Does SAP recommend to upgrade an existing BW installation to SAP NetWeaver 7.0?
• SAP definitely recommends to upgrade your existing BW 3.x systems to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0. • Although the SAP BusinesObjects BI tools and platform can run in conjunction with SAP NetWeaver ’04 BW (SAP BW 3.5), SAP NetWeaver 7.0 BW provides significant advantages in particular in the area of the BIWserver. • With this release, you can take advantage of the significant performance benefits and minimized maintenance of SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. • The new security approach for analysis authorizations guarantees easy and transparent definition of multidimensional access rights. • Important options also complement the data warehousing layer, including write-optimized DataStore object for very fast staging layer, new transformation concept and data flow design (DTP). • Real-time BI is facilitated by new methods to continuously request data from SAP sources and web service data (real-time data acquisition). • In the information lifecycle management, SAP NetWeaver 7.0 offers interfaces to
