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smith21r
Advocate I
9 years ago

Is anyone using the SAP BW Connector with reasonable response times?

Hello, I've been using Power BI for some time against a variety of data sources.  However, I pretty much can't use the SAP BW Connector against our BW instance because it is so slow.  I don't get tim...
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deldersveld
Resident Rockstar
9 years ago

It's been very frustrating as queries that can run in seconds in BEx take ten to fifteen minutes in Power BI. This is not even initially connecting to the InfoProviders--this is a simple refresh or copy/paste the MDX into Advanced Editor. It could be BAPI and not hte PBI connector though. I have not attempted to connect to BW yet using an alternate tool like Tableau for comparison, but I am at the stage in a project where I also would like to know more about performance as there is a lot of overhead when you first start querying against BW.

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    smith21r
    Advocate I
    9 years ago

    Thanks for the comment.  Our BEx queries run great as well.  From my experience, Tableau runs against BW just as slow as Power BI.

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      deldersveld
      Resident Rockstar
      9 years ago

      Thanks. That saves some time. It would seem then that it's simply an issue with SAP's API in general. Appreciate the reply.