SAP Business Warehouse vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

SAP Business Warehouse

178 Reviews and Ratings

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

844 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP BW	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	SAP Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019. SAP BW versions up to 7.4 have reached end of maintenance. SAP BW 7.5 support is extended to align with SAP Business Suite with NetWeaver components. For existing customers maintenance is scheduled to continue through 2027, with extended support available through 2030.	N/A
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence	Score6.5 out of 10	N/A	The SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence Platform provides users with ad hoc queries, reporting, data visualizations, and analysis tools. Its integrated, unified infrastructure aims to offer scalability from one-to-many tools and interfaces on-premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid approach.	N/A

Pricing

SAP BW

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

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Pricing Offerings
SAP BW	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	SAP BW	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Considered Both Products	SAP Vivek Gupta BI Consultant in Information Technology at Vistex (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SAP BW My client was an SAP shop client where they have SAP ECC. Using SAP BW helps them to save development time on extractors which are readily available in SAP BW. Also, the tight integration with SAP ECC helps to further reduce the time. The users here were Excel friendly so they … Incentivized Helpful?	SAP Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Earlier, I used SAP BW's BEx tools for reporting, but it was challenging to format the report data and export to different formats. SAP BEx tools can access data from limited sources where as SAP BO can access data from most of the datasources which is why I prefer using BO … Incentivized Helpful? Martin Lopez Gerente de Consultoría in Product Management at SEIDOR Analytics (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform is an on premise solution that allows you to display information hosted on an SAP BW / 4 HANA server. SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP's business intelligence solution that works in the cloud and is complemented by SAP … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence We are using SAC as well but the Schedule part of SAC cannot be compared to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence schedule. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence An upgrade to SAP BW/4HANA could be considered to get better performance. But if performance is not a huge problem, SAP BusinessObjects BI is a good solution on-premise. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence As we have been using SAP ERP, having SAP BI was one of the key factors in our choice. Also design efficiency, variety of data sources' integration and document versioning gave better advantages to SAP BI over others. Also adding SAP BI during the SAP ERP rollout provided … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence We picked this directly; as we already have a previous version of Business Objects, it will be easier to upgrade than to switch systems. Helpful? Verified User Chose SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Originally, Business Objects was implemented before I joined. When we had issues with Business Objects Version 3, we evaluated: Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

SAP BW

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse 8.5 3 Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 9.2 48 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.53 Ratings	9.048 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.53 Ratings	9.045 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.53 Ratings	9.029 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance	6.43 Ratings	00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	00 Ratings	9.646 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	9.62 Ratings

Comparison of Data Modeling features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse 8.7 3 Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence - Ratings
Data model creation	8.73 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Data Exploration features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse 5.4 3 Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence - Ratings
Visualization	5.43 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Data Warehouse features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse 7.5 3 Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence - Ratings
High-Volume Data Processing	7.93 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	9.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Administrative Automation	7.53 Ratings	00 Ratings
Self-Optimization	5.63 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse - Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 8.2 51 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	00 Ratings	8.646 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	00 Ratings	7.747 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	00 Ratings	8.347 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse - Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.8 48 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	00 Ratings	7.247 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	00 Ratings	8.347 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	00 Ratings	7.333 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	00 Ratings	8.647 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse - Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.9 48 Ratings
Publish to Web	00 Ratings	9.040 Ratings
Publish to PDF	00 Ratings	7.546 Ratings
Report Versioning	00 Ratings	6.742 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	00 Ratings	8.447 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	00 Ratings	7.726 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse - Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.2 43 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	00 Ratings	6.941 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	00 Ratings	6.939 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	00 Ratings	7.938 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	7.32 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse - Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 5.8 34 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	00 Ratings	6.733 Ratings
Mobile Application	00 Ratings	3.928 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	00 Ratings	3.930 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Feature	SAP Business Warehouse - Ratings	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 7.1 24 Ratings
REST API	00 Ratings	6.721 Ratings
Javascript API	00 Ratings	7.319 Ratings
iFrames	00 Ratings	7.318 Ratings
Java API	00 Ratings	7.222 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	00 Ratings	7.321 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	00 Ratings	6.720 Ratings

User Ratings
	SAP BW	SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (14 ratings)	7.7 (73 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (24 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.6 (16 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (10 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (16 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (4 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (8 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (45 ratings)
Data Sources	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (45 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)