High priced but with good consultants, implementation and base case uses
Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Warehouse
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.
Pros
- Integrates, stores, and manages company data from all sources
- Pre-configured information models are better than average
- Security authorization protocols and flexibility
- Integration capabilities
Cons
- 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
- 10% lower business analyst costs
- 5% higher productivity
- 7x as many useful business decisions
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