Go 100x Faster and 5x Smaller with SAP BW on HANA

Simply stated, SAP BW on HANA is SAP’s existing and popular NetWeaver BW data warehouse running on SAP HANA – SAP’s In-memory database appliance. For any customer who is currently using SAP BW and intends to continue to use the BW DWH, a move to SAP HANA is recommended to avail of the benefits of sheer speed that SAP HANA offers over other relational database platforms.

If you are one of 10,000 SAP NetWeaver BW customers and you have problems with report performances, flexibility or overnight schedules that run into the day and impact business operations, this product is designed specifically for you. And really, that means almost any one, because these are typical and normal challenges associated with any Data Warehouse – SAP or non-SAP.

Reduced future project costs

Organizations spend a lot on BI projects, both for initial acquisition and long-term maintenance of BI landscapes. With SAP BW on HANA, project build time can be significantly reduced, resulting in capital savings. Also, the ongoing support and optimization costs can be brought down tremendously. HANA has in-built tools for performance management and tuning and does not require costly maintenance resources to be deployed full time.

Better use the budget for infrastructure upgrades

Most IT organizations have budgets ear marked for infrastructure and system renewals, replacements and/or upgrades in 3 to 5 year cycles. If your existing data warehouse is coming up for a major overhaul, we recommend you positively consider the move to HANA. With its ongoing benefits and SAP’s attractive pricing models with big software and service credits, SAP HANA does not cost a fortune to set up but definitely saves you money in the long run.

A single and real-time BI platform

Give access to real-time data to more users, more often. You can run more frequent batch loads, or even replicate data directly into the enterprise data warehouse. BI managers show better readiness by giving self-service access to data for users. They don’t have to worry about impacting performances by allowing users to play with their own complex queries.

Open access results in better adoption since users can experience the powerful, positive impact directly on their decision making. Low levels of data duplication ensures that users get the most up-to-date and accurate information to support decisions, at any granularity. There is no longer any need to depend on costly internal resources, or costlier third party vendors to create a single version of the truth from various copies of your enterprise data.