SAP Business Warehouse vs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse comparison

"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."

"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the advanced structuring of data capabilities. You can get different structures of data to suit your needs."

"The real-time information 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."

"SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable solution."

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

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

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

"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."

"A robust and efficient product."

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

"Data modeling is a valuable feature."

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

"It is a robust system."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Design and modeling could be simplified."

"The product could provide more features."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"The solution is quite expensive."

"All SAP products are expensive."

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

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