go forward."
"The product needs to improve with more performance and fewer data layers."
"From a technical perspective, it could be even more related to legacy systems. The connectivity requirement is quite high and requires systems that are up-to-date."
"One thing that could be enhanced in SAP BW4HANA is the user interface for process chains."
"The tool is not easy to use for an end user."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 37 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "Performs all necessary data warehouse tasks and offers additional functionalities". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata and Snowflake, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Apache Hadoop. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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