We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and Snowflake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."
"What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is its ability to feed data into new, multiple systems in various formats. It can open its data to any system over gateway services or a portal or application that needs to consume and analyze data."
"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."
"The real-time information is great."
"The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."
"The best thing about Snowflake is its flexibility in changing warehouse sizes or computational power."
"The solution speeds up the process of onboarding."
"Snowflake is an enormously useful platform. The Snowpipe feature is valuable because it allows us to load terabytes and petabytes of data into the data mart at a very low cost."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It is a very easy-to-use solution. It is user-friendly, and its setup time is very less."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the clone copy."
"Everything is automatic, and I don't have to do any maintenance."
"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."
"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."
"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."
"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."
"I'm not sure if our issue is related to BW or the Analysis Office. However, we're having performance issues in terms of time. It takes a long time to generate the report."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."
"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."
"Snowflake has to improve their spatial parts since it doesn't have much in terms of geo-spatial queries."
"I would like to see more transparency in data processing, ATLs, and compute areas - which should give more comfort to the end users."
"Availability is a problem."
"The design of the product is easily misunderstood."
"Its transaction application needs improvement."
"Some SQL language functions could be included."
"We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model."
"They need to improve its ETL functionality so that Snowflake becomes an ETL product. Snowpipe can do some pipelines and data ingestion, but as compare to Talend, these functionalities are limited. The ETL feature is not good enough. Therefore, Snowflake can only be used as a database. You can't use it as an ETL tool, which is a limitation. We have spoken to the vendor, and they said they are working on it, but I'm not sure when they will bring it to production."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Warehouse with 94 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. 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 Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our SAP Business Warehouse vs. Snowflake report.
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