2019-10-21T17:16:00Z

What advice do you have for others considering SAP Business Warehouse?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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SD
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2024-02-07T09:51:48Z
Feb 7, 2024

If all the products are from SAP, I can rate SAP Business Warehouse a ten out of ten. It becomes very complex if the customer wants to integrate a SAP product into a non-SAP solution. In that case, I rate SAP Business Warehouse a six out of ten. I recommend the tool to a small or medium company with SAP solutions and no third-party products. If the organization is big and has multiple solutions, I wouldn’t recommend the tool to them. Our customers do not use the tool effectively. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

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MB
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2023-07-06T08:19:00Z
Jul 6, 2023

I recommend SAP Business Warehouse to others and rate it an eight out of ten. It has a well-documented and straightforward installation process.

JavedKhan1 - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-06-26T03:08:00Z
Jun 26, 2023

Overall, I would rate Business Warehouse a seven out of ten.

SY
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2023-04-12T08:41:14Z
Apr 12, 2023

My suggestion for those considering the solution is to prioritize setting up the core engine, the ERP. Once that is established, they can evaluate various BI tools available in the market before deciding. Considering factors such as data extraction, data pushing, and the solution's accuracy, I rate the overall solution a six or seven out of ten.

SB
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2023-01-26T09:13:44Z
Jan 26, 2023

I work with SAP, so I have experience with SAP Business Warehouse. I'm using version 7.5 of SAP Business Warehouse. My company has approximately two hundred fifty users of SAP Business Warehouse. Three people maintain the solution. I recommend SAP Business Warehouse to people and companies using SAP ERP systems. Still, if your company has more presence in other databases, such as SQL, Azure, and other ERP systems, I would not suggest SAP Business Warehouse because the solution is friendlier when connected to SAP systems. For non-SAP systems, you'll need to exert more effort to bring the data in when you use SAP Business Warehouse. My rating for the solution is seven out of ten. My company is a customer of SAP.

Vinay Lohakare - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-12-23T10:08:26Z
Dec 23, 2022

I'm an implementer and end-user and handle a bit of sales. It can be on the cloud on Azure or AWS. A new product has come up from SAP, which is called SAP Data Warehousing Cloud. Slowly, there will be a shift from the existing BW4HANA to Data Warehousing Cloud in, I would say, three to four, maybe five years. They are working on moving to the cloud. It is pretty new in the market, so it will take time to settle down. It's the best data warehousing tool in the market. It's got tight integration with SAP. If you have SAP as your source, then you should not look outside for any other data warehousing tool and go ahead with SAP BW due to the integration with SAP, and it's very tightly integrated with any SAP source, as well as any SAP reporting. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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SC
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2022-10-21T18:04:54Z
Oct 21, 2022

I would not recommend it to organizations that are starting out because it demands a huge number of people to run and maintain it. I would recommend it for medium organizations with a lot of data. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

SC
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2022-10-21T13:16:39Z
Oct 21, 2022

My company is an SAP Business Warehouse customer. The initial deployment of SAP Business Warehouse requires between twenty to thirty people, but two to three people for maintenance would suffice. Right now, everyone in the organization is using SAP Business Warehouse in one way or the other. The core or power users would be around three hundred people from finance, reinsurance, IT, etc., but mostly from finance. I wouldn't recommend SAP Business Warehouse to startup organizations or people just starting out because the product demands many people to run and maintain it. SAP Business Warehouse would be a good product for medium-sized organizations where the data is becoming bigger and bigger. It'll be wonderful to use because if you have many systems, then SAP Business Warehouse can feed data into your systems, so it's perfect for a medium-sized organization, at least. I'm rating SAP Business Warehouse as eight out of ten.

AS
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2022-08-04T14:19:27Z
Aug 4, 2022

I am not the one who is using the different transaction codes of BW since rights are provided to a minimal amount of technical personnel. Those who are going to prepare the cubes or make some queries or something like that would use it. Based on that queries, we are getting reports. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Kumar Madhur - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-06-01T17:40:29Z
Jun 1, 2022

My company provides services to customers, and SAP Business Warehouse is one of the modules it provides. SAP Business Warehouse is being taken over by another cloud product from SAP, but it's a useful product so I would recommend it to others. I'm rating SAP Business Warehouse seven out of ten.

SriniDhanaraj - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-04-01T20:03:15Z
Apr 1, 2022

The two clients that have been using SAP Business Warehouse have found that it does not quite fit their use case. However, there is not any CRM or ERP that fits their needs specifically. In the charity use case, they have found challenges. I rate SAP Business Warehouse a ten out of ten.

