SAP Business Data Cloud vs Snowflake Analytics comparison

SAP and Snowflake Computing are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. SAP is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0, while Snowflake Computing is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.5. SAP holds a 2.8% mindshare in CDW, compared to Snowflake Computing’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of SAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Snowflake Computing users who would recommend it.

SAP Business Data Cloud

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91% willing to recommend

Snowflake Analytics

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100% willing to recommend

SAP Business Data Cloud

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 15, 2026

Snowflake Analytics and SAP Business Data Cloud compete in the field of data analytics solutions. Snowflake appears to have the upper hand due to its flexibility, cost-effective scalability, and integration across cloud platforms.

Features: Snowflake's notable features include time travel, zero-copy cloning, and seamless integration with multiple cloud platforms. Its scalable architecture offers decoupled compute and storage, optimizing costs effectively. SAP Business Data Cloud focuses on BI and predictive analytics with strong SAP ecosystem integration, providing planning tools and AI features for a comprehensive solution.

Room for Improvement: Snowflake could improve its machine learning integration and enhance UI visualization features. Users also suggest better integration with third-party platforms and direct cloud communication. SAP Business Data Cloud needs better third-party integration and enhanced connectivity to legacy systems, along with improved visualizations and more competitive pricing for advanced functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Snowflake operates efficiently in both public and private clouds, offering excellent technical support and deployment ease. SAP Business Data Cloud provides hybrid and on-premises deployment options, excelling in SAP integration but demands improvement in support responsiveness and technical assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Snowflake's usage-based pricing can escalate with high computation but is managed by its cost-effective compute-storage model, improving ROI by lowering operational expenses. SAP Business Data Cloud is relatively premium-priced but justifies this with seamless SAP integration and extensive features. However, pricing can be restrictive for advanced features, making Snowflake a more competitive option in cost management.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

5.4

SAP Business Data Cloud offers quick ROI through enhanced analytics, real-time reporting, and cost-effective process improvements, boosting efficiency.

Sentiment score

5.3

Snowflake Analytics improves efficiency and cost management, though ROI varies; users often see notable time and cost savings.

We have saved a lot on the number of employees, and implementation time for the projects has reduced significantly since we started using the standard features of SAP Business Data Cloud.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Once the content is available, then it is a faster go-live with lesser cost in implementation, and that would give an ROI.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

There is a return on investment with SAP Business Data Cloud, as it saves money because it performs results quickly and easily, facilitating integrations and speeding up operations compared to other analytics tools, thereby saving time and money.

reviewer2834484

Consultant-SAP GRC at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.0

SAP Business Data Cloud support varies, praised for priority assistance but criticized for delay in regular case handling and first-level response.

Sentiment score

6.9

Snowflake Analytics support is praised for responsiveness and professionalism but criticized for occasional delays and access issues.

The technical support is a very well-organized service, with a lot of tools for me as a consultant and for the end user on how to contact SAP support and get issues solved.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

For example, when I provide a set of instructions, they often simply ask me to implement those steps without checking whether they are applicable.

ShantanuSrivastava

Lead Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

In SAP's policy, for the first couple of years, the product team is also part of the support team.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

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The Snowflake Analytics documentation is excellent.

reviewer2729628

Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Recently we had a two-day session where the Snowflake Analytics team provided a demo on Cortex AI and its features.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

The technical support for Snowflake Analytics is excellent based on what I have heard from others.

Paresh_Nayak

Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

SAP Business Data Cloud is scalable and flexible, supports large data, and promises improvements despite occasional performance issues.

Sentiment score

7.7

Snowflake Analytics offers scalable cloud infrastructure, automatic resource management, and seamless data handling with strong performance for large data volumes.

SAP Analytics Cloud can be used by a small company, and it can be used by a large corporate.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

Since SAP has consolidated everything on one platform, there is ample room to expand as much as needed.

Muhammad Ashar

Sap Data & Analytics Consultant at Dezert Innovation Technology Company

There are no limitations in terms of scale, so it fits both SMB customers and enterprise customers.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

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Storage is unlimited because they use S3 if it is AWS, so storage has no limit.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

It supports both horizontal and vertical scaling effectively.

Paresh_Nayak

Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

Maintaining security and data governance becomes easier with an entire data lake in place, and the scalability improves performance.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

SAP Business Data Cloud is stable with high availability, but performance issues occur during updates and with large datasets.

Sentiment score

8.4

Snowflake Analytics is highly rated for its stability and reliability, offering minimal issues and excellent cloud support performance.

You have a chance to test it on your test tenant in small increments, so it should not break your productive reports and productive environment.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

Other than during these quarterly release periods, the availability is excellent.

Muhammad Ashar

Sap Data & Analytics Consultant at Dezert Innovation Technology Company

In a typical quarter, the availability has been over 99%; in a few cases, it dropped to around 98.5%.

ShantanuSrivastava

Lead Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Snowflake Analytics has been stable and reliable in my experience.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

Snowflake Analytics is stable, scoring around eight point five to nine out of ten.

