What is SAP Business Data Cloud?
SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that unifies and governs SAP data and connects with third-party data. As an evolution of the company's data, planning, and analytics solutions, SAP Business Data Cloud brings together SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse with a unified experience that delivers insights across all lines of business.
Through a partnership, Databricks capabilities are available directly in SAP Business Data Cloud. SAP Business Data Cloud connects data by leveraging business data fabric principles, making it easier to discover, share, govern, and model this data. It includes SAP Databricks as a first-party data service.
The platform combines prebuilt applications and data products across all lines of business. It provides fully managed, curated data products across all lines of business and eliminate the costs of data extracts. Users can build on SAP’s curated data products with their domain expertise, and deliver Insight Apps through the Business Data Cloud ecosystem.
It offers:
- Business semantics: SAP Datasphere is available to discover, share, and model data across existing platforms without data extraction. It is used to build a knowledge graph, preserving business metadata and semantics, so data is easily searchable and actionable.
- Data engineering and machine learning/AI: SAP Databricks empowers data professionals to accelerate AI models and generative AI apps on their business data. Native capabilities like Delta Sharing harmonize SAP data products with existing lakehouses bi-directionally.
- SAP Business Warehouse modernization: SAP Business Data Cloud gives on-premise SAP Business Warehouse customers a flexible path to the cloud. With native integration to SAP Business Warehouse, it accesses data as a data product with the object store via Delta Share.
- Analytics and planning: SAP Business Data Cloud brings analytics and planning together, and it can automate reporting, simulate possible business outcomes with AI, and unify financial, supply chain, and operational planning.
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Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Mobile Application | No |
FAQs
What is SAP Business Data Cloud?
SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data and seamlessly connects with third-party data—giving line-of-business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions.