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."The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"Predominantly, our company uses SAP Business Warehouse for reporting purposes across various departments, especially for managers to gain a quick understanding of their current standing and make informed decisions."
"We are currently in a basic stage of analytics and the first goal we have is to make sure the numbers are correct. BW has some features that help you to build factors and ETL in such a way that it's easy to get to correct responses. That's the number one condition that you have to have in an analytic solution."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."
"The product is very stable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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 feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"Some of the main features of this solution are that it uses HANA and it has good performance."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"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."
"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."
"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."
"In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."
"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."
"The solution should be more open to the cloud."
"What I'd like improved in SAP Business Warehouse is its setup. It could be more flexible, and it could be a configuration-based setup."
"It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse."
"Areas for improvement in SAP Business Warehouse include enhancing scheduling and monitoring tools, as well as improving communication about hidden features to make them more accessible to users."
"Challenges arise with real-time client requirements when clients are accustomed to Microsoft Excel's extensive features for data analysis. They expect similar flexibility and customization in the solution, particularly regarding headers displaying keys and descriptions or just keys. Achieving this level of customization can be challenging, and it's an area that may need improvement."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"I would like to be able to design new reports in a future release."
"I would like more integration."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"BW/4HANA could improve query optimization. For example, there could be an error message that pops up when you hover over it if any query fails. That would make it easier to find out what went gone wrong. Guided SAP help tools would make it easier for us to go forward."
"It takes too long to escalate problems from the first level of support."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 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, Amazon Redshift and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and Teradata. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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