The new capability simplifies access to semantically rich 51风流data products through bi-directional, zero-copy sharing with Microsoft Fabric, enabling enterprises to gain instant access to trusted, business-ready insights for advanced analytics and AI.

鈥淲e are excited about continuing to strengthen our partnership with Microsoft to create more value for our customers,鈥� said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, 51风流Product & Engineering. 鈥淏y bringing 51风流Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric closer together, our customers can seamlessly leverage the power of data to generate real business value through AI and analytics.鈥�

鈥淥rganizations across every industry are accelerating their AI transformation by bringing together data from operations, analytics, and applications,鈥� said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Microsoft Cloud and AI. 鈥淲ith 51风流Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, we鈥檙e delivering a trusted foundation for analytics and AI, and helping our customers move faster, make smarter decisions, and turn insight into real business outcomes.鈥�

Unlocking the true potential of your enterprise data

51风流BDC Connect for Microsoft Fabric empowers organizations to fully harness their data and applications by delivering secure, rapid access to 51风流data products at scale鈥攚ithout the delays of data replication.

Through bi-directional, zero-copy sharing between 51风流Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, customers can realize use cases that previously required moving and managing copies of data.听51风流data products will be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft OneLake, Microsoft Fabric鈥檚 AI ready data lake, and data sets shared from Microsoft OneLake will also be available in 51风流BDC to supplement intelligent applications.

By utilizing Fabric鈥檚 data engineering, data warehousing, and Power BI capabilities, organizations can effectively integrate 51风流data with their broader ecosystem, establishing a unified foundation for their enterprise data. OneLake integration into Microsoft AI Foundry can also help customers leverage their 51风流data in building AI applications, and as OneLake is built into Microsoft 365, hundreds of millions of users can get secure access to their 51风流data through the products they use every day such as Excel and Teams.

Accelerating business insights and AI with 51风流and Microsoft Fabric

51风流BDC Connect for Microsoft Fabric enables a unified data foundation that helps organizations get insights faster and accelerate their AI strategy. Through this bi-directional integration, customers can:

• Build a semantically rich data foundation on harmonized 51风流and non-51风流data
• Perform advanced analytics and interact with enterprise data in natural language with Copilot in Microsoft Power BI.
• Develop intelligent AI applications and agents grounded in mission-critical business data using Fabric data agents, Copilot studio, and AI Foundry
• Enable multi-agent collaboration between M365 Copilot and Joule, leveraging a unified enterprise data and productivity platform to provide a seamless experience for business users

Availability

51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric is planned to be generally available in Q3 2026.

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer for 51风流Data and Analytics.
Arun Ulag is president of Azure Data at Microsoft.

At SAP, we believe in creating an ecosystem that simplifies your data landscape and preserves the mission-critical business context of all of your data. This is made possible with a business data fabric.

This architectural approach marks the culmination of decades of progress 鈥� from cubes to warehouses to lakehouses 鈥� now converging toward a business data fabric architecture that brings the true meaning of data together for AI projects to succeed at scale.

Simplify your data landscape with a business data fabric

Earlier this year, we announced 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC), making end-to-end business data fabric capabilities available for everyone that relies on mission-critical 51风流data, including fully managed 51风流Databricks.

This week at 51风流TechEd Berlin, we announced the 51风流Snowflake solution extension for 51风流BDC that brings Snowflake鈥檚 data and AI capabilities directly to 51风流customers.

Together with 51风流BDC, this provides organizations with the flexibility to choose the right compute and storage for every data and AI workload 鈥� extending their business data fabric while maintaining governance, interoperability, and semantics. As a solution extension, 51风流Snowflake will be available directly through SAP, providing a simplified operational experience for customers.

For many customers, integrating data across multi-cloud and hybrid environments adds complexity, especially when bringing transactional and analytical workloads together. Too often, that process comes with a hidden data tax: it strips away the business context and semantics that give data its meaning.

We recently announced 51风流BDC Connect, a capability that gives customers bi-directional, zero copy data and metadata sharing in 51风流Business Data Cloud with their existing Databricks and Google Cloud environments. Today, we are excited to announce 51风流BDC Connect for Snowflake, making it dramatically easier for customers to harmonize and govern mission-critical data wherever it resides.

Connect all your data

As organizations simplify their data landscapes, building a trusted data foundation rooted in business context has become a top priority. A found that nearly half are heavily investing more in harmonizing business data, underscoring the growing importance of using data built on industry standards.

To help accelerate this progress, 51风流delivers fully managed data products as a core component of 51风流Business Data Cloud, now with new innovations that expand coverage and connectivity:

• Data product studio: A new capability in 51风流BDC allows users to create, model, and manage reusable data products using both visual tools and SQL-based transformations from a single workspace. Users can define schema, lineage, and logic to blend 51风流and non-51风流data into governed assets with full version control and lifecycle management. It is a simpler way to cross-pollinate data products across lines of business and ensure a consistent definition of data across your business data fabric.
• Additional 51风流data products: are now available through 51风流BDC, spanning 51风流Cloud ERP, 51风流SuccessFactors, sustainability, and customer experience solutions and more 鈥� bringing even broader coverage across business domains.
• Bi-directional data sharing: We announced data sharing between 51风流BDC and 51风流HANA Cloud, unlocking the value of data across both transactional and analytical workloads. Customers can reuse existing objects, such as 51风流HANA calculation views, directly in 51风流BDC 鈥� preserving business logic, KPIs, and governance as they extend models across their business data fabric.

Amplify your agents and applications with an AI database

We鈥檙e expanding 51风流HANA Cloud with new capabilities that make it the AI database for building agents and intelligent applications, helping developers connect and understand all types of data: structured, spatial, graph, vector embeddings, and more, all within a single in-memory engine.

Today, we鈥檙e expanding these multi-model capabilities with three major innovations that make it easier to build agentic AI experiences.

