While data, advanced analytics and AI are vital for businesses to thrive, many organizations still wrestle with fragmented data landscapes. What if you could effortlessly blend your trusted SAP data with every other piece of enterprise information? SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP’s all-in-one SaaS data platform, unites data from any source with built-in analytics, planning, data management, and data warehousing.
With SAP BDC now live, we asked SAP expert Stijn Debever to introduce us to the new platform. How can SAP BDC help you simplify your enterprise data strategies – and where do you begin? Here’s what you need to know. If you're completely new to SAP Business Data Cloud, get started by watching our webinar.
Are you using SAP BW, BW/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or Datasphere to manage data and gain business insights? Each SAP analytics solution delivers real value. Yet today’s complexity with AI and fast-moving business demands means you may face one or more of these challenges:
To tackle the above challenges, SAP introduced the all-in-one SAP BDC platform – in close collaboration with data platform provider Databricks. Here’s how you’ll benefit:
Built on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP BDC uses data federation and virtualization to connect live data from any source – from SAP ERP, Arriba, SuccessFactors or Concur through to external data sources. Your SAP data remains in place, without the need for data migration, and you can easily integrate any non-SAP data source, including AI data, too.
Whether your data lives in SAP BW, BW/4HANA, SAC, SAP Datasphere or third-party data lakes like Databricks, SAP BDC creates one consistent view. Everyone works from the same ‘one version of the truth’.
SAP BDC bundles AI, data warehousing, management, security, and governance. In addition, it includes ready-to-use apps (Insights) and business content. A trusted, future-proof data foundation helps accelerate insights without rebuilding your stack.
Whether you’re focused on planning, reporting, or advanced analytics, SAP BDC is sure to meet your evolving needs. Just check these scenarios:
Active in manufacturing and looking to improve demand planning? Combine real-time logistics data from SAP S/4HANA with third-party sales forecasts in Snowflake, and enrich it with historical BW/4HANA data. With BDC, you can do just that, without moving a single byte of data.
Are you a public organization that wants to measure how well you’re delivering citizen services? Unite citizen service metrics from disparate systems into governed, intuitive dashboards for leadership.
SAP Business Data Cloud is a natural next step. It brings your existing technologies together into a single platform, rather than replacing them. So, your existing investments are protected and enhanced.
SAP Business Data Cloud is a natural next step. It brings your existing technologies together into a single platform, rather than replacing them. So, your existing investments are protected and enhanced.
SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA are powerful but not futureproof. SAP BDC ensures the agility, cloud readiness, openness, and seamless AI integration that legacy BW systems can’t match.
Databricks is a third-party data lakehouse solution that enables large-scale analytics and machine learning. It ensures data federation, so that SAP data can be securely used without replication. SAP Databricks is built into SAP Business Data Cloud, so you can open it directly from there. With Databricks tools for data engineering and AI work you can build predictive models, automate processes, and generate real-time insights faster.
You can choose to run SAP Business Data Cloud runs on Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Insight Apps and Business Content are models and dashboards that are pre-built around business use cases to help accelerate time to value. So, you can get started quickly, without building the apps or content from scratch.
The time and cost of implementing SAP BDC depends on your current data set-up and maturity. We're here to help you discover what’s possible and explore the right approach for your company.
SAP Business Data Cloud is a bold step forward in your data & analytics journey. At Flexso, we’re excited to guide you through it. Whether you’re looking to modernize your existing set-up or start fresh with a unified data strategy, our analytics wizards are here to help.
