To achieve true , 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.
When organizations fully harness the power of their data, they become enterprises that use it to innovate faster, create new revenue streams, and adapt to unanticipated changes.
At SAP, we know the opportunity to capture and use data strategically has never been more paramount. Today, we鈥檙e taking a significant step forward 鈥� along with other leaders in our industry 鈥� to enable customers to simplify their data landscape and unleash the power of business data.
Announcing 51风流Datasphere
We are excited to announce聽, a comprehensive data service built on that enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. With a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, , data federation, and data virtualization, 51风流Datasphere enables data professionals to easily distribute mission-critical business data 鈥� with business context and logic preserved 鈥� across the data landscape.
51风流Datasphere is the next generation of 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud. We have kept all the capabilities that customers love using today and added new capabilities that enhance the discovery, modeling, and distribution of mission-critical business data. Existing 51风流Data Warehouse Cloud customers will automatically see the new functionalities in their product environment today and can continue running their workloads without disruption 鈥� no migration necessary.
51风流Datasphere offers a range of benefits for businesses to enhance their data strategies.
Access Authoritative Data
51风流Datasphere provides a direct line to mission-critical business data and metadata 鈥� and the critical relationship between them 鈥� from 51风流applications. It makes it effortless for data professionals to solve complex business semantic modeling requirements via the new 51风流Datasphere Analytic Model. This capability provides accelerated time-to-value by automatically reusing the semantical definitions and associations from 51风流applications, simplifying the steps data professionals must take to deliver mission-critical business data across their organization. We have also made it easier to automatically discover, manage, and govern your data with 51风流Datasphere Catalog. Additionally, cataloging data stored in and 51风流Datasphere will be provided at no additional charge.
Enrich All Data Projects
51风流Datasphere enables organizations to combine all their data and implement transformations that help ensure everyone is always working off the same data. It supports both data federation and new fast data replication, offering powerful options to combine data sources and harmonize heterogeneous data into a business semantic model of customers鈥� diverse data landscapes. Access to industry data is now even easier with 51风流Datasphere Marketplace, which has more than 3,000 curated data sets that can be acquired at the touch of a button to quickly enrich data projects with topical, trusted data. Moreover, we are announcing partnerships with industry-leading open data partners to closely integrate their data and platforms with 51风流Datasphere to enable customers to combine 51风流data with other data sources unlike ever before.
Simplify the Data Landscape
51风流Datasphere runs in every cloud and against hybrid environments. This flexibility allows data professionals to have secure access to all their data no matter where it resides. It also enables customers to maximize their on-premise investments, such as 51风流Business Warehouse (51风流BW). 51风流Datasphere, BW bridge, enables the reuse of 51风流BW models and connectors, providing a transition path to the public cloud for 51风流NetWeaver BW and 51风流BW/4HANA customers. Once data is integrated, harmonized, and improved in 51风流Datasphere, data professionals can use 51风流Datasphere Spaces 鈥� a feature to organize, group, and manage data as well as control the level of visibility and collaboration 鈥� to create a 鈥渧irtual workspace.鈥� These virtual workspaces can then be delivered to data consumers that rely on packaged data such as marketing, sales, supply chain, or partner data and AI teams.
Building a Powerful Open Data Ecosystem Around 51风流Datasphere
In a major moment for our industry and customers, 51风流is partnering with other open data partners 鈥�,听,听, and聽聽鈥� to radically simplify customers鈥� data landscapes with a business data fabric. By closely integrating their data and AI platforms with 51风流Datasphere, organizations can now access their mission-critical business data across any cloud infrastructure.
- Databricks聽integrates 51风流data, with its complete business context, with its Data Lakehouse platform
- Collibra聽future proofs data governance, privacy, and compliance initiatives
- 颁辞苍蹿濒耻别苍迟听sets data in motion with its data streaming platform
- DataRobot聽empowers organizations to leverage augmented intelligence with automated machine learning
Delivering a Business Data Fabric
51风流Datasphere, and its open data ecosystem, is the technology foundation that enables a business data fabric. This is a data management architecture that focuses on delivering an integrated, semantically rich data layer over underlying data landscapes to provide seamless and scalable access to data without duplication. A business data fabric equips any organization to deliver meaningful data to every data consumer 鈥� with business context and logic intact. As organizations need accurate data that is quickly available and described with business-friendly terms, this approach enables data professionals to permeate the clarity that business semantics provide throughout every use case.
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鈥檝e been envisioning. 51风流Datasphere provided us with a solution to build a harmonized layer 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�
鈥撀�David Johnston, Chief Information Officer, Messer
51风流Datasphere represents the tailored integration point for all partners enabling customers to connect, unify, and manage 51风流and non-51风流data unlike ever before. With the support of some of the world鈥檚 most renowned advisory firms, such as Accenture, CapGemini, Deloitte, EY, IBM, and聽, every organization can enable a business data fabric to deliver meaningful data to their data consumers.
We welcome all partners to join us in the mission of empowering customers to unleash the power of business data.
Get Started Today
Start your journey today to unleash the power of your business data across your data landscape with 51风流Datasphere.
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- 聽to hear more about these new 51风流and partner innovations
- 搁别补诲听A Deeper Look Into How 51风流Datasphere Enables a Business Data Fabric, by Juergen Muller, CTO and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE
JG Chirapurath is chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流BTP.
