SAP Business Warehouse

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP BW	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	SAP Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019. SAP BW versions up to 7.4 have reached end of maintenance. SAP BW 7.5 support is extended to align with SAP Business Suite with NetWeaver components. For existing customers maintenance is scheduled to continue through 2027, with extended support available through 2030.	N/A

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SAP BW
Free Trial
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Community Pulse
	SAP Business Warehouse
Considered Both Products	SAP BW Juan Carlos Crespo Rojas Senior SAP Consultant Chose SAP Business Warehouse The word "against" would not be the right word to describe this question. These applications coexist and interact, as all of them play a specific role in the SAP landscape. The use of any of these applications should be aligned with the data strategy in an Organization. Incentivized Helpful? Parijatam S Lead Consultant Chose SAP Business Warehouse Its good for data modelling and ease of reporting capabilities. Even designing base master data models is complex but once done it makes life very easy for any reporting that involves hierarchies/ text & direct/indirect attributes even. It does not have capabilities for … Incentivized Helpful? Niloofar Keshvari Nia IT Operations and Support Specialist Chose SAP Business Warehouse Coordination and integration with other SAP software and products, as well as its speed and simplicity in reporting, make it one of our current choices Incentivized Helpful? Kartik Chavan Business Data Analyst Chose SAP Business Warehouse The main reason we chose SAP was the price. SAP Business Warehouse was relatively cheaper compared to other alternatives. SAP Business Warehouse is very popular software for reporting purposes and data storage. But also, it is hard to shift to a newer software once the roots … Incentivized Helpful? Alfred Brock Communications Specialist Chose SAP Business Warehouse SAP Business Warehouse was our preferred route because we already work with a large suite of SAP products. The comparison between them leads me to say that QlikView allows sharing materials a little more easily with end users than SAP Business Warehouse. The main choice behind … Incentivized Helpful? Julius Shen Senior System Analyst Chose SAP Business Warehouse SAP Business Warehouse scores higher in data warehouse functionalities for integration to SAP ERP and other SAP solutions such as SAP CRM, SAP APO, and SAP SRM. Standard SAP data source extractors which are available in SAP ERP can be used immediately for full or delta … Incentivized Helpful? BB Brandi Brown-Lang Sales and Purchasing Administrator Chose SAP Business Warehouse SAP Business Warehouse just has better visibility on warehouse flows than some of the other SAP software. I think it is easier to use, and it makes some really great reports that are able to export to excel without much effort. This makes it easy to send customers as well as … Incentivized Helpful? Gustavo Porporato Daher CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Chose SAP Business Warehouse We evaluated against Microsoft and database systems. SAP stands out due to simplicity to get the data coming from SAP ERP. Incentivized Helpful? Sam Figueroa Associate Staff Systems Specialist Chose SAP Business Warehouse SAP business warehouse was chosen years ago along with our current ERP software. It currently doesn't stack up well against newer software such as IBM Cognos, or SAS Business Intelligence. The positive side, is that the software has been around for many years and it is easy to … Incentivized Helpful? Vivek Gupta BI Consultant Chose SAP Business Warehouse My client was an SAP shop client where they have SAP ECC. Using SAP BW helps them to save development time on extractors which are readily available in SAP BW. Also, the tight integration with SAP ECC helps to further reduce the time. The users here were Excel friendly so they … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Liston Solutions Architect Chose SAP Business Warehouse I have previously used MicroStrategy Analytics for reporting and I can confidentially say this is a better option. First, we can do all ETL in the system and not have to rely on another tool. Second, it is easy to integrate with the SAP Lumira platform which seems to be much … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Data sources Pro Data management Pro Data warehousing
Top Cons	Minus User friendly Minus Time consuming Minus User interface

Features

SAP Business Warehouse

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 8.8 3 Ratings 2% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.73 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.03 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.73 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance	7.03 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 9.0 3 Ratings 12% above category average
Data model creation	9.03 Ratings

Data Exploration

Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 5.7 3 Ratings 5% above category average
Visualization	5.73 Ratings

Data Warehouse

Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 7.7 3 Ratings 7% above category average
High-Volume Data Processing	8.03 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	9.33 Ratings
Administrative Automation	7.73 Ratings
Self-Optimization	6.03 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SAP Business Warehouse
Small Businesses	Google BigQuery Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Oracle Exadata Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	SAP Business Warehouse
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (15 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SAP Business Warehouse
Likelihood to Recommend	SAP SAP BW is best for: 1. Large enterprises 2. Enterprises with 3+ legacy systems with entrenched users (politically difficult to merge) 3. Enterprises with employees who can understand both the technical capabilities of SAP BW and the needs of the business users - ability to speak both languages, otherwise the program could be unwieldy and potentially underutilized (it's not particularly inexpensive) SAP BW is less appropriate for: 1. Small enterprises 2. Enterprises who have well established, same location, CRM and UFS - the integration of data analysis will be easier and less expensive with other solutions 3. HANA Incentivized Jeff Looby, CPA Associate Read full review
Pros	SAP It tracks bin locations for parts which can be really helpful. SAP Business Warehouse tells you who has a part checked out so you can find it. It shows current parts shortages so buyers are flagged to get parts on order based on current demand. Incentivized BB Brandi Brown-Lang Sales and Purchasing Administrator Read full review
Cons	SAP Support comes slow. This is not a limitation of the software itself but could be a symptom from the local office. Once we get support everything works along smoothly. It is always important to review the instructions. This is not a system that does well initially with personalization without review of standard procedures. A log of time can be lost if the technicians and programmers working with the data are not following correct procedures. Incentivized Alfred Brock Communications Specialist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	SAP SAP Business Warehouse scores higher in data warehouse functionalities for integration to SAP ERP and other SAP solutions such as SAP CRM, SAP APO, and SAP SRM. Standard SAP data source extractors which are available in SAP ERP can be used immediately for full or delta replication into SAP Business Warehouse. System governance in SAP Business Warehouse is top-notch with change management support for migration between system landscape from the development system to production system. Incentivized Julius Shen Senior System Analyst Read full review
Return on Investment	SAP Exporting of data and reports to Excel is very easy for the end user to interpret and manipulate. Negatively, the speed at which BW retrieves data and reports is very slow and out of date. Addition of daughter application HANA has helped this aging application stay afloat for a few more years. Overall it has been a great tool but it's showing its age very fast. Incentivized Sam Figueroa Associate Staff Systems Specialist Read full review
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