SAP BW Migration

Automate Your SAP BW Migration

Reduce the migration scope by identifying inactive and unused logic. Translate your codebase and optimise your pipelines to be cloud-friendly. Plan your migration in one click and organise your team.

Migrate to Any Modern Platform

Databricks
Databricks
Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric
Snowflake
Snowflake
Redshift
Redshift
BigQuery
BigQuery
SAP BDC / BW
SAP BDC / BW
SAP Datasphere
SAP Datasphere
0+
Metadata tables extracted
up to 0%
Faster delivery
up to 0%
Scope reduced
No
Production data required
Weeks
First migrated use case

DataSentics Trusted by Data Teams At

Asahi
Erste
Nestlé
Bayer
Red Bull

What is BW Migrator and Its Benefits

BW Migrator is a metadata-driven accelerator that automates SAP BW migration, bringing dependency analysis, scoping, Agentic code conversion, and project management under one roof. It works without touching production data and delivers 50% faster, lower-risk migrations to any modern data platform.

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BW Migrator extracts metadata and analyses what's actually used. The full 100% scope is still on the table.

To assess 100%

From kickoff to go-live in six clear phases

Every engagement follows the same proven path; only who runs each step changes based on the engagement model you pick.

01

Discovery & Scope

02

Metadata Extraction

03

Dependency & Scope Analysis

04

Automated Migration Planning and Reporting

05

Conversion & Optimization

06

Queries & Reconciliation

Concrete artefacts your team can act on

You receive a complete migration package, not just a tool license. Every deliverable is owned by your team after the engagement.

1

Assessment Phase

Full Dependency Map

Every BW object, transformation, and routine, visualised with direct and indirect dependencies across the full landscape.

Object Usability

Automated analysis of which objects are actively used, which are dormant, and which can be safely archived, reducing scope before a single line is migrated.

Migration Plan

Migration Units with assigned owners, complexity scores, dependencies, and a parallel execution schedule generated in a single click.

2

Migration Phase

Converted Codebase

ABAP routines and BW transformations translated to SQL or PySpark, verified by multi-agent reconciliation before delivery.

Validated Pipelines

Initial reconciliation runs without production data: every converted script proven runnable on the target platform before go-live.

Orchestration Overview

End-to-end view of process chains, dependencies, and scheduling, ready for re-implementation in the target orchestrator.

Query Components

BW Query structures, filters, variables, and calculations decomposed into target-ready components (TMDL, DAX, tables, hierarchies) so dashboards can be rebuilt fast.

Documentation & Handover

Architecture documentation, transformation logic, and a structured knowledge transfer so your team owns the new platform from day one.

Easy Deployment

BW Migrator lets users extract the translated scripts and deploy them directly to the target technology: no manual copy-paste, no fragile handoffs.

Two ways to deploy BW Migrator

Whether you prefer a fully managed service or deployment inside your own cloud account, we have you covered.

Zero infrastructure setup

Managed by DataSentics

  • BW Migrator hosted and operated by DataSentics
  • Always up-to-date with the latest features
  • Fastest path to start: no IT involvement needed
Security

Security & Data Residency

  • Only metadata is processed: production data never leaves your system
  • ABAP extraction scripts run inside your BW environment under your control
  • Encryption in transit and at rest, end-to-end audit logs
  • Compatible with your existing SSO and identity provider

What becomes possible after the migration

Two real customer cases delivered by DataSentics, built on the same modern data platforms you migrate to with BW Migrator.

Pharma & Healthcare

Large Scale Demand Forecasting

Predicting demand for 1500+ products for a multi-national pharmaceutical company.

Challenge

  • Previous solution was not maintainable or improvable
  • Only local models were used, without tested potential of global models
  • No features apart from sales data were used
  • Low adoption of ML approaches due to technical complexity and low trust

Solution

  • A challenger solution, written in a modular way and enabling addition of new features, global models, and overall faster iterations
  • Focus on evaluation of the results, along with introducing new metrics

Benefits

4.1 ppwMAPE improvement → projected 110 M EUR revenue increase
5 %inventory reduction thanks to lower safety stock
6 %more products added to forecasting scope
Stack·SAP·AWS·Databricks·MLflow
Rubber Manufacturer

Predictive Quality

Early detection of defective rubber batches from IoT & raw material data for a global rubber manufacturer.

Challenge

  • Variations in raw material qualities lead to defective rubber batches
  • Each batch is sampled and tested after the initial production stages
  • Laboratory testing takes up to 7 hours
  • Intermediate product is stored at the shop floor while waiting

Solution

  • ML-based Quality Prediction Engine in Databricks combines raw material data from SAP with near real-time IoT data from the production line
  • Predictions delivered in seconds instead of hours
  • Batches with high-certainty predictions skip the intermediate storage step
  • Decreased WIP storage space; root-cause analysis & yield optimisation as next steps

Benefits

Secondsprediction time vs. up to 7 hours of lab testing
↓ WIPdrastically reduced intermediate storage footprint
Real-timeIoT + raw material fusion for proactive quality
Stack·SAP·Databricks

Choose Your Engagement Model

Flexible engagement models based on your delivery ownership

End-to-End Delivery

  • Migration delivered by DataSentics using BW Migrator
  • Full ownership of design, translation, and deployment
  • Minimal involvement required from your team
  • Fastest and lowest-risk path to production

Same accelerator. Different level of ownership.

FAQ

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Jiri Koutny

Jiri Koutny

Head of SAP BW Migrations

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