We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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."The product works well with other Azure products."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are its serverless flexibility and complete power have allowed me to explore various different use cases. While I am not an expert in the product, my experience in programming in Databricks has shown me that Microsoft's investments in Synapse could potentially lead to it becoming a complete replacement for Databricks in the future."
"The product is very user friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its integration with the new legacy systems. Whatever application we want to integrate, we receive the reports based on the objects. The solution is easy to purchase from the cloud."
"Very interactive and provides flexibility."
"Data can be stored any way you want in the data warehouse."
"It's scalable; you can scale up and scale down."
"The initial setup was really easy and straightforward."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"The key element in this solution is its rapid response. If you have a question about prices, buyers, customers, providers, or services, you need the answer in a minute or two. That's the key benefit for us that a solution like BW gives us."
"I like that it integrates to open-source."
"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable solution."
"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."
"The real-time information is great."
"The product is very stable."
"Right now, we are really struggling with the performance. it's not as good as we had hoped."
"In the future, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve the performance, there are other solutions that are better, such as Databricks."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"I would like to see version control implemented into the data warehouse."
"The performance and data consistency need to be improved."
"It would be beneficial to take the top vendors and identify some kind of straightforward action to work with them. Instead of having to employ a separate vendor tool to be able to move this, it would be nice to be able to go through Microsoft."
"I would like to see more ready-to-use products from Synapse. Right now, everything seems a bit futuristic without much modern use."
"Its stability is an issue. They have been releasing a version every six months to one year, which means that there are many versions available, and clients are not up to speed on the latest one that they're offering. From a stability point of view, they could do better. They're still upgrading their Synapse Analytics workspace, and it is not that stable. Its scalability can also be better."
"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."
"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."
"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."
"In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."
"The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive."
"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."
"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."
"More integration with Microsoft Office products (not just Excel) would be helpful."
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 38 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 13 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 8.0, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "Multifeatured, has better performance over other solutions, and lets users manage structured and unstructured information, but the platform needs to be more user-friendly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, SAP BW4HANA, Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Snowflake, BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, SAP BW4HANA and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. See our Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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