We performed a comparison between Microsoft Analytics Platform System and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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."This is a well-integrated solution and that integration empowers results."
"Microsoft Analytics Platform System's most valuable feature is its ecosystems and seamless integration with other Microsoft reporting platforms and databases."
"We leverage its capabilities for many applications. We can integrate with our databases, like Oracle, MySQL, or any other, using Microsoft Integration Services."
"I like that it's integrated with other Azure products."
"It is closely integrated with other products in the MS portfolio."
"This solution will connect to any database, you can combine databases, and you can create a cube or tabular model."
"The Cube Solution is quite different when compared to the rest of the competition and has unique functionality for advanced analytics."
"Helps our customers to discover trends, which provides useful information based on their business."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"The solution has been reliable."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"It handles high volumes of data very well."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"Functionality needs to be more up-to-date with competing products."
"I think the biggest problem with the product is that it does a data ingest model, which is very expensive."
"Machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities need to be more friendly for beginning users."
"Releases of new products and functionality is never accompanied by associated documentation, training and resources that adequately explain the release."
"The pricing model needs to be improved."
"We need better real-time analytics capabilities. It's a bit challenging for us."
"Hybrid environments are complex to manage."
"Microsoft Analytics Platform System could have better support."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area could be enhanced."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
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Microsoft Analytics Platform System is ranked 17th in Data Warehouse with 2 reviews while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 12 reviews. Microsoft Analytics Platform System is rated 6.6, while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Analytics Platform System writes "Offers smooth data integration between systems, but requires better real-time analytics capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "User-friendly UI and good support". Microsoft Analytics Platform System is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Teradata, Snowflake and IBM Netezza Performance Server, whereas Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Microsoft Analytics Platform System vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse report.
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