SAP BW/4HANA vs. SAP Datasphere

SAP Datasphere

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP BW/4HANA	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	SAP 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
SAP Datasphere	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables users to distribute mission-critical business data — with business context and logic preserved — across the data…	N/A

Pricing

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP Datasphere

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SAP BW/4HANA	SAP Datasphere
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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SAP Datasphere is available as a subscription or consumption-based model. The SAP Datasphere capacity unit (CU) offers an adaptable approach to pricing that enables any workload on any hyperscaler. The number of CUs required is determined by the unique workload, with the ability to tailor the combination of required services within SAP Datasphere utilizing a flexible tenant configuration. The services that contribute to CU consumption are the core application (compute and storage), data lake, BW bridge, data integration, and data catalog (crawling and storage).

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Community Pulse
	SAP BW/4HANA	SAP Datasphere
Considered Both Products	SAP BW/4HANA Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP BW/4HANA Much more solid BW solution over all. Incentivized Helpful? MP Mirian Pitti Engineer Chose SAP BW/4HANA 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP BW/4HANA Both are comparable with the advantage going to BW for SAP integration, simplified data modeling, and overall performance. Both play a key part in our overall data warehousing strategy and are complementary based on each of their strengths specific to data provisioning, and … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Harper Product Owner - Management Reporting SAP S4 / HANA Chose SAP BW/4HANA They all have different uses. BW/4HANA is mainly a HANA based data warehouse. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP BW/4HANA We use a mix of different tools, primarily Snowflake and SAP BW/4HANA - the first as our main Data Lake and integrated with other reporting and visualization tools, and the second as the main source of BI/Reporting into the ERP layer - Operations, Logistics, Inventory, Finance. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP BW/4HANA Unfortunately I never had the chance to work with other tools similar to SAP BW/4HANA. In the different companies I've worked for during the past 4 years, they all used SAP, and in particular I worked in SAP BW during the last year. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP BW/4HANA We used to have QlikView reporting some years ago. It was very user-friendly but when you needed some kind of data that was not considered by the solution creator, you needed to pay a developer for that need. SAP BW/4HANA needs very little customisation to offer you new data … Incentivized Helpful? Martin Lopez Gerente de Consultoría Chose SAP BW/4HANA SAP Analytics Cloud is complemented by SAP BW/4 HANA through connectors that work in real-time and allow the display of indicator information in interactive and user-friendly visualizations. SAP Data Services integrates with BW/4 HANA allowing to automate the loading of … Incentivized Helpful? MV Mark Villazon Senior Technical Specialist Chose SAP BW/4HANA None Incentivized Helpful?	SAP Datasphere IBRAHIM KILIC Software Architect Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Data Intelligence, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Data Services Incentivized Helpful? AJ Alec Jones Business Analyst Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Datasphere is a source for all SAC reporting. Incentivized Helpful? Karthik Selvaraj Senior Analytics Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere Na Incentivized Helpful? Michael Howell Analytics Solution Architect Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere DWH as input for SAC Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere some features are better, other for e.g. big data analysis or ai cases not Incentivized Helpful? GI gokcen isliel sap regional manager Chose SAP Datasphere it is an SAP product Incentivized Helpful? Kivanc Oktas Partner Chose SAP Datasphere The data management capabilities of SAC is not mature compared to SAP Datasphere. Incentivized Helpful? Nayan Shah Senior Software Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere Google BigQuery Incentivized Helpful? JS Jamie Smith Chief Computer Analyst and Product Manager Chose SAP Datasphere Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Three main advantages: 1. cost effectiveness 2. Robust and data friendly environments from all sources Incentivized Helpful? AD Anirban Das Software Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere 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 … Incentivized Helpful? KL Keith Latta Senior Systems Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Datasphere has robust backend integration tools that makes it easy to integrate non-SAP unlike alternatives such as Snowflake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Cloud based is the future and will enable significant reduction in maintenance from SAP BW on prem solutions. Incentivized Helpful? SK Sudheer Kurapati SAP Development Lead Chose SAP Datasphere Reusable the views compare the eclipse. Incentivized Helpful? ankita soni Database Administrator Chose SAP Datasphere Scalability and effectiveness to handle large volumes of data while maintaining consistency with the applications. Excellent with data integrity by eliminating duplications. Magnificent with a collection of data from different sources to get trusted data for making decisions. Incentivized Helpful? Nitesh Kumar Manager Marketing Chose SAP Datasphere The Friendly interface that SAP offered was second to none. The Tracking and tracebility that was Integrated helped in configuring locations quite easily and while shifting of cargo it was never an issue. Distribution wise SKU segregation was never a problem and report … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere DWC really allows no code model development and also integrates with a lot of data sources without additional tools as ETL Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Visualization layer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere No comparison. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Compared to the SAP Business Warehouse, the DWC can be operated with the SAC in a cloud environment on the Business Technology Platform. Thus, a single point of entry or single point of truth is given in the DWC, and reporting in the SAC is possible. The complete corporate … Incentivized Helpful? DB Dawn Boughter Senior provisioning billing specialist Chose SAP Datasphere It is very easy and quick to develop.it has good and excellent self-service. The use of state art data platform is very easy and simple. It has a high-performance and scalable data warehouse. It accelerates time to value real-time. It gives data a new level of consumption. Incentivized Helpful? BS Bill Short Chief operating officer Chose SAP Datasphere It is user-friendly and has self-service tools. It has built-in capabilities such as a data lake. It backed integration capabilities. It gives data on a new level of consumption. It is easy and very quick to develop. It has a high-performance and scalable data warehouse. Incentivized Helpful? BM Bill Morrill Sr. DevOps Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere Both tools are fairly the same, but we mainly focused on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud since we had a lot of SAP services that were simple to integrate with each other. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP Datasphere