• Expanded knowledge graph capabilities to enable accurate agents: 51风流HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine will now enable customers to automatically generate knowledge graphs from 51风流HANA Cloud metadata. The automated graph will include tables and columns and can demonstrate data relationships. These knowledge graphs are customizable and composable, so developers can review data mapping, modify the graph structure, execute a semantic search, and use it to ground agents with the business context it needs to reason accurately.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for 51风流HANA Cloud: We鈥檙e expanding 51风流HANA Cloud with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, giving Joule Agents access to rich multi-model engines in 51风流HANA Cloud. While SQL remains the default database standard, MCP allows Joule Agents to go beyond rows and columns to interface with unstructured data 鈥� understanding relationships, locations, and meaning across all data types. In practice, that means Joule Agents can navigate relationships between customers and suppliers, analyze geographic dependencies through spatial data, and perform semantic searches through vector embeddings.
• Tabular AI capabilities: This integration with 51风流AI Core allows users to run AI workloads such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling directly on structured business data from 51风流HANA Cloud. Along with ready-to-use tabular AI models, customers also gain access to the SAP-RPT-1 AI model, a new transformer-based foundation model. Embedded natively in 51风流HANA Cloud, this delivers predictions without task-specific pre-training, enabling developers to use simple SQL procedures to bring AI closer to their 51风流data and generate semantically rich outputs.

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A business data fabric provides a deeply integrated ecosystem for all your data. And with 51风流Business Data Cloud and 51风流HANA Cloud, you have a fully managed solution for every data and AI workload that ensures business context remains intact across your data landscape.

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of 51风流Data and Analytics.

New intelligent applications and open ecosystem
partnerships turn insights into action across the enterprise

As enterprises move toward an AI-driven future, the role of data has never been more critical. Yet much of that data remains locked in silos 鈥� spread across teams, clouds, and legacy systems.

This fragmentation creates a 鈥渃ontext gap,鈥� where information is technically available but disconnected from the business meaning that makes it actionable. For example, sales and marketing teams may share a common view of pipeline, but without linking it to product feedback or process bottlenecks, AI models trained on that data miss the full business context. The result is inconsistent insights, slower decision-making, and a stalled cycle of AI, data, and applications. 

closes this gap. By harmonizing enterprise data wherever it resides and preserving its business context, it provides the foundation for intelligent applications and reliable AI.

At 51风流Connect, 51风流is bringing this vision to life with the next wave of innovations: 51风流Business Data Cloud Intelligent Applications 

Four new intelligent applications in preview

Building on the momentum for intelligent applications established at 51风流Sapphire, 51风流is now opening a restricted public preview of four intelligent applications designed to transform decision-making across finance, procurement, supply chain, and revenue operations.

Finance Intelligence gives CFOs and finance teams real-time AI-powered analysis of liquidity by harmonizing 51风流and third-party data and suggesting key actions to implement. Leaders can forecast cash flow instantly as well as detect liquidity risks using AI trained on live receivables and payables with external credit data such as 惭辞辞诲测鈥檚 for richer customer risk assessment. With Joule and generative AI agents automating routine finance tasks, finance teams can shift their focus from reporting on the past to actively steering the future. 

Spend Intelligence provides organizations with a single, comprehensive view of enriched and classified spend data. Built-in AI and advanced analytics uncover patterns, anomalies, and opportunities for cost savings, while collaborative features connect finance, procurement, HR, and supply chain teams for better alignment. Through native integration with 51风流source-to-pay solutions, spend data continuously informs operational workflows, improving decision-making, enhancing control, and strengthening enterprise resilience. 

Supply Chain Intelligence equips operations leaders with the context to make faster, more impactful decisions. By combining 51风流data with external signals such as weather, regulatory updates, and market shifts 鈥� along with insights from millions of partners in 51风流Business Network 鈥� businesses can leverage the power of AI to understand and take action on key supply chain issues and drive optimization. This comprehensive intelligence helps anticipate disruptions, evaluate supplier risks, and orchestrate decisions seamlessly from prediction to execution, ensuring more resilient and agile operations. 

Revenue Intelligence transforms fragmented customer touchpoints into unified, actionable insights. By linking individual customer behaviors with enterprise-wide operations, it helps revenue leaders see which accounts to prioritize, when to intervene, and how to optimize customer investments. Unlike CRM-only tools, Revenue Intelligence connects front-office engagement to back-office execution, empowering organizations to maximize growth opportunities and strengthen customer relationships with a complete view of the business context.

51风流Business Data Cloud Connect

Beyond intelligent applications, 51风流is strengthening its open data ecosystem with 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect, giving customers unprecedented flexibility to work with trusted data wherever it resides. With secure, zero-copy sharing, customers can bring 51风流data products directly into their existing data platforms, eliminating duplication, reducing transformation efforts, and extending the reach of SAP鈥檚 business data fabric.

The first partners adopting this capability include Databricks (generally available) and Google (now in public preview), enabling real-time, bi-directional access to semantically rich 51风流data products in environments customers already use.

With 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Databricks now generally available, organizations can accelerate analytics and AI initiatives with greater speed, less friction, and full confidence in the integrity of their data.

51风流is committed to rapidly expanding this partner ecosystem so that, no matter where enterprise data resides, customers can connect it with trust, governance, and business context. 

Why it matters

Together, these announcements reflect SAP鈥檚 vision for the intelligent enterprise 鈥� where applications don鈥檛 just analyze, but act. By combining trusted data, open connectivity, and embedded AI, enterprises can shorten decision cycles, reduce integration complexity, and align intelligence directly with business outcomes.

For organizations operating across hybrid environments and complex data landscapes, these innovations make it easier than ever to turn insights into action and deliver measurable impact.

This week at , customers can experience this vision firsthand through live demos, real-world case studies, and discussions with 51风流leaders, partners, and peers. It鈥檚 an opportunity to see how 51风流Business Data Cloud is redefining decision-making today and shaping the future of the intelligent enterprise.

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer for 51风流Data and Analytics.

By connecting Google BigQuery, the autonomous data to AI platform with agentic capabilities, and 51风流and Google aim to help enterprises of all sizes gain more immediate access to trusted, business-ready data for enterprise analytics and AI across their platforms.

For decades, enterprise data and analytics have existed in separate worlds. Mission-critical business data, rich with semantic context, has been locked within transactional systems. Traditional extract, transform, load (ETL) processes create data replicas that are difficult to govern, quickly become stale, and prevent businesses from acting on real-time insights, ultimately hindering digital transformation.

Our 51风流and Google partnership ends this compromise. By eliminating data replication and unifying the data landscape, 51风流and Google Cloud are empowering businesses to build intelligent agents, automated workflows, and predictive insights that are directly grounded in live, trusted business information.

