We performed a comparison between Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."I haven't heard about any major stability issues. At this time I feel like it's stable."
"It is fast, it's scalable, and it does the job it needs to do."
"The simplicity of development is the most valuable feature."
"Databricks has helped us have a good presence in data."
"Databricks has a scalable Spark cluster creation process. The creators of Databricks are also the creators of Spark, and they are the industry leaders in terms of performance."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the integration of the data warehouse and data lake, and the development of the lake house. Additionally, it integrates well with Spark for processing data in production."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"The reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and visualization are the most valuable."
"It integrates with third-party applications such as Google Drive and Excel,"
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"The solution is stable."
"All of the modules that we used to have separately in our on-premises solution are now integrated into one platform."
"The user interface is quite good for developing reports out of models."
"There is room for improvement in the documentation of processes and how it works."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"I'm not the guy that I'm working with Databricks on a daily basis. I'm on the management team. However, my team tells me there are limitations with streaming events. The connectors work with a small set of platforms. For example, we can work with Kafka, but if we want to move to an event-driven solution from AWS, we cannot do it. We cannot connect to all the streaming analytics platforms, so we are limited in choosing the best one."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"Databricks would benefit from enhanced metrics and tighter integration with Azure's diagnostics."
"The tool should improve its integration with other products."
"Databricks would have more collaborative features than it has. It should have some more customization for the jobs."
"I would also like to have more advanced features for predictive analytics."
"Improvements are coming quarterly whereas previously it was on a monthly basis."
"However, there are areas of improvement, particularly in terms of visualization. The front-end interface of SAP Analytics Cloud is not as impressive as Tableau and Power BI. The charts in other solutions have a more visually appealing and customizable look, while in SAP Analytics Cloud, there's a lack of alignment between numbers and charts. This graphical aspect, especially concerning charts, is not as satisfactory in SAP Analytics Cloud compared to its counterparts."
"Figuring out how to navigate all of the products around Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud and BW for HANA is quite difficult."
"Some algorithms are complex and can't be processed by just tagging the data and expecting results."
"What should be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is the speed of importing information and data, e.g. from SAP S/4HANA. Gathering the data from the main database takes a bit of time."
"We are currently working on connectivity with S/4HANA, but we would like to have better connectivity with our legacy systems."
"Currently only one data modeler can work at a time."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 60 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Anaplan.
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