SAP Business Warehouse vs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse comparison

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

"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."

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

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

"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."

"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."

"The real-time information is great."

"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."

"Data modeling is a valuable feature."

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

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

"A robust and efficient product."

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

"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."

"It is a robust system."

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

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

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

"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The program is difficult to learn to use"

"The product could provide more features."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"The solution is quite 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."

"All SAP products are expensive."