SAP BW

Formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse

SAP Business Warehouse is absolutely essential in the SAP ecosystem as it provides seamless integration of data from ERP (enterprise resource planning) modules in a standardized manner. Additionally, it offers the flexibility to customize as per specific business requirements, making it an indispensable tool for any organization.

For Regular Operation & Analytical Purpose We use SAP BW. It has capability to provide Formatted Reports for business uses using Bex Analysis which is Front end Designing tool. Business Modelling takes time but once done properly it provides very robust integration in terms master data & hierarchy access for reporting flexibility. Accessing attributes & grand attributes also comes handy with proper handling and with minimal effort at reporting levels. With the Onset of Composite Provider implementing Joins has become very easy. We can always create Calculated & restricted Measures & Dimension at Composite provider level with out consuming any permanent memory along with a great performance when HANA is backend

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.