Editing SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse

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'''SAP Business Warehouse''' ('''SAP BW''') is [[SAP SE|SAP]]’s [[Enterprise Data Warehouse]] product.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sap.com/pc/tech/data-warehousing.html|title=Digital Platform - Technology - SAP|website=Sap.com|accessdate=5 August 2018|archive-date=27 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141127194410/http://www.sap.com/pc/tech/data-warehousing.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> It can transform and consolidate business information from virtually any source system.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} It ran on industry standard [[Relational database management system|RDBMS]] until version 7.3 at which point it began to transition onto SAP's [[SAP HANA|HANA]] [[In-memory database|in-memory]] [[Database|DBMS]], particularly with the release of version 7.4. 

Latterly, it evolved into a product called BW/4HANA so as to align with SAP's sister ERP Product called S/4HANA. This strategy allowed SAP to engineer the database to use the HANA in-Memory database. Consequently, this facilitates the push down of complex OLAP based functions to the database as opposed to NetWeaver ABAP Application Server to improve performance.{{fact|date=December 2021}} The product is also more open and can incorporate SAP and Non-SAP data more easily.{{fact|date=December 2021}}

==History==
In 1998 SAP released the first version of SAP BW, providing a model-driven approach to [[Data warehouse|EDW]] that made data warehousing easier and more efficient, particularly for SAP R/3 data.  Since then, SAP BW has evolved to become a key component for thousands of companies. An article,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/Assets/Articles/2014/May/Dr-Berg-Brian-Wood-BW-is-Dead|title=BW is Dead – Long Live BW|website=Sapinsider.wispubs.com|accessdate=5 August 2018}}</ref> provided the history of SAP BW from inception to the newer releases powered by SAP HANA.

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