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Your complexity tier rating — Foundational, Intermediate, or Enterprise-Complex
Top migration risk factors specific to your environment
Indicative timeline range for your programme
A clear recommended next step based on your situation
Forge — SAP BW Decommission Accelerator

Replace SAP BW with Snowflake.
30–50% Faster. Lower Risk.

SAP BW reaches end-of-mainstream maintenance in 2027. Every organisation running BW as its primary analytics layer faces the same decision — and the differences in cost, risk, and long-term capability are significant. Forge is Jarvis's structured migration accelerator that makes Snowflake the fastest, lowest-risk path.

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Forge Programme Overview
40–60%
TCO Reduction over five years vs SAP analytics stack
30–50%
Timeline Saving vs bespoke migration build
12–16 wks
Typical Go-live from assessment completion
First workload in Snowflake production within 12–16 weeks of assessment completion
2027
SAP BW mainstream maintenance end date
60%+
Of SAP ECC customers still running legacy BW today
40–50%
Timeline reduction possible with the right accelerator
The Decision Every SAP BW Customer Faces

Three Options. One Deadline.
The Differences Are Significant.

With SAP BW end-of-mainstream maintenance arriving in 2027, every organisation running BW as its primary analytics layer faces the same choice. In our experience, it comes down to three credible paths — and the cost, risk, and long-term capability differences are material.

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Higher Cost Path

Upgrade to SAP BW/4HANA or Datasphere

SAP's preferred route. Partially re-uses existing BW objects but requires new investment in SAP HANA infrastructure or SAP BTP licensing. Does not eliminate SAP dependency — it deepens it.

  • BW/4HANA requires significant HANA infrastructure investment
  • Datasphere creates ongoing SAP BTP licensing dependency
  • Complex custom ABAP logic must still be addressed
  • AI and real-time analytics remain structurally limited
  • Five-year TCO consistently 40–60% higher than Snowflake
Suits: organisations with strategic commitment to the full SAP ecosystem
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Deferred Risk

Extend Maintenance and Defer

Purchase SAP Extended Maintenance beyond 2027. Buys time but worsens the underlying problem every year it is deferred.

  • Extended maintenance premium: 20–30% above current rates
  • SAP's commitment to extended timelines has historically changed
  • No new features, no AI capability, no cloud-native integration
  • ABAP developer pool continues to shrink each year of delay
  • Board and audit scrutiny of unsupported enterprise software increasing
Suits: organisations that cannot resource migration now and have a concrete plan for when they will. Not a permanent strategy.
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Recommended Path

Migrate to Snowflake with Forge

Decommission SAP BW entirely and replace with a modern, cloud-native analytics platform built on Snowflake. Severs the SAP licensing dependency completely. Full platform independence.

  • 40–60% TCO reduction over five years — consistently achieved
  • Query performance: workloads that take minutes in BW run in seconds
  • Native AI, ML, and real-time analytics — not add-ons
  • Snowpipe enables near-real-time ingestion from any source system
  • Eliminates ABAP specialist dependency post-migration
Forge makes this path 30–50% faster and materially lower-risk than a bespoke build.
Why Forge Makes Snowflake the Right Path Now

The Barriers to BW Migration Have Been Solved.
Forge Removes Them.

Migrating from SAP BW to Snowflake has historically been perceived as high-risk — undocumented ABAP logic, hundreds of BEx queries, and the challenge of validating Snowflake output matches BW to the CFO's satisfaction. Forge removes those barriers.

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Discovery & Landscape Assessment

Automated BW object inventory identifying active, redundant, and obsolete InfoProviders, DSOs, and InfoCubes. Usage analysis, data volume profiling, and complexity scoring. Output: a migration roadmap with phased sequencing and risk-adjusted timeline.

Migration roadmap · 2 weeks · Fixed fee
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Migration Design

Snowflake data model design mapping InfoCube and BEx Query logic to native Snowflake equivalents. ABAP-to-SQL conversion for custom transformation logic. ETL re-platforming from BW process chains to Snowflake native pipelines.

Pre-built templates for Finance, Sales & Supply Chain
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Data Migration & Validation

Historical data migration with full reconciliation. Automated validation framework comparing BW report outputs against Snowflake equivalents at row and aggregate level. Parallel run period with side-by-side sign-off for finance and audit teams.

Automated reconciliation · CFO sign-off evidence
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BI Layer Migration & Go-Live

Migration of SAP BusinessObjects or Lumira reporting to Power BI or Tableau. Business user training and change management. Post-go-live support and Snowflake platform handover. Managed service options available.

