SAP Business Warehouse Primary Use Case

JavedKhan1 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Security/GRC Manager at Tata Consultancy

SAP Business Warehouse (BW) integrates data from different sources, transforms and consolidates the data, does data cleansing, and storing of data as well. It also includes data modeling, administration, and staging area.

Actually, this is something analytical. Earlier, SAP was purely a GUI-based product. But now SAP is being moved out to the URL-based product. I would say the web pages and the front end.

They have converted their output in an analogical way. You might have seen this in the share market and for stocks. They are live all over the tracking system; their output gets changed in a fraction of a second. So for that type and kind of certain data, it has been used. From the back end, from a technical perspective, I have end-to-end knowledge. For example, for how to mitigate risk while assigning additional access to the user, there might be possibilities of the risk.

As an example, we have assigned a role to a user who is working in a bank and there may be a hierarchy in the bank. One user might be the cashier, one user might be the bank manager, and one the accountant, so if you compare all these three users, the bank manager will have more privileges than the other two users. The cashier may have access to withdraw and deposit the money. The accountant may have access to just pick the documents and compare the documents.

I am a backend guy, and I am handling the server. From the backend, we have to segregate the duties. So, we use it to segregate the manager, cashier, and accountant roles.

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Vinay Lohakare - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use it mainly for financial reporting in any organization and also for cross-functional reporting.

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SB
Assistant Professor at a university with 201-500 employees

We have several reports that run on SAP Business Warehouse for various modules. We have some sales, finance, and supply chain reports. These are mainly the reports we work on, plus a couple of dashboards under layered development.

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SC
IT Manager at GIC Re

My organization uses SAP Business Warehouse as its primary data storage platform, so all transactional systems feed data into the business warehouse system. That's the central part. Every department has some information or analytical service running into SAP Business Warehouse.

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Rodolfo Bermúdez Neubauer  - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager at Intellego BI

In my experience, there are typically two types of clients for SAP Business Warehouse: IT-driven and business-driven. Business-driven clients tend to have clearer objectives and achieve greater success because they understand their business needs well. 

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AS
Mechanical Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a customized solution for the company's reporting needs.

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SD
Founder & CEO at imfine.club

We used all the standard components. We did not customize it.

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SY
Consultant at Astra Industrial Group

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. Thus, decision-making mostly occurs through SAP BI or SAP Business Warehouse.

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Kumar Madhur - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Project Manager at HCL Technologies

SAP Business Warehouse is used for reporting purposes, so all the data is integrated from different modules, for example, finance, and users utilize SAP Business Warehouse to extract reports. It is a single platform where you get all the data from the modules, and all that data can be extracted in different formats as a report.

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SC
IT Manager at GIC Re

AP BW is our main data storing platform that houses all transactional systems data. Every department has some or the other analytical service running on to our business warehouse.

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SriniDhanaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data at Gauri Ltd

We have used SAP Business Warehouse to monitor and manage supporter donations and campaigns.

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