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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.

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Data harmonization with SAP Business Data Cloud

Incentivized
Sunita PateerView profile
Business Analyst Global in Information Technology at Abc (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using SAP Business Data Cloud for financial planning and seamless planning for our financials.

Pros

  • Data harmonization
  • Data analysis
  • Financial charts

Cons

  • More options for charts
  • hierarchy management
  • data analysis

Return on Investment

  • More visibility at C level
  • more accountability
  • Less difficult to follow

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

A game changer data warehousing

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Data integration between non SAP products

Pros

  • Integration
  • Data management
  • Pipelines

Cons

  • Network options
  • IAM integration

Return on Investment

  • Better TTM for reporting needs

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Data Factory

Other Software Used

SAP Datasphere, Azure Databricks

SAP Business Data Cloud with positives and negatives

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Business Data Cloud component SAP DataSphere is used as a data warehouse, collecting and harmonising the data into final product consumed by business users. This serves as a cleansing, harmonisation, information management solution.

Pros

  • Data Replication from SAP Source systems
  • Easy modeling into views and models for consumption in SAP Analytics

Cons

  • There are certain stability issues, when the BDC is being used for daily solution - in case of downtimes, many issues may be a reason

Usability

SAP Business Data Cloud

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SAP Analytics Cloud for monthly financial planning and reporting in addition with a SAP BW/4 system which is connected via live connection. Currently our BW/4 system is still on premise, but we check if an integration in the SAP Business Data Cloud makes sense. SAC as part of the SAP Business Data Cloud universe provides respective functionality to collect the respective plan data via direct input layouts as well as Excel-based input or upload functionality, which is required by our businesses. In addition we use the validations and data action functionality to ensure data quality and perform additional calculations.

Pros

  • Very flexible - good tradeoff between standard functionality and enhancement possibility via scripting
  • good integration with other SAP products
  • especially strong in planning functionality compared to others

Cons

  • not always intuitive where functions are hidden in cascaded submenues
  • Performance and stability is not always given especially compared to other more usecase-specialized products

Return on Investment

  • Increased digitalization within the company especially helped to extend self-service

Usability