Contact
LinkedIn
Copyright © 2025 PIKON International Consulting Group GmbH
SAP BW/4HANA is a business warehouse built on SAP HANA’s in-memory technology. It is a data management system that consolidates, harmonizes, and validates a company’s data in a central location. The system offers simple data modeling and straightforward administration of data processing workflows.
SAP BW/4HANA represents the modern evolution of the classic SAP BW and is fully based on the in-memory database SAP HANA. As a central data warehouse, it provides a harmonized view of data from a wide range of sources—whether SAP systems, external systems, or unstructured data. With real-time analytics, historical data, and an open SQL interface, BW/4HANA supports data-driven decision-making and serves as a foundation for innovative technologies such as big data and machine learning.
SAP BW/4HANA is SAP's strategic data warehousing tool, supported until 2040, providing businesses with investment security.
In addition to native SAP systems, a wide range of external data sources such as Hadoop, Oracle, or other databases can be integrated flexibly—ideal for hybrid data landscapes.
With tools such as the Eclipse-based SAP HANA Studio, BW/4HANA offers a modern user interface that enhances productivity and user adoption within the company.
The system provides pre-validated and standardized business content based on S/4 best practice processes. Companies save time and costs by leveraging proven templates that cover a wide range of business requirements.
SAP BW/4HANA reduces complexity by eliminating redundant modeling objects. With features like field-based modeling, development becomes more agile and flexible, enabling shorter project timelines and tailored solutions.
SAP BW/4HANA leverages the powerful in-memory technology of SAP HANA. This smooth integration enables real-time data processing and supports big data analytics, allowing faster and more accurate data-driven decision-making.
Minimum Start Release: SAP BW 7.5 SP 5 powered by SAP HANA.
Minimum Start Release: SAP BW 7.3 on any DB
Minimum Start Release: SAP BW 7.0 on any DB
Whitepaper
In this whitepaper, you learn
Make your Data Warehouse future-ready with BW/4HANA!
A Whitepaper by André Klos,
CHRO, PIKON Deutschland AG
Only available in German!
We provide comprehensive support—from strategy development to successful implementation—creating a modern, agile data warehouse landscape with smooth interfaces to ERP systems, big data solutions, and cloud services, all aligned with the priorities of modern CIOs.
Modernisation:
Optimisation:
We are at your disposal for any question around Business Intelligence.
SAP BW/4HANA will be supported until 2040. The successor to BW/4HANA is SAP Datasphere, which represents SAP’s new Business Data Fabric.
As an established data warehousing tool, SAP BW/4HANA is used by many companies. It is valued for its reliability and versatility – nearly every requirement can be implemented. However, BW/4HANA is only being further developed to a limited extent. SAP Datasphere will replace SAP BW/4HANA as the Business Data Fabric by 2040.
S/4HANA Embedded Analytics focuses on operational reporting. As an integrated part of SAP S/4HANA, it allows live transaction data to be analyzed.
In contrast, BW/4HANA focuses on strategic reporting. Data from multiple sources can be consolidated and harmonized in BW/4HANA.
It is recommended to model in SAP BW/4HANA using the LSA++ (Layered Scalable Architecture) reference architecture guideline.
Register for a free and non-binding PIKON newsfeed here and receive our latest blog posts with expert knowledge on digitisation and SAP topics by email once a month. After your registration you will receive an email in which you please confirm the link once again (double opt-in procedure).
You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Active Campaign. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers.
More Information