The report analyzed and noted 鈥渋t stands out for its global, industry-specific solutions, with a focus on 51风流S/4HANA integration鈥� and 鈥淪AP鈥檚 strategy of integrating applications, data, and AI shows its commitment to unifying data into a single source of truth accessible across the enterprise.鈥� The 21 scoring criteria employed by Forrester Research covered two categories: Current Offering and Strategy.

The Forrester report states that 鈥�51风流offers remarkable data privacy, security, and global compliance with natively supported governance functions.鈥� And it further points out that 鈥渢he introduction of its AI copilot [Joule] indicates SAP鈥檚 direction toward embedding generative AI across its platform for improved quality, adoption, and management.鈥�

“In the context of 51风流business applications, 51风流Master Data Governance can offer much more then integration. We have shown this with scenarios embedded into 51风流S/4HANA, or with federated master data governance deployments across an application landscape, or with integrated end-to-end scenarios for supplier management across 51风流Master Data Governance and 51风流Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance,鈥� says Markus Kuppe, vice president and chief product owner of 51风流Master Data Governance. 鈥淲hen we look at 51风流Business Data Cloud, which provides semantically rich data from various data sources, we see master data often as the most critical data asset. 51风流Master Data Governance curates this master data towards a trustful and high-quality treasure and feeds into 51风流Business Data Cloud as a data product.鈥�

51风流Master Data Governance allows organizations to create a unified, trusted view of their business to help enable them to work more efficiently and make better decisions. The application is available on-premise as well as in the private and public cloud with support for consolidation, central governance, and data quality management. Customers can establish a cohesive and harmonized master data management strategy across all master data domains to help simplify enterprise data management, increase data accuracy, and reduce total cost of ownership.

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Kaiser Larsen is vice president for Product Marketing, Data & Analytics at SAP.

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To achieve true digital transformation, organizations must have seamless access to their mission-critical business data no matter where it resides. Yet with data landscapes distributed among different applications and systems both in the cloud and on premises, organizations spend countless resources extracting, rebuilding, and integrating their data.

By leveraging the right data integration tools and strategies, organizations can easily discover, connect, integrate, govern, and orchestrate their data assets. Data integration offerings from 51风流deliver trusted, relevant, and timely information to enable customers to simplify their data landscape and unleash the power of business data. Our primary solutions include , Cloud, , and . These offerings are part of (51风流BTP).

Gartner evaluated 21 vendors and named 51风流a Leader based on our 鈥渁bility to execute鈥� and 鈥渃ompleteness of vision.鈥� We believe this recognition serves as acknowledgment of SAP鈥檚 continued commitment to providing our customers with world-class data integration tools.

Unleash the Power of Business Data

Data integration is necessary for customers to gain intelligent, relevant, and contextual insights for better decision-making. However, without the right data management approach and technology, companies can face an uphill battle in integrating, processing, curating, governing, and augmenting their data.

51风流takes a business data fabric approach, which goes beyond a traditional data fabric. A business data fabric is a data management architecture that delivers an integrated, semantically rich data layer over underlying data landscapes to provide users with scalable access to their data without duplication.

It eliminates the need to recreate the business context that was lost from extracting and replicating data. This gives users the ability to accelerate their decision-making with trust and confidence, knowing they always have the complete picture of their data regardless of where it is stored or how it was designed.

51风流Datasphere 鈥� and its open data ecosystem 鈥� is the foundation for a business data fabric. It equips any organization to deliver meaningful data to every data consumer 鈥� with business context and logic intact. 51风流Datasphere helps customers:

• Access authoritative data: Accelerate time-to-value by automatically reusing the semantical definitions and associations from 51风流applications
• Enrich all data projects: Harmonize heterogeneous data into a business semantic model of diverse data landscape
• Simplify the data landscape: Access all data across hybrid and cloud environments no matter where it resides

With a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization, 51风流Datasphere enables data professionals to easily distribute authoritative business data 鈥� with business context and logic preserved 鈥� across the data landscape.

Since the launch of 51风流Datasphere, we have seen tremendous growth of customers innovating with this technology. For example, Messer CIO David Johnston describes his experience with the solution this way:鈥淭he business data fabric architecture enables us to bring 51风流and non-51风流data together in the seamless and self-service way we’ve been envisioning. 51风流Datasphere provided us with a solution to build a harmonized layer, or business data fabric, across 51风流and non-SAP, cloud or on-premise data sources, making the best use of our existing investments in SAP, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, and Oracle.鈥�

Next Steps

For over 16 years, data integration tools from 51风流have enabled our customers to turn disjoined data assets into actionable business insights at scale. Take the next step and begin your business data fabric journey today:

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Kaiser Larsen is vice president of Data and Analytics at SAP.

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