SAP Datasphere
SAP Datasphere is not just a new SAP BW in the cloud.
As a cloud-native data warehouse, it represents a turning point in the SAP analytics landscape: combining the strengths of a traditional data warehouse such as SAP BW with the advantages of modern, cloud-based architectures.
Through its deep integration into the SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), Datasphere unlocks its full potential—for both business users and IT.
How You Benefit from SAP Datasphere
Self-Service
Datasphere Spaces empower business users to model distinct data areas and define data products autonomously. These protected spaces independently manage resources, connections, data, and access, promoting data democratization while ensuring stability. Additionally, using separate spaces allows for costs to be distributed across different departments.
Data Marketplace
Use the Data Marketplace to facilitate data exchange within your company or with external partners.
Seamless Integration
Datasphere supports a broad range of source system types, making data integration straightforward. If additional integration is needed, the SAP Integration Suite provides a robust complement. Through Semantic Onboarding, Datasphere retains the context of source systems, enhancing usability. Integration in Datasphere goes beyond data consumption; it also supports data sharing with other systems, such as data lakehouses like Databricks.
Data Governance
With its partnership with Collibra, Datasphere offers comprehensive data governance across both SAP and non-SAP systems.
Technologically, Datasphere is powered by the high-performance SAP HANA Cloud, complemented by the SAP HANA Data Lake. Together, they support advanced analysis of unstructured data with the Vector Engine, as well as enhanced AI applications. Structured data queries benefit from reduced inaccuracies thanks to the Knowledge Graph, which adds contextual connections and automatically networks data. These advancements make Datasphere more accessible to a broader audience than a traditional Data Warehouse.
Datasphere’s users are no longer just report recipients or planners—Data Scientists can now access raw data, work with Python or R, and leverage AI. With these new AI-driven capabilities, data quality becomes even more essential. Datasphere acts as the core of a Data Fabric strategy, providing reliable data products. This shift, however, requires a cultural change and new responsibilities within organizations, as data silos need to be dismantled.
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How Can We Support You?
BIG.Cube is here to assist in your SAP Datasphere implementation, handling architectural and conceptual aspects, often in collaboration with your internal resources. We’re also available to build your data models upon request.
A key consideration in architecture is integrating with any existing SAP BW system and other SAP BTP services.
When building a scalable SAP Datasphere solution, a comprehensive storage and authorization concept is critical, an area where our project experience plays a pivotal role.
BIG.Cube is a Certified Expert in SAP BTP
With our deep expertise, we help companies rapidly implement innovations, intelligently connect processes, and leverage data to create value. Our clients benefit from scalable, future-proof solutions that are customized and fully integrated.
How can SAP BW data be consumed in SAP Datasphere?
Although SAP Datasphere is not a new version of SAP BW, it can meaningfully extend an existing BW landscape in a hybrid scenario—and even replace it in certain areas. For companies with an established SAP BW, it is therefore advisable to consider a gradual transition to Datasphere.
The SAP BW Bridge plays a key role: it allows existing BW data flows to be migrated into Datasphere or continued there. That said, this step is not mandatory—SAP BW can just as easily be connected to Datasphere as a standard data source.
In addition, the SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) provides an efficient way to make BW data available in Datasphere in a standardized manner through the BW Data Product Generator.
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