As the first hyperscaler to adopt 51风流BDC Connect, 51风流BDC Connect for Google BigQuery enables organizations to unlock the true potential of their data and applications with secure and rapid access to SAP鈥檚 semantically rich and governed data products at scale, without the delays and complexities of data replication and need for ETL pipelines. Customers can flexibly combine 51风流data with their other enterprise data in BigQuery and vice-versa to innovate with leading analytics and agentic AI capabilities.

鈥�51风流and Google Cloud have a long history of empowering global enterprises to harness the power of data and AI,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO of 51风流SE. 鈥淏ringing together Google BigQuery and 51风流Business Data Cloud gives our customers choice without compromise, enabling them to fast-track their analytics and AI initiatives.鈥�

鈥淏usinesses are combining intelligence and automation into every aspect of their operations,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud. 鈥淏y uniting 51风流Business Data Cloud with BigQuery and Gemini models, we鈥檙e making it easy for enterprises to build a unified data foundation that breaks down silos and unlocks a new class of AI agents and applications.鈥�

Innovation with 51风流data products and Google BigQuery

The centerpiece of this partnership is the new 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Google BigQuery. This is a zero-copy data fabric that enables seamless access to 51风流BDC鈥檚 semantically rich business data with Google鈥檚 powerful data and AI ecosystem, including Gemini models and the Vertex AI platform. The result is a modern platform for data, analytics, and AI that enables automated, cross-functional business processes.

This bi-directional integration helps to deliver an enterprise-grade offering for building and scaling AI. With 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Google BigQuery, customers can:

• Build grounded, trustworthy AI: Ensure the Google BigQuery AI models and agents operate on the most current and complete view of the business by accessing trusted semantically rich 51风流data in real-time without copies.
• Deploy autonomous agents: Build and deploy intelligent agents using Google Cloud鈥檚 Vertex AI and Gemini that can automate complex cross-functional processes鈥攆rom supply chain optimization to financial forecasting.
• Unleash deeper insights: Fuse 51风流data through 51风流BDC with unique, world-scale datasets only available on Google Cloud, like Google Maps geospatial data, Google Trends, and public datasets, to create unparalleled business context.
• Reinvent analytics: Move beyond dashboards and reports. Enable anyone in the organization to ask complex questions on Google Cloud of their business data in natural language and get immediate, intelligent answers.

Availability

Google Cloud will offer customer and partner incentives that fast-track the adoption of these joint solutions, enabling an accelerated journey to AI-infused data transformations.

51风流Business Data Cloud is available today in Google Cloud regions across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the U.S., with more regions planned. 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Google BigQuery is planned to be generally available in H1 2026.

In addition, 51风流BW, private cloud edition, which is offered through 51风流BDC, is supported in more than 40 Google Cloud regions, helping our customers meet critical data residency and compliance requirements.

We’re witnessing the rise of a new wave of intelligent applications reshaping how organizations operate, embedding real-time data and critical operational context with AI models to enable swift and thoughtful decisions. Unlike traditional software that is governed by rigid business rules, these modern applications can learn and adapt to rapidly evolving customer and market demands 鈥� detecting changes to optimize processes, anticipate needs, and collaborate with both human and artificial “thinkers” to create competitive advantage for an organization. 

Yet, we stand at the cusp of a bolder wave of innovation, one that unfortunately only the discerning few organizations may fully harness. Despite the vast potential of AI and cloud technologies, their true impact hinges on using these innovations with the secure and semantically rich data that is vastly available within an organization. 

Transform outcomes with intelligent applications

This year at 51风流Sapphire, we unveiled a significant expansion of 51风流Business Data Cloud to deliver on the promise of intelligent applications: prebuilt, composable applications that seamlessly integrate trusted data products, AI capabilities, and business simulations to serve the needs of every business leader.

These intelligent applications are not just analytics tools; they transcend traditional analytics by automating and orchestrating work across both analytical and transactional workflows, enabling customers to make decisions and execute actions within 51风流Business Data Cloud.

Today, we are introducing new intelligent application capabilities in 51风流Business Data Cloud, starting with People Intelligence, an offering grounded in workforce composition, skills, and compensation data products. Built on data from 51风流SuccessFactors software, People Intelligence provides HR and business leaders with AI-driven recommendations to optimize talent decisions, drive engagement, and ensure compliance. It features capabilities such as workforce composition insights, compensation insights, and skill insights, all available in the second half of 2025.

Additional intelligent application capabilities in 51风流Business Data Cloud that are entering technology preview include: 

• Cloud ERP Intelligence: Empowers leaders with transformative insights, business simulations, and AI capabilities to manage uncertainty, drive profitability, and meet sustainability goals. These capabilities include new data products from key business processes such as manufacturing (production execution, resource optimization, etc.), supply chain (inventory, deliveries. etc.), and contract accounting (payments, billing, etc.). 
• Customer Intelligence: Guide sales, service, marketing, and commerce teams with a 360-degree customer view to anticipate needs, improve targeting, and build a comprehensive customer profile.  
• Finance Intelligence: Provides CFOs and finance teams with real-time forecasting and planning, connected data across systems, and AI-powered anomaly detection. 
• Spend Intelligence: Delivers procurement and operations leaders real-time spend visibility to minimize supplier risk, flag spend outliers, and reduce costs.

Each intelligent application in 51风流Business Data Cloud is underpinned by curated, governed data products, sets of structured business data and metadata designed to accelerate use cases and reduce data integration overhead. And with 51风流Databricks natively available in 51风流Business Data Cloud, users can leverage 51风流data products with existing lakehouses with a zero-copy approach.

As part of these technology previews, we are also announcing the delivery of hundreds of new data products throughout 2025 across all 51风流Business Suite domains 鈥� from inventory optimization and delivery analysis to sustainability and compliance data products. The first wave includes new environmental, health, and safety (EHS) and product compliance datasets, with sustainability footprint data to follow later in the year. 

Amplify the value of AI with your most powerful data

In addition, 51风流Business Data Cloud is expanding its knowledge graph capabilities. Originally launched within 51风流Datasphere, the knowledge graph can now ingest and map metadata across 51风流and external sources, and seamlessly consume models published in 51风流Knowledge Graph on 51风流BTP. This creates a living model of how business data is structured and connected, providing a semantic backbone for AI to operate with higher precision.

