We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and SAP Business 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."Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"It is a very stable database."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is its ability to feed data into new, multiple systems in various formats. It can open its data to any system over gateway services or a portal or application that needs to consume and analyze data."
"The product is very stable."
"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"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."
"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."
"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."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."
"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."
"A few things which are missing include the visualization of reports. That's where your costs and licensing become heavy. When it comes to this database compared Microsoft Warehouse, it's an expensive solution."
"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."
"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."
"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."
"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 get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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