51风流Datasphere can offer that path. Its native connectivity to 51风流BW means customers can reuse up to 80% of existing 51风流BW content, retaining value while adding cloud speed, scale, and interoperability and avoiding costly and unnecessary rework. 

Delivering meaningful data to every data professional requires a comprehensive cloud data service. With 51风流Datasphere, organizations can:  

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

51风流has also partnered with an open data ecosystem of leading technology vendors to provide tailored integration between 51风流Datasphere and their solutions. The first set of industry-leading data and AI vendors includes Collibra, Confluent, Databricks, DataRobot, and Google Cloud. By closely integrating their data and AI platforms with 51风流Datasphere, organizations can access their mission-critical business data across any cloud infrastructure. 

Flexible Paths to the Cloud  

Many 51风流BW users have always-on projects that depend on 51风流BW data and objects, which requires flexibility in modernizing to the cloud.  

51风流offers flexible paths. Whether you’re moving directly or integrating 51风流Datasphere as part of your data landscape to enhance your 51风流BW deployment, there’s a strategy:  

• Gradually transition functionality over time using to reuse and integrate 51风流BW objects. 
• Leverage 51风流BW data ingestion and staging to accelerate the move or, for 51风流Business Suite customers without 51风流BW, move directly to 51风流Datasphere. 
• In some cases, migrate 51风流BW systems to 51风流Datasphere for a complete transition. 
• Modernize with a combination of 51风流Datasphere and 51风流HANA Cloud to benefit from the capabilities of both solutions. 51风流Datasphere can provide the foundation for a business data fabric, while 51风流HANA Cloud enables the development of intelligent data applications.   

The goal is to provide options to fit each customer’s unique environment and timeline. With the right approach, the move to 51风流Datasphere can be straightforward while optimizing previous investments. 

Our experienced 51风流partners understand the importance of flexible paths. They work with our customers to outline customized modernization paths that can safeguard their technology and fit their goals.

鈥淲e are excited to help 51风流BW customers experience the power of 51风流Datasphere. We鈥檝e already seen multiple customers take this modernization approach and it鈥檚 the ideal modernization path to protect the customer鈥檚 existing 51风流BW investments.鈥�

Deepu Sasidharan, Vice President, Analytics, Applexus

No matter which path a customer takes, they can always progress to 51风流Datasphere. Technically, this can be achieved with the support of 51风流Datasphere, 51风流BW bridge and modernization tools. That鈥檚 why customers like chose 51风流Datasphere.

鈥�51风流Datasphere, 51风流BW bridge is a complete game changer. The cloud architecture allows us to simplify our landscape. We are also seeing significant improvements in our performance.鈥�

Iaroslav Korzh, 51风流Technology Manager, Nipro Europe Group Companies 

New Professional Readiness Assessment 

Whether you鈥檙e starting fresh or modernizing an existing system, having a solid plan is key for a successful move to the cloud. 

51风流is now offering a limited-time, complimentary 51风流BW system assessment to help you optimize your transition to 51风流Datasphere. Through this assessment, you can gain insight into your 51风流BW environment and learn which objects are active and frequently used and whether they can be migrated.  

This assessment helps deliver a reliable basis for an actionable modernization plan. With the right information, you can modernize on your terms. Get started today by applying for your complimentary . 

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51风流BW customers moving to 51风流Datasphere may also qualify for exclusive incentives. Contact your 51风流representative before this limited-time opportunity expires. 

Daniel Yu is senior vice president of Solution Management and Product Marketing for 51风流Data and Analytics.

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:

• Visit the
• Try the free
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Kaiser Larsen is vice president of Data and Analytics at SAP.

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The summit featured the most recent trends, technologies, and strategies in the world of data and analytics. It offered a unique opportunity for attendees to learn from industry experts and gain insights into how businesses are using data and analytics to foster innovation.

While a wide variety of topics were addressed, data fabric stood out as a recurring theme. Data fabric is an approach to data management, deployment, and automation, and it took center stage during the sessions, workshops, and even the booth conversations.

The prominence of data fabric at the event underscores its growing importance in the field of data and analytics technology, which was exciting to see. Let’s dive into the key highlights.

1. Taking an Integrated Approach to Data and Analytics at the 51风流Booth

SAP鈥檚 booth presence was a major highlight at the summit, showcasing our suite of . Many attendees were interested in learning more about the launch of , as well as our recently announced open data partnerships with Databricks, Collibra, Confluent, and DataRobot.

51风流Datasphere was last month and is our comprehensive data service that enables users to easily distribute mission-critical business data across their data landscapes. Together with our partnerships, 51风流Datasphere is the foundation that can enable a business data fabric.

More than ever before, organizations need accurate, easily accessible data that鈥檚 available in business-friendly terms. A business data fabric architecture delivers an integrated, semantically rich data layer over underlying data landscapes and provides seamless and scalable access to data without duplication. By leveraging a business data fabric, organizations can deliver meaningful data to every user 鈥� with the business context and logic intact 鈥� and position themselves for long-term success.

