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Karthick Pachagounder

May 18, 2011 5:27 AM

Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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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

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Peter Reuschlein May 19, 2011 11:09 AM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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)

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Karthick Pachagounder May 19, 2011 7:25 PM (in response to Peter Reuschlein)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Peter
Thanks for your reply.
Is SAP BI a functional module?
Regards
Karthick

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Peter Reuschlein May 20, 2011 8:38 AM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

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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

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Karthick Pachagounder May 20, 2011 5:11 PM (in response to Peter Reuschlein)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Peter
Thanks a lot for your help.
Regards
Karthick

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Atin Shee Aug 2, 2011 1:43 PM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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.

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Sankaresh Shanmugavel Sep 28, 2011 11:13 AM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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

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Prabhu V Jan 20, 2012 5:40 PM (in response to Sankaresh Shanmugavel)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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

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Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli Sep 27, 2013 8:33 AM (in response to Prabhu V)

Helpful Answer Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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.

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hemanth kumar Nov 12, 2013 12:40 PM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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

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Patricia Mthethwa Oct 11, 2013 9:15 AM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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.

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Mariana Mihaylova Nov 12, 2013 12:46 PM (in response to Patricia Mthethw a)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Dear Patricia,
Your email address has been removed from this message. Should you wish to
share your email address please do so in your SCN profile so other SCN
members will be able to reach you directly.
Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,
Mariana

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Nirupa Nalabotula Nov 8, 2013 3:36 PM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Good and clear explanation Vijaykrishna..

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Vangala Rakesh Nov 9, 2013 7:59 AM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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..

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srinath rachakonda Dec 5, 2013 7:23 AM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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

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Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli Dec 13, 2013 6:57 PM (in response to srinath rachakonda)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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

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Ramesh Chandra Dec 19, 2013 8:49 AM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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.

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Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli Dec 20, 2013 1:44 PM (in response to Ramesh Chandra)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Ramesh,
SAP BI also need some programming and database skills. if you want to
go to functional side then choose SAP SD. Presently CRM also has so many
opportunities. Before choosing any field it could be better to consult any one who is
working on that particular domain.
Thanks,
Vijaykrishna.

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mahesh pachauri Apr 15, 2014 6:55 PM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

HI, Vijay Krishna
That is a good and real explanation, Could you please help to know, can we practice
abap programming online or else ???
Please help.
Regards, Mahesh Pachauri

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Ravi Kotla Apr 18, 2014 9:25 AM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi vijayakrishna,
i impressed with your explanation.... i have an query can you please guide on below ....

I Did my MBA in Tourism and Hospitality and i have an 3 years exp in Travel field... now i
want to change my field for that reason i am willing to learn SAP but i have an confusion
to learn which course.
i did my graduation in B.sc (Computers).
i approached one institute regarding the same they suggested to go with SAP SD...and
also which Institute is Good for learning SAP...
one of my friend suggested to join at Vayuputhra Communications Ltd is at

yousufguda...
Kindly guide me to make a better path for my bright future.......

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D.B Vaseem Apr 18, 2014 12:09 PM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hello Mr. Ravulapalli,
My name is vaseem and i am from Bangalore , i'm planning to do SAP Course. I am not
able to decide
between sap bi and sap crm . I have read your description about bi and also learned a
bit about crm in this site. I need your insight in choosing the correct module for me.
Also which are the better centres in bangalore to do the course. How to know correctly
about centres. Every one which i have contacted already have mixed reviews to them. It
would be a lot of help.
Thank you.

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Ravi Kotla Apr 22, 2014 9:08 AM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Guys..
I Did my MBA in Tourism and Hospitality and i have an 3 years exp in Travel field... now i
want to change my field for that reason i am willing to learn SAP but i have an confusion
to learn which course.
i approached one institute regarding the same they suggested to go with SAP SD...and
also which Institute is Good for learning SAP...
one of my friend suggested to join at Vayuputhra Communications Ltd
Kindly advice....

