We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and SAP BW4HANA 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."The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution."
"The tool is a specific and effective system. I am impressed with its usability."
"The performance due to the all-flash of ODA is very nice."
"The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance."
"Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years."
"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."
"The Oracle database is able to get the data, process it, and return it to the company's CEO's and CFO's within a single day, and thus they are able to find out yesterday's P and L by today. It has drastically reduced the amount and time of processing from seven days to one day."
"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"From an ERP point of view and a functionality point of view, it works very well. The benefits are in that of financial costing and material management."
"The solution is useful for connecting with external systems."
"It's quite scalable."
"I like the reporting features of the solution."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard."
"Out of the box, this solution has a lot of standard features."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"We would like the ability to add more storage without having to upgrade to Oracle Exadata."
"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."
"The tool's setup can be easier."
"Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."
"They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."
"It would be beneficial to have dedicated RAM included in the Oracle Database Appliance."
"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."
"They have taken out a few BW functionalities when they redesigned this. The way of multi-dimensional thinking and star schema got a little bit lost. It may be because of the cost, but certain functionalities that were previously implemented from the BW side should come back again in the whole product. It is a young product. It is version 2.0. In time, I'm pretty sure they will come back again because otherwise, it limits the potential of the product, and I have to do a lot of modeling towards that direction. For me, the analytics focus is too much. It is not cube-oriented in that way, so its functionality is limited. It is not really technically limited in the back end; it is more limited in the front end. It has a data-mining mindset for SQL developers. The navigational attributes should be easy. It needs to be built in models. I see the data mark cube or understanding that the composite provider needs to be models in a cube coming back. The multi-dimensional star schema approach and the reporting need to be done as well as possible to leverage the star scheme below. This is definitely not understood by many consultants and even composite providers for star schema. They always think in terms of flat tables, which is limiting. You need to build the right dimensions, objects, and so on. If you can build this in BW4HANA, then you have this understanding that BW4HANA is not forcing you in this direction, but it should force you a bit better in this direction. Maybe a few elements which were in use in BW should come back again. It would help the community to determine the direction to build on the cube. You can have maybe 50 elements, and then you can expand it to what you need by leveraging navigation. So far, this functionality is a little bit limited in the tool, and it is not thought through, but I think it will come. They should also be adding more capabilities for the transformation between different objects. In BW, this is currently limited, especially towards composite providers. It is a bit complex basically in the building. You have to have a lot of knowledge as well as know how to do it better because it is a bit different from BW. There is not too much expertise currently in the consulting markets. Many are trying to build something, but it may be based on their knowledge of what they have from the BW and HANA side. You have to find the right mix from both of them at this time. We also have HANA Native. These are our two different sync sources basically, and we have approaches to connect nicely, but it is hard to manage your team because a lot of coaching is required."
"I would like more integration."
"The solution is not scalable. It does not have a data streaming feature as well."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It requires a lot of learning at the beginning."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"I cannot integrate it with my other tools. It's not possible to do something in the predictive analysis. Mobile reporting is also not available."
"There's one area where the other vendors have an upper edge, which is the data lake. I think SAP is trying to figure out whether to stick with IQ, their own data lake solution, or push customers toward customer-preferred vendors, like Azure Data Lake, AWS, or any other provider."
"The tool is not cloud-compatible."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres and IBM Db2 Warehouse, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and SAP HANA. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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