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Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:27:30 GMT

Hi Guys,

Is SAP BI a functional module?

Can you please explain the difference between SAP BI & SAP BW?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards

Karthick

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:06:33 GMT

Hi Karthick,

SAP BI and SAP BW are the same.

Just some naming issues from SAP they change names from here to there.

kind regards

Peter

(till Nov 2000 it was BIW then they changed it to BW and since July 2007 its called BI)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:25:27 GMT

Hi Peter

Thanks for your reply.

Is SAP BI a functional module?

Regards

Karthick

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:38:27 GMT

Hi,

no its not a Module its an own Software Tree like ERP / SCM etc.

You have to install a seperate system to use it .

Kind regards

Peter

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:11:15 GMT

Hi Peter

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards

Karthick

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:42:17 GMT

It was originally named as SAP BIW (Business Information Warehouse), then abbreviated to SAP BW, currently known as "SAP BI". As Peter mentioned it needs to be installed separately and here also both the technical and functional role exists.

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:03:57 GMT

hi karthick,

sap nw bw 7.0 or 7.3 is formerly sap bi 7.0 which is a seperate component in sap netweaver package.

and sap bo (sap bi 4.0) is a business objects product from sap.

see sap bi now refers to business objects products

and sap bw refers to the sap netweaver business warehouse (formerly sap bi 7.0)

In 2008, SAP used the term "Business Intelligence" to refer

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and also SAP NetWeaver BI.

In order to remove confusion, the term Business Intelligence is now associated only with the solutions from the SAP

BusinessObjects portfolio.

So SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) is no longer used and instead we refer by,

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) ,

SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) and

SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator (BWA

thanks

Sankar S

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:40:57 GMT

HI ,

Hope said Differences will help me lot....!

Can any body suggest me.........the following.

Also can you suggest me one thing i basically from Management bag round has 6 yrs exp in HR into manufacturing Indust.

1) I would prefer to learn either of courses BI or BW or BO(Not interested for SAP-HR)

2) Is SAP-BI and SAP-BW functional or Technical?

3) is there any diff between SAP BI and BI

Please let me know which is suitable for me to enter into SAP world?

Awaiting you prompt replay...............!

Reagards,

Prabhu

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:33:48 GMT

Hi Prabhu,

1) What is SAP BI, what do consultants work on, what technologies they use ?

SAP stands for System Applications and product in Data processing.

BI/BW stands for Business Intelligence or Business Intelligence warehouse or Business warehouse. It is an readymade software for Data warehousing or in simple language it is an Data storehouse.

The most Important word for a BI consultant from above is Data . Data of business, most important Data on which different important decisions of a Company depents on.

Mostly in BI there is Historic Data or Old data. But some times you have to work also with realtime Data.

Actually we as an BI consultant extract or perform Data aquisition from another system, which is known asR/3 System or any other company realtime systems.

I dont want to go much in detail in R/3 systems.

OVERVIEW

In real time data is stored in R/3 system (in day to day business life cycle) for eg : Assuming that you are a dealer of Audi cars in USA ,If you have orderd some 100 Audi cars Q7 from Audi plant in Germany. then they will take some Personal details from you and they will process your request, as soon as they accept your request this information wil be pass to different sections of business, for eg: to Material management, sales and distributions etc.This all information regarding a business with you is stored in third layer which is known as Database layer of R/3 System. Now Because R/3 system is very very sensitive system because it records all transactions online that is OLTP Online Transaction Process , now if we want to have some report from the Database then we go into the R/3 sys and make reports from that Data and it will slowdown the performance of R/3 system.

Because of this problem SAP had offered or made BI/BW OLAP online Application Process System so that you can bring the extracted copy or extract exact Data in another system called as BI/BW and then do what ever you want, i mean you can create reports or use data for different calculations etc.

What SAP BI/BW do is , Preparing (Modelling) ready to your BI/BW system for aqusition (Extraction) of Data from another system and creating Reports (Reporting) on it as it is needed by a Manager.So Job of an BI/BW consultant is

1 Modelling

2 Extraction

3 Reporting

You just have to no, how fast and accurate you can play with the BI/BW software. Because it offers wide space .

