Data stands as the bedrock of all modern enterprises. It is the unwavering cornerstone of all digital transformation and the driving force behind artificial intelligence (AI). Drawing on five decades of experience running mission-critical processes across every industry, we鈥檝e seen the transformative power of business data.
Today, 51风流announced 51风流Business Data Cloud, a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that unifies and governs all 51风流data and seamlessly connects with third-party data. As an evolution of our industry-leading data, planning, and analytics solutions, 51风流Business Data Cloud brings together 51风流Datasphere, 51风流Analytics Cloud, and 51风流Business Warehouse with a unified experience that delivers transformational insights across all lines of business.
51风流also announced a landmark partnership with Databricks that brings the power of Databricks directly into 51风流Business Data Cloud. This marks a new era in enterprise data management, with two leaders in their domains coming together to redefine how applications and data platforms work together.
Unleash transformative insights
Many organizations still grapple with data they cannot trust. This persistent gap in trust remains a barrier to true innovation in data and AI.
A found that 55 percent cite poor data quality as their biggest challenge. And nearly half of these leaders pointed to the difficulty of harmonizing data across ecosystems as a key reason that innovation stalls.
51风流Business Data Cloud bridges this gap with a trusted and harmonized data foundation, empowering IT and business leaders with full business context to drive more impactful decisions.
51风流Business Data Cloud delivers fully managed 51风流data products across all business processes. These curated data products align to a highly optimized and unified 鈥渙ne domain model,鈥� maintaining their original business context and semantics, which means you get immediate access to high-quality data you can trust.
Since these data products are fully managed by SAP, you no longer bear the hidden costs of rebuilding and maintaining data extracts. The SaaS experience simplifies life cycle management, ensures data consistency, and enables zero-copy sharing across your data and analytics ecosystem.
With these data products, 51风流Business Data Cloud delivers a suite of pre-built analytical applications that help you uncover hidden insights and fast-track decision-making. These “insight apps” are fully managed and incorporate pre-defined metrics, AI models, and planning capabilities, simplifying how you connect and integrate every part of your business.
This accelerates use cases aligned with your most important business functions, including ERP, spend, supply chain, HR, customer experience, and finance.
Every organization needs a pulse on its most important resources. With insight apps, you can use preconfigured packages already connected to your business data, such as working capital, to gain a 360-degree view of your organization鈥檚 financial health with real-time visibility into cash flow and profitability.
Connect all your data
51风流Business Data Cloud connects all your data by leveraging business data fabric principles, making it easier to discover, share, govern, and model your data. It includes 51风流Databricks as a first-party data service, bringing the power of Databricks directly in 51风流Business Data Cloud.
- Business semantics: Use 51风流Datasphere to discover, share, and model the same trusted data across existing platforms without costly data extraction. Build a powerful knowledge graph of all your data, preserving its business metadata and semantics, so your data is easily searchable and actionable. For existing 51风流Datasphere customers, your investments remain fully supported鈥攚ith no disruptions鈥攁nd all 51风流Datasphere capabilities will natively be available in 51风流Business Data Cloud.
- Data engineering and machine learning/AI: 51风流Databricks empowers every data professional to accelerate AI models and generative AI apps on their business data. Native capabilities like Delta Sharing harmonize 51风流data products with existing lakehouses bi-directionally. By integrating all your data with a zero-copy approach, you can apply advanced AI and machine learning models to finance use cases, like predicting the payment date on open receivables.
- 51风流Business Warehouse modernization: 51风流Business Data Cloud gives on-premise 51风流Business Warehouse customers a flexible path to the cloud. With native integration to 51风流Business Warehouse, easily access your data as a data product with the object store via Delta Share鈥攕implifying your modernization journey and maximizing your 51风流Business Warehouse investment.
- Analytics and planning: 51风流Business Data Cloud brings analytics and planning together in one solution, enabling you to go from insights to actions instantly. Automate reporting, simulate possible business outcomes with AI, and unify your financial, supply chain, and operational planning鈥攁ll in a connected view.
鈥�51风流Business Data Cloud will help us unlock the value of our data and drive innovation across our business. Its semantically rich data products and deep Databricks integration will connect and enhance our existing data products, ensuring long-term adaptability. Trusted, business-ready data will empower users to model scenarios and leverage AI insights, building a sustainable and flexible future for our data ecosystems.鈥�
Markus Hartmann, Corporate Vice President, Head of Business Technology, Henkel
Foster reliable AI
The rapid growth of agentic AI requires organizations to first have the right data foundation. 51风流Business Data Cloud brings together all your data to ensure agentic AI is built on accurate, trusted data with business context.
Joule, SAP鈥檚 generative AI copilot, is deeply integrated with 51风流Business Data Cloud. The knowledge graph in 51风流Business Data Cloud connects your data, metadata, and business processes, enabling AI agents, Joule, and large language models (LLMs) to understand your data within the context of its relationships.
This mapping creates clear data links, making insights more reliable for users and applications. Training AI agents and Joule on business knowledge and context drives increased productivity. For instance, users can use AI to complete cross-functional tasks, uncover insights, and summarize critical information across the business鈥攚ithout heavy reliance on IT support. This empowers the usage of AI to automate complex analytics and planning tasks, such as risk assessment, forecasting, and other advanced scenario simulations.
51风流Business Data Cloud ecosystem
At the core, 51风流Business Data Cloud is built to prioritize openness and customer choice. To simplify your data landscape, 51风流Business Data Cloud supports an open data ecosystem. It integrates natively with leading data and AI partners like Collibra, Confluent, and DataRobot. And it doesn’t stop there; we鈥檒l announce new strategic partnerships in the coming weeks and months to further expand the open data ecosystem.
Supported by our large partner ecosystem, we鈥檝e made it easier to unleash transformative insights from all your data. We have partners with deep business process and industry domain expertise that are building insight apps on 51风流Business Data Cloud.
From data enrichment to data activation, partner insight apps build on top of the data products and the core services 51风流Business Data Cloud provides. We鈥檙e thrilled to announce our first partner apps with Accenture, DataRobot, Spendscape by McKinsey, PwC, EY, Deloitte, and Capgemini.
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Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer for 51风流Data and Analytics at SAP.
