We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BW4HANA 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."What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is its ability to feed data into new, multiple systems in various formats. It can open its data to any system over gateway services or a portal or application that needs to consume and analyze data."
"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."
"The real-time information is great."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the integration with SAP ERP."
"The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."
"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is that it's a seamless integration platform. A valuable feature in the tool is the monitoring alert that makes you aware of what process chain has failed. There's no manual monitoring required if you have configured an alert system, so the process chain can run in the background, and you can get alerts about it. The functionalities I find good in SAP Business Warehouse are alerting and monitoring. If you have configured the tool and have integrated it with SAP Solution Manager, then it's a good product to use."
"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."
"From an ERP point of view and a functionality point of view, it works very well. The benefits are in that of financial costing and material management."
"I like that it's quite quick."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"SAP BW4HANA aids in managing data from ER to front-end analysis, contributes to ROI, and fosters business growth understanding. I like that the solution breaks down components to a very granular level, allowing for customization and implementation based on specific requirements. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable."
"Its direct approach is the most valuable. You get more real time and capabilities than BW."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"Out of the box, this solution has a lot of standard features."
"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."
"What I'd like to improve in SAP Business Warehouse is its data structure, that's a little bit rigid. It could be a bit more flexible, so you can design your data structure and improve performance when creating a solution. Currently, the way data is stored in SAP Business Warehouse is rigid."
"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"More integration with Microsoft Office products (not just Excel) would be helpful."
"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."
"I would like to see a different end solution in order to read the data and attract internal users."
"The problem with BW, and the factor that differentiated it from the original BW, is that you only get limited functionality with your runtime license. So, you have to pay extra for extracting data."
"There's the complexity in migration from BW to BW/4HANA, especially with data migration."
"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."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"I would like to be able to design new reports in a future release."
"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."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It requires a lot of learning at the beginning."
"We cannot integrate with third-party tools like Python or advanced integration options. You can't fine-tune tables within BW or generate specific views or reports."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Teradata. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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