We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata 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."Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"Oracle Exadata is stable."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"The tool's performance is good."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"Oracle is known to be the number one in their industry; the help and support, the features they are giving the clients comparing to other databases, the new technology, the provide a good solution."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."
"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."
"Now, because of the HANA integration, the hard disk and RAM are together, and because of that, the output is very quick and very fast actually."
"The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"The problem with BW, and the factor that differentiated it from the original BW, is that you only get limited functionality with your runtime license. So, you have to pay extra for extracting data."
"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."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive."
"The solution should be more open to the cloud."
"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."
"It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse."
"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."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Exadata vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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