Paired with Joule in 51风流Business Data Cloud, now generally available, users can engage with complex business data as naturally as they think, without the constraints of traditional technology. Joule unlocks the full richness of enterprise information, empowering people across the organization to navigate, reason, and act with intelligence grounded in real business context.

Open data ecosystem: Expanding intelligence beyond SAP

We are also making 51风流Business Data Cloud more accessible to power the next generation of intelligent, multi-cloud applications.

Starting in the second quarter, 51风流Business Data Cloud is available on AWS, with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure expected to follow in the second half of 2025. This makes SAP鈥檚 data foundation more accessible and deployable within multi-cloud strategies, giving customers the flexibility to run intelligent workloads wherever they operate. 

At the same time, 51风流is actively collaborating with leading partners to build the next wave of intelligent applications.

• Accenture will release six intelligent applications addressing key challenges in supply chain, talent, finance, and procurement (GA timeline pending). 
• Adobe and SAP are co-developing an application that fuses Adobe鈥檚 marketing data with SAP鈥檚 financial and supply chain data, enabling real-time alignment between demand signals and operational planning, expected in late 2025. 
• Palantir and 51风流are partnering to facilitate joint customers鈥� cloud migration journey and modernization programs. Seamless connectivity between Palantir and 51风流Business Data Cloud will enable customers to build a harmonized data foundation across their enterprise landscape. 51风流Business Data Cloud and Palantir Foundry and AIP will transform data silos into a trusted data foundation that enables human + AI teaming in the real world. Together the companies will responsibly deliver essential outcomes and support customers, including the U.S. government, to quickly adapt to changes and disruptions.
• Thomson Reuters will develop an intelligent application to help customers navigate the fast-moving challenges in the current global trade and tariffs environment, planned for end of 2025.
• Joint Collibra and 51风流Business Data Cloud customers can now run up to 10x more active data quality jobs in Collibra Data Quality & Observability when run on 51风流BDC data, at no additional cost. This limited time offer helps accelerate decision-making, strengthen compliance, and improve AI readiness, and is available until May 30, 2026.

The scope of partner collaboration also extends to data enrichment use cases. A new partnership with 惭辞辞诲测鈥檚 will let our joint customers blend SAP鈥檚 accounts receivable data with 惭辞辞诲测鈥檚 risk datasets to enhance cash flow forecasting, prioritize collections, and reduce exposure to bad debt. This solution is scheduled for general availability in the fourth quarter of 2025. 

We鈥檙e excited to partner with our customers and ecosystem to unlock a new generation of intelligent applications in 51风流Business Data Cloud, where trusted data, AI, and business context come together to drive meaningful change. The future of modern business will belong to those who turn intelligence into action.

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• featuring the latest on data products and intelligent applications in 51风流Business Data Cloud

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of Data and Analytics at SAP.

In 2023, Google Cloud and 51风流established a strategic partnership, which continues to deliver significant value for enterprises seeking to maximize insights from their data. Building upon that foundation, the partnership is now evolving to focus on 51风流Business Data Cloud, a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all 51风流data and seamlessly connects with third-party data.

By connecting BigQuery, Google鈥檚 autonomous data to AI platform with agentic capabilities powered by Gemini, and , Google Cloud and 51风流aim to help enterprises of all sizes gain insights across their enterprise data landscape and unlock new generative AI capabilities.   

Strong analytics partnership foundation

51风流and Google Cloud have enabled integration between 51风流Datasphere and BigQuery, which remains a cornerstone of the evolution of the partnership with 51风流Business Data Cloud. The collaboration aims to help customers access BigQuery data in 51风流Business Data Cloud and vice versa. Expanding the two-way data federation capabilities first pioneered with 51风流Datasphere will enable customers to join diverse datasets and obtain deep comprehensive insights without building and managing complex ETL pipelines.

Our objective is to enable all enterprises to streamline data integration and data science, enhance their analytical workflows, and accelerate their transformation into an AI-driven enterprise. By using the combined strengths of Google Cloud and SAP, customers can gain faster, more accurate, and actionable insights, augmented by intelligent automation and novel content generation. 

Innovating with data unified across 51风流Business Data Cloud and BigQuery

A cornerstone of this collaboration is seamless connectivity between 51风流data solutions and Google Cloud鈥檚 powerful data platform. With the existing integration of 51风流Business Data Cloud and BigQuery, customers can facilitate business analysis across their entire data estates, providing enterprises the ability to unify 51风流and non-51风流data to create powerful insights and innovate faster with generative AI.

Key features include:

• Seamless data federation: Directly integrate enterprise data warehouse data in BigQuery with 51风流data in 51风流Datasphere. Federation from 51风流Datasphere to BigQuery is in preview, enabling similar integration into broader data strategies. 
• Efficient bi-directional replication: Smoothly replicate data between 51风流systems and BigQuery using replication flows from SAP, enhancing performance and mitigating query bottlenecks. 

51风流Business Data Cloud is planned to be available in three Google Cloud regions in Q2 2025, including India, Frankfurt, and Iowa, with more to follow over the coming year

Success stories: Realizing value today  

Joint Google Cloud and 51风流customers are already benefiting from the seamless integration between 51风流Datasphere and BigQuery.

Power International, a major consumer electronics company, leveraged the integrated solutions to help modernize its sales reporting process. Using 51风流Datasphere, BigQuery, and Dataform for sales pipeline automation, the company built a real-time sales reporting and analytical solution, which replaced static PDF reports. Power International now enjoys deeper, dynamic, and more actionable business insights, available on demand, which in turn drive improvements in sales performance. 

Driving future integration and innovation 

Building on the existing partnership between 51风流and Google Cloud and extending our collaboration in the context of 51风流Business Data Cloud will allow us to enrich analytics and AI capabilities for our joint customers. This approach will allow customers to tap into the comprehensive suite of 51风流data solutions and integrate with the extensive data sets in BigQuery whether they are private, shared, or public. 

