SAP Business Warehouse vs. SAP Datasphere

SAP Datasphere

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SAP BW	Score 8.6 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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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 Datasphere	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables users to distribute mission-critical business data — with business context and logic preserved — across the data…	N/A

Pricing

SAP Business Warehouse

SAP Datasphere

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SAP BW	SAP Datasphere
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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SAP Datasphere is available as a subscription or consumption-based model. The SAP Datasphere capacity unit (CU) offers an adaptable approach to pricing that enables any workload on any hyperscaler. The number of CUs required is determined by the unique workload, with the ability to tailor the combination of required services within SAP Datasphere utilizing a flexible tenant configuration. The services that contribute to CU consumption are the core application (compute and storage), data lake, BW bridge, data integration, and data catalog (crawling and storage).

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Community Pulse
	SAP Business Warehouse	SAP Datasphere
Considered Both Products	SAP BW Juan Carlos Crespo Rojas Senior SAP Consultant Chose SAP BW The word "against" would not be the right word to describe this question. These applications coexist and interact, as all of them play a specific role in the SAP landscape. The use of any of these applications should be aligned with the data strategy in an Organization. Incentivized Helpful? Parijatam S Lead Consultant Chose SAP BW Its good for data modelling and ease of reporting capabilities. Even designing base master data models is complex but once done it makes life very easy for any reporting that involves hierarchies/ text & direct/indirect attributes even. It does not have capabilities for … Incentivized Helpful? Niloofar Keshvari Nia IT Operations and Support Specialist Chose SAP BW Coordination and integration with other SAP software and products, as well as its speed and simplicity in reporting, make it one of our current choices Incentivized Helpful? Kartik Chavan Business Data Analyst Chose SAP BW The main reason we chose SAP was the price. SAP Business Warehouse was relatively cheaper compared to other alternatives. SAP Business Warehouse is very popular software for reporting purposes and data storage. But also, it is hard to shift to a newer software once the roots … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP BW None Incentivized Helpful? Julius Shen Senior System Analyst Chose SAP BW SAP Business Warehouse scores higher in data warehouse functionalities for integration to SAP ERP and other SAP solutions such as SAP CRM, SAP APO, and SAP SRM. Standard SAP data source extractors which are available in SAP ERP can be used immediately for full or delta … Incentivized Helpful? BB Brandi Brown-Lang Sales and Purchasing Administrator Chose SAP BW SAP Business Warehouse just has better visibility on warehouse flows than some of the other SAP software. I think it is easier to use, and it makes some really great reports that are able to export to excel without much effort. This makes it easy to send customers as well as … Incentivized Helpful? Gustavo Porporato Daher CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Chose SAP BW We evaluated against Microsoft and database systems. SAP stands out due to simplicity to get the data coming from SAP ERP. Incentivized Helpful? Sam Figueroa Associate Staff Systems Specialist Chose SAP BW SAP business warehouse was chosen years ago along with our current ERP software. It currently doesn't stack up well against newer software such as IBM Cognos, or SAS Business Intelligence. The positive side, is that the software has been around for many years and it is easy to … Incentivized Helpful? Vivek Gupta BI Consultant 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? Mark Liston Solutions Architect Chose SAP BW I have previously used Microstrategy Analytics for reporting and I can confidentially say this is a better option. First, we can do all ETL in the system and not have to rely on another tool. Second, it is easy to integrate with the SAP Lumira platform which seems to be much … Incentivized Helpful? SP Sandesh Pasari Marketing manager Chose SAP BW Zoho Analytics and Tableau Prep Incentivized Helpful?	