We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and VMware Tanzu Data Services 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 aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"SAP BW4HANA aids in managing data from ER to front-end analysis, contributes to ROI, and fosters business growth understanding. I like that the solution breaks down components to a very granular level, allowing for customization and implementation based on specific requirements. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable."
"The solution is easier to maintain than traditional SAP products."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"The solution is useful for connecting with external systems."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"It can calculate data in detail. Before we could not calculate financial documents and accountant documents in detail, we could not do it at a document level but now we can. This is the most important feature. It also has predictive analysis memory."
"The message routing is the most valuable feature. It is effective and flexible."
"Scalable (Massive) Parallel Processing (MPP) – The ability to bring to bear large amounts of compute against large data sets with Greenplum and the EMC DCA has proven itself to be very effective."
"The product's feature of data transaction works fast."
"The solution's best feature is its exceptional speed, delivering efficient utilization of resources."
"The loading speed is very good."
"The product's reliability is the most valuable feature."
"Very sophisticated routing control and priority messaging capabilities"
"The most valuable feature is asynchronous calls, which are easy to configure."
"Not a ten because it's expensive and its ecosystem is not very open."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
"The solution does occasionally get a few bugs, but this is typical for any product."
"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."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"They have taken out a few BW functionalities when they redesigned this. The way of multi-dimensional thinking and star schema got a little bit lost. It may be because of the cost, but certain functionalities that were previously implemented from the BW side should come back again in the whole product. It is a young product. It is version 2.0. In time, I'm pretty sure they will come back again because otherwise, it limits the potential of the product, and I have to do a lot of modeling towards that direction. For me, the analytics focus is too much. It is not cube-oriented in that way, so its functionality is limited. It is not really technically limited in the back end; it is more limited in the front end. It has a data-mining mindset for SQL developers. The navigational attributes should be easy. It needs to be built in models. I see the data mark cube or understanding that the composite provider needs to be models in a cube coming back. The multi-dimensional star schema approach and the reporting need to be done as well as possible to leverage the star scheme below. This is definitely not understood by many consultants and even composite providers for star schema. They always think in terms of flat tables, which is limiting. You need to build the right dimensions, objects, and so on. If you can build this in BW4HANA, then you have this understanding that BW4HANA is not forcing you in this direction, but it should force you a bit better in this direction. Maybe a few elements which were in use in BW should come back again. It would help the community to determine the direction to build on the cube. You can have maybe 50 elements, and then you can expand it to what you need by leveraging navigation. So far, this functionality is a little bit limited in the tool, and it is not thought through, but I think it will come. They should also be adding more capabilities for the transformation between different objects. In BW, this is currently limited, especially towards composite providers. It is a bit complex basically in the building. You have to have a lot of knowledge as well as know how to do it better because it is a bit different from BW. There is not too much expertise currently in the consulting markets. Many are trying to build something, but it may be based on their knowledge of what they have from the BW and HANA side. You have to find the right mix from both of them at this time. We also have HANA Native. These are our two different sync sources basically, and we have approaches to connect nicely, but it is hard to manage your team because a lot of coaching is required."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"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 initial deployment was a little difficult."
"There are some security concerns that have been raised with this product."
"Some integration with other platforms like design tools, and ETL development tools, that will enable some advanced functionality, like fully down processing, etc."
"Lacks sufficient inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases."
"Their implementation is quite tricky. It's not that easy to implement RabbitMQ as a cluster."
"I saw some limitation with respect to the column store, and removing this would be an improvement."
"Implementation takes a long time."
"This solution struggled with multi-regional synchronization."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 37 reviews while VMware Tanzu Data Services is ranked 5th in Data Warehouse with 81 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while VMware Tanzu Data Services is rated 8.0. 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 VMware Tanzu Data Services writes "Reliable queueing functionality and versatile tool that can be used with any programming languages ". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA and Amazon Redshift, whereas VMware Tanzu Data Services is most compared with IBM MQ, Anypoint MQ, Apache Kafka, Red Hat AMQ and ActiveMQ. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. VMware Tanzu Data Services report.
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