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SAP Business Warehouse pros and cons

Vendor: SAP
3.9 out of 5

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PROS

SAP Business Warehouse offers rapid response times for queries related to prices, buyers, customers, providers, and services.
The integration with SAP ERP and its ability to connect to Excel for data extraction and analysis are highly valued features.
The advanced structuring and transformation capabilities allow users to extract raw data and store it in a format conducive for easy reporting.
SAP Business Warehouse is a scalable and stable platform, further enhanced by its hybrid functionality with HANA.
Its features for alerting and monitoring, especially when integrated with SAP Solution Manager, provide seamless operations with real-time information.

CONS

SAP Business Warehouse faces challenges in providing seamless connectivity with other databases and offers limited integration with Microsoft Office beyond Excel.
Technical support for SAP Business Warehouse is unsatisfactory, with representatives lacking adequate knowledge.
SAP Business Warehouse is not flexible enough with data structures, making it difficult to improve performance when designing solutions.
Generating reports in SAP Business Warehouse is time-consuming, affecting overall performance and efficiency.
Integration with ETL tools in SAP Business Warehouse is complicated and not straightforward.
 

SAP Business Warehouse Pros review quotes

VishnuReddy2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Enterprise Architect at R2V2.ai
Oct 22, 2025
The best features of SAP Business Warehouse that I am fond of are how this technology handles navigational attributes and the hierarchy; these are two interesting features.
JavedKhan1 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Security/GRC Manager at Tata Consultancy
Jul 1, 2023
Now, because of the HANA integration, the hard disk and RAM are together, and because of that, the output is very quick and very fast actually.
Srini-Dhanaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at imfine.club
Feb 7, 2024
Out-of-the-box reports are very useful.
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Rodolfo Bermúdez Neubauer - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager at Intellego BI
Feb 13, 2024
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.
reviewer2083704 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Professor at a university with 201-500 employees
Jan 26, 2023
The most valuable feature of SAP Business Warehouse is transformation, where I extract data from different sources, particularly the raw data. Then I do some transformations and store that in a format that allows me to do reporting easily.
Vinay Lohakare - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 23, 2022
Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great.
SC
IT Manager at GIC Re
Oct 21, 2022
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.
SC
IT Manager at GIC Re
Oct 21, 2022
The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats.
AS
Mechanical Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 4, 2022
The real-time information is great.
Kumar Madhur - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Project Manager at HCL Technologies
Jun 1, 2022
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.
 

SAP Business Warehouse Cons review quotes

VishnuReddy2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Enterprise Architect at R2V2.ai
Oct 22, 2025
Integration with SAP Business Warehouse's ETL tools is not straightforward.
JavedKhan1 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Security/GRC Manager at Tata Consultancy
Jul 1, 2023
There is room for improvement from a technical perspective.
Srini-Dhanaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at imfine.club
Feb 7, 2024
I get all the information quickly, but it is one day old.
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Rodolfo Bermúdez Neubauer - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager at Intellego BI
Feb 13, 2024
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.
reviewer2083704 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Professor at a university with 201-500 employees
Jan 26, 2023
It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse.
Vinay Lohakare - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 23, 2022
The solution should be more open to the cloud.
SC
IT Manager at GIC Re
Oct 21, 2022
What I'd like to improve in SAP Business Warehouse is its data structure, that's a little bit rigid. It could be a bit more flexible, so you can design your data structure and improve performance when creating a solution. Currently, the way data is stored in SAP Business Warehouse is rigid.
SC
IT Manager at GIC Re
Oct 21, 2022
The way the data is stored is kind of rigid in SAP BW as a product. It could be more flexible so that when we are designing a solution, we can design our own data structures and try to improve performance.
AS
Mechanical Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 4, 2022
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.
Kumar Madhur - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Project Manager at HCL Technologies
Jun 1, 2022
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.