SAP Datasphere IBRAHIM KILIC Software Architect Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Data Intelligence, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Data Services Incentivized Helpful? AJ Alec Jones Business Analyst Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Datasphere is a source for all SAC reporting. Incentivized Helpful? Karthik Selvaraj Senior Analytics Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere Na Incentivized Helpful? Michael Howell Analytics Solution Architect Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere DWH as input for SAC Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere some features are better, other for e.g. big data analysis or ai cases not Incentivized Helpful? GI gokcen isliel sap regional manager Chose SAP Datasphere it is an SAP product Incentivized Helpful? Kivanc Oktas Partner Chose SAP Datasphere The data management capabilities of SAC is not mature compared to SAP Datasphere. Incentivized Helpful? Nayan Shah Senior Software Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere Google BigQuery Incentivized Helpful? JS Jamie Smith Chief Computer Analyst and Product Manager Chose SAP Datasphere Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Three main advantages: 1. cost effectiveness 2. Robust and data friendly environments from all sources Incentivized Helpful? AD Anirban Das Software Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere I am only going to talk about the visualizing and analytics part of SAP Datasphere because if I start listing what the whole SAP ecosystem provides, then it would not even be a comparison. In a summary, Google Analytics is high-level. Of course, the introduction of the new GA4 … Incentivized Helpful? KL Keith Latta Senior Systems Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Datasphere has robust backend integration tools that makes it easy to integrate non-SAP unlike alternatives such as Snowflake. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Cloud based is the future and will enable significant reduction in maintenance from SAP BW on prem solutions. Incentivized Helpful? SK Sudheer Kurapati SAP Development Lead Chose SAP Datasphere Reusable the views compare the eclipse. Incentivized Helpful? ankita soni Database Administrator Chose SAP Datasphere Scalability and effectiveness to handle large volumes of data while maintaining consistency with the applications. Excellent with data integrity by eliminating duplications. Magnificent with a collection of data from different sources to get trusted data for making decisions. Incentivized Helpful? Nitesh Kumar Manager Marketing Chose SAP Datasphere The Friendly interface that SAP offered was second to none. The Tracking and tracebility that was Integrated helped in configuring locations quite easily and while shifting of cargo it was never an issue. Distribution wise SKU segregation was never a problem and report … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere DWC really allows no code model development and also integrates with a lot of data sources without additional tools as ETL Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Visualization layer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere No comparison. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Datasphere Compared to the SAP Business Warehouse, the DWC can be operated with the SAC in a cloud environment on the Business Technology Platform. Thus, a single point of entry or single point of truth is given in the DWC, and reporting in the SAC is possible. The complete corporate … Incentivized Helpful? DB Dawn Boughter Senior provisioning billing specialist Chose SAP Datasphere It is very easy and quick to develop.it has good and excellent self-service. The use of state art data platform is very easy and simple. It has a high-performance and scalable data warehouse. It accelerates time to value real-time. It gives data a new level of consumption. Incentivized Helpful? BS Bill Short Chief operating officer Chose SAP Datasphere It is user-friendly and has self-service tools. It has built-in capabilities such as a data lake. It backed integration capabilities. It gives data on a new level of consumption. It is easy and very quick to develop. It has a high-performance and scalable data warehouse. Incentivized Helpful? BM Bill Morrill Sr. DevOps Engineer Chose SAP Datasphere Both tools are fairly the same, but we mainly focused on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud since we had a lot of SAP services that were simple to integrate with each other. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

