Microsoft Fabric vs. SAP Datasphere

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Fabric
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Microsoft Fabric: A Comprehensive Data Management Solution Microsoft Fabric presents a unified, robust platform designed to optimize data management, enhance AI model development, and empower users across an organization. It focuses on integrating data seamlessly, ensuring governance and security, and providing AI capabilities. Microsoft Fabric is presented as an all-encompassing data management solution, providing organizations with tools for efficient data integration,…N/A
SAP Datasphere
Score 8.6 out of 10
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SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables users to distribute mission-critical business data — with business context and logic preserved — across the data…N/A
Pricing
Microsoft FabricSAP Datasphere
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft FabricSAP Datasphere
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUse Microsoft Fabric by purchasing Fabric Capacity, a billing unit that enables each Fabric experience. Pay for every data tool in one transparent, simplified pricing model and save time for other business needs. Fabric Capacity is priced uniquely across regions.SAP Datasphere is available as a subscription or consumption-based model. The SAP Datasphere capacity unit (CU) offers an adaptable approach to pricing that enables any workload on any hyperscaler. The number of CUs required is determined by the unique workload, with the ability to tailor the combination of required services within SAP Datasphere utilizing a flexible tenant configuration. The services that contribute to CU consumption are the core application (compute and storage), data lake, BW bridge, data integration, and data catalog (crawling and storage).
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Community Pulse
Microsoft FabricSAP Datasphere
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Fabric

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SAP Datasphere
Chose SAP Datasphere
SAP Datasphere is much more mature than the alternative, in particular for a data warehouse focused on enterprise level modeling and governance.
Chose SAP Datasphere
SAP Datasphere is an exciting way to modernize our data stack, and what clinched it for us was how deep we're already in with SAP - it only made sense to try and leverage the synergies between Datasphere and our other SAP products.
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Small Businesses

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User Ratings
Microsoft FabricSAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(103 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(2 ratings)
Usability
4.0
(1 ratings)
7.2
(47 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(21 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(8 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft FabricSAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
I would highly recommend Microsoft Fabric, especially for medium to large enterprises aiming to build a robust, scalable, and secure data analytics platform. It effectively unifies various data workloads, streamlining data integration, engineering, and particularly enhancing our ability to create and share reliable Power BI dashboards. The deep integration with Azure AD for features like Row-Level Security is a significant advantage for data governance.
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SAP
SAP Datasphere is well suited for scalable cloud based data integration scenarios which also opens up the doors for AI driven insights which are much harder to achieve with on-prem data warehouses. Considering the licensing model of SAP Datasphere being based on consumption driven capacity units cost can be a big consideration for organizations with large volumes of data that can be a pre-requisite for data mining and AI use cases. So this can be a bottleneck or not so well adopted scenario for SAP Datasphere.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Access Control / Security & Governance
  • Collaborative Work up to Visualization
  • Data Ingestion
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SAP
  • SAP Data Warehouse Cloud offers free trial for 90 days with free 128 GB of storage and 64 GB memory.
  • Availability of self-service data modeling and analytics on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud enables users to access and analyze data without getting support from the IT team.
  • Without zero coding while collecting, connecting, analyzing and modeling data, it saves us time and operational costs of partnering with external IT support experts.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Clarity and Documentation on Power BI Integration Changes and Best Practices
  • More Flexible and Advanced Scheduled Report Delivery Options
  • Enhanced Data Export Control Based on Sensitivity Labels
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SAP
  • Need to have a good understanding of the SAP ecosystem to implement and use it.
  • From a cost perspective it can be little bit on the expensive side for enterprises.
  • The platform is still new and hence more subjected to bugs. But support for it is always good from the SAP team.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
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SAP
We are moving into using SAP datasphere heavily and replacing all of the SAP HANA native calc view logic to the sap datasphere graphical view which will reduce the legacy SAP BW data warehouse. Also need some more features such as debugging, sql preview and prompts enhancements so that we can generate the reports.
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Usability
Microsoft
I've rated Microsoft Fabric's overall usability as a 4, primarily due to its extensive and multifaceted feature set, which can make it challenging to navigate and determine the optimal functionality for a given task.While the breadth of capabilities is a core strength for large enterprises, it often leads to a sense of being "lost" or overwhelmed for teams like ours that do not have highly formalized roles or dedicated specialists for each Fabric "experience" (e.g., Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Science).
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SAP
It is one of the best tools and a boon to Logistics teams across the globe. One tends to actually process warehousing data so smoothly and the way demonstration is made while in programs it makes it user friendly. The Inventory touch points that one identify is simply awesome and is best part.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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SAP
I would greatly acknowledge the services of Sap Data [warehouse Cloud] because we were struggling before its arrival where we used to get manual data connections and this used to consume a lot of time but after its use, we now are able to connect data easily saving a lot of time and finances.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Microsoft Fabric integrates data ingestion, engineering, warehousing, and Power BI visualization into one cohesive environment. This "one-stop shop" approach dramatically reduces complexity, minimizes operational overhead, and eliminates the need to integrate disparate tools and manage data across multiple systems. It provides superior scalability for large datasets, supports open data formats, and offers a much broader suite of data engineering and data science capabilities.In essence, Fabric's integrated ecosystem and streamlined operational management were key differentiators, providing a more cohesive, scalable, and efficient solution for our evolving data strategy than combining specialized tools.
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SAP
Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for users, and it is widely up for data quality, data governance, and data discovery.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
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SAP
Despite the pricing model being expensive for small businesses, it provides decent features and capabilities for organizations of different sizes and it's an appropriate investment in today's business environment where there is constant pressure to build a scalable and flexible analytics service
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Professional Services
Microsoft
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SAP
Ever since we implemented SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, we have been able to reduce the additional costs of hiring third-party service providers by incorporating professional services offered by the vendor.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Transformation from Monthly Reports to Daily Insights, Accelerating Decision-Making
  • Streamlined Reporting: Enhanced Data Consistency and 30% Reduction in Reports Provided
  • Empowered Self-Service Analytics Through Elevated Employee Data Literacy
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SAP
  • Preserving data quality has enhanced governance on data by having a single source that is accessible to every business user via self-service capabilities.
  • Operational cost is lowered by connecting data in one integrated solution hence making it easy to access information without having to keeping logging to other applications. Additionally, no external IT support is needed since SAP Data Warehouse Cloud has no-coding modeling tools.
  • SAP Data Warehouse Cloud has enabled every business user to understand different data by transforming data to real insights.
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