SAP BW4HANA Valuable Features
The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install. Also, it integrates very easily with most other known applications, especially widely used applications.
View full review »One of the unique features of SAP BW4HANA is the out-of-box preconfigured business content information models and metadata solution that caters to different lines of business. This solution can be customized and enhanced according to the customer's specific business process and industry requirements, which sets it apart from other data warehousing solutions.
The toolset provided by SAP BW4HANA is comprehensive and can connect to various data sources, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It also supports historical trend analysis and real-time reporting, enabling users to gain insights and context from their data.
View full review »Once you have the real-time data warehousing analytics and forecasting of the reports, depending on each and every quarter in the fiscal year, SAP BW helps fill the data and help us get the required data for the planning phase on the systems. The data warehouse part of the tool can handle the processing to generate reports in a few seconds, and it helps businesses make quick decisions.
Buyer's Guide
SAP BW4HANA
March 2024
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Joudat Hashmi
Contractor at MISA
The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products but lacks other advantages.
We use it because underlying SAP products are compatible with easy integration.
We can get good visualization and less redundant data.
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reviewer2278119
FTTP Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I like the reporting features of the solution.
View full review »The UI is completely new, beautiful, and user-friendly. There are some other helpful features like global filters and advanced tools. We can perform custom calculations easily
From a technical perspective, the performance has been enhanced and optimized for a limited number of flows. The content settings are more advanced, and there are so many other features that I can't name them all.
View full review »SAP BW4HANA is outdated because of which people have started to move to SAP Analytics Cloud. SAP BW4HANA valuable feature revolves around the fact that it was easy to customize the tool.
The feature I found valuable is that the solution had only one dashboard and no more.
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LIN WEN
Co-Founder at AVIC Software & Service
The solution is based on SAP ERP, so there's some business content already included. For customers who use SAP ERP, SAP BW4HANA is a good choice for their DW implementation.
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Jose Jaimes
SAP ABAP Consultant at SNP Group
The ability to instantly pull data is the most valuable feature.
View full review »SAP BW/4HANA can be used more generally as a data warehouse. Prior to BW/4HANA, BW classic could only work with SAP products, but S/4HANA can be used for any enterprise data warehouse and is no longer limited to SAP, but can also be used for legacy data or big data. The solution is more flexible than before.
We benefited from BW/4HANA's ability to utilize predefined content. We didn't need to start from scratch.
View full review »I like that the solution breaks down components to a very granular level, allowing for customization and implementation based on specific requirements. Its structured approach provides flexibility.
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AnilKumar38
Project Manager - Analytics at Mindsprint
Simplified tables, advance DSOs, and composite provider are valuable features.
View full review »The Strategic Enterprise Management Business Consolidation System is the most valuable and critical feature of this solution. It also has a great analytics engine with all the capabilities I'm looking for. There are a lot of master and transitional data relationships where BW has very good features.
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Bigr67
BI Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system.
Support is okay.
I've found the product to be scalable.
The solution is stable.
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Renaud Motuelle
SAP Technical Director at Key Performance Consulting
The solution is useful for connecting with external systems.
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Amrit Jha
ERP Application Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
It has got wonderful features in terms of analyzing your production data, and it gives you real-time insight into productive maintenance. You can plan your budget, and you can map them against actuals. It gives you good insights on overall performance and processes.
The solution is stable and reliable.
It's quite scalable.
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reviewer1426734
Head of Enterprise Reporting & Analytics at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Its direct approach is the most valuable. You get more real time and capabilities than BW.
View full review »1.It can calculate big data. One year ago, SAP BW took us a lot of time around four hours to finish our process chains, but now it's better.
2.It can calculate data in detail. Before we could not calculate financial documents and accountant documents in detail, we could not do it at a document level but now we can. This is the most important feature. It also has predictive analysis funationlity.
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Bigr67
BI Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature is that it's robust.
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reviewer1749831
Sr SAP Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
SAP BW/4HANA is the same as the old SAP BW system, except that it's being hosted on HANA. Nowadays, SAP HANA is coming out with all the data warehouse features. You don't have to have SAP BW on HANA, HANA itself can offer that. SAP as 4HANA itself is taking over because it supports both OLTP and OLAP transactions at the same time.
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reviewer1260159
IT Director at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
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 only component that is not fully known is the HCM (Human Capital Management), but we have gone with SuccessFactors.
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reviewer1454010
Senior Strategy Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I like that it's quite quick.
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reviewer1335984
Technology Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements.
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Renaud Motuelle
SAP Technical Director at Key Performance Consulting
The most valuable features are the speed of reporting and the HANA database.
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Shahnawaz
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
This product is user-friendly.
Out of the box, this solution has a lot of standard features.
The product is quite optimized, having simple processes for change management and different security features. It offers a lot of flexibility.
Things are going more agile nowadays and you want to use a solution like BW/4HANA. It is more agile and more open to other sources. It integrates well with visualization tools like BusinessObjects.
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FranciscoSantos
Director at Pixel Studio PTY
The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution. You can try to change the way you do business with the customer while we tell the customer that we have Suite 4HANA that they need to adopt because we have at this moment and for that, we have a methodology that is SAP Activate. We use this methodology to discover what your business requirements are. You can get a glimpse of what it is in the ERP, because it's an ERP, and then you can discover which way you to do the business process with the new tools, instead of using the old ones.
You need to adopt the business processes that are supported by this new tool, Suite 4HANA because otherwise, you will have the same issues that you had before in ERP in the compromised world when you had a lot of customization because you need to adopt the tool to your business process. We try to push for the cloud version because then you can leverage many other things that are not available in the on-premise version.
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reviewer1292418
SAP Enterprise Services Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
HANA is based on a column store, and it is very effective for reading the data.
BW has a major advantage because most of the activities on the BW system are reading data rather than writing data.
The product, overall, is very good.
The solution is easier to maintain than traditional SAP products.
All of the information that is provided by the solution for managing the HANA database is excellent.
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reviewer1308417
Senior Consultant SAP / BW / SAP BOBJ at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
SAP BW/4HANA has good availability and valuable features for historical data.
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reviewer1477425
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Some of the main features of this solution are that it uses HANA and it has good performance.
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reviewer1298316
Cloud Solutions Architect and Analytics at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand.
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reviewer1308417
Senior Consultant SAP / BW / SAP BOBJ at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature is the dashboard.
When using BW/4HANA, then is no performance degradation with Big Data.
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SAP BW4HANA
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SAP BW4HANA. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.