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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    VMware Tanzu Data Services

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ATanzu Data Services is a family of data-driven solutions built to store, process, and query critical data resources in real-time and at massive scale, both on-premises and in the multi-cloud world.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP BW/4HANAVMware Tanzu Data Services
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    SAP BW/4HANAVMware Tanzu Data Services
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SAP BW/4HANAVMware Tanzu Data Services
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
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    Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SAP BW/4HANAVMware Tanzu Data Services
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP BW/4HANA and Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    Feature
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.2
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location-Based Data Governance8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of SAP BW/4HANA and Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    Feature
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation9.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of SAP BW/4HANA and Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    Feature
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    -
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    Visualization9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of SAP BW/4HANA and Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    Feature
    SAP BW/4HANA
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Tanzu Data Services (Greenplum, GemFire, RabbitMQ, Tanzu SQL)
    -
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    High-Volume Data Processing9.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Warehouse Management10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administrative Automation7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Optimization7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANAVMware Tanzu Data Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP BW/4HANAVMware Tanzu Data Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Broadcom
    If you need to execute ml algorithms, learning techniques, or mathematical calculations on large amounts of heterogeneous data, VMware Tanzu Data Services will be ideal. It will be really simple to set up, particularly if you choose AWS as your integrated cloud provider. However, if you're working with lower data amounts, such as gigabytes, it can be superfluous.
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    Pros
    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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    Broadcom
    • Apache MADlib provides popular machine learning functionality.
    • Allows you to query terabytes of data databases.
    • Interoperability for AWS S3 is effortless.
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    Cons
    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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    Broadcom
    • Running on Azure is a little more difficult.
    • Synchronization with Kafka may be a little easier.
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    Usability
    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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    Broadcom
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    Support Rating
    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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    Broadcom
    They were very helpful. We needed support for initial implementation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Broadcom
    • There was a noticeable reduction in system reliability.
    • Saw a reduction in unsuccessful analytics operations.
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