SAP BW is one of the integrated components of mySAP Business Intelligence (BI), which provides a business-oriented integrated platform for the collection, storage, analysis and management of SAP data and non-SAP data. It can intelligently manage the massive data information of the whole enterprise management information system, dig out the most valuable information from it, provide strong decision support for enterprise managers, make the enterprise respond to the market more sensitively and quickly, and make the whole enterprise more vital and competitive.

The full name of SAP BW is business information warehouse, and it is also called SAP business intelligence after version 3.5.

In the whole architecture of SAP Netweaver, the information integration layer, together with master data management and knowledge management, is the so-called information integration, which is a part of the analysis from the bottom data of the enterprise to the highest performance layer. But it is not completely analysis, because this layer itself also includes three fine levels: data mining, business intelligence platform and business intelligence performance.

An accurate explanation of BW is a key step to make business activities efficient and convenient.