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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Analytics

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AOracle Analytics is a solution used to visually explore data to create and share compelling stories. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a cloud native service, and Oracle Analytics Server is the on-premise option.N/A

    SAP BW/4HANA

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASAP BW/4HANA is a next-generation data warehouse solution. It is specifically designed to use the advanced in-memory capabilities of the SAP HANA platform. For example, SAP BW/HANA can integrate many different data sources to provide a single, logical view of all the data. This could include data contained in SAP and non-SAP applications running on-premise or in the cloud, and data lakes, such as those contained in the Apache Hadoop open-source software framework. With SAP BW/4HANA,…N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle AnalyticsSAP BW/4HANA
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle AnalyticsSAP BW/4HANA
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
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    Features
    Oracle AnalyticsSAP BW/4HANA
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    8.1
    62 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.161 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.361 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    0% below category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.464 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.265 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.162 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    7.8
    63 Ratings
    5% below category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web7.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.762 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.753 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.958 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.938 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    7.8
    61 Ratings
    2% below category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.552 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.747 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    8.4
    61 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.2
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.160 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.560 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.641 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Location-Based Data Governance00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    8.0
    48 Ratings
    3% above category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    7.9
    36 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.930 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API7.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.531 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.924 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Oracle Analytics and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    1% below category average
    High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Administrative Automation00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    Self-Optimization00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Oracle AnalyticsSAP BW/4HANA
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle AnalyticsSAP BW/4HANA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (76 ratings)
    9.7
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.2
    (57 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.1
    (57 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle AnalyticsSAP BW/4HANA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle Data Visualization is very effective if used in an enterprise context with huge volumes of data coming from different systems. It supports dashboard and reporting capabilities and is easy to scale. It also allows you to leverage machine learning capabilities to extract hidden data trends. Visualization capabilities are powerful but not so various if compared to other solutions on the market. If you want to present a dashboard to an executive audience and you want to make your dashboards beautiful you must adapt them through PowerPoint.
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    SAP
    SAP BW/4HANA is certainly an excellent choice when it comes to setting up a data warehousing platform within a landscape of existing SAP systems ecosystem for realizing quick time to value and ROI over the long term. Many non-SAP analytics tools such as Power BI , Qlik also now offer connectors to leverage SAP BW/4HANA data as additional options to deploy third party visualization tools which make it a more open ended platform of choice. But with the future roadmap of SAP and industry in general being focused towards cloud based offerings (SAC and Datasphere) infused with AI capabilities one has to make a judicious choice among these depending on the use case, capabilities of platforms and existing systems landscape and the overall long term IT strategy. SAP BW/4HANA may not be a good platform of choice if starting a native greenfield data warehousing implementation with cloud first approach which would require data integration across SAP and Non-SAP sources and one should consider other SAP cloud offerings which however still have some time to reach a level of maturity as SAP BW/4HANA has reached over the years.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Available without of the box connectors for Salesforce and oracle Saas Cloud. This is a huge plus for our business since we don't need another middleware solution just for this sake.
    • We are able to connect to our on-prem SQL Server database where we have our RMA database and other applications seamlessly without writing custom APIs.
    • OAC writes directly into ADW which is another advantage for loading Excel files into ADW after dataflow transformations.
    • OAC allows replication of the database from fusion ERP and lets us create subject areas using the data modeler.
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    SAP
    • With ODP based extraction, SAP BW/4HANA does well to integrate the data from various source systems like S4HANA , S4C.
    • With composite providers having the ability to integrate HANA calculation views, we are able to make the best of use of both application layer and data base layer(HANA) for mixed modelling scenarios.
    • with data tiering optimization higher data volume are effectively handled as we have the option to control the amount of data that is being stored in HOT , Warm and cold storage. With data volume grows over the year, DTO comes in handy solution to automatically move the delta to appropriate area based on temporature.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • More AI but with human back up.
    • Less mumbo jumbo so even IT guys/gals can more easily work.
    • More statistics (math) and orientation for those not familiar with it.
    • More live as well as virtual (live) show casing of real situations in business.
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    SAP
    • Better integration with HANA layer with BW/4HANA application
    • Flexibility to provide more secure API's to interact with non-sap Data bases
    • Integration with Gsheets as well like Excel(AFO) and introduce better reporting integration with various reporting tools.
    • Evolution to provide better data lake , data brick options like in BDC
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    Scalability and rich integration capabilities. In the future, if we go with Hyperion for the Financial Consolidation and planning purposes -BI integration with Hyperion is going to be much simpler as it has native interface connectivity and even integration capabilities with well known CRM products (Siebel) and ERP Products (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, SAP) is going to be easy and straight forward.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Oracle
    Great, if you are limited to using it along with other Oracle products; sadly, not if you are integrating with other products, which can be a challenge. It is a great product with tons of functionality and great integration with other in-house platforms. Great visuals and customization for data and analytics to provide decision-making data and analysis.
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    SAP
    SAP BW/4HANA requires specialized skillsets around data warehouse modeling and the access to data, however the modeling capabilities are intuitive and have now become accessible to both SAP and non-SAP data warehouse specialists. This new model allows for Interchangeable skillsets and access to a broader pool of experts throughout the industry, as well as easier access to data.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    No problems, it's that simple.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Oracle
    Other than anomalies or expected quirks, there were never any earth-shattering delays.
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    SAP
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    Oracle Analytics Support team is very proactive and I have never had a situation where I had to wait for more than a day or two to get my issues resolved. This is a very big help for us and we appreciate Oracle and its team for guaranteeing that experience.
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    SAP
    SAP Max Attention and general support for SAP BW/4HANA is broadly available. Truth to be told, MaxAttention has a premium cost but brings great engineers. So this being an enterprise capability and extremely critical, we did not consider cost as the main factor since support works well. Just keep that in mind when making your selection.
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    Oracle University offers very in-depth training.
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    SAP
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    It was a private training site.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    A properly implemented Endeca solution performs extremely well on the largest of datasets and it positions your organization to immediately achieve your ROI.
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Oracle Analytics Cloud, is one of the most agile and secure data analysis platforms that according to the budget and the amount of use, you can use the resources you need under the cloud. The Oracle brand is also very well known in this field and can meet all the needs of an organization or industry in any sector.
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    SAP
    SAP BW / 4HANA and SAP IQ are both used for warehouse; with quick consultations for business analysis and that allows us to obtain dashboards and KPIs efficiently. SAP IQ is columnar and SAP BW / 4HANA immemorial. SAP BW / 4HANA was selected for the response speed of the queries since it saves the information in cache.
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    We have seen the results of this in our initial research and are not surprised that Oracle does this like it does soo many other things in this area, so well.
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    SAP
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • We've used OBIEE (or it's previous named product) for over 13 years and it's still the most used tool for BI by the business.
    • We moved our largest business system off of Business Object into OBI so we could gain improved performance, reliability, and easier management of metadata.
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    SAP
    • SAP BW/4HANA has been immensely helpful in eliminating alternate silos of data creation by business users thereby ensuring data integrity and consistency across the organization. The focus is now more on data analysis as opposed to data preparation in spreadsheets saving users hours of laborious manual work in collating data.
    • We have been able to quickly integrate and leverage data from multiple SAP systems into SAP BW/4HANA to drive holistic decision making within the organization including streamlining the month end close process using BPC.
    • Excel friendly reporting tools such as Analysis for Office have made it much easier for user adoption and training making change management much easier and change the culture within the organization.
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