SAP BW/4HANA (B4H) versions

Last update on 23APR2025

One of flavor of BW 75 is edition for HANA - so called BW4/HANA (B4H) – see more information about it here. In this post, I keep track of versions available for this product. Notice that version that will follow version 2 is not version 3 but it is called SAP BW/4HANA 2021. This is basically to align with the latest SAP S/4 version that is SAP S/4HANA 2020.

 

From the software component DW4CORE below are versions:

SAP BW/4HANA version 4.0 aka SAP BW/4HANA 2023

SAP BW/4HANA version 3.0 aka SAP BW/4HANA 2021

SAP BW/4HANA version 2.0

SAP BW/4HANA version 1.0

 

Detailed versions listing per SPs:

 

SAP BW/4HANA 2023      Gen. Avail.             End of Maint          Rel.Note

SP05 (xx/2025)                 DD.MM.2025                                         

SP04 (02/2025)                 24.02.2025                                           3515771

SP03 (11/2024)                 18.11.2024                                           3381471

SP02 (07/2024)                 08.07.2024                                           3381441

SP01 (02/2024)                 28.02.2024                                           3372694

Initial Shipment Stack         25.10.2023             31.12.2030             3365187

Online docu

 

SAP BW/4HANA 2021      Gen. Avail.             End of Maint          Rel.Note

SP12 (xx/2025)                 DD.MM.2025                                         

SP11 (11/2025)                 31.03.2025                                           3490445

SP10 (10/2024)                 14.10.2024                                           3381405

SP09 (06/2024)                 24.06.2024                                           3381477

SP08 (03/2024)                 11.03.2024                                           3381413

SP07 (12/2023)                 04.12.2023                                           3348460

SP06 (07/2023)                 24.07.2023                                           3303491

SP05 (03/2023)                 20.03.2023                                           3228347

SP04 (12/2022)                 05.12.2022                                           3220868

SP03 (08/2022)                 28.08.2022                                           3145496

SP02 (05/2022)                 12.5.2022                                             3145449

SP01 (02/2022)                 02.03.2022                                           3092812

Initial Shipment Stack         25.10.2021             31.12.2027             3100794

Useful links version 2021:

Online docu 1

Online docu 2

 

Version 2.0            Gen. Avail.             End of Maint                    Rel.Note

SAP BW/4HANA 2.0  25.02.2019             31.12.2025

SPS levels

SP17 (12/2024)                 02.12.2024                                           3381436

SP16 (05/2024)                 13.05.2024                                           3381469

SP15 (04/2023)                 21.04.2023                                           3326333

SP14 (03/2023)                 24.03.2023                                           3221043

SP13 (11/2022)                 28.11.2022                                           3215451

SP12 (07/2022)                 25.07.2022                                           3141437

SP11 (03/2022)                 21.03.2022                                           3105028

SP10 (12/2021)                 07.12.2021                                           3071065

SP09 (08/2021)                 02.08.2021                                           3032263

SP08 (04/2021)                 06.04.2021                                           2989901

SP07 (12/2020)                 07.12.2020                                           2942766

SP06 (08/2020)                 04.08.2020                                           2908965

SP05 (05/2020)                 04.05.2020                                           2887979

SP04 (03/2020)                 02.03.2020                                           2849318

SP03 (11/2019)                 11.11.2019                                           2813668

SP02 (08/2019)                 12.08.2019                                           2775326

SP01 (05/2019)                 06.05.2019                                           2738784

Initial Shipment Stack                                                                     2733740

Useful links version 2:

#BW4HANA 2.0 Has Been Released

Improvements of bw4hana analytical engine bw4hana-2.0

 

Version 1.0            Gen. Avail.             End of Maint                    Rel.Note

SAP BW/4HANA 1.0  07.09.2016             31.12.2021 - Reached End of Mainstream Maintenance.

 

SPS levels

21                          MM.DD.YYYY                                                    3077773 – not released

20                          12.10.2021                                                     3043673

19                          03.05.2021                                                     2981252

18                          16.11.2020                                                     2937095

17                          13.07.2020                                                     2891199

16                          16.03.2020                                                     2861081

15                          16.12.2019                                                     2833752

14                          23.09.2019                                                     2797027

13                          24.06.2019                                                     2756841

12                          25.03.2019                                                     2687111

11                          17.12.2018                                                     2646765

10                          25.9.2018                                                       2613215

09                          26.6.2018                                                       2561976

08                          26.3.2018                                                       2526413

07                          11.12.2017                                                     2526413

06                          26.09.2017                                                     2491835

