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."Databricks' most valuable feature is the data transformation through PySpark."
"It is fast, it's scalable, and it does the job it needs to do."
"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."
"We have the ability to scale, collaborate and do machine learning."
"The built-in optimization recommendations halved the speed of queries and allowed us to reach decision points and deliver insights very quickly."
"Can cut across the entire ecosystem of open source technology to give an extra level of getting the transformatory process of the data."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"Databricks has improved my organization by allowing us to transform data from sources to a different format and feed that to the analytics, business intelligence, and reporting teams. This tool makes it easy to do those kinds of things."
"I would recommend this solution for companies that are SAP dependent with users working in this environment."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"Visualization is quite seamless and awesome. Once the data messaging is set up, it's straightforward and simple to select how it should be displayed. So, that's another advantage of SAP."
"Easy to use."
"The new Application Design option offers lots of customization options by being able to script in Typescript (similar to Javascript)."
"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."
"The Smart Predict, Smart Insights, and Smart Discovery predictive analysis features are quite good."
"The tool's most valuable features are the BI and planning functionalities. I value being able to integrate smart planning with BI for analysis. The solution is user-friendly."
"The ability to customize our own pipelines would enhance the product, similar to what's possible using ML files in Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"Databricks would have more collaborative features than it has. It should have some more customization for the jobs."
"CI/CD needs additional leverage and support."
"Databricks is an analytics platform. It should offer more data science. It should have more features for data scientists to work with."
"We'd like a more visual dashboard for analysis It needs better UI."
"Databricks can improve by making the documentation better."
"I would love an integration in my desktop IDE. For now, I have to code on their webpage."
"In the future, I would like to see Data Lake support. That is something that I'm looking forward to."
"SAP Analytics Cloud requires a lot of coding and I would like the coding to be somewhat minimal."
"Sometimes there are speed issues with big deletion data."
"One potential improvement is how we can transpose data. With SAP, if you have data from one system with a declared data type and a different system with another data type, the transfer is tricky."
"The budget management could be better."
"In the live connection model, we can't create calculated dimensions, however, in the import model we can create them."
"The business intelligence features should be improved because there is a lack of functionality regarding that part."
"AI doesn't work as well with SAP live connections."
"Technical support could be more helpful and responsive."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 61 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, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, 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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