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The same NextTables, in SAP BW or on your cloud platform

One runs inside your SAP Business Warehouse (BW) as an add-on, the other as a service on your enterprise data platform. The maintenance capability is the same. Where it runs, who signs in, and how each platform keeps changes validated, authorized and auditable is what differs.

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Which one fits the system you run today?

Your system of record is SAP BW

NextTables for SAP BW

Runs as an add-on inside your SAP BW system, with your SAP users, your analysis authorizations and your transports. Your data stays where it is, on the one platform you run today.

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Your data lives on a cloud platform

NextTables Cloud

Runs as a service and writes directly to your enterprise data platform. Enterprise SSO, licensing per seat and per table, and the option to validate in one platform and write to another.

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What is the same, and what is solved differently

The grid, validation, import, and embedding are the same on both sides. Where the rows differ, each edition does the job the way its platform expects.

Editions
SAP BW
NextTables for SAP BW, an add-on inside your SAP BW system
Cloud
NextTables Cloud, a service on your data platform
Where it runs
Runs
Inside your SAP BW system, as an add-on
As a service, on your enterprise data platform
Your business data stays in
Your SAP BW system
Your data platform
Who signs in
Your existing SAP users
Enterprise SSO, including Microsoft and Google
Licensing
One license per productive system, unlimited users
Per seat and per table
Maintaining data
Familiar spreadsheet-style grid
Add, edit and delete rows
Import from Excel or CSV
Export to Excel or CSV
Search help from master data
Single-record entry form
standalone or embedded
Flexible forms
Drag-and-drop form builder, with validation rules and low-code logic
Embed in a BI dashboard
URL parameters
URL parameters
Embedded mode, the table without the app shell
Maintain across two platforms
single system, by design
validate in one, write to another
Governance
Validation at entry
vs SAP BW master data
vs platform master data
Custom validation rules
Standard SAP BAdIs Enterprise
Validation rules in the form builder; pro-code validation Coming Soon
Shape the read, the write and the metadata
Standard SAP BAdIs, up to a fully virtual table Enterprise
Configuration and platform-native logic
Row-level security
Your SAP analysis authorizations
Row-level security Enterprise
Change log
The ADSO change log, or locked last-changed fields
Audit log Enterprise Coming Soon
Lifecycle
Getting changes to production
Your SAP transports
Promotion transport, our own mechanism Coming Soon
Trigger events
SAP BW process chains Enterprise
Task chains and integration suites such as n8n Coming Soon

Start where your data is, and move when your platform does

If your system of record is SAP BW today, NextTables runs inside it. When you modernize onto SAP Business Data Cloud, the cloud edition is already there, and the way your teams maintain data comes with them. Both editions get new releases; the SAP BW release notes are one click away.

 

NextTables running inside SAP BW

Not sure which one fits?

Tell us what your system of record looks like and we will show you the edition that suits it.