We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and Teradata 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."SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable solution."
"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."
"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."
"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."
"I like that it integrates to open-source."
"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."
"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"The two types of partitioning have been very significant for us - row and columnar partitioning."
"It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up."
"It effectively has allowed us to remove over 20 portion copies of the data sets on other DB platforms for real-time operational reporting purposes."
"Teradata solutions help organizations reduce IT, operations, and maintenance costs; enhance on-time delivery of products and services."
"It has a solid set of tools and consulting services."
"It's very, very fast"
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is security. It runs on Unix and Linux platforms which provide better security."
"The flexibility in design is very good."
"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."
"We are very unhappy with technical support. First of all, they send their sales agents or pre-sales agents and most of them who don't know the solution as a properly trained tech would. We have an on-site SAP representative who is supposed to help us with our high priority and production issues, and they're not satisfactory to say the least."
"The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive."
"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."
"I would like to see a different end solution in order to read the data and attract internal users."
"The way the data is stored is kind of rigid in SAP BW as a product. It could be more flexible so that when we are designing a solution, we can design our own data structures and try to improve performance."
"A few things which are missing include the visualization of reports. That's where your costs and licensing become heavy. When it comes to this database compared Microsoft Warehouse, it's an expensive solution."
"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."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity."
"I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly."
"Teradata's UI could be improved."
"The current operational approach needs improvement."
"Apart from Control-M, it would be nice if it could integrate with other tools."
"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."
"The solution is stable. However, there are times when we are using large amounts of data and we can see some latency issues."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, MySQL and BigQuery. See our SAP Business Warehouse vs. Teradata report.
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