Cloudera Data Platform vs SAP BW

Likelihood to Recommend

I have seen that Cloudera Data Platform is well suited for large batch processes. It works really well for our indication analyses that are performed by the actuaries. I feel that rapid streaming operations may be a situation where additional technology would be needed to provide for a robust solution.

Read full review

Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

SAP BW is best for:1. Large enterprises2. Enterprises with 3+ legacy systems with entrenched users (politically difficult to merge)3. Enterprises with employees who can understand both the technical capabilities of SAP BW and the needs of the business users - ability to speak both languages, otherwise the program could be unwieldy and potentially underutilized (it's not particularly inexpensive)SAP BW is less appropriate for:1. Small enterprises2. Enterprises who have well established, same location, CRM and UFS - the integration of data analysis will be easier and less expensive with other solutions3. HANA

Read full review

Jeff Looby, CPA

Associate

Credit SuisseBanking, 10,001+ employees

View all 15 answers on this topic

Pros

Scales
Highly available

Read full review

Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

it has the best availability tool for generating different reports like Bex analyzer
different data models like sementic data model for different data management systems
can easily integrate and generate the reports from different sources like XML file uploading, 3rd party data sources etc...

Read full review

Pradeep Bele

Sr. SAP Basis Consultant

Gauri Ltd. | Transforming Customer Engagement For The Digital AgeInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

View all 15 answers on this topic

Cons

Constantly changing costs
Log visibility

Read full review

Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

I wish it could hold a part where even though it is not in use yet, but you know you will need it, it won't allow it to be checked it rather than put on backorder.
Some of the menu paths can be a little difficult to remember or follow.
It is not easy for a novice user to go in and create a report quickly.

Read full review

Brandi Brown-Lang

Sales and Purchasing Administrator

SitelAirlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees

View all 15 answers on this topic

Usability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

SAP BW 9.0

Based on 1 answer

It basically stores all data I need in designed reports, which helps a lot with the analysis and calculation.It's quite interactive when you understand reports and know how to drill-down/swap. Fresh users might need some training. There are quite a lot of options to display data differently, or to add more filters in data as well as to extract the data in xlsx/csv/html format.

Read full review

Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting

Chemicals Company, 10,001+ employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Support Rating

Cloudera Data Platform 8.0

Based on 1 answer

We have utilized Cloudera support quite frequently and are very satisfied with the capability and responsiveness of that team. Often, the new features delivered with the platform give us an opportunity to mature the way we're doing things, and the support team have been valuable in developing those new patterns.

Read full review

Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

SAP BW 8.0

Based on 4 answers

SAP BW is a consolidated tool. There are thousands of SAP notes in order to solve your problems and in case do not exist, SAP support will help you on the issue you face.

Read full review

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

View all 4 answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

IBM's offering of the Cloud Pak for Data has been a moving target and difficult to compare to Cloudera Data Platform. We have implemented our solution on Amazon Web Services, which appears to be supported by IBM at this point, but the migration would be very expensive for us to endeavor.

Read full review

Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

SAP Business Warehouse scores higher in data warehouse functionalities for integration to SAP ERP and other SAP solutions such as SAP CRM, SAP APO, and SAP SRM. Standard SAP data source extractors which are available in SAP ERP can be used immediately for full or delta replication into SAP Business Warehouse. System governance in SAP Business Warehouse is top-notch with change management support for migration between system landscape from the development system to production system.

Read full review

Julius Shen

Senior System Analyst

Roads and Maritime ServicesCivil Engineering, 10,001+ employees

View all 15 answers on this topic

Return on Investment

Reduced operational costs
Speed to market

Read full review

Verified User

Director in Engineering

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

The positive Return on Investment we receive with the software was the ability to import decades of data. We were then able to review the materials see trends we were previously unable to see without intense work.
The only negative impact was applying the training and changing procedures to deal with the software. This worked out, obviously, because this is not a software to be using without proper training.

Read full review

Alfred Brock

Communications Specialist

Yazaki North AmericaAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

View all 15 answers on this topic

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No