SAP Business Warehouse vs SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud comparison

The compared SAP Business Warehouse and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud solutions aren't in the same category. SAP Business Warehouse is ranked #14 in CDW , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 2.1% mindshare in the category. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is ranked #12 in ISI , with an average rating of 8.9, and holds a 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of SAP Business Warehouse users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud users who would recommend it.

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89% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Business Warehouse

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (14th)

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (12th)

Mindshare comparison

SAP Business Warehouse and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. SAP Business Warehouse is designed for Cloud Data Warehouse and holds a mindshare of 2.1%, up 1.1% compared to last year.
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS), holds 1.4% mindshare, down 1.7% since last year.

Cloud Data Warehouse Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Business Warehouse	2.1%
Snowflake	17.7%
Dremio	8.9%
Other	71.3%

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Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud	1.4%
Amazon AWS	16.6%
Microsoft Azure	14.9%
Other	67.1%

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

Featured Reviews

Srini-Dhanaraj

Founder & CEO at imfine.club

The solution enables seamless connection, but it is expensive, and the information is one day old

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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Rajnikant Verma

SAP S4 Hana Solution Architect / Presales at Tech Mahindra Limited

Real-time data processing and good support with room for market-driven improvements

SAP RFX and overall SAP solutions provide a very intuitive and integrated solution within finance, leading procurement, and other business scenarios. The real-time data processing and the ability to track all leasing processes and contracts are particularly valuable. SAP's capability to integrate with other systems like GIS and non-SAP applications also stands out.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We are currently in a basic stage of analytics and the first goal we have is to make sure the numbers are correct. BW has some features that help you to build factors and ETL in such a way that it's easy to get to correct responses. That's the number one condition that you have to have in an analytic solution."

"The product is very stable."

"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."

"The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."

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

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

"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."

"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."

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"Traditionally, SAP worked with Oracle databases, but SAP is getting rid of the other databases and promoting its own. SAP will stop support for other databases around 2026, so everyone is moving to SAP S/4HANA for the performance and because it's the preferred database for SAP. S/4HANA has new features from the front-end or application feature perspective. The idea is to move toward future-ready technology."

"The solution's initial setup process is straightforward."

"The scalability is good because we have some cloud resources to support the ERP."

"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."

"My company has not had any problems with the product's initial setup phase."

"The interface is easy to manage."

"It is a stable and scalable product."

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Cons

"I would like to see a different end solution in order to read the data and attract internal users."

"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."

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

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

"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."

"More integration with Microsoft Office products (not just Excel) would be helpful."

"What I'd like improved in SAP Business Warehouse is its setup. It could be more flexible, and it could be a configuration-based setup."

"SAP Business Warehouse could improve by having more out-of-the-box use cases to cover more business types or operations."

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"The licensing model for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud has changed, and it is not entirely clear for final customers. Instead of named users, they now have to calculate FUEs."

"The stability needs to be improved to be able to handle large amounts of data."

"SAP support isn't on par with products like Microsoft Azure or AWS. It's nowhere close to the competitors."

"The SAP products are complicated to deploy anywhere."

"The product must provide more details of the errors."

"They should probably offer more cloud services. Most of the cloud infrastructure providers we have make everything pretty transparent, you know what you're getting, you have all these metrics and measurements and everything in the dashboard. Here you have to go through the contracting negotiations and all those things."

"Perhaps minor changes to the enterprise structure could be made, but the rest is fine."

"Enterprise Cloud's reporting could be more automated to improve content accountability, especially regarding BI reports."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is quite expensive."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"The price is expensive compared to the competition."

"The solution's cost is reasonable."

"SAP may not be the most cost-effective option, but it does offer a comprehensive set of tools and features. When you have the right information, structure, and dashboard in place, it can provide excellent value. Additionally, competition with Oracle might be a factor to consider."

"The solution could be less expensive."

"The product itself is relatively expensive."

"The price is on little bit higher. For SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, we see roughly five crores per annum."

"I rate the product's price a five out of ten."

"It's very, very expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Retailer

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SAP Business Warehouse?

Out-of-the-box reports are very useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Business Warehouse?

The solution is quite expensive. We paid a yearly subscription fee.

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What needs improvement with SAP Business Warehouse?

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 bo...

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What do you like most about SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?

It has significantly streamlined our operations.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?

SAP HANA Cloud can be quite costly compared to other solutions. The high licensing costs make it an expensive option, particularly for smaller customers. However, they offer solutions for mid-sized...

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What needs improvement with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud?

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud is powerful but has areas needing refinement. Cost optimization, smoother scalability options and more flexible integration with third party tools are key improvement poin...

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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.

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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.

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