BW/4HANA is a great tool for a number of use cases
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SAP BW/4HANA
SAP BW/4HANA
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What is SAP BW/4HANA?
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…
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What is SAP BW/4HANA?
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, IT organizations can become the hero, providing business users with real-time analytics, tailored analytical applications, and intelligent automated support for business processes based on data from SAP and non-SAP line-of-business applications.
SAP BW/4HANA Features
- Supported: Simplified modelling and administration
- Supported: Integration with SAP and non-SAP applications
- Supported: Improved user experience
- Supported: High-volume, real-time data processing
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SAP BW/4HANA Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese |
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What are SAP BW/4HANA's top competitors?
Teradata Vantage - Enterprise Data Warehousing, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, and IBM Netezza Performance Server are common alternatives for SAP BW/4HANA.
What is SAP BW/4HANA's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.7.
Who uses SAP BW/4HANA?
The most common users of SAP BW/4HANA are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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July 30, 2021
BW/4HANA is a great tool for a number of use cases
- Near real-time data replication from HANA databases.
- Strong BW functionality.
- A host of cloud reporting tools can seamlessly connect to it.
- 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.
May 01, 2021
SAP BW/4HANA improves your business
- SAP GUI
- SAP HANA Designer
- User interface
- Integrations
- Security
- Optimizing queries
- Workspace
October 16, 2020
BW/4HANA, best on-premise Data Warehouse...
- High speed data warehouse regardless of data volumes.
- Excellent integration with SAP systems and Data sets.
- Simplified data modelling due to columnar data base.
- Better integration with external data providers.
- More cost effective licensing model.
- More flexible options for external systems provisioning data from BW/4HANA.
February 27, 2020
Great and Scalable Enterprise Business Warehouse Tool
- BI and Reporting out of the ERP Layer
- Self Service Capabilities to build reports and cubes out of SAP
- Great Performance for simple and analytical reporting out of SAP
- Broad availability of BW Tools to integrate - such as Business Explorer
- ETL implementation can be complicated
- Integration with non-SAP systems can take a long time
- Cost to implement and maintain can be high, even in Cloud
December 11, 2019
Efficient data warehousing
- Easy to use.
- Efficient.
- Technical part can be difficult if you're not familiar with it.
- Implementation.
November 25, 2019
Fast and Reliable
- It gives you a lot of data
- Could be more user friendly
November 01, 2019
A comprehensive solution for enterprise data warehousing
- Loading data from SAP ERP data sources.
- Use of data virtualization to minimize load times.
- Data hosting in memory since the underlying database is HANA.
- Interface improvements so that all development is web-based.
- Ease of connectivity with non-SAP sources.
- Avoid the need to continue using the SAP GUI.
September 24, 2019
A quick review on BW/4HANA from a techie's point of view
- Better preformance
- Ability to perform hybrid data modelling
- Better integration to non-SAP data sources
- Simplified data modelling
- Still has reliance of ABAP stack.
- Not all exception aggregation conditions are pushed down to HANA
- BW-IP should be included in offering as it was previously.
- BW workspaces could improved, has huge potential.