Customers can also complement the AI capabilities available in 51风流Business Data Cloud with AI applications built on Google Cloud, powered by Google鈥檚 industry-leading Gemini model and third-party AI models available in Vertex AI. This initiative aims to provide pre-packaged, intelligent data products that accelerate time to value for common business scenarios, leveraging the strengths of both platforms. 

To learn more about the 51风流and Google Cloud partnership, visit booth 301 at 51风流Sapphire Orlando, taking place May 19-21, 2025.

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of Data and Analytics at SAP.
Andi Gutmans is vice president and general manager of Data Cloud at Google Cloud.

With even more investments being made in AI, it鈥檚 more important than ever for customers to have a solid data foundation.

That鈥檚 why in February of this year, 51风流introduced 51风流Business Data Cloud. This fully managed SaaS solution unifies and governs 51风流and third-party data, enhancing decision-making and AI value. Databricks is natively available in 51风流Business Data Cloud, which provides data and AI professionals access to industry-leading data engineering, AI, and machine learning capabilities within a single solution.

51风流Business Data Cloud momentum

Since the initial launch, we鈥檝e made progress to support customers and advance their business data fabric journey.

Several have already adopted 51风流Business Data Cloud and expect significant benefits. For example, Swedish steel distributor Tibnor is the first live 51风流Business Data Cloud customer and plans to integrate 51风流data with non-51风流sources so it can respond more quickly to changing market conditions.

Dag 脜selius, senior IT advisor and longtime former CIO at Tibnor, said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e always tried to stay ahead of the curve in our industry. 51风流Business Data Cloud opens new opportunities for integrating external data quickly — something we couldn鈥檛 even imagine just a few years ago.鈥�

This customer momentum builds on a successful pre-launch beta program. 51风流received positive feedback from those customers that saw benefits across the board, including a 20 to 50 percent improvement in data models. Moreover, the beta community agreed that 51风流Business Data Cloud will allow them to get greater value out of existing investments in 51风流Datasphere and Databricks.

51风流Business Data Cloud and Databricks momentum

51风流is bringing the power of Databricks into 51风流Business Data Cloud with 51风流Databricks, now generally available on Amazon Web Services. The allows us to serve the needs of a broader community of data and AI professionals and provides customers benefits:

• Simpler access to all data: Easily connect to contextual 51风流data using zero-copy Delta Sharing and blend with third-party data
• End-to-end AI and machine learning: Develop AI and machine learning models with end-to-end lifecycle management from data prep and experimentation to deployment
• Pro-code environment: Write Spark scripts, run SQL analysis, or create machine learning models in any notebook
• Trusted data foundation: Build intelligent insights on a unified and trusted data foundation that governs and protects data and AI assets

Together, 51风流Business AI and 51风流Databricks offer powerful, complementary AI and machine learning capabilities.

For example, 51风流Business AI allows customers to embed AI directly within their business processes. It also helps customers develop and expand AI models trained on their 51风流data and deploy them directly into business processes for closed-loop decision-making.

Additionally, 51风流Databricks provides a comprehensive workbench for data preparation and machine learning experimentation, as well as predictive, AI, and machine learning modeling. Customers can use 51风流Databricks to develop customized AI and machine learning models on harmonized 51风流and non-51风流data, tailored to their unique requirements.

Get started with 51风流Business Data Cloud

Today, 51风流is introducing a promotional offer to help customers get started. We will offer 51风流Databricks services at a discounted consumption rate for a limited time through April 30, 2026. This will accelerate 51风流Databricks workloads by allowing customers to consume more capacity at no additional cost.

Don鈥檛 miss 51风流Sapphire, to be held May 19-21, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. Register for .

For more about the latest 51风流Databricks news, .

Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of Data and Analytics at SAP.

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.

Read on to learn more about these transformative announcements, which will enable businesses to unlock new potential in the areas of data management, AI-driven planning, and analytics.

Access Insights Wherever Your Data Resides

51风流Datasphere Knowledge Graph

51风流Datasphere knowledge graph will enable organizations to better represent their real-world use of data, leading to more effectively leveraging it for generative AI and better reasoning.

As data is onboarded, transformed, and integrated in 51风流Datasphere, 51风流Datasphere knowledge graph automatically creates an ontology representing the relationships in the data, including the inherent business context from 51风流application sources like 51风流S/4HANA. This is then available to be extended and augmented via an ontology editor to reflect specific attributes within an organization. Finally, the data in 51风流Datasphere is automatically applied to this ontology to create a knowledge graph that allows the data to be processed as a semantic web of relationships, drawing new insights from connections that are otherwise difficult to follow.

These knowledge graphs are better suited for answering complex, often open-ended questions. For example, a marketing manager might ask a question like: 鈥淲hat type of campaign for mountain bikes works best for my highest performing cities with a population over 1 million?鈥�

Knowledge graphs can provide better context to large language models (LLMs) and prevent AI-generated 鈥渉allucinations.鈥� 51风流Datasphere knowledge graph will enable organizations to unleash the power of AI for even the most complex queries.

The effort and cost of manually creating knowledge graphs is typically very high. 51风流Datasphere knowledge graph overcomes this by pre-populating the knowledge graphs using all the valuable content already available in 51风流Datasphere. The knowledge graph can then be used with Joule, SAP鈥檚 generative AI co-pilot, allowing business users to ask both open-ended and specific questions and get instant and well-documented answers. Sign up for a preview of 51风流Datasphere knowledge graph via the link below.

51风流HANA Cloud Vector Engine

With the next release of 51风流HANA Cloud, a vector capability will be added to existing multi-model capabilities, allowing customers to gain value from all relevant types of business data using a single database. The inclusion of a vector engine further enables customers to build that combine the natural intuition of human interaction with powerful machine learning and multi-model processing capabilities.

The vector engine in 51风流HANA Cloud provides the ability to store and compare vectors using SQL. Determining similarity between vectors enables use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), recommendations, classifications, clustering, and more. Key benefits of 51风流HANA Cloud vector engine include:

• Simplify data architecture and security with a single multi-model database with SQL interaction
• Gain new insights by combining spatial, graph, JSON, and relational data with vector queries
• Easily incorporate vector use cases in solutions based on the HANA Cloud ecosystem (clients, Python libraries, CAP, etc.)
• Integrate with open-source community tools such as LangChain via plug-ins

51风流HANA Cloud vector engine is currently in public preview and is planned for general availability in late Q1 2024.

