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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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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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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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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 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SAP Business Warehouse (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA.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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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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Reviewers rate Multi-User Support (named login) and Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of SAP BW are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 22, 2024
BW Review
- Integrates data
- Solid Security
- Mature product where users are comfortable
- More native connectivity to other sets of data
- push more things down to the DB
February 05, 2024
SAP Business Warehouse, a gamechanger on traditional SAP ecosystem
- SAP ERP modules can be integrated with SAP data using standard extractors, reducing time for new deliverables.
- Transform the raw data into in insights.
- Mature knowledge base.
- Cloud integration is limited or restricted in some business scenarios.
- Seems close the end of the software lifecycle, maintenance.
- Sometimes, ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) expertise is required.
- No IA capabilities.
- Integrations with SAP Source Systems
- Complex Hierarchies can be handled easily in BW with help of BW
- Master data attributes/ text once configured properly can be looked up in easiest way with least effort in any report.
- Efficient Delta Loading mechanism and easy reconciliation of data
- Connections to other Third Part Systems & File Systems
- Taking data out from BW is also easy.
- Advance Analytics like Regression & Classification Problems Use Cases not possible as of now in BW
- Dashboarding Capabilities are not that great in BW Front End Tool
- Self Ad-hoc reporting is not very flexible as its complex tool in design
June 09, 2021
Integrated warehouse management system
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...