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."I like the reporting features of the solution."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"It is a stable solution."
"Some of the main features of this solution are that it uses HANA and it has good performance."
"The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The solution saves time and cost."
"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."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"The product is easy to learn."
"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."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Connecting multiple sources is a challenge because you have to go through a lot of different setups."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
"I would like to be able to design new reports in a future release."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"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."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"The solution is not scalable. It does not have a data streaming feature as well."
"The product needs to improve with more performance and fewer data layers."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"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."
"There is very little documentation available."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 37 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 17th in Data Warehouse with 19 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while SAP IQ is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "Performs all necessary data warehouse tasks and offers additional functionalities". 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, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, Apache Hadoop and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. SAP IQ report.
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