SAP BW/4HANA vs. Teradata Vantage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
Teradata Vantage
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Teradata Vantage is presented as a modern analytics cloud platform that unifies everything—data lakes, data warehouses, analytics, and new data sources and types. Supports hybrid multi-cloud environments and priced for flexibility, Vantage delivers unlimited intelligence to build the future of business. Users can deploy Vantage on public clouds (such as AWS, Azure, and GCP), hybrid multi-cloud environments, on-premises with Teradata IntelliFlex, or on commodity hardware with VMware.
$4,800
per month
Pricing
SAP BW/4HANATeradata Vantage
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
from $4800
per month
Teradata VantageCloud Enterprise
from $9000
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP BW/4HANATeradata Vantage
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Features
SAP BW/4HANATeradata Vantage
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
Teradata Vantage
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
SAP BW/4HANA
7.0
Ratings
12% below category average
Teradata Vantage
-
Ratings
Data model creation7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Exploration
Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
SAP BW/4HANA
4.0
Ratings
27% below category average
Teradata Vantage
-
Ratings
Visualization4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Warehouse
Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
SAP BW/4HANA
6.0
Ratings
24% below category average
Teradata Vantage
-
Ratings
High-Volume Data Processing8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Administrative Automation5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Optimization3.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP BW/4HANATeradata Vantage
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.8
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP BW/4HANATeradata Vantage
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.
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Teradata Vantage is well suited for large scale ETL pipelines like the ones we developed for anti money laundering risk matrices. It handles heavy joins, aggregations, and transformations on transactional data efficiently. We generate alert variables, adjust for inflation, and monitor establishments monthly with it, all integrated with Python and Control-M for a centralised automation across the company. For less appropriate, I would say that heavy resource demands might slow down experimentation for iterative work.
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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.
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  • ETL (Extract - Transfor - Load)
  • NOS to send data from Teradata Vantage to S3 and from S3 to Teradata Vantage
  • Teradata GeoSpacial feature
  • Bulk reading and writing in huge tables
  • MPP capacity already mature
  • Temporal Capacity more mature that other solutions
  • TASM
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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.
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  • Teradata can improve by supporting more native AWS cloud features. Currently if a node goes down the EC2 instance must be restarted. It isn't something that happens frequently but more tight integration with cloud providers like AWS and Azure will allow Teradata to offer truly dynamic scaling.
  • Some Teradata features are oversold before they are ready for prime-time. Teradata is not unique in this but if something is sold as an integrated product stack it should really be integrated not something that requires an extensive development cycle to be integrated at a customer's expense. If something is supported it should've really be tested and QAed thoroughly before a customer touches it.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Teradata is a mature RDBMS system that expands its functionality towards the current cloud capabilities like object storage and flexible compute scale.
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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.
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Teradata Vantage allows us to create a scalable infrastructure to support our strategic initiatives. The dedicated compute power ensures reliable performance with isolated workloads and dedicated resources, optimizing workflows for faster, more efficient data transfers. The compute clusters support ETL processes and OSF’s developers and data science team with the flexibility to create self-service analytics, to spin up/down at any time, driving better performance and minimizing costs.
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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
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We have meetings at the beginning with the technical team to explain our requirements to them and they were really putting in a lot of effort to come up with a solution which will address all our needs. They implemented the software and also trained a few of our resources on the same too. We can get in touch with them now as well whenever we run into a roadblock but it's very less now.
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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.
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Teradata is way ahead of its competitor because of its unique features of ensuring data privacy and data never gets corrupted even in worst case scenario. In most cases, the data corruption is a major issue if left unused and it leads to important data being wiped off which in ideal case should be stored for 3 years
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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.
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  • Teradata is been absolutely phenomenal for our project because we feed huge chunks of data to it and get back the desired results in no time which earlier used to take hours to process and then also sometimes timeout.
  • We don't have to do any manual intervention for resource or task allocation, it is all taken care by Teradata internally and all the AMP's are given equal amount of work and have their own resources to complete them with no sharing with another.
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ScreenShots

SAP BW/4HANA Screenshots

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Teradata Vantage Screenshots

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