SAP has included a new user interface for faster application development and enhanced data flow modeling, among other things. SAP Takes BW/4HANA to the Cloud But that's only half of the story.

The SAP BW Connection In SAC. The SAP BW connection, though named similarly to BW/4HANA, is actually an embedded integration option within SAC that facilitates direct data replication from SAP S ...

“This offers a way to do away with BW altogether. It extracts data from SAP ECC [ERP Central Component] from a comprehensive array of modules, and it comes with the ELT scripts, the data model ...

With SAP EP as its presentation layer, SAP BW provided a uniform, single-window access to SAP and non-SAP reporting. SAP BW had an authorization model to ensure security of data.