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    Firebolt

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFirebolt's Cloud Data Warehouse is designed to deliver extreme speed and elasticity at any scale to solve impossible data challenges. The vendor states it combines the best of high performance database architecture with the infinite scale of the data lake, enabling you to perform analytics at jaw-dropping speed across terabyte and petabyte scale. Built on a decoupled storage and compute architecture, Firebolt allows users to scale up or down to support any workload.N/A

    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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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
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    FireboltSAP BW
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    FireboltSAP BW
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFirebolt introduces a new business model that ensures true alignment of interests with customers. You can now rely on Firebolt to support your ever growing data and compute requirements, enabling you to run more queries faster, without breaking the bank. Firebolt pricing includes a fixed annual cost (described in the tiers below) as well as AWS cloud costs for resources you decide to use (fully transparent AWS compute and storage at the baseline cost. We don't make any profit here).
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    Community Pulse
    FireboltSAP BW
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    Firebolt
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    SAP
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    FireboltSAP BW
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Firebolt and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Firebolt
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    9.5
    7 Ratings
    5% 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 Ratings9.77 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Firebolt and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Firebolt
    -
    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 Firebolt and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Firebolt
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    7.6
    7 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Firebolt and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Firebolt
    -
    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
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    FireboltSAP BW
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FireboltSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FireboltSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Firebolt
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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
    Firebolt
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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
    Firebolt
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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
    Firebolt
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    Firebolt
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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
    Firebolt
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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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