SAP Business Warehouse

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP BW	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	SAP Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019. SAP BW versions up to 7.4 have reached end of maintenance. SAP BW 7.5 support is extended to align with SAP Business Suite with NetWeaver components. For existing customers maintenance is scheduled to continue through 2027, with extended support available through 2030.	N/A

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SAP BW
Free Trial
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Features

SAP Business Warehouse

Access Control and Security

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	SAP Business Warehouse 8.5 Ratings 3% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.50 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.50 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.50 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance	6.40 Ratings

Data Modeling

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	SAP Business Warehouse 8.7 Ratings 10% above category average
Data model creation	8.70 Ratings

Data Exploration

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	SAP Business Warehouse 5.4 Ratings 2% above category average
Visualization	5.40 Ratings

Data Warehouse

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	SAP Business Warehouse 7.5 Ratings 2% below category average
High-Volume Data Processing	7.90 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	9.00 Ratings
Administrative Automation	7.50 Ratings
Self-Optimization	5.60 Ratings

User Ratings
	SAP Business Warehouse
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SAP Business Warehouse
Likelihood to Recommend	SAP BW is best for: 1. Large enterprises 2. Enterprises with 3+ legacy systems with entrenched users (politically difficult to merge) 3. Enterprises with employees who can understand both the technical capabilities of SAP BW and the needs of the business users - ability to speak both languages, otherwise the program could be unwieldy and potentially underutilized (it's not particularly inexpensive) SAP BW is less appropriate for: 1. Small enterprises 2. Enterprises who have well established, same location, CRM and UFS - the integration of data analysis will be easier and less expensive with other solutions 3. HANA Incentivized Jeff Looby, CPA Associate Read full review
Pros	ETL, great at taking data from OLTP source, flat file, etc... Easy drag and drop for transformations. Great reporting possibilities, easy to connect with BO, BPC, etc... Great Master Data Management (MDM )for BPC - helps us maintain master data for BPC. Incentivized Mark Liston Solutions Architect Read full review
Cons	Age of software is showing as it struggles with very large data modules, which were not as prevalent in its early years Querying performance at times can be very slow Support and development for BEx has been discontinued or hard to find. Incentivized Sam Figueroa Associate Staff Systems Specialist Read full review
Usability	It needs minimal trainings and can perform tasks of data management and reporting. Incentivized Sandesh Pasari Marketing manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	SAP Business Warehouse scores higher in data warehouse functionalities for integration to SAP ERP and other SAP solutions such as SAP CRM, SAP APO, and SAP SRM. Standard SAP data source extractors which are available in SAP ERP can be used immediately for full or delta replication into SAP Business Warehouse. System governance in SAP Business Warehouse is top-notch with change management support for migration between system landscape from the development system to production system. Incentivized Julius Shen Senior System Analyst Read full review
Return on Investment	It has helped cut down on parts shortages with the minimum stock flags. People are able to track down parts easier because they can see where they were last used. Our sales team has better visibility on lead times so they can accurately quote our customers. Incentivized BB Brandi Brown-Lang Sales and Purchasing Administrator Read full review
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