We performed a comparison between AWS Lake Formation and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse."
"The solution is quite good at handling analytics. It's done a good job at helping us centralize them."
"The most important advantage in using AWS Lake Formation is its ability to connect the data lake to the other technologies in AWS. This is what I advise my clients."
"It is seamlessly integrated within the AWS ecosystem, making it straightforward to manage access patterns for AWS-native services."
"The solution has many features that are applicable to events such as audits."
"It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users."
"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."
"A robust and efficient product."
"It is a robust system."
"Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics."
"Data modeling is a valuable feature."
"The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."
"It falls short when it comes to more granular access control, such as cell-level or row-level entitlements which is a significant drawback for organizations that require precise control over who can access specific rows of data."
"The solution could make improvements around orchestration and doing some automation stuff on AWS front automation. It would be useful if we could use automation to build images and use hardened images which are CIS compliant."
"AWS Lake Formation's pricing could be cheaper."
"For the end-users, it's not as user-friendly as it could be."
"In our experience what could be improved are not the support, performance or monitoring, but at a managerial level, the very expensive professional services of AWS. This could be an area of improvement for them. It's too expensive to acquire their support."
"Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier."
"It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us."
"Design and modeling could be simplified."
"The product could provide more features."
"The program is difficult to learn to use"
"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect."
"There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability."
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AWS Lake Formation is ranked 12th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is ranked 15th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews. AWS Lake Formation is rated 7.6, while SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS Lake Formation writes "Strategically aligning data management in a multi-cloud environment with significant reporting challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse writes "Powerful solution with good security and audit procedure features". AWS Lake Formation is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and BigQuery, whereas SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is most compared with SAP BW4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse. See our AWS Lake Formation vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse report.
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