The SAP Business Data Cloud is a SaaS platform for seamless integration, management, and analysis of enterprise data from various sources – both from SAP and third-party providers.
As a Business Data Fabric, the solution enables the networking of all data within the company. Particularly with regard to the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, the intelligent and comprehensive use of data is becoming increasingly important.
With real-time access and data analytics, companies can make better, data-driven, and informed decisions with the help of the SAP Business Data Cloud.
The SAP Business Data Cloud combines the data, planning, and analytics solutions SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse – as SAP describes it – into "a unified experience."
The SAP Business Data Cloud supports an open-data ecosystem that can natively integrate with leading data and AI partners such as Collibra, Confluent, and DataRobot. According to SAP, further partnerships will follow.
The technology stack of the Business Data Cloud consists of: Business Technology Platform, HANA, Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, Data Intelligence, Databricks, Spark, and HDLF.
Key Features of the SAP Business Data Cloud:
Data Integration:
The SAP BDC connects all data from different systems and sources, allowing for better discovery, browsing, sharing, analyzing, managing, and modeling of data – without the need to create copies of the data.
Semantics:
No complex and costly data duplication and extraction is required for data usage. SAP Business Data Cloud provides fully managed SAP data products for all business processes. The key point is that these data products retain their original business context and semantics, making them easily usable.
Insight Apps:
SAP Business Data Cloud offers pre-built analytics applications, known as Insight Apps. These apps are fully managed by SAP. According to SAP, they already contain AI models, planning capabilities, and predefined metrics, and are linked to business data.
AI Agents:
The so-called AI agents can automate complex workflows across functions. The AI agents are more powerful the better the data they are based on. The SAP Business Data Cloud thus facilitates the use of Artificial Intelligence by breaking down data silos and equipping the specialized AI agents with a unified, trusted data layer.
Databricks:
SAP collaborates with the US-based software company Databricks. Databricks' technologies for data engineering, machine learning, and AI workloads are already integrated into the SAP Business Data Cloud.