Reporting, analysis and interpretation of business data are crucial to preserve and enhance the competitive edge of companies by optimizing processes and enabling them to react quickly and in line with market needs. SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate, transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources. SAP BW provides you with a high-performance infrastructure that helps you evaluate and interpret data. Decision makers can make well-founded decisions and identify target-orientated activities on the basis of the analyzed data.
Data Warehousing
Analytic Engine
SAP Business Explorer
Generic Tools and Services
Interfaces
Using the SAP HANA Database
By using in-memory technologies, you can enhance the performance of SAP BW. In particular, they make it possible to efficiently process demanding scenarios with unpredictable query types, high data volumes, high query frequency and complicated calculations.
If you use a database to persist data, you can make it possible to access the data for a BW object faster by storing this data as an index in SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator. More information: Creating and Managing BWA Indexes in the BW System.
With BI Content, SAP delivers preconfigured role and task-based information models and reporting and analysis scenarios for SAP BW that are based on consistent metadata. BI Content provides selected roles in a company with the information that they need to perform their tasks. The information models delivered cover all business areas and integrate content from almost all SAP applications, as well as selected external applications
SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) - the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Suite - provides flexible reporting and analysis tools for strategic analyses, operational reporting, and decision-making support within a business.
You can evaluate SAP BW data by using the SAP BusinessObjects products.
SAP BusinessObjects tools allow you to make efficient and effective use of interfaces in the analytic engine.