It was inspiring to see so much interest in the business data fabric topic, not only in the sessions at the conference but also in the conversations at the 51风流booth. This level of enthusiasm demonstrates the growing recognition of data fabric’s potential to revolutionize data and analytics strategy, further validating its importance in the evolving digital landscape.

2. Leveraging a Business Data Fabric with Glanbia

Tom Harrington, senior business intelligence analyst at Glanbia, led the session 鈥淪AP: How Glanbia Drives Better Financial Decisions with Trusted, Authoritative Data.鈥� Harrington shared how Glanbia, a world leader in performance and lifestyle nutrition, gained a complete overview of its business by connecting data across cloud, on-premise, and flat files.

Glanbia leveraged 51风流Datasphere and 51风流Analytics Cloud to federate data from different sources using a business data fabric. Now, Glanbia business users create their own dashboards using 51风流Analytics Cloud and their own models in 51风流Datasphere, without assistance from IT users. They鈥檝e generated more meaningful financial insights to maximize the impact of decisions on their bottom line.

鈥淲e鈥檝e been able to transform into a data-driven organization in a quick amount of time,鈥� Harrington said. 鈥�51风流Datasphere and 51风流Analytics Cloud have enabled us to do that.鈥�

Glanbia is an example of how companies can use a business data fabric to better manage, access, and analyze their data, leading to more informed decision-making, improved efficiency, and increased competitiveness in the market.

Harrington ended the session by saying, 鈥淲e鈥檙e excited about the future.鈥�

3. Showcasing Advanced Analytics at the Show Floor Showdown

51风流Analytics Cloud was featured as part of the 鈥淪how Floor Showdown: Analytics and Business Intelligence Vendors II.鈥� 51风流competed against two other vendors to analyze and interpret a data set from Gartner.

Robert Thibodeaux, senior solution engineer, leveraged 51风流Analytics Cloud and 51风流Datasphere to combine data from disparate sources, define calculations and measures, and create hierarchies and dimensions. He then presented a visualization of his findings and demonstrated the interactive storytelling features of 51风流Analytics Cloud. Thibodeaux ended his presentation by emphasizing the ease of use for business users.

鈥淚f the user knows the data, they can trust data,鈥� he said. 鈥淎ll that insight is in one place.鈥�

The show floor showdown was a great illustration of the practical applications of advanced analytics, and it highlighted 51风流Analytics Cloud as a standout solution. Advanced analytics play a crucial role in helping businesses transform raw data into actionable insights, enabling them to make better decisions, improve performance, and maintain a competitive edge in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace.

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Join us at 51风流Sapphire to learn more about SAP鈥檚 latest innovations and connect with industry experts. Attend the event online or in Orlando from May 16-17, in Barcelona from May 24-25, and in S茫o Paulo from June 1-2. for 51风流Sapphire today.

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can maximize the value of your 51风流data for the most impactful decisions by retaining its full business meaning and context. With 51风流data and analytics solutions, you can deliver trusted insights on a modern data stack and extend planning and analysis across the enterprise for better outcomes.

Read more about the recently launched and its capabilities. To experience the power of 51风流Datasphere firsthand, try the

Daniel Yu is senior vice president of Solution Management and Product Marketing for 51风流Data and Analytics.

Today, data has become an engine of value creation. Organizations are forging new data strategies to derive meaningful insights and accelerate their innovation. Yet, many organizations struggle to derive value because their data is siloed across heterogeneous and distributed environments.

By leveraging the right data integration tools, organizations can easily discover, connect, integrate, govern, and orchestrate their data assets. SAP鈥檚 data integration offerings deliver trusted, relevant, and timely information to drive better business outcomes for our customers. Our solutions include , , , , and integration capabilities of the . These offerings are part of (51风流BTP).

Gartner evaluated 18 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.

Turn Data Chaos into Data Value

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.

SAP鈥檚 vision is a data fabric approach, which enables organizations to orchestrate highly distributed data, metadata, and processes while delivering data quality, security, and automation at speed.

, the data fabric layer of 51风流BTP, is a powerful solution that transforms distributed data sprawls into vital data insights. This technology combines data discovery, data preparation, data integration, data processing, and data connection across multiple endpoints and workflows.

51风流Data Intelligence Cloud helps customers:

• Integrate and orchestrate massive data volumes and streams at scale
• Streamline, operationalize, and govern innovation driven by machine learning
• Optimize governance and minimize compliance risk with comprehensive metadata management rules

Since the launch of 51风流Data Intelligence Cloud, we have seen tremendous growth of customers innovating with this technology. For example, Jesse Slocum, cloud engineer at , describes using 51风流Data Intelligence Cloud as 鈥渢he most robust data fabric solution that connects, manages, and analyzes large amounts of data unlike other tools.鈥� Comparatively, he goes on to say, other tools 鈥渙nly analyze small amounts of data, [and] fail to integrate with a wide range of cloud and on-premise applications.鈥�

Next Steps

For over 15 years, SAP鈥檚 data integration tools have enabled customers to turn disjoined data assets into actionable business insights at scale. If you鈥檙e ready to unlock the full potential of your data, take the next step with the following resources:

• Visit the
• Get started at
• Read the 2022

JG Chirapurath is chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流Business Technology Platform.

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