Branding changes for SAP BI
Starting with the 2.x versions until 3.5 , SAP called its BI product as SAP Business Warehouse(BW).
Once version 7.0 was launched , BI was termed as SAP Netweaver 2004s and associated with the Netweaver components of the SAP Business Suite.
Now,we have come full circle and the name BW returns and Business Warehouse will be name for the data integration across the enterprise.SAP Netweaver prefix will still remain for Enterprise Portal , MDM and Enterprise Search, Mobile etc.
So what will BW now support ? It will cater to traditional Data warehousing,Business intelligence ( read as BO suite), Business planning,Measurement and management (Business-content management, metadata management, and collaborative business intelligence ),Open hub services,Information broadcasting,and Accelerated business intelligence ( BI Accelerator).
So we have all embarked on a new journey where BW and BO co-exist and we need to give clarity to the customers as to which is the right migration path to take, when to migrate , what new features to implement and so on.
