Difference Between SAP BW and SAP BI

Hi Guys,

I am mentioning some points regarding SAP BW and SAP BI difference which is the new version.

• Real Time Data Acquisition (RDA) is a very new concept in SAP BI, used to support the Tactical Decision Making very helpful for Business Decisions ie. allows u to extract the data with a minimum of every 1 minute which was not there in SAP BW.
• ODS objects of SAP BW have been renamed as DataStore Objects in SAP BI. A DataStore object now serves as a place or storage location for consolidated and cleansed transaction data or master data.
• Administrator Workbench of SAP BW 3.5 is renamed as Data Warehousing Workbench in SAP BI 70.In addition the transaction remains the same i.e RSA1 in both the version but if we require accessing the old RSA1 of SAP BW 3. 5 then we can access the same using RSA1OLD transaction code.
• There is a SAP BIg problem earlier that we cannot include infocubes in SAP BW.Now this is cured or removed and we can include infocubes in infosets.
• The transformation in SAP BI replaces the transfer and update rules of SAP SAP BW.
• There are functional changes to the Persistent Staging Area (PSA) in SAP BI.
• Searching feature in SAP BI is widely changed and we can search almost all the Objects as compared to SAP BW.
• New authorization objects are added and User Management has become easy in SAP BI as compared SAP BW.
• In Bex Analyzer Design tool bar and Analysis tool Bar has been added in SAP BI.
• Loading of Data is through PSA or Persistent Storage Area only in SAP BI and not like SAP BW.
• Above all what i have noticed or learnt is SAP BI is complete Business Solution whereas BW was more like Data Warehouse only.

 Hope you guys liked it.