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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADatabricks offers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (formerly the Unified Analytics Platform), a data science platform and Apache Spark cluster manager. The Databricks Unified Data Service provides a platform for data pipelines, data lakes, and data platforms.

    $0.07

    Per DBU

    SAP BW

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019. SAP BW versions up to 7.4 have reached end of maintenance. SAP BW 7.5 support is extended to align with SAP Business Suite with NetWeaver components. For existing customers maintenance is scheduled to continue through 2027, with extended support available through 2030.N/A
    Pricing
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP BW
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $0.07
    Per DBU
    Premium
    $0.10
    Per DBU
    Enterprise
    $0.13
    Per DBU
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP BW
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP BW
    Considered Both Products
    Databricks
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP BW
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    9.5
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.37 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.77 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.37 Ratings
    Location-Based Data Governance00 Ratings9.87 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    9.3
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    7.6
    7 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    7% below category average
    High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Administrative Automation00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
    Self-Optimization00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP BW
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Databricks
    Medium to Large data throughput shops will benefit the most from Databricks Spark processing. Smaller use cases may find the barrier to entry a bit too high for casual use cases. Some of the overhead to kicking off a Spark compute job can actually lead to your workloads taking longer, but past a certain point the performance returns cannot be beat.
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    SAP
    SAP BW is best for: 1. Large enterprises 2. 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 enterprises 2. Enterprises who have well established, same location, CRM and UFS - the integration of data analysis will be easier and less expensive with other solutions 3. HANA
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    Pros
    Databricks
    • Process raw data in One Lake (S3) env to relational tables and views
    • Share notebooks with our business analysts so that they can use the queries and generate value out of the data
    • Try out PySpark and Spark SQL queries on raw data before using them in our Spark jobs
    • Modern day ETL operations made easy using Databricks. Provide access mechanism for different set of customers
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    SAP
    • It tracks bin locations for parts which can be really helpful.
    • SAP Business Warehouse tells you who has a part checked out so you can find it.
    • It shows current parts shortages so buyers are flagged to get parts on order based on current demand.
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    Cons
    Databricks
    • Sometimes, when multiple jobs depend on each other in different environments, it is not always easy to see the full workflow in one place.
    • It is sometimes difficult to determine which job or cluster contributes more to the overall cost.
    • For beginners, cluster configuration may be a little difficult. So more recommendation in the platform can help.
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    SAP
    • Age of software is showing as it struggles with very large data modules, which were not as prevalent in its early years
    • Querying performance at times can be very slow
    • Support and development for BEx has been discontinued or hard to find.
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    Usability
    Databricks
    Because it is an amazing platform for designing experiments and delivering a deep dive analysis that requires execution of highly complex queries, as well as it allows to share the information and insights across the company with their shared workspaces, while keeping it secured.

    in terms of graph generation and interaction it could improve their UI and UX
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    SAP
    The overall usability is robust. The tool offers lot of native feature to achieve all the data warehousing functions. Starting from data modelling to reporting and authorisation, the tool provided native features for almost all the areas of analytics. Integration of hybrid modelling with hana studio opened the usage of sql functions with the sap analytics
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    Support Rating
    Databricks
    One of the best customer and technology support that I have ever experienced in my career. You pay for what you get and you get the Rolls Royce. It reminds me of the customer support of SAS in the 2000s when the tools were reaching some limits and their engineer wanted to know more about what we were doing, long before "data science" was even a name. Databricks truly embraces the partnership with their customer and help them on any given challenge.
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    Databricks
    The most important differentiating factor for Databricks Lakehouse Platform from these other platforms is support for ACID transactions and the time travel feature. Also, native integration with managed MLflow is a plus. EMR, Cloudera, and Hortonworks are not as optimized when it comes to Spark Job Execution. Other platforms need to be self-managed, which is another huge hassle.
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    SAP
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Databricks
    • The ability to spin up a BIG Data platform with little infrastructure overhead allows us to focus on business value not admin
    • DB has the ability to terminate/time out instances which helps manage cost.
    • The ability to quickly access typical hard to build data scenarios easily is a strength.
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    SAP
    • Positive - This tool report output is in Excel so it's a good tool if your users are familiar with Excel.
    • Positive: this tool has rich BI content so developing extractors for standard processes from SAP ECC can be done in minutes.
    • Negative: It lacks lot of features which are available in other newer tools today. For ex. - rich charts, rich filtering, exporting capabilities, user interface.
    • Negative: Its not a plug and play tool like Qlikview, Lumira, or Tableau. Even a single report development in this tool takes a lot of time compared to others.
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