We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and SAP 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."It will be MPP, so performance should improve."
"The way that it scales will help a lot of customers that are stuck with Netezza boxes that can't grow any larger."
"The performance is okay as long as the volume of queries is not too high."
"Now, because of the HANA integration, the hard disk and RAM are together, and because of that, the output is very quick and very fast actually."
"SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable solution."
"We are currently in a basic stage of analytics and the first goal we have is to make sure the numbers are correct. BW has some features that help you to build factors and ETL in such a way that it's easy to get to correct responses. That's the number one condition that you have to have in an analytic solution."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the integration with SAP ERP."
"The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."
"I like that it integrates to open-source."
"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."
"Ultimately, the product itself has challenges and we are not currently satisfied with the support, either."
"Tech support for dashDB is awful. We usually have tickets open for three to four weeks."
"Right now, we are implementing on ESX VMware 6.0. Support for this platform is poor. Also, one of the backup/recovery options is broken and IBM is not addressing the issue."
"Containers get corrupted very easily. Restoring them using GPFS can result in a lot of issues."
"What I'd like improved in SAP Business Warehouse is its setup. It could be more flexible, and it could be a configuration-based setup."
"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."
"I'm not sure if our issue is related to BW or the Analysis Office. However, we're having performance issues in terms of time. It takes a long time to generate the report."
"I would like to see a different end solution in order to read the data and attract internal users."
"The way the data is stored is kind of rigid in SAP BW as a product. It could be more flexible so that when we are designing a solution, we can design our own data structures and try to improve performance."
"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."
"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."
"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."
IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is ranked 15th in Cloud Data Warehouse while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is rated 7.6, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud writes "The "prefetch" feature anticipates needed data and keeps it available. BLU acceleration determines what data is unqualified for analysis and skips it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is most compared with Amazon Redshift, IBM Db2 Warehouse, IBM Netezza Performance Server, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Snowflake, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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