We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can do hierarchical alert slicing and dicing out-of-box, which is not available in other solutions. I haven't come across that in Oracle or any other software provider."
"The most valuable features are the speed of reporting and the HANA database."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"The UI is completely new, beautiful, and user-friendly. There are some other helpful features like global filters and advanced tools. We can perform custom calculations easily From a technical perspective, the performance has been enhanced and optimized for a limited number of flows. The content settings are more advanced, and there are so many other features that I can't name them all."
"We benefited from BW/4HANA's ability to utilize predefined content inside. We didn't need to start from scratch."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"The most valuable feature is that it's robust."
"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."
"The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."
"It is a robust system."
"It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users."
"Data modeling is a valuable feature."
"A robust and efficient product."
"Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics."
"Connecting multiple sources is a challenge because you have to go through a lot of different setups."
"There's one area where the other vendors have an upper edge, which is the data lake. I think SAP is trying to figure out whether to stick with IQ, their own data lake solution, or push customers toward customer-preferred vendors, like Azure Data Lake, AWS, or any other provider."
"I don't see SAP actively supporting the solution now...a better support from SAP would be appreciated."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
"It takes too long to escalate problems from the first level of support."
"I would like more integration."
"I would like to be able to design new reports in a future release."
"The cost of the product might be an area that might introduce some restrictions or limitations to customers, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."
"There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability."
"The program is difficult to learn to use"
"It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us."
"Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier."
"Design and modeling could be simplified."
"The product could provide more features."
"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect."
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SAP BW4HANA is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews while SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is ranked 15th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "Performs all necessary data warehouse tasks and offers additional functionalities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse writes "Powerful solution with good security and audit procedure features". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Teradata, whereas SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is most compared with SAP Business Warehouse. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse report.
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