SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA

95 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP BW/4HANA	Score 8.4 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

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SAP BW/4HANA

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SAP BW/4HANA
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

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Community Pulse
	SAP BW/4HANA
Considered Both Products	SAP BW/4HANA Verified User Team Lead Chose SAP BW/4HANA We chose SAP BW/4HANA for its out of the box integration and ETL capabilities with our landscape of other SAP solutions in addition to the pre-build SAP delivered business content. Integrated BPC also made it a perfect choice for planning and consolidation in one integrated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose SAP BW/4HANA Much more solid BW solution over all. Helpful? Robert Harper Product Owner - Management Reporting SAP S4 / HANA Chose SAP BW/4HANA They all have different uses. BW/4HANA is mainly a HANA based data warehouse. Incentivized Helpful? MP Mirian Pitti Engineer Chose SAP BW/4HANA 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose SAP BW/4HANA Both are comparable with the advantage going to BW for SAP integration, simplified data modeling, and overall performance. Both play a key part in our overall data warehousing strategy and are complementary based on each of their strengths specific to data provisioning, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Executive Chose SAP BW/4HANA We use a mix of different tools, primarily Snowflake and SAP BW/4HANA - the first as our main Data Lake and integrated with other reporting and visualization tools, and the second as the main source of BI/Reporting into the ERP layer - Operations, Logistics, Inventory, Finance. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose SAP BW/4HANA Unfortunately I never had the chance to work with other tools similar to SAP BW/4HANA. In the different companies I've worked for during the past 4 years, they all used SAP, and in particular I worked in SAP BW during the last year. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose SAP BW/4HANA We used to have QlikView reporting some years ago. It was very user-friendly but when you needed some kind of data that was not considered by the solution creator, you needed to pay a developer for that need. SAP BW/4HANA needs very little customisation to offer you new data … Incentivized Helpful? Martin Lopez Gerente de Consultoría Chose SAP BW/4HANA SAP Analytics Cloud is complemented by SAP BW/4 HANA through connectors that work in real-time and allow the display of indicator information in interactive and user-friendly visualizations. SAP Data Services integrates with BW/4 HANA allowing to automate the loading of … Incentivized Helpful? MV Mark Villazon Senior Technical Specialist Chose SAP BW/4HANA None Incentivized Helpful?

Features

SAP BW/4HANA

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 9.2 2 Ratings 3% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.82 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.82 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.82 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance	7.22 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 9.5 2 Ratings 8% above category average
Data model creation	9.52 Ratings

Data Exploration

Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 9.1 2 Ratings 24% above category average
Visualization	9.12 Ratings

Data Warehouse

Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 7.7 2 Ratings 5% below category average
High-Volume Data Processing	9.72 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	9.72 Ratings
Administrative Automation	5.01 Ratings
Self-Optimization	6.42 Ratings

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User Ratings
	SAP BW/4HANA
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (9 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (7 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SAP BW/4HANA
Likelihood to Recommend	SAP SAP BW/4HANA is certainly an excellent choice when it comes to setting up a data warehousing platform within a landscape of existing SAP systems ecosystem for realizing quick time to value and ROI over the long term. Many non-SAP analytics tools such as Power BI , Qlik also now offer connectors to leverage SAP BW/4HANA data as additional options to deploy third party visualization tools which make it a more open ended platform of choice. But with the future roadmap of SAP and industry in general being focused towards cloud based offerings (SAC and Datasphere) infused with AI capabilities one has to make a judicious choice among these depending on the use case, capabilities of platforms and existing systems landscape and the overall long term IT strategy. SAP BW/4HANA may not be a good platform of choice if starting a native greenfield data warehousing implementation with cloud first approach which would require data integration across SAP and Non-SAP sources and one should consider other SAP cloud offerings which however still have some time to reach a level of maturity as SAP BW/4HANA has reached over the years. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	SAP High speed data warehouse regardless of data volumes. Excellent integration with SAP systems and Data sets. Simplified data modelling due to columnar data base. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	SAP Enterprise license pricing is very expensive and run-time license limits the usefulness of the tool. Integration with SAP Analytics cloud for write-back to BW/4HANA. Live connection is only read from SAC. Make run-time licenses more useful. Incentivized Robert Harper Product Owner - Management Reporting SAP S4 / HANA Read full review
Usability	SAP SAP BW/4HANA is a well-designed data warehousing solution that has matured over the years with even more capabilities esp. on the HANA platform making it a compelling choice for SAP customers. It is very well thought out both in design and development aspects from an IT standpoint as well as usability from a business user standpoint with excellent performance driven by HANA. It also goes beyond just analytics and offers data mining and planning capabilities that make it even more compelling. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	SAP SAP Max Attention and general support for SAP BW/4HANA is broadly available. Truth to be told, MaxAttention has a premium cost but brings great engineers. So this being an enterprise capability and extremely critical, we did not consider cost as the main factor since support works well. Just keep that in mind when making your selection. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	SAP 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. Incentivized MP Mirian Pitti Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	SAP Positive impact on the availability of information for decision making. Avoid the need for multiple databases for isolated data warehouses within the organization. Immediate availability of information for managers and business users. Incentivized Martin Lopez Gerente de Consultoría Read full review
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