We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata 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."Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"The tool performs well with a large database."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"Some of the main features of this solution are that it uses HANA and it has good performance."
"It's quite scalable."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"From an ERP point of view and a functionality point of view, it works very well. The benefits are in that of financial costing and material management."
"It is a stable solution."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"I cannot integrate it with my other tools. It's not possible to do something in the predictive analysis. Mobile reporting is also not available."
"One thing that could be enhanced in SAP BW4HANA is the user interface for process chains."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"If I want to have good reporting, then I have to buy a separate license."
"Not a ten because it's expensive and its ecosystem is not very open."
"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."
"The tool is not easy to use for an end user."
"There's the complexity in migration from BW to BW/4HANA, especially with data migration."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 37 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "Performs all necessary data warehouse tasks and offers additional functionalities". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse. See our Oracle Exadata vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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