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NIKHIL GUDA Jul 14, 2014 11:57 AM (in response to Vijaykrishna Ravulapalli)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Can I please know which one have more market demand ? Bi or Bo ??

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ashish satapathy Jul 14, 2014 4:54 PM (in response to NIKHIL GUDA)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Nikhil
There is going to be a plenty of work in SAP BIBW &BIBO in future. now you
should know about SAP BI & BO.
Here is the description:
1.sap net-weaver BW 7.0/7.3 is formerly sap BI 7.0 which is a separate component
in sap net-weaver package. sap BO (sap bi 4.0) is a business objects product
from SAP.
2.And to your question Both SAP BW and BO has demand in market because BO
is completely into the reporting side like data visualization. SAP BO (BI 4.X) has
important reporting tools like: Dashboard , web intelligence, crystal reports etc.
3.Now before going for reporting BIBW is coming to picture. As an BI consultant we
have to extract or perform Data acquisition from another system, which is known
as R/3 System or any other company real time systems. and R/3 system is very

sensitive and contains real time data. so we can t manipulate the source system
data every time. so for that SAP introduce data warehousing(BIBW) OLAP
systems which can acts as operational database into which we can replicate the
desired source system data and do the modelling and design them according to
our requirement.
4.Then only we can produce Dashboards or WEB I reports based on the BW data.
so for a BI consultant both BW modelling ,extraction knowledge and BO &BEx
reporting knowledge is necessary. and if you don t have the programming
knowledge thn also you don t have 2 worry. you just have to understand the very
basic functional business side of SAP like Material management, sales ,Purchase
,Production Etcc.. and if you have the basic SAP ABAP technical knowledge ,then
its better for you during modelling of data in BW side.
so according to market condition now you have to give emphasis on both SAP BI
BW AND BIBO.
if you have any further query please feel free to ask.
Thanks
Ashish

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NIKHIL GUDA Jul 15, 2014 2:49 PM (in response to ashish satapathy)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Thank you so much Mr. Ashish
I have entered into a company just 3 weeks back and we have been trained in
ABAP for these 3 weeks and we are going to be trained on both BI and BO for
next few weeks and so I ' am eager to know about these things. After 3
months we will be allotted a project

you.

I would like to hear any suggestions from you.

Waiting for your reply.

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ashish satapathy Jul 17, 2014 7:14 AM (in response to NIKHIL GUDA)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Nikhil,
first of all u got a very good opportunity for working in SAP domain
and tht to in BI Side.
so now your carrier profile will be shaping up in a efficient way and you
have to make your proficiency level as expert in sap BIBO. so try to gain all
the conceptual knowledge on BW side first & before that learn ABAP as
prerequisite. then jump to BO part.
so here i am listing some of the concepts/topics in BW side that
you must have to learn:
1. BW evolution and history.
2. OLAP AND OLTP system significance and cycle for business data
processing,
3. SAP ERP defination and its configuration & architecture in backend.
4. BW data targets like (ODS,INFO CUBE, MULTI-PROVIDER), data
sources, PSA, info object, info source, info object catelog, info area, info
providers.
5. BW transfer rules. update rules & transformation from info source to
data target & also from data source/PSA to data target.
6. then You have to learn the Extraction mechanism called ETL .
(extraction /transformation/loading).
7.different types of loading mechanism to different data
targets(ODS,INFO CUBE) from different source systems(flat file,SAP
logistics and non logistics data, customize ECC data).
8. Learn about generic data extraction (custom tables of ECC) and
application specific data extraction (SAP Standard data like of
Sales,production ,purchasing, finance ,HR data).
9. Open hub destination.
10. Process chains.
11. Remodeling.
12. DTP(DATA TRANSFER PROCESS).
13. BATCH jobs processing .
14. generic data source creation and replication to BW.
15. standard data source activation in ECC side and replication to BW.
16. DSO types.
17. transactional data, master data , fact table, master table, SIDs. key

figures/measures. characteristic values.

