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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Exalogic

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOracle's Exalogic is a converged infrastructure appliance.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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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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    Oracle ExalogicSAP BW
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    Oracle ExalogicSAP BW
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle ExalogicSAP BW
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Oracle ExalogicSAP BW
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Exalogic and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Oracle Exalogic
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    9.5
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.47 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 Oracle Exalogic and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Oracle Exalogic
    -
    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 Oracle Exalogic and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Oracle Exalogic
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    7.6
    7 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Oracle Exalogic and SAP Business Warehouse
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    Oracle Exalogic
    -
    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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    Oracle ExalogicSAP BW
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    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle ExalogicSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle ExalogicSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle Exalogic in conjunction with an Oracle Exadata based platform is what I would consider the best of breed solution; however the performance may be overkill for what you need. Don't spend the money unless you need the performance, Oracle offers other solutions at a much lower cost. Purchase what you need not what's the shiny new product.
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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
    Oracle
    • Private Cloud: in the virtual configuration, you can create several accounts and assign different resources (vCPU, RAM, etc.) to several departments in your organization.
    • SDP & Infiband: Oracle Exalogic can be connected to Oracle Exadata using Infiniband Fabric, to take advantage of high bandwidth and low latency network to connect Weblogic to Oracle Database.
    • Standardization: Oracle Weblogic Server running on Oracle Exalogic is the same software running on a normal Linux machine, so you can easily move Java applications without changing it, and immediately benefit from the Exalogic Optimizations.
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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
    Oracle
    • Currently, the management of Exalogic is a little arcane. There is a good chance that Oracle can bring flexibility into the control stack because we have seen changes with each version of the software Echo was an improvement and foxtrot even more so. The ability to easily change VM shapes was another welcome change.
    • Again the fact arises that to build a very high performance machine there will be idiosyncrasies and a certain amount of retraining may be required. I think this is one area where Exalogic lacks not as a product but as a solution is that there isn't as much good knowledge available about it as there is for other engineered systems.
    • The Exalogic default setup could do with an SSD storage option, currently the onboard comes with a spinning disk.
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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
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Oracle
    It is a very condensed version of what used to be rows of servers. I like that storage, networking and compute nodes fit in one rack. The power and the software are top notch. The only problem is cost. You need to do some serious processing to get the true value out of the Exalogic system.
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    It's hard to compare Oracle Exalogic Engineered Systems with anything else on the market. It's so purpose built for application performance and intended to be used in conjunction with other Oracle Engineered Systems. As I alluded to earlier in this review the cost may not be worth the investment if the performance isn't needed. Oracle offers other solutions like the Oracle PCA which will meet the need for licensing compliance at a much lower cost of ownership and may fit better into your current infrastructure.
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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
    Oracle
    • Increase stability and performance of Weblogic Server applications.
    • Platinum Support: the patching process is simplified because storage/firmware/OS/binaries are patched in the same time by the same vendor.
    • Cost savings for hardware maintenance.
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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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