05                          17.07.2017                                                     2458236

04                          15.05.2017                                                     2429588

03                          20.03.2017                                                     2407087

02                          30.01.2017                                                     2379490

01                          10.11.2016                                                     2364946

Initial Shipment Stack 07.09.2016                                                   2347382

Useful links version 1:

2347382 - SAP BW/4HANA – General Information (Installation, SAP HANA, …)

2189708 - SAP BW/4HANA Add-On Handling and Usage

2404122 - Check for BW Upgrade to BW4HANA

2347384 - SAP BW/4HANA 1.0 Important Notes before you start

 

More information:

Support Portal (Marketplace) component: BW-B4H

Software Components:

BW4HANA - SAP BW/4HANA

DW4CORE - SAP BW/4HANA Core

BW4CONT - SAP BW/4HANA Content

BW4CONTB - SAP BW/4HANA Extended Content

What is embedded BW?

There is an embedded version of BW available as of NetWeaver 7.0. This means for any SAP NetWeaver based system like ECC 6.0, CRM 7.0, SCM, Solution Manager including SAP Business Suite and S4/HANA there is a BW available inside.

Primarily the  embedded BW shall be used within scenarios that are implemented in host system (ECC, CRM etc.) like embedded reporting scenarios (by leveraging BW's Analytic Manager (OLAP engine)) or embedded planning processes (leveraging BW's planning engine) however it is still full blown BW system. As per SAP they do not advise to use it as enterprise data warehouse.

Below are restrictions that are given by SAP while using the embedded BW:

1. Amount of data - shall not exceed 20% of total data volume in the system. If this happens there is probably a negative impact on core system functions.

2. Licenses – you may require license to run embedded BW in your NetWeaver system.

3. Security - it uses different authorization concept (BW one over classic concept used in ECC)

How to enable the embedded BW? Couple of activities shall be done in order to make the embedded BW work. This includes:

Assign Logical System Client – table RSADMINA

Set BW Namespaces to Modifiable - /BI0/* and /BIC/*

Activation of technical content

Switch On Business Function

See part 2 of Embedded BW blog here.

More information:

Embedded BW

Embedded Business Warehouse - presentation

SAP S/4HANA Analytics & SAP BW Data Integration

Embedded BW is the new reality

A Guide for Using Embedded BW on SAP HANA If You Get Most of Your Data from ECC

SAP BPC 10.1 Embedded in BW on HANA

1972819 - Setup SAP BPC optimized for S/4 HANA Finance and Embedded BW Reporting (aka Integrated Business Planning for Finance)

1919631 - Activating the BPC embedded

SAP S/4HANA editions / versions

In this post I try to summarize all versions of S4/HANA that are (or were) available per editions.

Last update:             14 Jan 2022

SAP S/4HANA On-Premises edition: <ReleaseNo>    <RelDate>    <Rel.Note>

SAP S/4HANA 2022                                          N/A yet                   N/A yet

SAP S/4HANA 2021                                           Oct 13, 2021            3015539

SAP S/4HANA 2020                                           Oct 07, 2020            2912253

SAP S/4HANA 1909                                           Sep 20, 2019           2769531

SAP S/4HANA 1809                                          Sep 21, 2018           2659828

SAP S/4HANA 1709                                           Sep 15, 2017           2482453

SAP S/4HANA 1610                                           Oct 15, 2016            2346431

SAP S/4HANA 1511 FPS02                                 Nov 15, 2015           2214213

SAP S/4HANA 1511 FPS01                                 Nov 15, 2015           2214213

SAP S/4HANA 1511                                          Nov 15, 2015           2214213

SAP S/4HANA Finance 1503                               Mar 15, 2015           N/A

 

SAP S/4HANA Cloud edition: <Release No>    <Rel. Date>            <Rel. Note>

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2111                                 Oct 27, 2021            3080975         

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2008                                 Jul 29, 2020            2930447

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2005                                 April 29, 2020          2901936

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1911                                 Nov 14, 2019           2836854

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1908                                 Aug 05, 2019           2799915

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1905                                 May 06, 2019           2763907

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1808                                 Aug 13 , 2018           2647965

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1708                                 Aug 11, 2017           2500088

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1611                                 Nov 21, 2016           2388205

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1608                                 Aug 12, 2016           2355076

SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1605                                 May 20, 2016           2314618

 

Legend:

FP = Feature Package Stack

Rel. Note = points to SAP Note; a type of Release Information Note (RIN)

 

More information:

What is SAP S/4HANA

Which SAP S/4HANA

Which SAP S/4HANA version are you thinking about?