10 Surprising Reasons Your Firm Needs More SAP Business Warehouse [Interactive Tool]

Do You Know The Full Scope of SAP BW?

We often hear that SAP Business Warehouse is just a reporting system.  Though it is certainly a reporting tool, it is also a full fledged data warehouse, and a central part of many other SAP tools, like APO or CRM. 

If you last touched your SAP BW system at the turn of the century, i.e. 2001-2003, you may need a lot more of SAP's Business Warehouse’s capabilities.  Why?

1. Most firms, according to a recent ASUG report, are still on SAP BW 3.X-or lower!
   
   
2. SAP Continuously releases new, updated Business Content. 
   
   If the last time you looked at it was when you implemented SAP BW 3.X, time to review what’s available.
   
   
3. SAP has hugely expanded its’ Industry Business Content.
   
   
4. With the release of BI4, sophisticated executive dashboards can now be deployed quickly and cheaply from one integrated suite of tools.
   
   
5. You probably have done all you can, low hang’in fruit wise, to fully exploit core ERP capabilities.
   
   
6. Your firm still runs on excel spreadsheets that are harder to herd than cats. 
   
   Can you trust your data?
   
   
7. Users are demanding ever greater performance from your small initial SAP BW deployment. 
   
   
   
   
8. Speaking of upgrades, maybe your existing SAP Business Warehouse BW 3.X system is getting close to end of support and you are facing customer specific support cost. 
   
   Can you say Ka’Ching$$.
   
   
9. Are you one of the majority of SAP BW users who suffers from ‘performance issues’. 
   
   Excited about SAP S/4HANA but still not even running the BIW Accelerator? 
   
   

• Finally, SAP BW is one of the keys to Value Realization.  Your SAP investment needs to show a positive ROI and BW is one of the biggest leverage points you have.

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For many SAP BW users, building an executive dashboard is now on the roadmap.  

The SAP Dashboard tool, formerly known as xCelsius, is how you do it. 

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