Hello Experts,
We have a requirement to decide the ETL tool among MSBI and SAP BW.
MSBI comes with SQL license which is free.
Would like to understand the below in detail from SAP BW aspect. Can anyone please help:
- What edition of SAP BW 7.3 needs to be purchased. Is it the latest and most stable DWH version?
- Does SAP BW license come with any DB as well? Is it freely available? If so what it is?
- Is it recommended to go for an RDBMS like Oracle/SQL/DB2 or the standalone HANA DB edition? Which is better when we have decided to go for SAP BW 7.3?
- Is the SAP BW 7.3 ALONE enough to extract data from external sources like DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and SAP FI/CO systems? If so is it purely through inbuilt interfaces like DBConnect/UDConnect?
- We are not looking into HANA Enterprise edition which doesn't need BW. Is this statement correct?
- Which is the best recommended DB among Oracle, DB2 and SQL when installing BW? If so any reasons and how to decide pls?
- SAP BW doesn't come with their own database and therefore need another database like Oracle, DB2 etc to be purchased. Is this statement correct as well?
Once I have this info, can update the management and they can take a call. Please provide me this high level Info.