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We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed.""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.""I like that it integrates to open-source.""Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution.""The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature.""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.""In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable.""The product is very stable."

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"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward.""The solution is stable and we have never had a problem. We started with one terabyte of data when the solution was first implemented and today we have around almost 600 gigabytes of data, which means means the compression works properly. Before migrating from ECC, we had nine terabytes of data.""The processes and the way we take advantage and use assistance are good.""One of the features that I've found most useful is that It's very simple. They take care of the technical aspects of the data, installations, patches.""The interface is easy to manage.""The BTP module is important for digital transformations.""I am impressed with how the solution integrates with the ME system and ALE IDocs.""This solution is as good as any other S/4HANA SAP solution. The continuous support we get is very valuable."

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Cons
"The solution should be more open to the cloud.""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.""We are very unhappy with technical support. First of all, they send their sales agents or pre-sales agents and most of them who don't know the solution as a properly trained tech would. We have an on-site SAP representative who is supposed to help us with our high priority and production issues, and they're not satisfactory to say the least.""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.""In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed.""There is room for improvement from a technical perspective.""They should reduce the product’s installation package size for easier downloading.""SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."

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"Enterprise Cloud's reporting could be more automated to improve content accountability, especially regarding BI reports.""It’s a common challenge with applications like Microsoft and SAP that they tend to rely on engineers rather than human resources personnel for knowledge and implementation.""The solution is scalable from an infrastructure point of view. However, it becomes more complex over time because technology is changing so fast.""Customers need to be better educated about using the solution's cloud for digital transformation.""The product must provide more details of the errors.""Perhaps minor changes to the enterprise structure could be made, but the rest is fine.""SAP support isn't on par with products like Microsoft Azure or AWS. It's nowhere close to the competitors.""This product is not mature enough at this point in time."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's moderately expensive, but definitely has its branding and price value for it."
  • "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."
  • "The license for SAP Business Warehouse is paid yearly, and there's no extra cost in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "Overall, the pricing is not fixed and is expensive."
  • "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."
  • "SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."
  • "I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."
  • "The solution is quite expensive."
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  • "If you choose the minimum, it will probably cost around $1,000 USD per month if you take a contract for a year or two."
  • "The licensing of the solution is on a yearly basis. The normal price of the solution is quite high, but I received a special discount by making a purchase near the end of the year."
  • "The solution could be less expensive."
  • "The price is expensive compared to the competition."
  • "The price is high compared to other databases, which is why HANA is still not widely used. Some enterprises prefer Sybase, Oracle, or other traditional databases because HANA is a little pricey. Cost is one factor SAP needs to work on to make it more competitive with other databases. Otherwise, they'll never be able to develop a mass customer base."
  • "Our pricing is based on a yearly contract."
  • "The pricing is reasonable when compared to other vendors like Oracle who offer technology enterprise resource software."
  • "The product itself is relatively expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution is quite expensive. We paid a yearly subscription fee.
    Top Answer:Over a period, we realized that the license and maintenance costs were quite expensive. Every day, we had to run the background job ODS. Eventually, we moved away from SAP Business Warehouse and… more »
    Top Answer:Considering my company's environment, we have opted for a subscription-based licensing model, making monthly payments for our virtual machine and yearly payments towards the product's licensing costs… more »
    Top Answer:The product must provide more details of the errors. Sometimes, we cannot understand the error when we run the query.
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    Overview

    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.

    SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is a fully scalable and secure private managed cloud solution. It empowers organizations to unlock the full value of SAP HANA in the cloud - accelerating growth and innovation, driving IT and business transformation, quickly delivering business outcomes, and reducing risk.

    Sample Customers
    Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
    FC Bayern Munich, Reuters News Agency, MEMEBOX
    Top Industries
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    Insurance Company19%
    Non Tech Company13%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Government7%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company54%
    Consumer Goods Company15%
    Comms Service Provider15%
    Construction Company15%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Retailer7%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise60%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is ranked 8th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 20 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is rated 8.0. 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 HANA Enterprise Cloud writes "High stability, reasonably priced, and important for digital transformations". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, SAP S4HANA on AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

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