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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP HANA Cloud

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk which means that the data can be accessed in real time by the applications using HANA. The product is sold both as an appliance and as a cloud-based software solution.

    $0.95

    per month Capacity Units

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

    Pricing
    SAP HANA CloudThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP HANA CloudThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsIncludes a one year free trial.—
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    Community Pulse
    SAP HANA CloudThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    313 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    271 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    319 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    198 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    264 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    SAP HANA CloudThoughtSpot
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    9.0
    51 Ratings
    11% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance9.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking9.341 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.743 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.842 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.944 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.845 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.189 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.090 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.478 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.364 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.079 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.565 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.913 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.772 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP HANA Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.342 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings6.835 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    Score4 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP HANA CloudThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (362 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (81 ratings)
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (253 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP HANA CloudThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    I think if you have a large organization, it's probably the product and the marketplace to go to. We're a large management consulting firm operating in four to seven countries. And generally speaking, I think that's the size and the scope where it scales best. I can't speak to smaller companies, but I can't see smaller companies leveraging the benefits as much as a larger organization can.
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    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • Real-time reporting and analytics on data: because of its in-memory architecture, it is perfect for businesses that need to make quick decisions based on current information.
    • Managing workload with complex data: it can handle a vast range of data types, including relational, documental, geospatial, graph, vector, and time series data.
    • Developing and deploying intelligent data applications: it provides various tools for such applications and can be used for machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate tasks, gain insights from data, and make predictions.
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    ThoughtSpot
    • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
    • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
    • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • Requires higher processing power, otherwise it won't fly. How ever computing costs are lower. Incase you are migrating to cloud please do not select the highest config available in that series . Upgrading it later against a reserved instance can cost you dearly with a series change
    • Lack of clarity on licensing is one major challenge
    • Unless S/4 with additional features are enabled mere migration HANA DB is not a rewarding journey. Power is in S/4
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    ThoughtSpot
    • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
    • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    We would rate our likelihood of renewing at 9/10. SAP HANA Cloud has proven to be a highly reliable and scalable data platform that consistently delivers strong performance. Its seamless integration with our overall SAP landscape, combined with improved analytics and real-time data capabilities, makes it a core part of our long-term technology strategy.
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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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    Usability
    SAP
    It is very useful solution which provides you speedier data processing, real-time analytics. It helps you manage diverse data types. It also offers you excellent disaster management. It has user friendly interface which helps you navigate system and transactions easily and perform task smoothly.
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    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    so far, we didn't get any outage
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    ThoughtSpot
    it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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    Performance
    SAP
    so far good
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    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    However, I am not the right person to answer this as we have another department to handle support and contact the service provider for any support required. Although i will say that they are the quick respondent and knows how to handle querry of the customers and provide quick and better support.
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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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    In-Person Training
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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    Online Training
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    Professional GIS people are some of the most risk-averse there are, and it's difficult to get them to move to HANA in one step. Start with small projects building to 80% use of HANA spatial over time.
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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    I have deep knowledge of other disk based DBMSs. They are venerable technology, but the attempts to extend them to current architectures belie the fact they are built on 40 year old technology. There are some good columnar in-memory databases but they lack the completeness of capability present in the HANA platform.
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    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SAP
    I don't have visibility in licensing
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    ThoughtSpot
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    SAP
    Limitation of training deliverable by organization
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    ThoughtSpot
    Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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    Professional Services
    SAP
    We are still in process for the first applciaiton
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    ThoughtSpot
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • ROI has always been high in terms of the functionality that it offers and the security features it comes with.
    • Managing large volumes of data in real-time is not an easy task, but it does it pretty well with faster data processing.
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    ThoughtSpot
    • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
    • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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    ScreenShots

    ThoughtSpot Screenshots

    Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics