Introduction

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain what is SAP Business Data Cloud, and be familiar with the content.

SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data and seamlessly connects with third-party data, giving line of business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions. It combines all the powerful functionality of SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse, plus managed SAP Databricks and Intelligent Application, including data products for SAP line of business applications.

SAP Business Data Cloud differentiates from other data and analytics solutions by offering:

  • Prebuilt intelligent applications for advanced analytics and planning across all lines of business to deliver transformational insights.

  • Access to curated, SAP managed data products across your most important business processes, keeping its business context and semantics intact and fully governed.

  • Harmonization of all your SAP and third-party data with fully managed capabilities for a business data fabric architecture, business warehouse modernization, planning, data engineering and AI/ML.

  • SAP Databricks for pro-code development of AI, machine learning and data engineering tasks.

Content Overview

This workbook contains the enablement material for SAP Business Data Cloud. The lessons are targeted towards SAP Business Data Cloud end-user personas. It describes responsibilities of the different personas that range from business users to system administrators. Each of the units describe the persona(s) they address.

Participants will navigate the Working Capital Insights Intelligent Application, and enhance it with company code clustering data to better understand the company segmentation.

In summary, the key takeaways of the scenario include:

  • Install an Intelligent Application
  • Consume the Intelligent Application
  • Enhance data product with ML insights
  • Create an analytic model based on a new fact and associated dimension views
  • Copy and enrich the Intelligent Application in SAP Analytics Cloud

Prerequisites

  1. Participants should ensure they have login information and credentials.

  2. Each user will have access to SAP Business Data Cloud cockpit, SAP Databricks, their own SAP Datasphere space with predefined system connections, shared objects, generated time data, and SAP Analytics Cloud.

  3. It’s recommended to use the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers.

Disclaimer

The Basic Trial tenants are shared across multiple requests, and since most Business Administrator tasks described in this content are performed only once, they are available in view-only mode.

The use cases described in the workbook do not take potential data quality issues into account.

The steps represent just one of the methods of enhancing SAP managed content, though other approaches can also be used. Future releases can include new features designed to simplify enhancements further.