SAP Business Warehouse Valuable Features

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

SAP Business Warehouse has now been integrated with HANA. So, earlier, the SAP Business Warehouse's working speed was slow. It would call for the data from the hard disk to the RAM and then RAM to the front end. 

But 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. So, within a fraction of a second, you will get the output when you hit the required query. So, the integration of HANA is very powerful right now.

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

Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great.

SAP Business Warehouse is one of the best data warehousing solutions that I've seen. I have hands-on on Azure and AWS, however, being an SAP Pro. 

The setup is pretty simple. 

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SB
Assistant Professor at a university with 201-500 employees

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. The transformation feature in SAP Business Warehouse is the most useful.

I also like that the solution has some reporting features.

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SC
IT Manager at GIC Re

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.

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Rodolfo Bermúdez Neubauer  - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager at Intellego BI

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. This flexibility offers the best of both worlds, combining the power of SQL with the user-friendliness of BW for optimal performance based on specific requirements.

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

The real-time information is great. Many reports take a long time, and we can save the data if we have a backlog of information to assess. The Real-time InfoCube is quite useful in terms of getting information fast when we need it. 

The preparation is basically useful. We are using it via integrated BI, BWIP, Business Warehouse, and Integrated Planning. Based on that, we are able to get good information on plans. 

We can integrate analysis into our planning. 

It has good integration with the Analysis Office.

We're able to create different queries and get reports based on what we specifically need. 

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JS
Group BI Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The most useful feature is definitely the speed.

I think it's natural that we have BW on HANA because the developer has SAP systems. At the end of the day, it provides the integration we need out of the box. You don't have to reinvent the wheel.

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SD
Founder & CEO at imfine.club

Out-of-the-box reports are very useful. The product provides a seamless connection between the SAP operation system and the data warehouse. It also moves the data from the operating system to the data warehouse in a 3D format. The report generation is easy. It’s a drag-and-drop process.

People who want to do a project need not reinvent the wheel. Everything is designed, built, and delivered out of the box. All we have to do is interact with the customers to understand the kind of reports they need and check whether they are already available in the out-of-the-box report. If they are available, we just have to enable them and give the URLs to the customers. The Integration between the SAP operating system and data warehouse is excellent. The UI is good.

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SY
Consultant at Astra Industrial Group

Feature-wise, there are some hiccups with SAP Business Warehouse, especially its integration with various systems, including SAP and others. Populating data onto one screen does not happen in real time, which is one of the areas that our business is concerned about.

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

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.

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SC
IT Manager at GIC Re

The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats. SAP BW can open its data to any kind of system over the gateway services including to portals or applications that need to consume and complete data analysis. 

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MB
SAP technical consultant at N

The product is very stable. It has a straightforward maintenance process with essential support services.

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