We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance 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."The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"The main feature is the management and manageability of the tool. We can create a VM on a laptop within a couple of clicks."
"NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drives: This technology brings outstanding I/O performance for midsize databases. We have tested it by doing POCs on customer sites and the results were quite satisfying."
"Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time)."
"The product is very light."
"The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance."
"The initial setup was straightforward and quick - I was able to configure everything within an hour."
"I like the reporting features of the solution."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"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."
"SAP BW4HANA aids in managing data from ER to front-end analysis, contributes to ROI, and fosters business growth understanding. I like that the solution breaks down components to a very granular level, allowing for customization and implementation based on specific requirements. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is that it's robust."
"The solution is based on SAP ERP, so there's some business content already included. For customers who use SAP ERP, SAP BW4HANA is a good choice for their DW implementation."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"Oracle Database Appliance could improve by having better integration."
"Since we don't have the room to scale up, I rate this solution a six out of ten for scalability."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."
"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."
"Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software."
"I would be happy to see the Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) pre-installed in it instead of installing it in a separate machine."
"Connecting multiple sources is a challenge because you have to go through a lot of different setups."
"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 dashboard should be simplified and made easier for exploration and decision making."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"I would like more integration."
"I don't see SAP actively supporting the solution now...a better support from SAP would be appreciated."
"The solution does occasionally get a few bugs, but this is typical for any product."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". 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". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres and IBM Db2 Warehouse, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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