SAP Gets Serious About Its Data Warehouse Product
With release 2.0 of its Business Information Warehouse (BW), German ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor SAP AG hopes to attract customers away from traditional data warehousing providers in the R/3 environment. Technically, SAP's BW is no great shakes, according to analysts, but the close connection between the software and SAP's ERP R/3 suite is reason enough for many users to try out the software. At present about 100 customers work productively with SAP's BW, according to market research company Gartner Group Inc.