PC
Real User
2021-12-28T17:50:00Z
Dec 28, 2021

My advice when considering this solution is that a proper planning strategy is a must for going on a journey with a reporting and analytics solution. From my experience, I can tell you that organizations just venture in for a reporting, analytics solution without even framing a proper strategy as to what they would like to see as the end result and how they would like to approach it. That is the only thing that is important. Otherwise, the journey is smooth with SAP products. But you need to be clear in your head, and planning really takes the majority of the time. If you have twelve months, then I think you should plan for four months, so that the last eight months are a smooth journey for you. I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.

HB
Real User
2021-12-08T05:21:00Z
Dec 8, 2021

I'm an independent consultant. I have no direct relationship with SAP, with the vendor. It's an application that is being migrated to HANA. I would recommend only the HANA version right now. I would advise those considering this or a similar solution that they need to hire an experienced consultant, or to study the technical details of the project before starting using it. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

RD
Real User
2021-09-17T20:48:51Z
Sep 17, 2021

SAP Business Warehouse is a good option if you are interested in memory analytics including HANA. I would rate SAP Business Warehouse an eight out of ten.

MS
Consultant
2020-02-20T06:38:02Z
Feb 20, 2020

Our solution is strictly on-premises due to our company policy to not place anything on the cloud. Consultants with technical experience are helpful. They need to understand the processes, as well, however, because designing is the key. Designing right from the start is the very important if you want the product to work for you. There are multiple teams within our company. In my team, we are only concerned with BW and BO. With other teams, there are probably many other instances where someone that is using the solution is connected to other data sources and may be providing the data to the suppliers outside SAP using the portal. I don't know much about it because I'm not involved in this process. I'd rate the solution six out of ten.

ROMIL SHAH - PeerSpot reviewer
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2020-02-16T08:27:00Z
Feb 16, 2020

SAP Business Warehouse is really good. I had already used it in four prior organizations and this will be my fifth organization using it. It is pretty good as far as SAP Data is concerned. So right now, our licenses are only limited to SAP Data because it is for external data, then we need to purchase additional licenses, which we have now gone ahead with. So that's where one of the challenges is. They have ready-made connectors for the SAP, data transfers, extractions, cube production, and all the applications. We build the data and the reports. They are trying to deliver the data as compared to extracting the data from SAP to SQL Tables and then building the same logic and producing the report. We prefer that when it comes to SAP Data. My advice would be if you have a data block and if you really want a big solution on the reporting side of it with slicing and dicing, definitely go ahead with BW when it comes to SAP related data. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate SAP Business Warehouse an eight. As I said, a few things which are missing include the visualization of reports. That's where your costs and licensing become heavy. When it comes to this database compared to Microsoft Warehouse, it's an expensive solution. Because if I already have an SQL Server, my licensing fees and the server licensing cost for installation all go drastically down. They also give us a free reporting tool. For the data view, we need to have user-licensing and every cost gets increased, as I said. For example, we have a license for SAP Data, and for external data, we also have to purchase one more license, and again for a visualization tool. So that way, licensing costs keep increasing with BW.

MG
Real User
2020-02-05T08:05:00Z
Feb 5, 2020

We are a manufacturing company, also running a factory and we implemented it in the ERP. I think BW is one of the best products at the moment. There are a lot of competitors that are adding features. Specialty Suites or the FETA Gartner and Logic requirement. It's important to check all options. A company needs to take into account what business or industry they have. Most are probably considering different solutions and for banks or insurance companies, it's possible that Microsoft solutions are better. I would rate this product an eight out of 10.

SC
Real User
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2020-01-26T09:26:00Z
Jan 26, 2020

We don't use any Data Quality or Identity Manager. Our company doesn't deal with customers directly as it is not open to the public. Our clients are mainly insurance companies. We will normally limit the amounts of data, so we don't have those components but we do have Business Warehouse where we pull in reports of incidents. Recently, we were upgrading versions. We were on SAP BW version 4.7, and we have moved on to BW 6.0. Right now, we access Business Warehouse through an Excel add-on called BEx Analyzer which is also a product of SAP. At this time, I wouldn't recommend the solution as the product support will be phased out by SAP. If others are interested in an SAP solution I would go for SAP Analytics Cloud. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

HS
Real User
2019-11-28T06:06:00Z
Nov 28, 2019

We use the on-premises deployment model. We're an SAP partner. I'd recommend the solution. I'd rate it eight out of ten.

PL
Real User
2019-10-21T17:16:00Z
Oct 21, 2019

My advice regarding this solution would be to invest in professional training for future users. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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