Achieve Innovative Insights Using SAP Business Data Cloud: Building a Future-Ready Data Foundation

For the modern enterprise, a significant hurdle exists: the gap in data accessibility. While both technology experts and decision-makers depend on data, disconnected contexts often hinder the essential signals needed to guide organizations toward becoming truly data-driven. Without an integrated approach, significant investments can produce only incremental gains instead of promoting real innovation.

SAP Business Data Cloud is a solution designed to bridge this gap and unlock the power of your business data. It provides business users with data insights delivered in real time with business context intact. This is achieved through holistic integration between data platforms and business applications, built upon a harmonised business data model. In the age of AI, connecting insights and business decisions is more critical than ever, and SAP Business Data Cloud is built to facilitate this.

Key Features: Fuelling Your Organisation with Harmonised Data

SAP Business Data Cloud is a comprehensive solution with several key features designed to transform your data landscape:

• Unified Data Platform: Connect SAP and third-party data within a managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution provided by SAP and Databricks. This platform features a knowledge graph with business data fabric capabilities, preserving metadata and semantics to make information searchable and actionable. It also offers Delta sharing and data federation, eliminating costly duplication and extraction through zero-copy data connections.
• Trusted Data Products: Uses pre-built data products to  help you gain a 360-degree view of your most critical business processes across your SAP application investments. They offer deep expertise in application data and industry best practices, with SAP-managed datasets and semantics ensuring consistency and business context. A data catalog facilitates these data products’ discovery, use, and extension.
• Smooth Integration of Business Semantics: You will discover hidden insights and patterns through deeply integrated capabilities across SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Business Warehouse, and SAP Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud. This enables data integration between SAP and third-party cloud and on-premise solutions and data modelling, transformation, and enrichment to maintain business context. Self-service analytical modelling is also available for business users.

The Power of the Business Data Fabric

At the heart of SAP Business Data Cloud lies its business data fabric. This architecture acts as a knowledge graph, connecting your data, metadata, and processes. It preserves metadata and semantics, making information not only accessible but also understandable within its business context. This capability is crucial for AI and insight apps to understand relationships within your data. The data fabric modernises your instance of SAP Business Warehouse.

Insight Apps: Tailored Intelligence at Your Fingertips

SAP Business Data Cloud Insight Apps are a collection of tailored, pre-built applications built on a unified semantic model curated by SAP. These apps are designed to fast-track decision-making by offering:

• Predefined, ready-to-run insights leveraging industry and line-of-business expertise infused with trusted AI.
• Combined planning and analysis, driving agile decision-making.
• Predictive analysis and simulation that deliver better business outcomes.

These insight apps can help you monitor financial health, refine cash flow, and improve payment terms. People analytics enables you to evaluate workforce trends, track talent flows, and align HR and business strategies. For spend analytics, they provide visibility into spending, helping to mitigate risks and optimise procurement. These tailored insights are delivered directly into your workflows, empowering business leaders to make actionable decisions quickly.

AI-Enriched Decision-Making: Intelligent Automation and Insights

SAP Business Data Cloud creates a trusted data foundation for readily available AI tools that are reliable, responsible, and relevant. Key AI capabilities include:

• Leveraging the knowledge graph enables AI and insight apps to understand data relationships in context.
• The Joule copilot boosts productivity by automating cross-functional tasks, uncovering insights, and summarizing critical business information.
• AI for complex enterprise planning and analytics, such as risk assessments, forecasting, and advanced simulations.
• AI-enabled Monte Carlo simulation capabilities that automate risk analysis and time-series prediction.
• AI acceleration is enabled by tools in SAP Databricks, facilitating the creation of AI models and generative AI applications trained with your business data.

Future-Ready Support for SAP BW Customers

For existing on-premises SAP BW and SAP BW/4HANA customers, SAP Business Data Cloud represents the future-ready solution, allowing them to safeguard investments while leveraging cloud innovations.

By unifying data across SAP and third-party systems, embedding tailored analytics, and enabling AI-driven intelligence, SAP Business Data Cloud empowers you to transform raw data into meaningful impact, make smarter decisions, and achieve measurable results. It’s time to move beyond fragmented systems and embrace a future where insights drive innovation and strategic growth.

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