Integrated warehouse management system
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What is SAP BW?
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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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…
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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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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…
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What is SAP BW?
SAP Business Warehouse (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA.
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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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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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June 09, 2021
Integrated warehouse management system
Our company provides smart solutions to our clients, this is one such solution for our customers, we use this solution primarily for data warehousing and reporting. They particularly appreciate its speed and ability to use a HANA database. It would be helpful to hear more about the vendor's strategy for the cloud solution.
- Maintaining SAP BW is much easier than similar products
- Powerful and extensive functionality
- The system doesn't integrate well with other systems and is difficult to use
- It would be beneficial to have reports that could be modified and saved more easily
- You may find it difficult to build your type of report, many of the sections can be streamlined and easier to use
SAP Business Warehouse ("SAP BW") is used to aggregate data from disparate systems to create a single version of the truth or run reports / analyses across the entire organization. It is only used by the corporate team as each of the business divisions are extremely loyal to their specific software packages that are pulled into SAP BW (CRM, sales data, etc.).
The most important business problems that are solved is (1) the ability to produce more sophisticated analysis to drive executive decision making and (2) compile certain regulatory reports that are extremely time-consuming if produced outside of a data warehouse.
The most important business problems that are solved is (1) the ability to produce more sophisticated analysis to drive executive decision making and (2) compile certain regulatory reports that are extremely time-consuming if produced outside of a data warehouse.
- Integrates, stores, and manages company data from all sources
- Pre-configured information models are better than average
- Security authorization protocols and flexibility
- Integration capabilities
- Certain pruning can only take place on metadata rather than posted data
- High runtimes for query execution
- Results still requires fairly significant data verification time and effort
- Infocube requires significant optimization efforts
May 17, 2018
SAP BW Review
For our clients, we use SAP Business Warehouse systems for generating reports. It has always been easier for our company to gather data from several systems. The primary purpose being reporting, we also use it for analytics at the corporate level to analyze business performance in various sectors of our company.
- Generating reports
- Ease of interaction with various data sources like XML
- Tables comparison is pretty easy
- Data warehousing
- It is not very user-friendly for the beginners
- Slow speed in generating reports
- Not the best for larger datasets
April 26, 2018
Inside SAP Business Warehouse
SAP BW is an enterprise data warehousing tool and we stored most of the data generated by systems in our organization generated over a LONG time into one mega Datawarehouse. Now we are able to run reports and review trends we could not before. It has also proven useful to gather data from several systems in use work with the data in a new report. We have been able to compare and organize data in ways we were able to imagine but not realize before.
- Once the data has been cleansed it is very easy to import the items into the database system. I believe this to be a strength as we reduce time having to deal with the importing function and concentrate on cleansing.
- Table comparisons are easy to set up and powerful tools. This allows us to examine the data at hand rather than being tied up in the process.
- 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.
April 02, 2018
SAP BW for Enterprise Reporting
SAP BW is used across the whole organization. SAP BW helps to provide company-wide enterprise reports mainly coming from SAP ECC data. Reports cover several areas including Finance, Supply Chain, Purchasing etc.
- SAP BW is very good to process a large amount of data.
- SAP BW can help perform complex transformation of data.
- SAP BW has out of the box data sources to connect to ECC.
- Front-end reporting can be made more user-friendly.
- Some of the areas are still missing BI Content (COPA etc)
- Metadata repository can be improved and made more user-friendly.
December 20, 2017
SAP Business Warehouse rocks (only in SAP world)
SAP Business Warehouse (BW) is being used across the whole organization in my current employer. SAP BW was also used across the whole organization in my previous employers which were top 3 of their respective industries: telecommunications, oil & gas, mining, manufacturing and fast moving consumer goods. SAP BW was used as the primary reporting and analytics tools at the corporate level. SAP BW give the business an ability to analyze business performance mainly in finance and logistics.
- Data replication from SAP ERP or other SAP systems (like SAP CRM, SAP APO).
- Data transformation from SAP ERP.
- Data warehousing capabilities.
- Long cycle time from data preparation to reporting.
- Below par standard reporting user interface when using Business Explorer (BEx) reporting tool.
- Additional SAP products required for self-service capability and dashboarding.
December 14, 2017
SAP Business Warehouse Will Streamline Any Warehouse
SAP Business Warehouse is used to keep track of what parts are in-house currently as well as what parts are coming in and are on back order. It also tracks possible demand when sales representatives are putting out bids and orders for their customers. I personally like when the sales team puts in bids that are in process so we can start working on lead times and vendors for products. It saves a lot of time down the road.
- 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.
- I wish it could hold a part where even though it is not in use yet, but you know you will need it, it won't allow it to be checked it rather than put on backorder.
- Some of the menu paths can be a little difficult to remember or follow.
- It is not easy for a novice user to go in and create a report quickly.
November 28, 2017
SAP review
It is been used across the company, through various business lines. It was mainly used to pull reports related to business performance, accounting controls, periodic reporting etc.
- Business performance.
- Finance and non finance reporting.
- Accounting controls.
- Speed.
- Difficult to customize.
- Easy and friendly approach.
April 05, 2017
SAP BW End User's Review
SAP Business Warehouse is used directly by a handful of departments, with end users being super users of BEX as an interface to Excel. These departments are mostly finance, procurement, and quality. The rest of the company uses it indirectly as BW is feeding other BI tools for dashboards used throughout the company.
- Great at interfacing with BI tools
- Great at merging multiple data sources
- Works with data sources outside of SAP
- When working in BEX, would like to see version control of queries
- Archiving of cube data could be improved
- Poor graphing options
We use SAP business warehouse as an entire organization across the board. We use it as a data management system to store reporting data. We also use BEx as an interface to Excel and also use a data model called Infocubes. It also allows us to access data from other non SAP programs through the db link.
- Great tool for operational reporting
- Great analytical platform for enterprise environments
- Great for operational planning and forecasting
- Age of software is showing as it struggles with very large data modules, which were not as prevalent in its early years
- Querying performance at times can be very slow
- Support and development for BEx has been discontinued or hard to find.
July 05, 2016
SAP BW 7.0 Review
SAP BW 7.0 is used by my current client as an enterprise reporting solution. It addresses all reporting needs for my current client such as: operational reports, forecasting reports etc. It is a very good multidimensional (OLAP) EDW solution from SAP.
- Multidimensional reporting
- Logistics reporting
- Standard BI content
- Tight intergration with SAP ECC and SAP HANA
- Tight security
- Dashboards
- Export capability for reports like Export to PDF is not available
- Graph capabilities - no heat chart. This tool is more linked with Excel capabilities.
- Development is time consuming in this
- Maintenance is time consuming
- Date format limitations - It accepts dates in a particular format
April 26, 2016
SAP BW
We use it in our finance departments for different accounting purposes. It is connected to our OLTP ECC system and we ETL the data daily to enhance end user reporting. Our biggest gains from using BW are the ability to have self contained ETL and also move reports from the OLTP (ECC) to the OLAP (BW) side.
- ETL, great at taking data from OLTP source, flat file, etc... Easy drag and drop for transformations.
- Great reporting possibilities, easy to connect with BO, BPC, etc...
- Great Master Data Management (MDM )for BPC - helps us maintain master data for BPC.
- Quicker standup of BI Content, seems some of the 3.X content is still being used in 7+ which is a bit confusing.
- Enhance the query designer side, would be nice to see real time preview of the report.
- Enhance process chain maintenance, e.g. make it easier to kill jobs, restart, etc...