18. Business explore tools like BEx query designer and analyzer for
design the BW data once its loaded into data targets.
19. BO reporting tools like dasboard, crystal reports, web intelligence.
20. prepare the reports from corresponding BEx data which is nothing but
R/3 data loaded to bw.
I hope now you can get the momentum in BW once you know about this
topics.
Regards Ashish

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NIKHIL GUDA Jul 17, 2014 1:14 PM (in response to ashish satapathy)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Ashish
Thank you so much for your suggestions

I will search and know in detail about the points mentioned by you
and gain conceptual knowledge about them. And then I will try to
write blogs/documents on some of them.
Thanks and regards
Nikhil Guda

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Richa Bhardwaj Jul 22, 2014 4:38 AM (in response to ashish satapathy)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Dear Ashish,
Your response is very insightful for anyone who would want to learn more
about SAP BI.
My question is, how feasible is it for an SAP CRM Technical consultant to
switch to SAP BI. I'm looking out for opportunities, and I see some good SAP
BI openings, which have compelled me into thinking to make this change
from CRM to BI.
Awaiting your response, and thanking in anticipation !
Richa

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ashish satapathy Jul 22, 2014 8:49 AM (in response to Richa Bhardw aj)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hello Richa ,
actually i don t have much idea about the transformation of a
CRM consultant to a BI consultant. so what i know is that CRM integrates
information with business actions. Analytical CRM which is a part of CRM
aims to storing,analyzing,& applying knowledge about customers ,about
the ways to approach customers using databases , statistical tools, data
mining, BI & reporting methodology . But Business intelligence is
collection of technologies ,methodologies that transform raw data into
meaningful information for business analysis purposes. common
functions of BI are reporting, data mining, OLAP,predictive analysis etc.
BIBW uses the backend CRM data for making the reports & used for
business analysis purpose. SAP BW reports delivered as part of BI
content for CRM-BW.
so may be you can switch to the SAP BI module from CRM if you
acquire good knowledge in BIBW,BIBO for processing of any business
module (CRM ,SCM,MM,PP,FICO, etc..) data for analysis .please excuse
me if answer is n t satisfactory.
Regards
Ashish

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NIKHIL GUDA Aug 20, 2014 11:18 AM (in response to Mahboob Pasha)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Mahboob,
I will message you the details to your phone since I' am not supposed to
publish any company name here on scn (I think so).
Regards,
Nikhil

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ashish satapathy Apr 9, 2014 3:33 PM (in response to Sankaresh Shanmugavel)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Its the best answer that i got regarding on sap BW/BI difference.
thanks for this useful solution.
Regards
Ashish

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Mariana Mihaylova Nov 12, 2013 1:27 PM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

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

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Mahesh kumar Nov 20, 2013 3:34 PM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Have you checked the below link
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BI/Overview+of+SAP+History+and+BW-BI+Evolution
Good info
Regards
Mahesh

regarding to this q's.

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Ravi Kotla Apr 18, 2014 9:26 AM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi guys
i have an query can you please guide on below ....
I Did my MBA in Tourism and Hospitality and i have an 3 years exp in Travel field... now i want to
change my field for that reason i am willing to learn SAP but i have an confusion to learn which
course.
i did my graduation in B.sc (Computers).
i approached one institute regarding the same they suggested to go with SAP SD...and also which
Institute is Good for learning SAP...
one of my friend suggested to join at Vayuputhra Communications Ltd is at yousufguda...

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Bhavin Patel Apr 21, 2014 12:11 AM (in response to Ravi Kotla)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Guys,
I my new to SAP with no experience or background (working with SAP). Can anyone help me in
selecting the right module, I am bit confused with SAP BW/BI module or SAP BO module.
Can any of you guys please help?
Regards
Bhavin

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Richard McGladdery Jul 6, 2014 1:26 AM (in response to Bhavin Patel)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