BAU reporting live throughout · No big-bang cutover
The Snowflake Advantage

Why Not SAP Datasphere or BW/4HANA

Six structural reasons Snowflake wins — on cost, performance, capability and talent. Not marketing claims. Real numbers, real architecture differences.

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Cost

Snowflake separates storage and compute — pay only for what you use. No HANA infrastructure, no BTP fees, no SAP per-user licensing on the analytics layer. 40–60% TCO reduction over five years, on real numbers.

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Performance

Multi-cluster shared data architecture delivers query performance BW cannot match. Workloads that take minutes in BW run in seconds on Snowflake — without tuning or index maintenance.

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AI & Analytics

Snowpark allows Python, Java, and Scala to run directly inside the platform — next to the data. ML, forecasting, and AI-driven analytics are native. BW has no equivalent path to this capability.

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Real-Time Data

Snowpipe enables event-driven, near-real-time data ingestion from any source. BW's batch-oriented architecture is structurally unsuited to real-time use cases — it cannot be refactored to compete.

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Data Sharing

Native data sharing allows governed, zero-copy data access across business units, partners, and regulators — without creating data copies. BW has no equivalent. This alone opens new commercial and compliance capabilities.

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Talent

SQL-proficient data engineers can work directly with Snowflake. The dependency on scarce, expensive ABAP specialists is eliminated post-migration. Forge handles the ABAP complexity during migration so you don't have to.

Your Report

What You Receive After
Completing the Assessment

A Jarvis SAP specialist reviews your responses and prepares a personalised migration complexity report — delivered within one business day.

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Complexity Tier Rating

Your environment categorised as Foundational, Intermediate, or Enterprise-Complex — with realistic timeline and resourcing implications for each tier.

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Top Migration Risk Factors

The specific risks most likely to affect your programme — semantic model exposure, reconciliation requirements, talent gaps, or process chain volume.

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Indicative Timeline Range

A realistic delivery window for your complexity tier — so your business case has credible numbers from the outset, not industry averages that don't reflect your environment.

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Recommended Next Step

Whether that's a technical discovery workshop, a proof-of-concept, or a phased roadmap session — a clear recommendation based on your actual situation.

Step 1 of 2 — Quick Qualifier

Two Questions to Get You Started

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What best describes your relationship with SAP BW at your organisation?
Why we ask: This helps us tailor the depth and focus of your assessment report.
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How urgently is your organisation thinking about the SAP BW migration?
Why we ask: This tells us how to prioritise your report and what kind of next step to recommend.
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Answer 8 questions about your SAP BW environment. A Jarvis SAP specialist will review your responses and prepare your personalised complexity report within one business day.

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Section 1 — Your BW Environment
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Is SAP BW currently your primary analytics platform?
Why we ask: This tells us whether BW decommission is mission-critical or a peripheral activity.
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Which BW landscape are you running?
Why we ask: Your source landscape determines which extraction routes and transformation approaches apply.
Q3 OF 8
How many custom InfoProviders, DSOs, or InfoObjects do you estimate your BW environment contains?
Why we ask: Object volume is one of the strongest predictors of migration timeline and cost.
Section 2 — Timeline & Decision Readiness
Q4 OF 8
Has your organisation started planning for the SAP BW maintenance end date in December 2027?
Why we ask: This tells us how urgently you need to move and what kind of support you need first.
Q5 OF 8
What is your target go-live date for migrating off SAP BW?
Why we ask: Timeline pressure determines whether an accelerated delivery model is appropriate.
Section 3 — Complexity Indicators
Q6 OF 8
Does your BW environment include finance or regulatory reporting that requires reconciliation sign-off?
Why we ask: Finance-grade migrations require a validated reconciliation framework — this significantly affects delivery approach.
Q7 OF 8
How would you describe your current team's SAP BW expertise?
Why we ask: Talent availability is one of the most common causes of BW migration delays.
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What is your primary objective for this migration?
Why we ask: Your primary driver shapes the capabilities and delivery approach we'll recommend.

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What happens after you submit
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A Jarvis SAP specialist reviews your responses within one business day
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You receive a personalised complexity tier rating — Foundational, Intermediate, or Enterprise-Complex
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Top migration risk factors specific to your BW environment
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Indicative timeline range with credible numbers for your business case
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A clear recommended next step based on your actual situation — not a generic pitch
SAP BW End of Mainstream Maintenance
2027
Planning, procurement, migration, and validation take time. The enterprises that transition smoothly are making decisions now.

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