Benchling vs. SAP Business Data Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Benchling
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Benchling’s cloud platform is used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies to analyze complex datasets, streamline research workflows, design DNA using CRISPR gene-editing technology and more.
$0
per month
SAP Business Data Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data and seamlessly connects with third-party data—giving line-of-business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions.N/A
Pricing
BenchlingSAP Business Data Cloud
Editions & Modules
Academic
$0
Professional
Contact Benchling for price
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BenchlingSAP Business Data Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Best Alternatives
BenchlingSAP Business Data Cloud
Small Businesses
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.8 out of 10
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.8 out of 10
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.8 out of 10
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
BenchlingSAP Business Data Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(34 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
BenchlingSAP Business Data Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Benchling, Inc.
Benchling is especially well suited to groups or contexts where there are many users who do not have a coding background but need a seamless and structured approach to data. Benchling is particularly useful in cases where there are data flows from instruments and other devices where the data can be deposited in an automated fashion. It is likely less appropriate or useful to users who are just looking for a general data warehouse solution.
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SAP
SAP Business Data Cloud is suited mainly for SAP data integration. We could able to easily consolidate the data from S4 and service cloud V2 system. SAP Business Data Cloud enables realtime data replications. We could able to leverage the AI core features. As my previous data warehousing skill is from SAP BW, I am missing some basic features comparing to BW. Master data manual maintenance, Time dependant masterdata, language independent text is also not straightforward.
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Pros
Benchling, Inc.
  • Excellent easy to use and beautiful UI
  • Great customer support and training
  • Has no code ways of retrieving and depositing data
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SAP
  • Support for AI/ML use cases with SAP Data bricks and without the need to physically transfer the data from datasphere environment.
  • Provide near realtime data for analytics from S4C public cloud via data products which was the primary business problem that our customers were concerned with
  • Provides support to use the best of both the worlds like SAP and Databricks
  • New releases that support for the zero-copy delta share via SAP Business Data Cloud connect to other products like snowflake, google big query and other products in roadmap
  • Moving towards the lakehouse architecture or similar architecture from the former warehouse architecture to meet the increasing demand for the data
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Cons
Benchling, Inc.
  • Some of the integrations can be a bit spotty so it depends on what kind of data source you are integrating
  • Sometimes new users are not always aware of all the various functionality that Benchling has - can do better to provide more user awareness of more complex features
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SAP
  • Though SAP Business Data Cloud supports non-SAP data, integration is still not user friendly
  • Since it combines multiple services together, Cost is based on usage of the tool
  • Could be better if there is automated BW to SAP Business Data Cloud migration tool along with ABAP logic conversion support
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Likelihood to Renew
Benchling, Inc.
No answers on this topic
SAP
In the new analytics world, BDC has been a game changer for SAP Analytics. Extending the SAP data for the usage in Databricks, snow flake, GCP has opened new doors for Analytics . Shift from traditional data warehousing to Business Data fabric adapting to the change in the analytics world is the need of the hour and Sap has managed to pulled it off with BDC
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Usability
Benchling, Inc.
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SAP
SAP Business Data Cloud offers robust capabilities that enable me to analyze data and extract valuable business insights. It creates a single source of truth with seamless SAP integrations that enable faster, more reliable reporting. It has freed my team from complex engineering efforts by simplifying data analytics, giving us more time to focus on generating insights.
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Support Rating
Benchling, Inc.
No answers on this topic
SAP
support team is generally responsive and knowledgeable, and most issues are addressed within acceptable timelines. Documentation and standard guidance are helpful for common scenarios.
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Online Training
Benchling, Inc.
No answers on this topic
SAP
One of the best training session I attended and they covered most of the topics and answered all our questions. participants joined from different regions, infact they all had a different questions and it was different thoughts from all of then and helped to learn better. Though I was on travel, I could able yo attend the session.
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Implementation Rating
Benchling, Inc.
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SAP
I have done implementation of models in traditional bw and Using BDC. The integration of BDC with S4 hana for creating sap data products is seamless and reduces lot of implementation effort. The intelligent app feature is BDC also eases the implementation effort. If i have to compare the previous world with new BDC, implementation effort is largely saved
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Alternatives Considered
Benchling, Inc.
Benchling was much more of a full stack solution and provide much more features that were relevant to the group. Airtable was more of a generic way to manage large amounts of data, but the complexity was still high for the types of data that would be need to be managed and there would need to be some workarounds. Overall Benchling was selected since it also had an electronic lab notebook feature which was very useful to associates in addition to its data workflows.
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SAP
With a S4 backend a lot of core functionality is made simpler - authorization, data types, currency conversion. In particular if the front end choice is SAP Analytics Cloud. The lack of a good connection from Power BI to the datasphere application (instead of the underlying HANA cloud) is a major drawback in that scenario.
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Return on Investment
Benchling, Inc.
  • It had a positive ROI in terms of reducing the amount of time spent on data movement and curation by associates
  • It had a positive ROI in terms of increasing the number of insights from structured data
  • It reduced the number of data entry and analysis errors by associates which led to a positive ROI in terms of efficiency and reducing time wasted by tracking down errors in data
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SAP
  • SAP Business Data Cloud has made it very simple for Dashboards and stories to be created using various features provided to users
  • Due to High maintenance and governance costs not many users are convinced to move from legacy systems like BOBJ.
  • Data fabric architecture has made it very simple and cost effective to bring various models onboard to SAP Business Data Cloud
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