SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW/4HANA

70 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
Free Trial
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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 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?
Top Pros	Pro Data modelling Pro Easy to use Pro User interface
Top Cons	Minus Run time Minus Sap analytics cloud Minus Web based

Features

SAP BW/4HANA

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 8.8 1 Ratings 2% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.01 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	9.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.01 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance	8.01 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 7.0 1 Ratings 13% below category average
Data model creation	7.01 Ratings

Data Exploration

Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 4.0 1 Ratings 30% below category average
Visualization	4.01 Ratings

Data Warehouse

Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
	SAP BW/4HANA 6.0 1 Ratings 18% below category average
High-Volume Data Processing	8.01 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	8.01 Ratings
Administrative Automation	5.01 Ratings
Self-Optimization	3.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SAP BW/4HANA
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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 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 Some scenarios where SAP BW/4HANA is well suited are retail industry, supply chain, finance, warehouse, stocking processes, BI, [and] some finance analytics reporting. Some scenarios where SAP BW/4HANA is less appropriate [is when] relational queries are needed [and] in some small business with infrastructure limitations. Another scenario that is less appropriate is for ABAP processes requirements. Incentivized MP Mirian Pitti Engineer 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 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. 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 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 information in the system taking as a data source a wide variety of platforms. Incentivized Martin Lopez Gerente de Consultoría Read full review
Return on Investment	SAP Faster turn-around to enhancements End users can query structures that are not limited to multi-dimensional models. Performance improvements means that business user can do more in the same time compared to traditional BW Incentivized MV Mark Villazon Senior Technical Specialist Read full review
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