Analytics
What is SAP Business Warehouse (BW)?
SAP's enterprise data warehouse for consolidating and modeling data from SAP and non-SAP sources.
Classic BW runs on NetWeaver with any database; BW on HANA and BW/4HANA are later evolutions. Data flows use extractors, transformations, and InfoProviders. ERP changes can break BW extractors, so BW is in regression scope.
Related terms
SAP BW/4HANA
SAP's HANA-only data warehouse with simplified object types such as advanced DSOs and CompositeProviders.
Extractor (DataSource)
An SAP source-system object that delivers data to BW or other targets, supporting full and delta loads.
Process Chain
A BW sequence of data load and processing steps executed in order with dependencies.
SAP Datasphere
SAP's cloud data warehousing and data fabric service on BTP, successor of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
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