2) I would like to know what are the pre requisites knowledge (like ABAP/Java or any Datawarehousing knowledge etc) to do SAP BI ?

Yes if you have the knowledge of only ABAP for BI (no need to have full knowledge of ABAP) or knowledge of JAVA to some extend then it is better. If you dont have the knowledge of any of this languages also, then also you can become an BI consultant. You should have the qualities of understanding the business that all.

If you are doning also BO Business Objects then it would be better if you have the knowledge of SQL.

SO Littel knowledge of JAVA, SQL, ABAP is better.

3) Which kind of people are suitable to do SAP BI ?

If You are a person who understands logic related to software and Logic releted to business. And understand exactly what someone needs from you from your job then BI/BW is right place.

4) What are the prospects of SAP BI when compare to SAP ABAP and EP, heard that SAP BI is going to be obselete and now only SAP BO (biz objects) will be used in future ?

ABAP is a programming language that is used in some parts of BI When it is neede, for eg To perform multiple Querysat one time or calling different data from different sources.

BI is a platform that is needed for Data management or Datawarehousing and making that Data ready for Reporting . BI also performs reporting activities but to some extend.

BO is a Platform where only reporting is possible but with multiple options and with best of reports that is not awailable in BI

So they are and cannot perfome all activities alone whether it is BI, BO, ABAP.

Regards,

Vijaykrishna.

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 05:04:40 GMT

Hi Vijaykrishna

Thanks a lot for good information,i was working as a abap consultant in MNC,i want to move BI.

your information is very useful to me.if you feel free please send me your contact number.

i want to talk with you regarding BI.

Regards

Hemanth

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:15:58 GMT

Hi Vijaykrishna

Thank you so much for the clarity, I want to get certified on SAP BI and because I don't have any experience with SAP yet,I would get confused a bit and your explanation is very very helpful,and that is exactly what I want to do.

Much appreciated.

Regards

Patricia.

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:36:20 GMT

Good and clear explanation Vijaykrishna..

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:59:38 GMT

Hello VijayKrishna,

That was a good and clear explanation....

please can you tell me...

How is the market for SAP BI right now?

What will be the Future for SAP BI?

Is it right time to take up my Career in the Filed of SAP BI?

What is the duration to start from Scratch and learn SAP BI and t attend Interviews?

Waiting for your Response..

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:46:57 GMT

Dear Patricia,

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Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Mariana

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:05:09 GMT

Hello Karthick,

Please use SAP.com as guide to SAP portfolio. SAP.com is the best source to find existing products, official product names and up to date information on the entire SAP portfolio.

Here you can search by product name: http://www.sap.com/pc/a-z-products.html and drill down to learn more about each individual solution:

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, analytics edition SAP BusinessObjects BI, Edge analytics edition SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI), Edge Edition SAP Business Objects BI OnDemand SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator SAP NetWeaver BW Powered by HANA In addition, please browse respective SCN spaces. From http://scn.sap.com/welcome > Products tab (top left) > Analytics tab and you will see the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing spaces where you can find more technical information about available SAP solutions in these areas. Hope this is helpful. Thanks and regards, Mariana

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:34:01 GMT

Have you checked the below link

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BI/Overview+of+SAP+History+and+BW-BI+Evolution

Good info regarding to this q's.

Regards

Mahesh

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:30:36 GMT

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Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 06:23:56 GMT

OLAP online Application Process System (or) Online Analytical process ??

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:57:53 GMT

yeah, srinath thanks for your correction . it is online analytical processing.....

Thanks,

Vijaykrishna.

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Former Member — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:49:30 GMT

Hi Vijaykrishna,

I was worked in Networking field and IT auditing. Currently I want to move SAP BI (or) SAP SD. Which is the best, becoz i don't want Basis, ABAP, or any other model. And one morething I dnt have programming skills & database skills. Plz let me know.