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Kovair Data Lake vs. SAP Business Warehouse
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Kovair Data Lake and SAP Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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LuizKazan
Ability to interact with teachers in real-time and manage lessons after class
Srini-Dhanaraj
The solution enables seamless connection, but it is expensive, and the information is one day old
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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the ability to interact with teachers in real-time and manage lessons after class.""The tool's most valuable features for us are its combination of formatting, ETL, analytics, and storage capabilities."

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"SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable solution.""What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is that it's a seamless integration platform. A valuable feature in the tool is the monitoring alert that makes you aware of what process chain has failed. There's no manual monitoring required if you have configured an alert system, so the process chain can run in the background, and you can get alerts about it. The functionalities I find good in SAP Business Warehouse are alerting and monitoring. If you have configured the tool and have integrated it with SAP Solution Manager, then it's a good product to use.""The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is its hybrid functionality, allowing users to leverage both SQL-based data warehouse capabilities from HANA and feature-based data warehousing from BW.""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.""The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own.""In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable.""I like that it integrates to open-source.""The product is very stable."

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Cons
"The solution is expensive. For future releases, it would be beneficial if Kovair Data Lake could enhance its ETL and data capabilities.""Maybe the chat conversation feature could be improved."

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"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.""The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive.""So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand.""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.""More integration with Microsoft Office products (not just Excel) would be helpful.""Areas for improvement in SAP Business Warehouse include enhancing scheduling and monitoring tools, as well as improving communication about hidden features to make them more accessible to users.""In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed.""What I'd like to improve in SAP Business Warehouse is its data structure, that's a little bit rigid. It could be a bit more flexible, so you can design your data structure and improve performance when creating a solution. Currently, the way data is stored in SAP Business Warehouse is rigid."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten."

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  • "It's moderately expensive, but definitely has its branding and price value for it."
  • "It's quite pricey. SAP changed its pricing policy, so they give you one engine and then you have to buy everything next to it, like MSS, the BPC licenses, and everything else."
  • "The license for SAP Business Warehouse is paid yearly, and there's no extra cost in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "Overall, the pricing is not fixed and is expensive."
  • "The licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse depends on your revenue. Its licensing structure is a little bit complicated. The more your revenue is, the higher the price, but SAP does have different pricing structures for various companies. For small businesses, licensing isn't based on revenue, but for big companies, it's revenue-based. There's some agreement regarding pricing for huge companies, so it's different, and SAP Business Warehouse pricing isn't fixed. On a scale of one to ten, I'm rating the licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse as five because it's very high. As your revenue grows, your licensing cost also increases, so you have to factor that in when calculating your cost."
  • "SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."
  • "I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."
  • "The solution is quite expensive."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Kovair Data Lake?
    Top Answer:The tool's most valuable features for us are its combination of formatting, ETL, analytics, and storage capabilities.
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    What needs improvement with Kovair Data Lake?
    Top Answer:The solution is expensive. For future releases, it would be beneficial if Kovair Data Lake could enhance its ETL and data capabilities.
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    What is your primary use case for Kovair Data Lake?
    Top Answer:I primarily use Kovair Data Lake for data analytics use cases. This involves data cleansing and gaining business intelligence.
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    What do you like most about SAP Business Warehouse?
    Top Answer:Out-of-the-box reports are very useful.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Business Ware...
    Top Answer:The solution is quite expensive. We paid a yearly subscription fee.
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    What needs improvement with SAP Business Warehouse?
    Top Answer:Over a period, we realized that the license and maintenance costs were quite expensive. Every day, we had to run the background job ODS. Eventually, we moved away from SAP Business Warehouse and… more »
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    Ranking
    18th
    out of 34 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    61
    Comparisons
    52
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    193
    Rating
    8.0
    8th
    out of 18 in Cloud Data Warehouse
    Views
    1,298
    Comparisons
    804
    Reviews
    13
    Average Words per Review
    626
    Rating
    7.8
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    Overview

    Kovair Data Lake is a central database that comes with SQL server support. This makes it capable of storing data from multiple projects residing in diversified tools used by an organization. Based on organizational needs, the stored data is then segregated by departments or business units. Kovair Data Lake also comes with a very intuitive UI interface for managing and monitoring of the Data Lake.

    Many organizations use enterprise data warehouses to meet both operational and reporting needs. However, apart from offering a storage and management facilities, there are certain limitations that organizations continue to face. These are –

    - Real-time synchronization of data within a centralized data storage

    - Traceability and governance of stored data

    - Low-cost storage infrastructure compared to Big Data or Data Warehouse

    - Handling of low volume but highly diversified data

    - Prescriptive analytics that will aid in taking data-driven decisions and on-time service delivery

      Kovair has been a market leader in the domain of data integration with a marquee of clients from networking, semiconductor, telecom, manufacturing, banking and finance. Over the recent years, it has witnessed a shift in focus for organizations using multiple tools and different teams. While Kovair Omnibus provides the support for features like traceability, cross tool reporting, and task-based workflow that is simply not enough! Customers today are looking for central data store where data coming from different tools used in an organization could be accumulated in its native format.

      Data Lake presents a low-cost alternative to exploding storage and processing costs of traditional warehouses.

      While traditional data warehouses store data in hierarchical format. Data Lake offers a central database repository with a flat architecture for storing the data. This protects the data from unwanted manipulation, enabling businesses to take informed decisions accurately and building a better business-customer relationship.

      Product Highlights:

      - Large Data Repository for Central Administration

      - Tool Extractors with WS/SQL Communication Support

      - Web-based Data Lake Portal

        More details - https://www.kovair.com/data-lake/

        Reporting, analysis and interpretation of business data are crucial to preserve and enhance the competitive edge of companies by optimizing processes and enabling them to react quickly and in line with market needs. SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate, transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources. SAP BW provides you with a high-performance infrastructure that helps you evaluate and interpret data. Decision makers can make well-founded decisions and identify target-orientated activities on the basis of the analyzed data.

        Sample Customers
        HSBC, NVIDIA, APPLIED MATERIALS, Allscripts, CISCO, Honeywell
        Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
        Top Industries
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        REVIEWERS
        Insurance Company19%
        Non Tech Company13%
        Energy/Utilities Company13%
        Manufacturing Company13%
        VISITORS READING REVIEWS
        Computer Software Company13%
        Manufacturing Company10%
        Financial Services Firm9%
        Energy/Utilities Company8%
        Company Size
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        REVIEWERS
        Small Business24%
        Midsize Enterprise16%
        Large Enterprise60%
        VISITORS READING REVIEWS
        Small Business19%
        Midsize Enterprise14%
        Large Enterprise67%
        Buyer's Guide
        Kovair Data Lake vs. SAP Business Warehouse
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        Kovair Data Lake is ranked 18th in Data Warehouse with 2 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. Kovair Data Lake is rated 8.0, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Kovair Data Lake writes "Ability to interact with teachers in real-time and manage lessons after class". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". Kovair Data Lake is most compared with Oracle Exadata, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Kovair Data Lake vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.

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