We performed a comparison between Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."I haven't heard about any major stability issues. At this time I feel like it's stable."
"The fast data loading process and data storage capabilities are great."
"The processing capacity is tremendous in the database."
"Databricks' Lakehouse architecture has been most useful for us. The data governance has been absolutely efficient in between other kinds of solutions."
"The setup is quite easy."
"It is fast, it's scalable, and it does the job it needs to do."
"Easy to use and requires minimal coding and customizations."
"Databricks gives us the ability to build a lakehouse framework and do everything implicit to this type of database structure. We also like the ability to stream events. Databricks covers a broad spectrum, from reporting and machine learning to streaming events. It's important for us to have all these features in one platform."
"Real-time data makes for a single version of the truth."
"It's many features make it the best in the market."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"The visualization feature is the most valuable. SAP Analytics Cloud is also very easy to use."
"The most useful feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is planning because it helps users with making predictions and forecasts. Clients can forecast, make data allocations, and other actions. The solution is useful for planning."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"The most valuable features are on the application side, where you can design applications into your analytics on the platform."
"It is a comprehensive BI solution that provides reporting, planning, and predictive analytics in one solution. You don't have to buy three different products. It is very flexible. It can be implemented very quickly. It has a lot of out-of-the-box scenarios that you can use for quick deployment."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"The query plan is not easy with Databrick's job level. If I want to tune any of the code, it is not easily available in the blogs as well."
"The data visualization for this solution could be improved. They have started to roll out a data visualization tool inside Databricks but it is in the early stages. It's not comparable to a solution like Power BI, Luca, or Tableau."
"Databricks' technical support takes a while to respond and could be improved."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"Databricks is an analytics platform. It should offer more data science. It should have more features for data scientists to work with."
"We'd like a more visual dashboard for analysis It needs better UI."
"The connection works only for importing data. Currently, there is no real-time integration between SAP Analytics Cloud and CRM. There are some features present in the classic but not in the optimized version. If I need to create something specific, I often have to switch the versions. It would be more convenient to have a single product that incorporates all the necessary features."
"It seems like there's a problem with the tool's licenses. If there are a lot of users, like 200, who only use the solution once a year, paying for a full-year license for each user is expensive. There's no option for users who only use the solution occasionally."
"Custom visuals is another area of improvement. There are also some mobile features that are missing. There are features that aren't available on the mobile."
"There is no direct connector from SAP to Redshift, so we are required to use a third-party product that was recommended by SAP."
"SAP could add some more visualization features to Analytics Cloud, like charts and analytics. I would also like to see some more data cleaning and ad hoc functions added to this solution."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
"The solution should include other scripting languages as well, such as Python."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 58 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Anaplan.
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