We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and TIBCO Live Datamart 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."It's quite scalable."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"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."
"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's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard."
"The solution has a powerful aggregating feature"
"You can create your own rules that include mathematic calculations."
"It's complicated to use. You need to spend a lot of time learning about it. The interface could be improved. It's not intuitive to build a data model and use their ETL tools."
"The licensing cost could be made better."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
"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."
"The cost of the product might be an area that might introduce some restrictions or limitations to customers, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."
"Improvements need to be made on the load balancing side."
"The solution's setup could be quicker and easier."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews while TIBCO Live Datamart is ranked 13th in Data Warehouse with 2 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while TIBCO Live Datamart is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Live Datamart writes "Standout features are real-time dashboards and powerful aggregation". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and SQL Server, whereas TIBCO Live Datamart is most compared with . See our SAP BW4HANA vs. TIBCO Live Datamart report.
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