SAP BW and HANA are part of the database and technology set of products and has nothing
to do with SAP BusinessObjects BI. SAP BW is part of the SAP Netweaver stack and is
predominantly used as an Enterprise Data Warehouse (dedicated to reporting as opposed
to an Operational Data Store).
SAP BI is a product suite that is used for reporting and can be deployed over a Microsoft
EDW environment (SQL) or Netweaver (SAP BW) environment. SAP BI includes
dashboards, explorer, web intelligence, etc. SAP BI is part of the BO (BusinessObjects suite
of products). BO also has other product suites such as Enterprise Performance
Management and Enterprise Information Management.
In turn BusinessObjects is part of the SAP Business Analytics set of products which also
includes SAP GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance).
This is as far as I know at this point in time, but it used to be different before SAP purchased
BusinessObjects. Then BI and BW were pretty much "interchangeable". Also, no guarantee
how long this will be true.

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Jagannathan Santhanam May 14, 2014 9:28 PM (in response to Bhavin Patel)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

If I may add, there are challenges in the BI/BW area. Since BI is a very vast area due to the
mere fact that you have no idea what report/analytics an end user requires, it can/will be
extremely challenging. Unlike specific SAP modules (SD, MM, QM, PP, FICO etc.,), BI/BW in
theory, can encompass ALL SAP modules and external systems. You will have to interact
with SAP functional consultants to understand where and how SAP/R3 data is stored since
it eventually has to flow into BW for reporting and analysis.
Business Objects is a technology agnostic tool used for reporting and analytics. I think of
BO as the wrapper and BW as the candy layer. The BEx plug-in that latches onto BW data
from Excel is for beginners and quite primitive and hence people use fancy reporting tools
such as Business Objects, CliqView etc., for reporting. My 2 cents.

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Manish Thakur Sep 10, 2014 9:50 AM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi, really helpful to understand the overall evolution SAP BI / Analytics has undergone so far.
Can you gurus please also elaborate on the way forward and how BW skill-sets are going to be
affected with the advent and augmentation of HANA in the BI / Analytics ecosystem?
Will there be any room left for someone like me; more on a functional / design side, who doesn't
know much of the core ABAP / DB development?
Regards,
Manish

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Swati Gawade Sep 12, 2014 9:35 AM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

I saw many posts in this discussion where people are asking which module is better and what
should be their way forward.
Well, I think irrespective of what module you chose the success totally depends on your dedication
and ability to adapt.
Also, dont depend on others for making decisions of you career. people can share their experiences,
direct you, guide you but the decision has to be finally your.
If you want to get into SAP, then before you take any decision, go through the online material and see
if you are really going to like working for it. I have seen people having bad careers in SAP BI and
excellent growth in non-SAP technologies as well. so mind it its totally case basis.
Know your interests before you jump to any conclusions. Also, know that there are already
technologies that are overpowering SAP BI. Better take an informed decision.
Also, you may find that there are many organizations that provide SAP trainings and some may lure
you to get false exoperience and credentials but again here let me warn you, this is not going to help
you. at the end, its going to be you working in the office where the said organization is not going to be
able to help you. You may end up losing your job and the money you paid. Hence, make sure that you
go for an organization that has been partnered with SAP or has official permissions for SAP trainings.
Remember success if not doing best but doing YOUR best.
Hope this help.
Thanks,
Swati.

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Sha Me Feb 2, 2015 11:28 AM (in response to Sw ati Gaw ade)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Swati or Any other experts,
I am working as IT Manager in Open systems,
I want to career shift in SAP that too in GCC countries , where ERP is an ideal choice.
However, I have a confusion in mind, whether SAP has any management course (Specifically
SAP Manager) or Can I take BO and go as a Consultant?
P.s: My skill levels are high irrespective of technologies, I will quickly adapt to any role.
Thank you so much
-Shah

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NIKHIL GUDA Feb 2, 2015 3:20 PM (in response to Sha Me)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Shah,

