SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a comprehensive, cloud-native data management solution running on SAP Business Technology Platform.
It bridges the gap between disparate data sources (SAP and non-SAP, on-premise and cloud) to provide a single, harmonized view of the truth without requiring complex data movement or replication, which significantly reduces costs. Third-party data is connected to SAP Business Data Cloud through Databricks in a fully-managed SaaS solution.
Unlike standard data warehouses, SAP Business Data Cloud maintains the deep semantic business logic and context from SAP applications, which ensures data remains meaningful to business users. It also serves as the essential data foundation required for SAP Business AI, providing the clean, governed data necessary for reliable AI insights and automation.
Some key challenges of organizations are:
- Uncovering the hidden potential in their business by gaining access to critical insights.
- Boosting confidence in data quality and integrity to support data-driven decisions.
- Harnessing the power of fragmented, unstructured data sources and turning them into valuable business insights.
To address these challenges, there must be a holistic integration between data platforms and business applications, with data products based on a harmonized business data model. SAP Business Data Cloud is the solution.
While SAP Business Data Cloud functions as a unified offering, it leverages the combined power of:
- SAP Datasphere for data orchestration, cataloging, and semantic modeling.
- SAP Analytics Cloud for advanced visualization, planning, and predictive analytics.
- SAP Business Warehouse to allow organizations to bring their existing SAP BW investments into the cloud, including the reuse of data structures, transformations, and customizations.
- SAP HANA Cloud for high-performance database services and multi-model processing.
- SAP Master Data Governance to ensure the core data (customers, products, suppliers) is clean and consistent across the entire organization.
- SAP Data Intelligence for complex data pipelines and managing unstructured data.
- Strategic open data partners to prevent data silos, including Databricks, Snowflake, Google Cloud BigQuery, Confluent, and Collibra.
Overall, SAP Business Data Cloud is designed to eliminate "data silos" and turn fragmented data into a strategic asset, enabling faster decision-making and driving digital transformation through a modern data architecture.