Modernise your legacy SAP BW system with SAP Business Data Cloud
Protect your SAP BW investments and modernise gradually towards an SAP-managed environment with a clean core lifting SAP BW to the private cloud, converting to SAP BW/4HANA, and exposing BW data as governed data products.
High Insights helps enterprises move beyond aging SAP BW systems toward a unified, real-time, AI-ready data foundation reducing total cost of ownership while preserving the reporting and planning capabilities your business depends on.
Why modernise SAP BW with SAP Business Data Cloud?
Modernise SAP BW while preserving investments and unlocking AI-ready business data.
SAP Business Data Cloud provides a natural modernisation path for SAP BW customers. Transform decades of SAP BW objects into semantically rich data products anchored in a business data fabric the trusted foundation for analytics, planning, and AI across every enterprise application and agent.
Safeguard existing SAP BW investments
Reuse trusted SAP BW models, business logic, and metadata while extending the lifecycle of your existing SAP BW landscape.
Transform BW into governed data products
Convert existing SAP BW objects into semantically rich, governed data products that can be consumed across SAP Business Data Cloud.
Modernise at your own pace
Transition incrementally without rebuilding your entire data warehouse, reducing project risk and business disruption.
AI-ready business context
Provide trusted business semantics that power SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Databricks, Joule, and AI-driven business applications.
Unified business data fabric
Integrate SAP and non-SAP data while preserving business context and enabling governed data sharing across the enterprise.
Open data ecosystem
Connect with SAP Databricks, Snowflake, and third-party platforms through bi-directional sharing with governed access and minimal replication.
Accelerate innovation
Leverage modern analytics, machine learning, and intelligent applications without abandoning decades of SAP BW investment.
Connect all your data
Unify SAP and third-party data across an open ecosystem with native services including SAP Datasphere, SAP Databricks/Snowflake, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP BW.
Your modernisation journey: Lift, Shift, Innovate
Protect your SAP BW investments and modernise incrementally from lifting BW to the private cloud, to shifting BW data into governed data products, to innovating with intelligent applications on a lakehouse architecture.
Lift
SAP BW, private cloud edition
- Benefit from SAP managed data products and intelligent applications.
- Leverage BW data as a data product by lifting SAP BW to the private cloud.
- Take advantage of an SAP managed environment, removing hardware maintenance and lowering TCO.
Shift
SAP BW data products
- Implement new use cases using SAP BW data products with direct access to SAP Datasphere object store.
- Create ML and AI use cases from SAP BW data products in SAP Databricks/Snowflake.
- Manage your SAP BW data products to match data transformation and modelling requirements.
Innovate
Data products & intelligent applications
- Benefit from standardized public cloud releases, enabling an SAP ERP clean core strategy.
- Replace SAP BW workflows with SAP managed data products and intelligent applications, adopting a lakehouse architecture.
- Benefit from the open partner ecosystem for future innovations.
Path options for SAP Business Warehouse NetWeaver
There is no one-size-fits-all migration. High Insights assesses your SAP BW NetWeaver landscape and recommends the approach that best balances cost, risk, and long-term value.
Lift to SAP BW, private cloud edition for SAP NetWeaver
Keep your SAP BW NetWeaver deployment as is, leverage SAP BDC innovations and data products directly, and move to SAP Datasphere. Maintenance support until the end of 2030.
Convert to SAP BW/4HANA, private cloud edition
Optionally convert and lift to SAP BW/4HANA for simpler modelling and enhanced DTO as a single step or at any point in your cloud migration. Maintenance support beyond 2030.
Transition to SAP BW, private cloud edition
Lift your existing SAP BW system to the private cloud, expose SAP BW data as data products, and gradually enable new use cases in SAP Datasphere and SAP Databricks/Snowflake.
Architecture - SAP Business Data Cloud
A unified, governed architecture that connects your SAP and non-SAP sources, turns SAP BW data into managed data products, and serves analytics, planning, consolidation, and AI from a single trusted foundation.
- Corporate Data Assets
- Legacy Data Flows
- Data Product Generator
- Entitlement Management
- Data Product Installation
- Security and Governance
- Data Models
- Data Products
- Data Integrations
- Zero Copy
- Bi-directional Sharing
- Custom AI/ML
Outcomes of
Modernisation
A modernised SAP data platform delivers gains across performance, cost, and agility freeing your teams to focus on insight rather than maintenance.
Why Choose High Insights
Modernising a data warehouse is as much about strategy as technology. High Insights brings the SAP depth, methodology, and business focus to make your migration a success.
SAP Certified Data & Analytics Expertise
Deep, hands-on experience across SAP BW, BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, SAP Databricks, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Business Data Cloud — end to end.
Risk Managed Migration Methodology
A proven, phased approach with clear checkpoints, data reconciliation, and rollback safeguards keeps your modernisation predictable and low-risk.
Data Product Engineering
We turn BW objects into governed, reusable data products with the SAP Data Product Generator ready for analytics, planning, and AI consumption.
Business Outcome Focused
We modernise for value, aligning every migration decision to reporting, planning, and finance transformation goals — not just technical uplift.
Accelerators & Best Practices
Reusable assessment tools, code-remediation accelerators, and templates shorten timelines and reduce cost versus a build-from-scratch effort.
Future Proof, AI Ready Foundation
Your modernised estate is built for real-time analytics and AI on trusted SAP BW data, ready for the next wave of intelligent applications and Joule.
Our Modernisation Approach
A delivery model mapped to your Lift → Shift → Innovate journey, so every phase moves your SAP BW landscape closer to SAP Business Data Cloud.
Assess & Discover
Analyse the current SAP BW landscape, custom objects, and usage to define scope.
Define the Target
Recommend the right path lift to SAP BW private cloud edition or convert to BW/4HANA.
Lift & Validate
Execute the lift or conversion with rigorous data reconciliation and testing.
Cleanse & Simplify
Remove unused objects and redundant code to reduce footprint and effort.
Publish Data Products
Generate governed SAP BW data products into SAP Datasphere with the Data Product Generator.
Extend to Databricks/Snowflake
Make BW data products available for ML and AI use cases in SAP Databricks.
Light Up Applications
Enable SAP Analytics Cloud, HICONSOL, and intelligent apps on trusted data products.
AI/ML & Lakehouse
Stand up AI and ML use cases on proven SAP BW data with a lakehouse architecture.
Govern & Sustain
Establish a clean core, governance, and user enablement for the long term.
Ready to Modernise Your SAP BW Landscape?
Talk to High Insights about a modernisation assessment and a clear roadmap to SAP BW, private cloud edition, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP Business Data Cloud.
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