We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and VMware Tanzu Greenplum 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 most valuable aspect of the solution is the integration with SAP ERP."
"The key element in this solution is its rapid response. If you have a question about prices, buyers, customers, providers, or services, you need the answer in a minute or two. That's the key benefit for us that a solution like BW gives us."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is that it's a seamless integration platform. A valuable feature in the tool is the monitoring alert that makes you aware of what process chain has failed. There's no manual monitoring required if you have configured an alert system, so the process chain can run in the background, and you can get alerts about it. The functionalities I find good in SAP Business Warehouse are alerting and monitoring. If you have configured the tool and have integrated it with SAP Solution Manager, then it's a good product to use."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is its hybrid functionality, allowing users to leverage both SQL-based data warehouse capabilities from HANA and feature-based data warehousing from BW."
"Pivotal Greenplum's shared-nothing architecture."
"Very fast for query processing."
"It works very well with large database queries."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform."
"Helps us to achieve large-scale analytics."
"The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling."
"The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable."
"The way the data is stored is kind of rigid in SAP BW as a product. It could be more flexible so that when we are designing a solution, we can design our own data structures and try to improve performance."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"What I'd like improved in SAP Business Warehouse is its setup. It could be more flexible, and it could be a configuration-based setup."
"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."
"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."
"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."
"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."
"Areas for improvement in SAP Business Warehouse include enhancing scheduling and monitoring tools, as well as improving communication about hidden features to make them more accessible to users."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"Implementation takes a long time."
"If you have a user consuming a huge load of resources, it takes down the entire system."
"One of the disadvantages, not a disadvantage with the product itself, but overall, is the expertise in the marketplace. It's not easy to find a Greenplum administrator in the market, compared to other products such as Oracle."
"VMware Tanzu Greenplum needs improvement in the memory area and improved methods for quick access to the disc. So, one of the quick goals of Greenplum must work on enhancing access to the disc by adding hints in the database."
"The installation is difficult and should be made easier."
"We would like to see Greenplum maintain a closer relationship with and parity to features implemented in PostgreSQL."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and the out-of-the-box configuration requires optimization."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance, Apache Hadoop and Snowflake. See our SAP Business Warehouse vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.
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