First of all, I didn't get what you meant by SAP Manager. There are nothing like management
courses but business managers are often given small courses so that they can use SAP
tools. If you mean an IT manager who supervises some number of people working on SAP
tools, I do not have any comment to make.
If you mean that start learning BO and become an SAP BO consultant is your other choice, I
don't think that's a good idea for any experienced professional. I have graduated in 2014
and currently working on BO. I felt that the most important thing in SAP field is experience. I
agree that it matters what your talents and skills are, but it needs experience to expertise in
SAP field.
Since I'm a fresher or less experienced, you may consider other members or experts
opinions too.
Thank you
Nikhil

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Abhay Shukla Feb 2, 2015 5:16 PM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hello Everyone,
I am working as business development at International Clientele with 3.6 yrs,
I have complete B.Tech in IT stream ,but one more thing ,I have no more knowledge about
programming skills but have few little knowledge.And i can learn this perfectly.
But currently i want learn about SAP , which is best to related with our skills.There i little confused
which type SAP-mode , I can prefer.....Please let
One more thing I'm doing also as part time business alike small entrepreneur individual initially legal
firm ,which is active as "Hewek Technologies" www.hewektech.com | www.hewektechnologies.com .
Please let me , How can do this and Is this perfect to me or not .really I'm very appreciating with that
support me.
- Abhay Shukla
abhaysmo@gmail.com

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NIKHIL GUDA Feb 3, 2015 7:01 AM (in response to Abhay Shukla)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Abahy,
Learn what your business really needs and what you like to work on.
No need to know programming languages for working on SAP modules except ABAP, because
ABAP is a native SQL.
Regards
Nikhil

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Abhay Shukla Feb 3, 2015 2:53 PM (in response to Karthick Pachagounder)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hello Nikhil,
I am admire to your best reply . I have setup little firm which is working on IT industry development
and business promotional agenda.But i want move also at online portal and application business
route.Please let how much, i get SAP support and which module is best to us.
- Abhay Shukla

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NIKHIL GUDA Feb 6, 2015 11:59 AM (in response to Abhay Shukla)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Abahy,
I couldn't understand what you requirement exactly is. Please try to contact SAP Helpdesk. They
would be able to help you for sure. You will find an option to chat also when you visit
www.sap.com

All the best.

Regards
Nikhil

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Jagadish Babu Feb 6, 2015 3:23 PM (in response to NIKHIL GUDA)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

hi,
I want know one thing, SAP BO and BW both are same or not?
If not, what's main difference, kindly clear may doubt....

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NIKHIL GUDA Feb 9, 2015 7:16 AM (in response to Jagadish Babu)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Jagadish,
Business Warehousing is collecting enterprise data from different source systems
where as Business Objects is reporting enterprise data.
BW Example: An enterprise operating in different regions of a country and each of them
have different databases. Again these databases may be of same vendor or different
vendors. Their structure and nomenclature again may be different. But, managers
would like to see and analyse the business at country level. Then, we need to combine
the data in a meaningful way for analyzing purpose.
BO Example: An enterprise is using a business application to perform it's business.
When users of that application enter data into that application and data gets generated.
For analyzing this data, we need Business Objects. Using BO, we make Web
Intelligence reports, Dash boards etc. These reports can also be scheduled to be sent
to managers.

They are totally different tools, but related tools. Relation is that Business Objects may
be used as next step of Business Warehousing.
SAP BO package contains different products in it, like Web Intelligence, Universe
Design Tool etc.
Regards
Nikhil

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Jagadish Babu Feb 9, 2015 11:50 AM (in response to NIKHIL GUDA)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Nikhil,
Thanks for your reply
Regards

Jagadish

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Jagadish Babu Feb 9, 2015 12:08 PM (in response to Jagadish Babu)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Nikhil,
I have one more doubt, actually in my laptop have windows8, is it possible to
install sap bo4.0?
Regards
Jagadish

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NIKHIL GUDA Feb 9, 2015 1:34 PM (in response to Jagadish Babu)

Re: Difference between SAP BI & SAP BW

Hi Jagadish,
I feel that this blog will answer your question.
What's new in SAP
BusinessObjects platform BI 4.0 SP06 - Windows 8 Support
It says that BO 4.0 SP6 and above supports windows 8.
Regards
Nikhil

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