We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BW4HANA 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."The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."
"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"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."
"SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable solution."
"The key element in this solution is its rapid response. If you have a question about prices, buyers, customers, providers, or services, you need the answer in a minute or two. That's the key benefit for us that a solution like BW gives us."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"The product has efficient performance."
"It's quite scalable."
"The solution is useful for connecting with external systems."
"I like the reporting features of the solution."
"I like that it's quite quick."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"I like how it blends no-code and ABAP code for complex transformations during data loading."
"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."
"It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse."
"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 problem with BW, and the factor that differentiated it from the original BW, is that you only get limited functionality with your runtime license. So, you have to pay extra for extracting data."
"The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"One of our requirements is the ability to easily get answers regarding trends and exceptions. In BW, it is not that easy to get such information. I expect better trend and exception detection, better pattern detection."
"I'm not sure if our issue is related to BW or the Analysis Office. However, we're having performance issues in terms of time. It takes a long time to generate the report."
"Other competitors provide better solutions that are more up to date with current technology."
"One thing that could be enhanced in SAP BW4HANA is the user interface for process chains."
"The tool is not cloud-compatible."
"The cost of the product might be an area that might introduce some restrictions or limitations to customers, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."
"The dashboard should be simplified and made easier for exploration and decision making."
"The licensing cost could be made better."
"The solution is not scalable. It does not have a data streaming feature as well."
"Support could be more reliable."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. 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 BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Teradata. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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