We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Pak for Data and SAP HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Virtualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cloud Pak's most valuable features are IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, and ISPF."
"What I found most helpful in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is containerization, which means it's easy to shift and leave in terms of moving to other clouds. That's an advantage of IBM Cloud Pak for Data."
"DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources."
"One of Cloud Pak's best features is the Watson Knowledge Catalog, which helps you implement data governance."
"You can model the data there, connect the data models with the business processes and create data lineage processes."
"Its data preparation capabilities are highly valuable."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cloud Pak for Data are the Watson Studio, where we can initiate more groups and write code. Additionally, Watson Machine Learning is available with many other services, such as APIs which you can plug the machine learning models."
"The most valuable features are data virtualization and reporting."
"Eases management of databases."
"The performance in terms of processing time is unmatched due to the in-memory processing capability."
"If you want to scale with new processes and new reports, that's fairly easy."
"The speed at which it gets the data is great."
"The product handles high volumes very well and provides good integration."
"Using this solution has given us better details for reporting and analytics."
"The solution is easy to manage enterprise resources and the reporting and analytics are including. It is good for company growth and all module are managed well."
"We like that the product is both vertically and horizontally scalable, allowing us to do around 86 percent compression of documentation from 50 to seven terabytes."
"The interface could improve because sometimes it becomes slow. Sometimes there is a delay between clicks when using the software, which can make the development process slow. It can take a few seconds to complete one action, and then a few more seconds to do the next one."
"The product is trying to be more maturity in terms of connectors. That, I believe, is an area where Cloud Pak can improve."
"The product must improve its performance."
"Cloud Pak would be improved with integration with cloud service providers like Cloudera."
"The solution's user experience is an area that has room for improvement."
"The solution could have more connectors."
"One thing that bugs me is how much infrastructure Cloud Pak requires for the initial deployment. It doesn't allow you to start small. The smallest permitted deployment is too big. It's a huge problem that prevents us from implementing the solution in many scenarios."
"One challenge I'm facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my company has around one hundred thousand mappings, so my team has been putting more effort into alternative ways to do things. Another area for improvement in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is that it's more complicated to shift from on-premise to the cloud. Other vendors provide secure agents that easily connect with your existing setup. Still, with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you have to perform connection migration steps, upgrade to the latest version, etc., which makes it more complicated, especially as my company has XML-based mappings. Still, the XML input and output capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Data have been discontinued, so I'd like IBM to bring that back."
"I would like to see improvement on the feedback from the road-map; it is currently extremely hard to get insight in this area."
"Needs graphical programming without coding."
"SAP HANA is a very proprietary tool and there's not as much support available for it as there is for an SQL Server (which is more popular)."
"I don't have direct access to SAP, and instead, I need to go through the SAP office in India."
"In a future release, SAP HANA should add a module for taxation, such as income tax and withholding tax."
"The interface is a little bit hard to customize. You almost have to consult the SAP original developer to change it."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The openness of the system could be more developed. The solution should go into the cloud. The cloud mechanism should be more invested."
IBM Cloud Pak for Data is ranked 3rd in Data Virtualization with 11 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 2nd in Data Virtualization with 81 reviews. IBM Cloud Pak for Data is rated 8.0, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Cloud Pak for Data writes "A scalable data analytics and digital transformation tool that provides useful features and integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". IBM Cloud Pak for Data is most compared with IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Azure Data Factory, Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Palantir Foundry and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL and IBM Db2 Database. See our IBM Cloud Pak for Data vs. SAP HANA report.
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