We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and Teradata 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 is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"Its direct approach is the most valuable. You get more real time and capabilities than BW."
"The UI is completely new, beautiful, and user-friendly. There are some other helpful features like global filters and advanced tools. We can perform custom calculations easily From a technical perspective, the performance has been enhanced and optimized for a limited number of flows. The content settings are more advanced, and there are so many other features that I can't name them all."
"It's quite scalable."
"The solution is easier to maintain than traditional SAP products."
"You can do hierarchical alert slicing and dicing out-of-box, which is not available in other solutions. I haven't come across that in Oracle or any other software provider."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"I've never had any issues with scalability."
"I found all parts --loading, transformation, processing & querying work in parallel, and end-to-end-- to be valuable."
"Teradata is a great, industry-leading data warehousing product that has MPP architecture."
"The most valuable features are the Shared-nothing architecture and data protection functionality."
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is security. It runs on Unix and Linux platforms which provide better security."
"We really enjoy the FastLoad, TPump, and MultiLoad features."
"Teradata's most valuable feature is that it's easy to use."
"It has massive parallel processing ability to do large amounts of concurrent querying."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
"Challenges arise with real-time client requirements when clients are accustomed to Microsoft Excel's extensive features for data analysis. They expect similar flexibility and customization in the solution, particularly regarding headers displaying keys and descriptions or just keys. Achieving this level of customization can be challenging, and it's an area that may need improvement."
"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."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"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."
"Connecting multiple sources is a challenge because you have to go through a lot of different setups."
"Not a ten because it's expensive and its ecosystem is not very open."
"There is a need to improve performance in high transaction processes, as well as the reporting system."
"Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives."
"The increasing volumes of data demand more and more performance."
"The scalability could be better. The on-premises solution is always more complicated to scale."
"I'm not sure about the unstructured data management capabilities. It could be improved."
"Limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading."
"Since I was working on the very basic, legacy systems, the memory thing was always a challenge. If Teradata is moving to the cloud, the space constraint or the memory issue that my company generally faces will eventually resolve, in time. What I'd like to see in the next release of Teradata is that it becomes full-fledged on the cloud, apart from better connectivity to various systems. For example, if I have to read or include a Python script, if I write some basic codes, I should be able to read even unstructured data. I know that it's not supported even in Snowflake, but at least semi-structured data support, if that can be a little more enhanced, that would be good."
"GUI of administrative tools is really outdated."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while Teradata is rated 8.2. 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 Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and SAP IQ, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, MySQL and BigQuery. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. Teradata report.
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