We performed a comparison between BigQuery and SAP Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I like most about BigQuery is that it's fast and flexible. Another advantage of BigQuery is that it's easy to learn."
"It's pretty stable. It's fast, and it is able to go through large quantities of data pretty quickly."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It stands out in efficiently handling internal actions without the need for manual intervention in tasks like building cubes and defining final dimensions."
"There are some performance features like partitioning, which you can do based on an integer, and it improves the performance a lot."
"The solution's reporting, dashboard, and out-of-the-box capabilities match exactly our requirements."
"I like that we can synch and run a large query. I also like that we can work with a large amount of data. You don't need to work separately, as it's a ready-made solution. It also comes with a built-in machine-learning feature. Once we start inputting the data, it will suggest some things related to the data, and we can come up with nice dashboards and statistics from a vast amount of data."
"One of the most significant advantages lies in the decoupling of storage and compute which allows to independently scale storage and compute resources, with the added benefit of extremely cost-effective storage akin to object storage solutions."
"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 aspect of the solution is the integration with SAP ERP."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is transformation, where I extract data from different sources, particularly the raw data. Then I do some transformations and store that in a format that allows me to do reporting easily."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."
"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"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."
"The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."
"The primary hurdle in this migration lies in the initial phase of moving substantial volumes of data to cloud-based platforms."
"The price could be better. Compared to competing solutions, BigQuery is expensive. It's only suitable for enterprise customers, not small and medium-sized businesses, as they cannot afford this kind of solution. In the next release, it would be better if they improved their AI bot. Although machine learning and artificial intelligence are doing wonders, there is still a lot of room to enhance them."
"The main challenges are in the areas of performance and cost optimizations."
"So our challenge in Yemen is convincing many people to go to cloud services."
"The solution should reduce its pricing."
"There are some limitations in the query latency compared to what it was three years ago."
"I understand that Snowflake has made some improvements on its end to further reduce costs, so I believe BigQuery can catch up."
"We'd like to have more integrations with other technologies."
"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."
"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."
"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."
"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."
"More integration with Microsoft Office products (not just Excel) would be helpful."
"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."
"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."
"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."
BigQuery is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 31 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. BigQuery is rated 8.2, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BigQuery writes "Expandable and easy to set up but needs more local data residency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". BigQuery is most compared with Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Vertica and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP BW4HANA, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and Amazon Redshift. See our BigQuery vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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