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 8.8 Ratings 1% above category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 7.0 Ratings 12% below category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
Data model creation	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Exploration

Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 4.0 Ratings 27% below category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
Visualization	4.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Warehouse

Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 6.0 Ratings 24% below category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
High-Volume Data Processing	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Administrative Automation	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Self-Optimization	3.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SAP BW/4HANA	SAP Datasphere
Small Businesses	Google BigQuery Score 8.4 out of 10	Google BigQuery Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Score 9.0 out of 10	Snowflake Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Oracle Exadata Score 10.0 out of 10	Snowflake Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	SAP BW/4HANA	SAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SAP BW/4HANA	SAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend	Solid data warehouse based on best-in-class in-memory HANA database with excellent integration into SAP solutions, as well as predelivered business content facilitating initial implementation. Leverages the best of SAP's architecture and flexible data warehousing capabilities, without compromising performance and simplification. Will be key enabler to our Finance and HCM analytics roadmap. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SAP is best suited for large global corporations. It is a very complex software and is difficult to come by individuals who have sufficient enough knowledge to master the product. Globally our company only has 1 person to support us in IT for SAP. It is great if you use a more complex web host such as SFCC as you can make connections to SAP for returns, inventory, price updates, etc. Incentivized EM ERIN MCINTOSH Ecommerce Opperations Coordinator Read full review
Pros	Loading data from SAP ERP data sources. Use of data virtualization to minimize load times. Data hosting in memory since the underlying database is HANA. Incentivized Martin Lopez Gerente de Consultoría Read full review	SAP Data Warehouse Cloud offers free trial for 90 days with free 128 GB of storage and 64 GB memory. Availability of self-service data modeling and analytics on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud enables users to access and analyze data without getting support from the IT team. Without zero coding while collecting, connecting, analyzing and modeling data, it saves us time and operational costs of partnering with external IT support experts. Incentivized TM Trinity Marquez Senior HRIS & Global Payroll Analyst Read full review
Cons	Still has reliance of ABAP stack. Not all exception aggregation conditions are pushed down to HANA BW-IP should be included in offering as it was previously. BW workspaces could improved, has huge potential. Incentivized MV Mark Villazon Senior Technical Specialist Read full review	SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is quite complex, therefore, some extra orientation or training might be essential, more so on cloud. Secondly, SAP Data installation fee, and the monthly subscription amounts is slightly demanding, and the developer should refocus on changing them. Nonetheless, SAP Data rectified other challenges like flexibility and customization, making us happy clients. Incentivized LL Lamark Lingo CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer) Read full review
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It is one of the best tools and a boon to Logistics teams across the globe. One tends to actually process warehousing data so smoothly and the way demonstration is made while in programs it makes it user friendly. The Inventory touch points that one identify is simply awesome and is best part. Incentivized Nitesh Kumar Manager Marketing Read full review
Support Rating	I never experienced any support issue when using SAP BW/4HANA. The only issues I faced were at the moment of installing the tool in my computer but I got support from the local IT department of my company and was quickly fixed Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I would greatly acknowledge the services of Sap Data [warehouse Cloud] because we were struggling before its arrival where we used to get manual data connections and this used to consume a lot of time but after its use, we now are able to connect data easily saving a lot of time and finances. faith kelsie Information Technology Support Specialist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized MP Mirian Pitti Engineer Read full review	Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for users, and it is widely up for data quality, data governance, and data discovery. Incentivized JS Jamie Smith Chief Computer Analyst and Product Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Reduced our Dev time to generate queries and views out of the ERP layer. Be conscious of the Infrastructure costs It is easily integrated with broader SAP Landscape, reducing overall implementation costs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized AD Anirban Das Software Engineer Read full review
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