We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and SAP BW4HANA 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."Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"We have complete control over our data."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"The solution has been reliable."
"It is a very stable database."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time."
"The product has efficient performance."
"It can calculate data in detail. Before we could not calculate financial documents and accountant documents in detail, we could not do it at a document level but now we can. This is the most important feature. It also has predictive analysis memory."
"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."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"Some of the main features of this solution are that it uses HANA and it has good performance."
"The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"We benefited from BW/4HANA's ability to utilize predefined content inside. We didn't need to start from scratch."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"The dashboard should be simplified and made easier for exploration and decision making."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
"Not a ten because it's expensive and its ecosystem is not very open."
"I would like to be able to design new reports in a future release."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"Connecting multiple sources is a challenge because you have to go through a lot of different setups."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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