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We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse 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.
To learn more, read our detailed SAP Business Warehouse vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The product is very stable.""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.""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.""I like that it integrates to open-source.""The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is its hybrid functionality, allowing users to leverage both SQL-based data warehouse capabilities from HANA and feature-based data warehousing from BW.""Now, because of the HANA integration, the hard disk and RAM are together, and because of that, the output is very quick and very fast actually.""The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is transformation, where I extract data from different sources, particularly the raw data. Then I do some transformations and store that in a format that allows me to do reporting easily."

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"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business.""It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users.""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.""Data modeling is a valuable feature.""It is a robust system.""A robust and efficient product.""The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."

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Cons
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old.""SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations.""It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore.""More integration with Microsoft Office products (not just Excel) would be helpful.""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.""The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases.""They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading.""In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."

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"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect.""Design and modeling could be simplified.""The product could provide more features.""There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability.""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.""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.""The program is difficult to learn to use"

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's moderately expensive, but definitely has its branding and price value for it."
  • "It's quite pricey. SAP changed its pricing policy, so they give you one engine and then you have to buy everything next to it, like MSS, the BPC licenses, and everything else."
  • "The license for SAP Business Warehouse is paid yearly, and there's no extra cost in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "Overall, the pricing is not fixed and is expensive."
  • "The licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse depends on your revenue. Its licensing structure is a little bit complicated. The more your revenue is, the higher the price, but SAP does have different pricing structures for various companies. For small businesses, licensing isn't based on revenue, but for big companies, it's revenue-based. There's some agreement regarding pricing for huge companies, so it's different, and SAP Business Warehouse pricing isn't fixed. On a scale of one to ten, I'm rating the licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse as five because it's very high. As your revenue grows, your licensing cost also increases, so you have to factor that in when calculating your cost."
  • "SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."
  • "I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."
  • "The solution is quite expensive."
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  • "Pricing is based on the number of user IDs and tyhe user ID works across a suite of products."
  • "The licensing cost is high for SAP NetWeaver compared to that for other products."
  • "All SAP products are expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution is quite expensive. We paid a yearly subscription fee.
    Top Answer:Over a period, we realized that the license and maintenance costs were quite expensive. Every day, we had to run the background job ODS. Eventually, we moved away from SAP Business Warehouse and… more »
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    7.8
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    Also Known As
    NetWeaver Business Warehouse, NetWeaver BusinessObjects Warehouse
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    Overview

    Reporting, analysis and interpretation of business data are crucial to preserve and enhance the competitive edge of companies by optimizing processes and enabling them to react quickly and in line with market needs. SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate, transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources. SAP BW provides you with a high-performance infrastructure that helps you evaluate and interpret data. Decision makers can make well-founded decisions and identify target-orientated activities on the basis of the analyzed data.

    With NetWeaver Business Warehouse, you can quickly Capture, store, and consolidate your vital information with our real-time data warehouse platform. Tightly integrate your warehousing capabilities for a single version of the truth, decision-ready business intelligence, and accelerated operations.
    Sample Customers
    Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
    EMC Corporation, Takisada-Osaka Co. Ltd., Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Magazine zum Globus (Migros Group)
    Top Industries
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    Insurance Company19%
    Non Tech Company13%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Government7%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Manufacturing Company16%
    Transportation Company9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Small Business22%
    Large Enterprise78%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise73%
    Buyer's Guide
    SAP Business Warehouse vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about SAP Business Warehouse vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 13 reviews while SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 3 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. 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 NetWeaver Business Warehouse writes "Can transform data per clients' needs and can easily distribute reports to end users". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is most compared with SAP BW4HANA. See our SAP Business Warehouse vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse report.

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