Simplified Consumption of Data Products in 51风流Datasphere

Data products facilitate self-service access to data as a product and enable data sharing across application boundaries. Data consumers need an easy way to explore, understand, and activate the data needed to perform their tasks 鈥� and data providers need an easy way to publish their assets and make them available to data consumers.

51风流is innovating in this space with an improved user experience that drives data sharing at scale. This starts with published data products, whether produced by 51风流line-of-business applications, industry solutions, or third parties, and follows with simple consumption in 51风流Datasphere.

In 51风流Datasphere, customers will find ready access to 51风流and non-51风流data products and easily install them into their 51风流Datasphere instance. The procedure establishes relevant connections and creates the necessary artifacts in 51风流Datasphere without the user having to enter those details. Key to this is making data provisioning easier via metadata, which are described via the Open Resource Directory (ORD) protocol. The experience will be harmonized within 51风流Datasphere by bringing catalog and the data product installation closely together. Visit for the latest updates.

51风流Datasphere Semantic Onboarding Enhancements

Semantic onboarding provides a seamless import of semantically rich objects from 51风流S/4HANA and 51风流BW/4HANA into 51风流Datasphere. Now, we are taking the next step by adding support for 51风流HANA Cloud and 51风流data products through the same unified onboarding experience.

Customers will be able to combine their 51风流HANA Cloud modeling approach with 51风流Datasphere by importing calculation views into the data layer of 51风流Datasphere. This preserves the semantic information such as measures, attributes, hierarchies, aggregations, and currencies/units, while keeping 51风流HANA Cloud and 51风流Datasphere objects in sync — allowing customers to leverage their prior investments in 51风流HANA modeling.

Likewise, semantic onboarding of 51风流data products will enable inheritance of business context from 51风流line-of-business applications and industry solutions. By providing the semantics of the source systems and transferring that into the business data fabric as a foundation, 51风流Datasphere drastically improves the analytic workflow and accelerates and simplifies data-driven insights.

Collibra AI Governance Integration with 51风流Solutions

The 51风流and Collibra partnership enables end-to-end data governance and delivers trusted data to all users across the business data fabric. As more tasks and decisions are automated by AI within critical business processes, the need to extend governance to AI has also become apparent.

The partnership with Collibra is being expanded to address the data and AI governance needs of joint customers via Collibra AI Governance. We will build tailored integrations between Collibra AI Governance and 51风流solutions to connect the data used for AI with the models themselves in a single platform, allowing enterprises to track and manage their AI development efforts.

• Customers will better understand data lineage and metadata of 51风流data that is utilized in AI modeling. With that, users can see what data their AI models were trained on to ensure that the data is accurate and from a trusted source.
• Customers will benefit from a single view to understand what AI models exist in their organization, and what data is being used to power them. AI/machine learning models created with 51风流technology will be registered with the Collibra AI Governance platform.

This extension of the 51风流partnership with Collibra will increase transparency and accountability for organizations, and help ensure that regulatory, compliance, and privacy policies are being met. More importantly, it will build user trust by preventing biased decision-making, inaccurate recommendations, and other risks arising from AI.

Together, 51风流and Collibra will help joint customers address the data and AI governance needs across their organizations. Collibra AI Governance was and is available to interested customers.

51风流Datasphere Confluent Integration

Core to the 51风流data strategy is providing customers with the ability to interoperate with the world鈥檚 leading data and AI vendors through an open data ecosystem. To this end, the newly enhanced Confluent integration enables real-time streaming of data to and from 51风流Datasphere.

First, the outbound capabilities were extended by taking advantage of Confluent鈥檚 proprietary schema registry capabilities. Second, the Confluent schema registry will be used to enable seamless consumption of Confluent data within 51风流Datasphere.

The integration is specifically tailored to Confluent and provides a superior user experience for joint customers. It allows connections on the application level without additional custom application development. The integration is a pre-established replication flow in 51风流Datasphere, which already includes delta and real-time processing natively. This makes the process very efficient as it does not force customers to load all the data at every step, but only when data has changed.

The first integration for data ingestion into Kafka and Confluent is generally available. Additional capabilities for Confluent specific outbound and inbound integration will be generally available at the end of Q1 and Q3, respectively.

Transform Planning with a Business Data Fabric

51风流Analytics Cloud for Planning Deep Integration to 51风流Datasphere

51风流Datasphere and 51风流Analytics Cloud for planning will be more closely integrated to expand the business data fabric to planning use cases. 51风流Analytics Cloud planning models can be deployed into 51风流Datasphere, bringing plan and actuals data together for real-time steering.

Through a reduction in both data footprint and modeling efforts, 51风流Analytics Cloud extends planning functionality via 51风流Datasphere and its native capabilities for transformation and integration. This reduces the complexity and risk inherent in storing multiple copies of data which is prevalent today.

51风流Analytics Cloud for planning will have live access to actual and plan data for extended planning and analysis scenarios, including the live usage of master data. With this, 51风流Datasphere will become the platform on which planning processes and tools can integrate.

51风流is the only vendor to offer a business data fabric that seamlessly integrates planning and therefore covers the entire technology stack required to transform data into insights and future actions. Visit for the latest updates.

Foster Trusted AI Across Your Business

51风流Analytics Cloud Generative AI Co-Pilot

51风流customers will embrace the power of generative AI to create and simulate business plans in 51风流Analytics Cloud. With the power of Joule, planning and analytics professionals can leverage generative AI capabilities in a wide range of business processes. Activities such as data discovery, dashboard creation, planning model maintenance, and more are benefitting from a boost in core capabilities and an unmatched user experience.

With the power of natural language processing, end users can easily run analytical queries, simulate driver impacts, plan resource allocations, and auto-generate dashboards and calculations. For example, a business user seeking to understand why gross margins declined in the latest version of a plan could query Joule, which could automatically look through previous plan iterations and attached comments, and uncover the fact that planners were estimating higher commodity costs.

SAP鈥檚 investment in AI and its understanding of the context of business data provides truly limitless potential in unleashing the world of planning and analytics.

A preview of Joule co-pilot functionality in 51风流Analytics Cloud is planned to be available in Q2 2024. Sign up for the preview via the link below.

