Likelihood to Recommend Merrill DatasiteOne is particularly useful with multi-party due diligence for business development purposes. It is not as necessary for sharing nonconfidential data.
Read full review For organizations looking to avoid the overhead of managing infrastructure, BigQuery's server-less architecture allows teams to focus on analyzing data without worrying about server maintenance or capacity planning. Small projects or startups with limited data analysis needs and tight budgets might find other solutions more cost-effective. Also, it is not suitable for OLTP systems.
Read full review Pros 24/7 help desk is the top differentiator. Every help desk agent I've interacted with has really known the product end to end. Cross-platform compatible with no plug-ins, software downloads needed. Beautiful UI, looks very professional Reporting at the page level (with timestamps) Read full review Its serverless architecture and underlying Dremel technology are incredibly fast even on complex datasets. I can get answers to my questions almost instantly, without waiting hours for traditional data warehouses to churn through the data. Previously, our data was scattered across various databases and spreadsheets and getting a holistic view was pretty difficult. Google BigQuery acts as a central repository and consolidates everything in one place to join data sets and find hidden patterns. Running reports on our old systems used to take forever. Google BigQuery's crazy fast query speed lets us get insights from massive datasets in seconds. Read full review Cons Frankly, I can't think of any missing features or things that need to be improved. From the perspective of the user who is reviewing documents, it works quite well. Read full review Can't use it out of Google's cloud platform which is a minus point if you want a local setup. Can be a little expensive to manage. A little difficult to manage someone with less technical expertise as it requires you to have SQL knowledge of joins, CTEs etc. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We have to use this product as its a 3rd party supplier choice to utilise this product for their data side backend so will not be likely we will move away from this product in the future unless the 3rd party supplier decides to change data vendors.
Read full review Usability Very intuitive system, mostly drag and drop. There are ample opportunities for user and admin training with the Merrill staff as well.
Read full review web UI is easy and convenient. Many RDBMS clients such as aqua data studio, Dbeaver data grid, and others connect. Range of well-documented APIs available. The range of features keeps expanding, increasing similar features to traditional RDBMS such as Oracle and DB2
Read full review Support Rating Customer service has always solved my issues in a relatively short period of time.
Read full review BigQuery can be difficult to support because it is so solid as a product. Many of the issues you will see are related to your own data sets, however you may see issues importing data and managing jobs. If this occurs, it can be a challenge to get to speak to the correct person who can help you.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I prefer Firmex. They have a strong search function and a user interface that makes it easy to identify new documents. Merrill is robust and offers the same basic tools, but I find its interface less intuitive.
Read full review Google's
Firebase isn't a competitor but we had to use Google's BigQuery because Google's
Firebase 's database is limited compared to Google's BigQuery. Linking your
Firebase project to BigQuery lets you access your raw, unsampled event data along with all of your parameters and user properties. Highly recommend connecting the two if you have a mobile app.
Read full review Contract Terms and Pricing Model None so far. Very satisfied with the transparency on contract terms and pricing model.
Read full review Professional Services Google Support has kindly provide individual support and consultants to assist with the integration work. In the circumstance where the consultants are not present to support with the work, Google Support Helpline will always be available to answer to the queries without having to wait for more than 3 days.
Read full review Return on Investment Merrill DatasiteOne has had a positive impact by allowing us to review large amounts of documents under tight timelines. Really it is just a tool to serve the larger business objective of completing due diligence for our clients. I don't think I've ever had a negative experience when the target has elected to use Merrill DatasiteOne for their datasite. Read full review Google BigQuery has had enormous impact in terms of ROI to our business, as it has allowed us to ease our dependence on our physical servers, which we pay for monthly from another hosting service. We have been able to run multiple enterprise scale data processing applications with almost no investment Since our business is highly client focused, Google Cloud Platform, and BigQuery specifically, has allowed us to get very granular in how our usage should be attributed to different projects, clients, and teams. Plain and simple, I believe the meager investments that we have made in Google BigQuery have paid themselves back hundreds of times over. Read full review ScreenShots Google BigQuery Screenshots