Paresh_Nayak

Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

The Power BI team raised tickets for both Power BI and Snowflake Analytics, and their responses were very good.

reviewer2729628

Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

Enhancements in licensing, integration, training, and support are needed for SAP Business Data Cloud to boost competitiveness and performance.

Snowflake Analytics requires better orchestration, integration, Python support, price transparency, data exports, and enhanced machine learning and performance features.

On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

If SAP can come up with innovative options to reduce licensing costs, many customers would incline toward SAP Business Data Cloud.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

If I compare the cost with SAP competitors, I find that when creating an enterprise data lake, if I don't use SAP Business Data Cloud and make it directly in the hyperscalers, it is pretty much cheaper than doing the same in SAP Business Data Cloud.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

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AIML-based SQL prompt and query generation could be an area for enhancement.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

If it offered flexibility similar to Oracle and supported more heterogeneous data sources and database connectivity, it would be even better.

Paresh_Nayak

Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

I would prefer Snowflake Analytics to improve their support response times, as sometimes the responses we receive are not very prompt and ticket assignments may not be timely.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

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Setup Cost

SAP Business Data Cloud offers premium pricing with valuable integration and functionality, favored by large enterprises despite additional costs.

Snowflake Analytics provides flexible pricing, balancing usability with cost, offering competitive rates and value through its decoupled storage and compute.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

Frankly, pricing, setup cost, and licensing seem a bit high compared to other hyperscalers.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

The pricing for SAP Business Data Cloud is higher compared to alternatives.

Jagan Mohan Reddy Kalavala

SAP BDC Consultant at IBM

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Snowflake charges per query, which amounts to a very minor cost, such as $0.015 per query.

AyindeHammed

BI Developer at DivVerse LLC

Snowflake is better and cheaper than Redshift and other cloud warehousing systems.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

Snowflake Analytics is quite economical.

Paresh_Nayak

Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

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Valuable Features

SAP Business Data Cloud streamlines data management, boosts decision-making with machine learning integration, and enhances financial metrics tracking.

Snowflake Analytics offers efficient, scalable data management with strong security, cloud flexibility, and advanced features for seamless data integration.

For SuccessFactors and S/4HANA Cloud, there are pre-built reports available which are commonly used by customers.

Bhupesh Akkineni

Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

SAP Business Data Cloud has positively impacted my organization by federating SAP data, which is now available for all to use.

Ninad Mehta

Associate director, SAP technical at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The main standout feature is BDC Connect, as it is very useful for sharing data without replicating to third-party tools such as Enterprise Databricks, Snowflake or even in the near future, Google BigQuery as well as Microsoft Fabric.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

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Running a considerable query on Microsoft SQL Server may take up to thirty minutes or an hour, while Snowflake executes the same query in less than three minutes.

AyindeHammed

BI Developer at DivVerse LLC

Snowflake Analytics supports data security with a single sign-on feature and complies with framework regulations, which is highly beneficial.

Paresh_Nayak

Data Governance Architect at Sterlite Technologies Ltd

It is a data offering where I can see data lineage, data governance, and data security.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Business Data Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (10th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (3rd), Business Performance Management (3rd), Cloud Analytics (2nd), Predictive Analytics (2nd), Data Governance (9th)

Snowflake Analytics

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Analytics (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of SAP Business Data Cloud is 2.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snowflake Analytics is 3.2%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Business Data Cloud	2.8%
Snowflake Analytics	3.2%
Other	94.0%

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Featured Reviews

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

Brings reporting, planning, and prediction together in one seamless workflow

I think the areas of SAP Analytics Cloud that could be improved or enhanced are mentioned by users or companies, and they would definitely mention the price in terms of planning licensing. From a consulting point of view, I don't see any major weaknesses. It is reasonably well-developed, and the perfect strength is that innovations are coming on a quarterly basis. It is slightly behind other tools in terms of the number of graphical outputs. Some tools have it faster, but every increment of innovations contains new features. On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family, for example, integrated business planning for the production planning. This is really a highlight compared to other tools.

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Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

Have created secure cloud-based data lakes and improved real-time data processing using integrated AI features

There are many capabilities which Snowflake Analytics offers that I find valuable, such as the storage and compute engine that allows working with any cloud system such as AWS or Azure, alongside its efficiencies in storage computation and cost-effectiveness, which saves money compared to on-premise systems. We also have features such as pre-cached results, Time Travel, and fail-safe, which are very useful for restoring data if deleted accidentally, and the streams and data pipes that facilitate real-time ingestion are great features as well. Snowflake Analytics offers multiple new connectors, allowing me to connect it with Kafka, and with Snowpark, I can work with any programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala for data processing and analysis. The data sharing feature offered by Snowflake Analytics is good because it allows sharing specific sets of data to end customers or users from different Snowflake Analytics accounts without exposing the entire dataset for data security reasons. Snowflake Analytics' support for machine learning models and real-time insights has enhanced significantly. Originally, it wasn't strong in AI/ML, but now it has multiple models and forecasting capabilities, providing good competition to tools such as Databricks and Spark. In BI, I have worked majorly with Microsoft Power BI, and the integration with Snowflake Analytics is very easy. The way we integrate Snowflake Analytics with other on-premise systems just requires the warehouse details, username, passwords, and the account name, along with multiple options such as client ID and credentials for logging in and creating a session. The end-to-end encryption provided by Snowflake Analytics is very important because, in my previous firm, working in finance and investment management, data encryption is necessary due to the sensitive nature of customer data and the involvement of people's money. It's crucial to have encryption in transit and at rest, along with data masking features which Snowflake Analytics offers.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Marketing Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	19
Large Enterprise	49