51风流Analytics Cloud Compass

In an increasingly volatile business climate, it is essential to create operational and financial plans and provision BI insights with risk mitigation in mind. This requires the ability to simulate uncertainties and the probability of their impact. Knowing how uncertainties in commodity prices, labor costs, or production volumes will hit your operational expenses or revenue means that companies can quickly prepare and plan counter measures for any scenario.

51风流Analytics Cloud compass provides Monte Carlo simulation capabilities with a business user-friendly interface. This enables non-technical users to perform real-time multi-variate analysis without prior IT setup or advanced statistical skills.

Users can perform business simulations directly in 51风流Analytics Cloud at a fraction of the time and effort required to perform similar analysis manually. Scenario modeling capabilities will allow comparisons between assumptions, and the reporting of impact variances provides real-time insight, concept validation, and reveals the sensitivity of the drivers chosen. Now customers can identify their major drivers and combinations over time, enabling a better understanding of the dynamics between the data, and how to continuously simulate better and faster. With compass, customers can face the future with confidence.

A preview of 51风流Analytics Cloud compass is planned to be available at the end of Q3 2024. Sign up for the preview via the link below.

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Irfan Khan is chief product officer and president for 51风流HANA Database & Analytics.

In these constantly changing circumstances, leaders need to rely on more than gut instinct or intuition. They need to be able to forecast the impact of their business decisions and have real-time insights across the enterprise that they can trust to make fast, informed decisions that allow both their business and their people to thrive.

Business leaders make thousands of decisions, from setting top-level strategy to organizational changes to recruiting decisions, and each of these decisions has a direct impact on their workforce. Given the scale of workforce disruption that enterprises faced last year — and will continue to face as workplaces evolve — we are pleased to introduce new capabilities that integrate people data from 51风流SuccessFactors software into .

With the vast amount of data available across the enterprise, the challenge businesses face is making sense of the various data sources to derive actionable and trusted insights. As part of SAP鈥檚 vision to across our solutions and power real-time, insight-driven planning and analysis, the new operational workforce planning and analytics capability delivers pre-built content to integrate and visualize data from 51风流SuccessFactors solutions and via 51风流Analytics Cloud. Announced today at SAPPHIRE NOW, the new capability is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2021.

By combining people, financial, and operational data in one place so that leaders can discover, visualize, plan, predict, and ultimately make unbiased and data-driven decisions, the new capability allows leaders to:

• Combine finance data and predictive forecasts to explore areas of high sales and adjust hiring accordingly
• Align employee skills with the needs of the business by assessing growth opportunities based on pipeline and market opportunities
• Combine experience data with performance and trends to glean insights into projected levels of employee attrition and simulate the business impact

With this capability, leaders can better understand what makes employees thrive, spot risks, and create a workforce strategy that is reflective of employee needs and supports ongoing business transformation.

The need to put people first has never been more important. Embracing a data-driven approach will help businesses as they face multifaceted challenges, such as hiring, reskilling and retaining talent, improving diversity, equity and inclusion, and driving cultural change to support ongoing transformation.

Employees have to be at the center of every business decision because people are what drives innovation, creativity, and the success of the business. With advanced and comprehensive workforce planning and analytics, organizations can improve their agility and adaptability while delivering the human-centric experiences needed for sustainable long-term success.

Irfan Khan is president of听SAP听HANA Database and Analytics at SAP.
Jill Popelka is president of 51风流SuccessFactors.

The current extraordinary circumstances and the uncertain outlook ahead are underlining the imperative to leverage the full power of integrated solutions designed to help businesses operate in the 鈥渘ew now.鈥�

Only enterprises that leverage these solutions will survive and thrive in fast-changing environments, react rapidly to new realities, and make bold decisions with insight-based confidence and integrity.

SAP’s Business Technology Platform is a portfolio of integrated solutions that accelerate the transformation of data into business value. It includes database and data management, application development, integration, and analytics technologies that extend from premise to cloud.

This platform forms the foundation of a flexible enterprise strategy. In conjunction with 51风流and other applications, it provides the critical capabilities that drive resilience to the present turbulent conditions and powers agile innovation for the unpredictable environment ahead.

In response to customers鈥� needs at this time, we have designed three solution packages to help enterprises leverage the power of the Business Technology Platform and achieve the three core competencies of a modern and flexible enterprise: engagement, insight, and automation.

Engagement

Like many enterprises around the globe, 51风流has had to pivot to home working. We currently have 95 percent of our 100,000 people working at home, doing a brilliant job of keeping our 440,000 customers鈥� businesses running smoothly. They are able to do this not just because of our technology, but because they are committed to helping customers succeed.

One of the ways to maintain employee engagement at a time like this is to communicate well with people. Organizations need to show empathy to people鈥檚 situations and keep them well informed. Giving employees access to information on a self-service basis and personalized experience leaves them feeling confident to do their job.

Our is an employee communication app created using technology from 51风流and Qualtrics to provide employees with accurate real-time facts on COVID-19 as well as guidance on how to cope with the pandemic. The application enables users to collate information from trustworthy sources like the World Health Organization and combine it with specific country data, local government guidance, and their own company policies.

Users can input data about their personal situation to be guided to relevant advice. A conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot makes access to the information intuitive and natural. Analytics allow the enterprise to monitor employee sentiment and manage engagement.

Zuellig Pharma got up and running with the app in just two weeks and are using it to provide essential information to their global workforce 24/7, helping them stay safe and productive.

Insight

The next core competence enterprises need is the ability to bring intelligent insight together for rapid response and forward planning. There are two building blocks of this capability: platform and apps.

There is no way an organization can react adequately to fast change if it has a bunch of loosely coupled line-of-business solutions built on different data models. The way to become an agile enterprise is to use modular apps on top of a global platform.

Cloud apps from 51风流adopt a single data model to power integrated business processes without the need for expensive third-party integration, and APIs enable partners to connect to non-51风流applications across hybrid landscapes. This is how an enterprise gets the real-time 360-degree insight it needs to make the right decisions.

One group for whom this is particularly challenging at present is retailers, which are currently struggling to reconfigure their business operations for a post-pandemic consumer paradigm.

