SAP Business Warehouse vs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse comparison

"The real-time information is great."

"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."

"Predominantly, our company uses SAP Business Warehouse for reporting purposes across various departments, especially for managers to gain a quick understanding of their current standing and make informed decisions."

"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."

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

"The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."

"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."

"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."

"Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics."

"Data modeling is a valuable feature."

"The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."

"It is a robust system."

"It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users."

"A robust and efficient product."

"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."

"I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old."

"The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive."

"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."

"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."

"In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."

"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."

"They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading."

"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."

"The product could provide more features."

"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect."

"The program is difficult to learn to use"

"Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier."

"It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us."

"Design and modeling could be simplified."

"There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability."

"It's moderately expensive, but definitely has its branding and price value for it."

"The licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse depends on your revenue. Its licensing structure is a little bit complicated. The more your revenue is, the higher the price, but SAP does have different pricing structures for various companies. For small businesses, licensing isn't based on revenue, but for big companies, it's revenue-based. There's some agreement regarding pricing for huge companies, so it's different, and SAP Business Warehouse pricing isn't fixed. On a scale of one to ten, I'm rating the licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse as five because it's very high. As your revenue grows, your licensing cost also increases, so you have to factor that in when calculating your cost."

"I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"Overall, the pricing is not fixed and is expensive."

"SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."

"The license for SAP Business Warehouse is paid yearly, and there's no extra cost in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"It's quite pricey. SAP changed its pricing policy, so they give you one engine and then you have to buy everything next to it, like MSS, the BPC licenses, and everything else."

"All SAP products are expensive."

"The licensing cost is high for SAP NetWeaver compared to that for other products."

"Pricing is based on the number of user IDs and tyhe user ID works across a suite of products."