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

Which would you choose - Tableau or SAP Analytics Cloud?

Tableau is easy to set up and maintain. In about a day it is possible for the entire platform to be deployed for use. This relatively short amount of time can make all the difference for companies ...

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What do you like most about SAP Analytics Cloud?

In the data warehouse, you're free to make changes. You can make everything text, meaning it's always a string. Even numbers appear as text, giving you the flexibility to work with all columns.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Analytics Cloud?

I normally do not deal with the commercials, so I am not aware of the pricing part of it.

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What do you like most about Snowflake Analytics?

Its performance speed is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake Analytics?

Snowflake Analytics is quite economical. It does not appear to incur significant extra expenses beyond the solution's initial cost. However, a complete pricing analysis is still in progress.

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What needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics?

In my opinion, Snowflake Analytics can be improved by introducing more features, such as additional integration options. I remember using Snowflake Pro, which allows exporting direct data into the ...

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Also Known As

SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Digital Boardroom, SAP Analytics Hub

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Overview

SAP Business Data Cloud provides cloud-based predictive analysis, robust visualization, and integrated planning capabilities with seamless SAP integration. It enhances analytics and reporting efficiency with machine learning and AI features.

SAP Business Data Cloud stands out with its user-friendly application design, leveraging TypeScript scripting for flexibility. It enables easy data integration, customizable dashboards, and collaborative planning. Renowned for its seamless connectivity and comprehensive business intelligence offerings, it is designed to support real-time analytics and planning across both on-prem and cloud environments. Improvements are anticipated in visualization features, connectivity, and third-party system integration, with calls for more customizable chart options and real-time reporting capabilities.

What are the most important features of SAP Business Data Cloud?

Cloud-Based Predictive Analysis: Offers advanced forecasting and trend prediction capabilities.
Robust Visualization: Enables dynamic and interactive data visualization tools.
Integrated Planning: Provides tools for strategic planning and collaboration.
Flexibility with TypeScript: Allows customization and tailored application design.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with other SAP products and additional data sources.
AI and Machine Learning: Enhances analytics and reporting efficiency.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in SAP Business Data Cloud?

User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies data integration and application design.
Comprehensive Business Intelligence: Supports strategic decision-making processes.
Real-Time Analytics: Provides timely insights and enhances planning processes.
Collaborative Planning: Facilitates teamwork and strategic alignment.
Cost-Effective Solution: Offers value through efficient and diverse capabilities.

SAP Business Data Cloud serves industries by powering cloud-based reporting, analytics, financial planning, and executive dashboards. Companies utilize it to integrate SAP and non-SAP data sources for insights and forecasts. It is applied in constructing dashboards, boardroom presentations, budgeting, and predictive analytics, supporting versatile use cases across multiple sectors.

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Snowflake Analytics offers advanced capabilities in data warehousing and cloud data migration, with support for machine learning and business intelligence tasks. Its scalable architecture supports large data volumes while enhancing cost efficiency through decoupled computation and storage.

As a flexible, managed environment, Snowflake Analytics enhances data sharing and integration across multiple cloud platforms. It allows seamless data pipeline creation, supports advanced analytics, and facilitates reporting and visualization. Despite facing integration challenges with legacy systems and complex queries, Snowflake's continuous improvements aim to address these issues, making it a reliable choice for organizations transitioning to the cloud.

What features define Snowflake Analytics?

Time Travel: Enables users to access historical data effortlessly.
Zero-Copy Cloning: Allows cloning of data without storage costs.
Scalability: Easily handles large data volumes.
Data Sharing: Facilitates seamless data sharing across platforms.
Decoupled Architecture: Enhances cost efficiency by separating computation and storage.

What benefits should businesses look for in Snowflake reviews?

Cost Efficiency: Optimized costs through advanced storage management.
Performance: High-speed computations and real-time analytics.
Security: End-to-end encryption ensuring data security.
Flexibility: Supports multiple cloud environments for diverse needs.

Enterprises across industries utilize Snowflake Analytics for its robust data handling and cloud integration capabilities. It serves sectors in need of efficient data warehousing, real-time analytics, and machine learning support, making it suitable for cloud migration and enhancing business intelligence operations.

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