This particular package uses the solutions within the Business Technology Platform along with a pre-packaged retail industry dashboard to help retailers harness all relevant information for insight-driven decision-making. It offers them a holistic view of their businesses and allows them to model the impact of further changes in operational constraints, supply chains, and consumer behaviour. Likewise, the solutions can be implemented for other businesses such as banks, real estate firms, and hospitality that are restructuring operations for business continuity.

In an even more critical use case, Parkland Hospital is using 51风流Analytics Cloud powered by 51风流HANA to provide true situational awareness to its ER department, giving real-time insight into patient volumes, bed utilization, and pod assignment.

Automation

Innovations with AI will soon be powering the automation of 60 percent of enterprise operational processes. Huge parts of the value chain can already be managed remotely, mitigating the impact of lockdowns.

AI is increasing the intelligence of operational processes by providing alerts and recommendations. One example is flagging up shortcomings in supply chains to COOs, or helping CFOs tweak their tactics in the light of real-time market insight.

Across all industries, AI-powered automation is freeing employees from low-value, repetitive tasks, empowering them to apply their skills to more interesting, higher-value work. Machine learning is helping organizations identify new trends in data so they can adapt and automate their business processes for maximum impact.

from 51风流can help to automate, enhance, and adapt business processes to changing demand. 51风流Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, 51风流Intelligent Business Process Management, and 51风流Conversational AI services together put digital process automation to work, freeing people to create innovative responses to these challenging times.

One public sector customer is using an intelligent bot from 51风流to process short-term allowance requests, which surged from 10,000 to 30,000 due to COVID-19. As a result, the company is processing cases 20-times faster than before. The solution has cut manual effort by up to 90 percent and it paid for itself within a month.

Success Together

SAP鈥檚 Business Technology Platform is empowering organizations in all industries across the globe to reinvent themselves as flexible enterprises.

As Susan Ferrier, group executive for People and Culture at National Australia Bank, one of our customers, : 鈥淲e鈥檝e seen this whole crisis unfold across our complete footprint around the world and it鈥檚 really been a time for reinvention 鈥� of the way we work, the way we connect, and of how our business model works. We got 85 percent of our workforce working at home in two weeks and we鈥檝e had to stand up a new way of communicating with employees. We鈥檙e pushing the situation as an opportunity to upskill and reskill through digital learning, especially using the skills inventory that sits in [SAP] SuccessFactors.鈥�

This is a powerful example of how enterprises using the Business Technology Platform can turn the world鈥檚 biggest challenges into our most significant opportunities.

Right now, we鈥檙e offering solution packages that help you leverage the power of SAP鈥檚 Business Technology Platform. Learn more about .

Irfan Khan is president of 51风流Platform & Technology.

The is a portfolio of integrated solutions, both on premise and in the cloud, that helps customers not only manage but actively benefit from the growing volume of data and business processes that are the reality of modern business. The market categories of analytics, as well as database and data management are two of the four pillars that make up the Business Technology Platform. As a business-centric platform, it brings SAP鈥檚 unique industry and business process knowledge into our technologies and tools, helping enterprises to get the maximum value out of their data.听

SAP Leads in Forrester Research Study

Based on the in-memory technology 51风流HANA, we built an integrated set of solutions that span the value chain of data. From connecting to any source with 51风流Data Hub and processing in real time with 51风流HANA to managing data in for example, 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, and visualizing it in 51风流Analytics Cloud. We have been able to witness how these solutions 鈥� as part of the Business Technology Platform 鈥� benefit our customers. Recently, research and advisory firm Forrester evaluated 14 vendors and identified 51风流as a leader in .听听

The report evaluated the latest releases of 51风流HANA, 51风流BW/4HANA, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and 51风流Data Hub. Of the 25 evaluation criteria, 51风流achieved full marks — a score of 5/5 — on 16 of the criteria:

Forrester recognized, 鈥淪AP鈥檚 key differentiators are its shared-nothing, distributed in-memory data platform for real-time analytics; optimized data streaming and query processing; integrated data services layer; advanced compression; and security.鈥�听

is the most recent innovation to the data management for analytics portfolio.听 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud became generally available late last year and can be used as a standalone solution or to extend existing investments in on-premise 51风流data warehousing technologies to the cloud. Based on the in-memory technology of SAP, we enable customers to securely connect to any data source, helping eliminate the need for unnecessary data movement. With 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud, customers can now combine this with cloud elasticity to give more people access to data 鈥� simplifying data landscapes, improving security, and reducing costs.鈥� 听

51风流Data Warehouse Cloud is a central part of our vision for the future of data management and analytics, as the Forrester report mentions, 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud provides 鈥�an analytical and persona-driven data warehouse-as-a-service designed for business and IT. [It] focuses on orchestrating various data sources and maintaining security, trust, and semantic information to accelerate business–critical insights.鈥�听

51风流Data Management for Analytics Portfolio Transforms the Patient Care Experience 听

HARTMANN GROUP, a global distributor of medical supplies, recently implemented 51风流solutions from the data management for analytics portfolio into its architecture to help hospitals zero-in on patient care. HARTMANN required a data management for analytics environment they knew they could trust that could handle significant data volume and variety, along with the responsibility of enabling physicians to help patients get back to good health quickly. 听听

鈥淐urrently, over 60 percent of medical supply orders are processed manually via phone and fax on a daily basis,” said Sinanudin Omerhodzic, CIO of Paul Hartmann AG. “There is no reason that physicians and healthcare professionals should be spending time on this function, when they can be treating patients and saving lives. With the help of SAP鈥檚 comprehensive data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, and IoT solutions, HARTMANN now has a trusted single source of data that has enabled us to already experience an improvement of service for our customers — and ultimately our customers鈥� patients.听 51风流was the ideal choice to lead our digital transformation and prepare us for continuous innovation to better serve the healthcare industry.鈥�听

Tight integration within all these solutions means that innovation at any stage of the data value chain — from data management, quality, storage, and its consumption in analytics — ultimately brings more value to the customer.

The recognition further validates for us that 51风流is in a unique position to bring data and analytics closer together than ever before, enabling and empowering our customers to realize the full potential of their data. 听

To learn more about SAP鈥檚 ranking, .

Gerrit Kazmaier is the executive vice president of 51风流HANA and Analytics at SAP.

Irfan Khan is the president of 51风流Platform and Technologies in Global Customer Operations at SAP.

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