What is SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)?

SAP Business Warehouse (BW) is a business intelligence system based on SAP NetWeaver to manage business and company-wide data. It was developed by SAP to cope with the ever-growing volume of data and the large number of different data sources. SAP BW helps companies create a central, integrated source of data that comes from many different source systems. With SAP BW, companies have the opportunity to get a precise and up-to-date overview of all relevant data and activities.

By merging SAP BW data from different sources and linking similar data together, it helps companies to manage, analyze and thus make decisions. This is also optimized by functions such as data modeling, data integration, data analysis and data visualization.

SAP BW is often used in combination with other SAP products like SAPHANA , SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Data Services used. Thus, it provides a unified data source for analysis and reporting, enabling organizations to gain consistent and accurate insights into their business processes. SAP BW can also be integrated with other data sources such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.