Business Warehouse (BW)

SAP Business Warehouse (BW) is a previous-generation, on-premises data warehousing platform included in NetWeaver. It supports core data warehousing functions such as integration, consolidation, transformation and storage. It includes tools for building data models, extracting and loading data and managing administrative processes. 

It enables organizations to centralize structured data from multiple systems and standardize it for reporting and analysis. Common tasks include scheduling data loads, managing metadata and controlling data flows. Because it often supports recurring reports and dashboards used across finance, operations and leadership teams, SAP BW is often a central source for historical data and key business metrics.

Core capabilities

SAP BW provides core functionality that supports repeatable, time-based data processing across enterprise systems. 

Its key capabilities include:

• Data load management: Handles periodic and event-based extractions from various source systems
• Integration support: Works with external schedulers and workload automation tools via APIs and remote function calls
• Monitoring: Track data loads and flag failed jobs for intervention

Orchestrate SAP BW workflows with RunMyJobs

RunMyJobs supports workload automation for SAP BW by orchestrating InfoPackages, data extraction tasks and process chains from a central platform. It helps manage execution timing, job dependencies and error handling without manual coordination.

With RunMyJobs, you can:

• Define job schedules and dependencies across BW process chains
• Monitor execution status and resolve job errors through alerts or intervention
• Orchestrate the steps involved in data processing (cleansing, aggregation or conversion)
• Orchestrate data loading into InfoObjects, InfoCubes or other BW targets using parallel processing

More About SAP BW and RunMyJobs

Governance and observability for SAP BW workloads

RunMyJobs brings a governance and observability layer to SAP BW operations, giving teams centralized oversight, standardized control mechanisms and end-to-end visibility across all BW-related workloads.

What you gain with RunMyJobs governance and observability:

• Approval workflows that ensure process chains and data loads run only after proper review
• Automated alerts and incident triggers for delays, failures or dependency issues
• Centralized auditability with full job-execution history and trace logs
• Enforced standards such as naming conventions, scheduling rules and runtime guardrails
• Performance, throughput and SLA metrics to support continuous improvement
• Unified, real-time visibility into SAP BW jobs across systems and environments