SAP Business Warehouse Reviews

Vendor: SAP

3.9 out of 5

25 reviews
89% willing to recommend

378 followers

What is SAP Business Warehouse?

Reporting, analysis and interpretation of business data are crucial to preserve and enhance the competitive edge of companies by optimizing processes and enabling them to react quickly and in line with market needs. SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate, transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources. SAP BW provides you with a high-performance infrastructure that helps you evaluate and interpret data. Decision makers can make well-founded decisions and identify target-orientated activities on the basis of the analyzed data.

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SAP Business Warehouse is the #14 ranked solution in top Cloud Data Warehouse solutions. PeerSpot users give SAP Business Warehouse an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. SAP Business Warehouse is most commonly compared to Snowflake: SAP Business Warehouse vs Snowflake. SAP Business Warehouse is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a manufacturing company, accounting for 11% of all views.

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SAP Business Warehouse

February 2025

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Featured SAP Business Warehouse reviews

JavedKhan1

SAP Security/GRC Manager at Tata Consultancy

SAP Business Warehouse could have been better. There is room for improvement from a technical perspective. So, from a technical perspective, when we are upgrading a Business Warehouse server or we are migrating from one place to another, the capability required for this upgradation has many manual activities. It took us around a month to streamline our server. Let’s say there are some transaction codes. Transaction code is a set of programs, and when you want to run a program from the backend, you need to hit the transaction code. It is called a T-code. So during the upgrade, many transaction codes get affected, and as a security consultant, it is my responsibility to recheck those transaction codes which are affected. Sometimes more than 100 codes may get affected, sometimes 500, and sometimes more as well. So, it takes a hell lot of time to integrate them again. That is a limitation or defect within the SAP Business Warehouse. SAP Business Warehouse should come up with proper solutions. Upgradation is an automatic activity. It should happen by itself. We just need to initiate it, and the backend SAP server is automatically upgraded. But it should handle the transactional code as well. They should not get absolutely, and any authorization object should not get deleted from the transaction codes. So, that functionality SAP Business Warehouse should come up with.

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Srini-Dhanaraj

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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Vinay Lohakare

SAP Technical Architect at Cognizant

The initial setup is pretty simple. You just have to complete the step-by-step book from SAP. It's very simple. I'd rate the ease of setup eight out of ten. The deployments are manageable every week, so if it's for the simple change, it's weekly. We divide our changes into minor, medium, and major. Minor deployments go every week, major ones go biweekly, and then the major change is monthly or once every two months. How long it takes depends upon the objects that you're sending and the number of objects that you're sending, and the changes that you're sending. There is a max of six hours of downtime when you have a big change going in, however, when you have a minor change every week, it's under an hour. You only need one resource to handle deployment. There is regular maintenance required. On the BW side, an average team size of ten is good. Depending upon the complexity, it might increase. It depends client to client. You can't put a number on that since it all depends on the number of modules implemented and the number of reports available. On the support range, it's a medium-scale. If there is only BW support, a minimum of three and a maximum of five resources are necessary. It's only for BW, not any other integration reporting tool. Just for BW, about three resources is enough, however, for BW.

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SAP Business Warehouse mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of SAP Business Warehouse in the Cloud Data Warehouse category stands at 1.1%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports based on SAP Business Warehouse reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Cloud Data Warehouse	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	SAP Business Warehouse vs Snowflake	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	SAP Business Warehouse vs Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics	Mar 4, 2025	Download
Comparison	SAP Business Warehouse vs Azure Data Factory	Mar 4, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Snowflake	4.2	21.5%	97%	99 interviews Add to research
Teradata	4.1	8.9%	87%	76 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"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."
"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."
"The product is very stable."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."
"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."

Pricing

SAP Business Warehouse features a high pricing model compared to other business warehouse solutions, influenced by user count, consulting needs, revenue, and space requirements. It is widely regarded as costly, with complex licensing tied to company revenue growth. Smaller businesses find licenses less burdensome, while large enterprises incur annual subscriptions and potential additional fees for necessary tools. Although expensive, the branding and value justify the cost, but transparency issues exist with the new pricing policies.

"The solution is quite expensive."
"I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."
"SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."

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