SAP Business Data Cloud
One Cloud. Trusted Data. Smarter Decisions.
SAP Business Data Cloud brings all your data together—securely and seamlessly. Say goodbye to data silos and hello to reliable insights that power confident business decisions and bold innovation.
What is SAP Business Data Cloud?
SAP Business Data Cloud is a unified Software-as-a-Service solution that helps organizations connect, integrate, and manage all of their data across their entire ecosystem. It breaks down data silos by enabling seamless collaboration between departments, systems, and even external partners. Built on a foundation of trust and governance, it ensures that your data is accurate, consistent, and secure. With native integration to SAP and non-SAP systems, you can bring together structured and unstructured data from virtually anywhere.
It’s designed to help you make faster, smarter decisions by delivering profound insights at scale. The cloud-native architecture ensures agility, scalability, and reduced time to value. It supports use cases from analytics and planning to machine learning and operational reporting.
At the heart of Business Data Cloud, we find SAP’s powerful data platform, SAP Datasphere. Datasphere brings all data together into clear views and models, while preserving the semantics and business context. It offers capabilities for data integration, data federation, analytical modeling, business semantics and cataloging.
SAP Analytics Cloud remains the enabler for analytics and planning inside of Business Data Cloud. It’s most important features are enterprise analytics – such as reporting, dashboards and analytical applications – and extended planning.
Insight Apps enable us to utilize ready-to-run insights with out-of-the-box analytical models, dashboards and workflows for a variety of industry- and function-specific use cases. They are infused with AI/ML to help make timely decisions and respond to critical business signals as they happen. Insight Apps are curated and managed by SAP and SAP Partners, which helps to automatically connect to your data, ensuring accuracy and accelerating time to insights.
The introduction of SAP Databricks, which offers Databricks capabilities right inside of Business Data Cloud, enables organizations to leverage their enterprise data for advanced analytics and AI use cases. All of this inside of Business Data Cloud, preserving all of the data’s semantics.
Organizations that are strongly invested in their on-premise BW(/4HANA) will be able to continue using this data by moving to the private cloud edition of SAP BW in SAP Business Data Cloud.
With SAP Business Data Cloud, your data becomes a strategic asset, not just a technical resource.
Accommodating contemporary data needs
SAP Business Data Cloud gives organizations the required capabilities to get the most out of their data.
Connect all your data
Thanks to SAP Datasphere, a service within Business Data Cloud, we have seamless access to, integration of, and sharing of business data across SAP and non-SAP systems. It preserves data context, supports real-time insights and empowers both IT and business users with trusted, governed data for analytics and decision-making.
Context Aware Insight Apps
Insights Apps give us pre-built, data-driven applications that provide reliable insights and analytics across integrated business data. They help users quickly understand trends, monitor KPIs and make informed decisions by leveraging data from SAP and non-SAP sources without needing deep technical skills.
Advanced Analytics
SAP Databricks enables seamless integration between SAP data and Databricks features via delta sharing. It allows organizations to combine trusted business data with advanced analytics, AI and machine learning to unlock deeper insights and drive innovation at scale.
Business-Ready Data Products
Data products in BDC are curated, reusable data assets that deliver trusted, high-quality information with business context. They enable teams to easily discover, access, and use data for analytics, reporting and innovation across the organization.
Take your BW investments to a higher level
SAP BW(/4HANA) PCE provides businesses with a balanced path between their existing BW and their move to the Business Data Cloud, by offering a real opportunity to lift &shift their BW landscape to the cloud. It will include a data product generator tool and enable the integration of SAP BW data into the ObjectStore within BDC.
Share SAP data across your modern data platform with BDC Connect
SAP Business Data Cloud unifies and governs your core enterprise data, but many organizations still face challenges making that data available for analytics and AI without complex replication and pipeline management.
SAP Business Data Cloud Connect builds on the foundation of BDC to enable live, secure, zero-copy data sharing using Delta Sharing. This lets your external platforms such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and Google Cloud access and exchange SAP data products without moving copies, while governance remains intact within SAP Business Data Cloud. Learn how to simplify data access, maintain control, and start with hybrid use cases across your ecosystem.