SAP Business Warehouse

SAP Datasphere

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 8.5 Ratings 3% below category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance	6.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Modeling

Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 8.7 Ratings 10% above category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
Data model creation	8.70 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Exploration

Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 5.4 Ratings 3% above category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
Visualization	5.40 Ratings	00 Ratings

Data Warehouse

Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
	SAP Business Warehouse 7.5 Ratings 2% below category average	SAP Datasphere - Ratings
High-Volume Data Processing	7.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Administrative Automation	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Self-Optimization	5.60 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	SAP Business Warehouse	SAP Datasphere
Small Businesses	Google BigQuery Score 8.4 out of 10	Google BigQuery Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Score 9.0 out of 10	Snowflake Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Oracle Exadata Score 10.0 out of 10	Snowflake Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	SAP Business Warehouse	SAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SAP Business Warehouse	SAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend	SAP BW is best for: 1. Large enterprises 2. Enterprises with 3+ legacy systems with entrenched users (politically difficult to merge) 3. Enterprises with employees who can understand both the technical capabilities of SAP BW and the needs of the business users - ability to speak both languages, otherwise the program could be unwieldy and potentially underutilized (it's not particularly inexpensive) SAP BW is less appropriate for: 1. Small enterprises 2. Enterprises who have well established, same location, CRM and UFS - the integration of data analysis will be easier and less expensive with other solutions 3. HANA Incentivized Jeff Looby, CPA Associate Read full review	SAP is best suited for large global corporations. It is a very complex software and is difficult to come by individuals who have sufficient enough knowledge to master the product. Globally our company only has 1 person to support us in IT for SAP. It is great if you use a more complex web host such as SFCC as you can make connections to SAP for returns, inventory, price updates, etc. Incentivized EM ERIN MCINTOSH Ecommerce Opperations Coordinator Read full review
Pros	ETL, great at taking data from OLTP source, flat file, etc... Easy drag and drop for transformations. Great reporting possibilities, easy to connect with BO, BPC, etc... Great Master Data Management (MDM )for BPC - helps us maintain master data for BPC. Incentivized Mark Liston Solutions Architect Read full review	SAP Data Warehouse Cloud offers free trial for 90 days with free 128 GB of storage and 64 GB memory. Availability of self-service data modeling and analytics on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud enables users to access and analyze data without getting support from the IT team. Without zero coding while collecting, connecting, analyzing and modeling data, it saves us time and operational costs of partnering with external IT support experts. Incentivized TM Trinity Marquez Senior HRIS & Global Payroll Analyst Read full review
Cons	Age of software is showing as it struggles with very large data modules, which were not as prevalent in its early years Querying performance at times can be very slow Support and development for BEx has been discontinued or hard to find. Incentivized Sam Figueroa Associate Staff Systems Specialist Read full review	SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is quite complex, therefore, some extra orientation or training might be essential, more so on cloud. Secondly, SAP Data installation fee, and the monthly subscription amounts is slightly demanding, and the developer should refocus on changing them. Nonetheless, SAP Data rectified other challenges like flexibility and customization, making us happy clients. Incentivized LL Lamark Lingo CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer) Read full review
Usability	It needs minimal trainings and can perform tasks of data management and reporting. Incentivized Sandesh Pasari Marketing manager Read full review	It is one of the best tools and a boon to Logistics teams across the globe. One tends to actually process warehousing data so smoothly and the way demonstration is made while in programs it makes it user friendly. The Inventory touch points that one identify is simply awesome and is best part. Incentivized Nitesh Kumar Manager Marketing Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	I would greatly acknowledge the services of Sap Data [warehouse Cloud] because we were struggling before its arrival where we used to get manual data connections and this used to consume a lot of time but after its use, we now are able to connect data easily saving a lot of time and finances. faith kelsie Information Technology Support Specialist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	SAP Business Warehouse scores higher in data warehouse functionalities for integration to SAP ERP and other SAP solutions such as SAP CRM, SAP APO, and SAP SRM. Standard SAP data source extractors which are available in SAP ERP can be used immediately for full or delta replication into SAP Business Warehouse. System governance in SAP Business Warehouse is top-notch with change management support for migration between system landscape from the development system to production system. Incentivized Julius Shen Senior System Analyst Read full review	Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for users, and it is widely up for data quality, data governance, and data discovery. Incentivized JS Jamie Smith Chief Computer Analyst and Product Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	It has helped cut down on parts shortages with the minimum stock flags. People are able to track down parts easier because they can see where they were last used. Our sales team has better visibility on lead times so they can accurately quote our customers. Incentivized BB Brandi Brown-Lang Sales and Purchasing Administrator Read full review	Enhanced our report generation process due to presence of holistic data. Centralized data from all our platforms. This has helped us visualize and analyze all data much more efficiently. It is more on the expensive side from both cost and training perspective. Incentivized AD Anirban Das Software Engineer Read full review
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