We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata 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 technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"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."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"The business intelligence is very good."
"The product is flexible."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"The solution is based on SAP ERP, so there's some business content already included. For customers who use SAP ERP, SAP BW4HANA is a good choice for their DW implementation."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"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."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"It's quite scalable."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"We have a little trepidation with the system as it does have a learning curve. Also changing to a binary logging format for us feels like retrograde motion, but sadly almost all Linux variants have moved in this direction."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"The solution does occasionally get a few bugs, but this is typical for any product."
"From a technical perspective, it could be even more related to legacy systems. The connectivity requirement is quite high and requires systems that are up-to-date."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
"If I want to have good reporting, then I have to buy a separate license."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". 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 Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and Teradata. See our Oracle Exadata vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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