Thinking about SAP Datasphere. Just go for it!
October 15, 2023

Thinking about SAP Datasphere. Just go for it!

Anirban Das | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Datasphere

Previously, we were using Google Analytics on all our sites to visualize user analytics, behaviors, etc. But recently, we made the switch to SAP Datasphere, which is also a SaaS. As our organization was already using SAP BTP, we were able to make the switch to SAP Datasphere conveniently, which helped us in Data Discovery and distribution. This was particularly needed in our organization as we have a vast number of data-oriented platforms and have a huge number of clients using those. Hence, we started using SAP Datasphere for tracking, managing, and modeling those data across all our platforms.

Pros

  • Catalogs data across all our platforms into a single and centralised hub.
  • Data Discovery, Data Governance and of course real time visualisation of data.
  • Includes access controlled mechanism to monitor data reading privileges.

Cons

  • 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.
  • Enhanced our report generation process due to presence of holistic data.
  • Centralized data from all our platforms. This has helped us visualize and analyze all data much more efficiently.
  • It is more on the expensive side from both cost and training perspective.
I am only going to talk about the visualizing and analytics part of SAP Datasphere because if I start listing what the whole SAP ecosystem provides, then it would not even be a comparison. In a summary, Google Analytics is high-level. Of course, the introduction of the new GA4 system, goes into depth but not as much as what SAP Datasphere does. Adobe Analytics, in one line, is very good at the analytics and reporting part but has a steep learning curve. That's all.

Do you think SAP Datasphere delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Datasphere's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Datasphere live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Datasphere go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Datasphere again?

Yes

The sites and platforms that we implemented already were using SAP BTP and SAP Ariba, and hence were well suited and habituated to the SAP ecosystem. Hence making the switch to SAP Datasphere along with SAP Cloud Analytics wasn't that difficult for our team and organisation. Just our team has more than 200 sites contained in 6 different platforms. Tracking, modeling, and analyzing data across all these different platforms was very cumbersome for us sometimes. But SAP Datasphere, with its Data Discovery, was able to centralize all those data which we were easily able to model and analyze.

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