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 solution is pretty automated, which takes out the possibility of human error."
"Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time)."
"The solution is stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is very helpful. The initial setup is straightforward. I consider the product a strong solution for our customers."
"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."
"Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years."
"The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."
"The performance due to the all-flash of ODA is very nice."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"SAP BW4HANA aids in managing data from ER to front-end analysis, contributes to ROI, and fosters business growth understanding. I like that the solution breaks down components to a very granular level, allowing for customization and implementation based on specific requirements. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The solution is easier to maintain than traditional SAP products."
"Its direct approach is the most valuable. You get more real time and capabilities than BW."
"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."
"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."
"Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."
"If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this."
"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."
"Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"In terms of what can be be improved, I'd say Artificial Intelligence, AI. It would be really helpful if AI was incorporated within the solution."
"We cannot integrate with third-party tools like Python or advanced integration options. You can't fine-tune tables within BW or generate specific views or reports."
"The dashboard should be simplified and made easier for exploration and decision making."
"If I want to have good reporting, then I have to buy a separate license."
"I would like more integration."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"I don't see SAP actively supporting the solution now...a better support from SAP would be appreciated."
"BW/4HANA could improve query optimization. For example, there could be an error message that pops up when you hover over it if any query fails. That would make it easier to find out what went gone wrong. Guided SAP help tools would make it easier for us to go forward."
"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."
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 "Stable solution with opportunities for performance enhancement". 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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