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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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.
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a modular cloud ERP. Embedded with AI and analytics, it helps business run anywhere, in real time. SAP S/4HANA Cloud can be deployed either on premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid combination.
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Custom Pricing
per month FUE users*
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SAP S/4HANA Cloud
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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* FUE = Full user equivalent, which allows flexible customer choice among: 1 Advanced user, 3 Core-users, or 30 self-service users per FUE. Minimum purchase is 35 FUEs.
No others compared. I had an ECC system with Oracle Database before I migrated to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. With Oracle I had performance problems, especially in batch processes with a large amount of data to manage or with massive processes. With HANA all this has improved …
The earlier version of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and its ERP business functions were available in SAP ERP (ECC). There we were not having much to do on Intelligent Framework or Machine Learning capabilities. The SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides data for SAP Leonardo as well. The new SAP …
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is better in terms of timings of retrieving data from others. Still there is scope of improvement but one can surely go for it for starting it.
I selected SAP S/4HANA Cloud because it great tool use very organized and very useful in our business. Like I stated before this platform makes my job easier for report and if i need to see more information for prediction i am able to do so. This product is one of the best I …
We think it is the best option regarding the performance it has
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we use a bw/4hana system to use our planning data for management. We use this to create a budget and an annual balance sheet. We use the SAP S/4HANA Cloud System as a source system and this creates a perfect addition to our SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Reporting is used by financial …
SAP S/4HANA Cloud has quicker data processing. Customers and partners can adapt predictive use cases, or create new ones based on their own business needs in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Predictive Analytics, and publish to the application with one click. Predictive analytics. SAP S/4HANA …
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
It is suitable for medium and large-sized companies looking for a robust ERP solution that can help them simplify complex business processes. It is a scalable ERP solution with built-in AI and machine learning that will improve efficiency. It will also help them to reduce hardware and maintenance costs.
The cost of SAP as an ERP is quite high and the switching costs associated with ERP systems are even higher. That being said moving from one ERP to another only happens once in a great while for large organizations. Those switching costs include retraining, IT hardware requirements, outside consultants and more
SAPs usability is great. If there is one ERP where one can adjust about anything there is to be adjusted, this is SAP. This sometimes also means having to maintain some extra master data, but this is to be expected and is well worth the extra effort. We wouldn't have it any other way!
The technical support received by the ITT design teams and OS implementation team has been very useful in ensuring that the SAP ERP is well-tailored to our company's specific needs and operations. This coupled with the training materials, business process maps, and concept demos (sand-box demos) makes adoption easy on end-users.
SAP requires a lot of internal and external resources to complete its successful implementation. The cloud version requires a deeper understanding of the different capabilities of the local systems (hardware) and the connection towards your local IT team. We found several problems on our systems that we couldn't foresee before the implementation and roll out.
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.
As I already mentioned, it automated our tasks such as Report creation, PR creation, and many others. That's the major advantage of the S/4 HANA cloud over our previous ERP. Its robust indication system and pre-analyzed data enabled ease of decision-making, which was not incorporated in our last software.
Positive - This tool report output is in Excel so it's a good tool if your users are familiar with Excel.
Positive: this tool has rich BI content so developing extractors for standard processes from SAP ECC can be done in minutes.
Negative: It lacks lot of features which are available in other newer tools today. For ex. - rich charts, rich filtering, exporting capabilities, user interface.
Negative: Its not a plug and play tool like Qlikview, Lumira, or Tableau. Even a single report development in this tool takes a lot of time compared to others.