SAP BW Development

The reporting, analysis, and interpretation of business data is of central importance to a company in guaranteeing its competitive edge, optimizing processes, and enabling it to react quickly and in line with the market.

As a core component of SAP NetWeaver, the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) provides data warehousing functionality, a business intelligence platform, and a suite of business intelligence tools that enable businesses to attain these goals.

Relevant business information from productive SAP applications and all external data sources can be integrated, transformed, and consolidated in SAP BW with the toolset provided.

SAP BW provides flexible reporting and analysis tools to support you in evaluating and interpreting data, as well as facilitating its distribution. Businesses are able to make well-founded decisions and determine target-orientated activities on the basis of this analysis.

The following graphic shows how the SAP BW concept is structured. Data Warehousing, BI Platform and BI Suite represent the core areas of SAP BW.



The following graphic shows where SAP BW is positioned within SAP NetWeaver. Furthermore, those subareas that incorporate SAP BW are listed. These are described in detail below.

Data Warehousing with SAP BW forms the basis of an extensive business intelligence solution to convert data into valuable information. 

Integrated and company-specific data warehousing provides decision makers in your company information and knowledge for goal-oriented measures that will lead to the success of the company

For data from any source (SAP or non-SAP sources) and of any age (historic or current), Data Warehousing with SAP BW allows:

  • Integration (data retrieval from source systems) 
  • Transformation
  • Consolidation
  • Cleanup
  • Storage
  • Retrieval for analysis and interpretation


 The central tool for data warehousing tasks in SAP BW is the Administrator Workbench. 


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