Unlocking Better Insights by Combining SAP Applications with SAP Business Data Cloud

Imagine having a well-organized, unified data environment built on a single semantic model that encompasses all SAP applications. This arrangement supports companies’ modernization efforts in a valuable way, ensuring compatibility with external data platforms. The strengths of SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) lie in its flexible storage options, open consumption layer, and the concept of data gravity, which processes data at its source, eliminating the need for redundant storage.

SAP BDC offers robust data management and governance with a zero-copy model for data sharing, providing harmonized, enriched data products with advanced analytics and AI insights, all integral to SAP’s data and analytics offerings. Its unified semantic model allows for cross-domain analytics, serving as a central hub for mission-critical data and AI functionalities.

The platform benefits a range of key users such as Administrators, Application Developers, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Enterprise Planners, and Line of Business Consumers. SAP BDC focuses on enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making, making SAP and third-party content more accessible.

SAP’s strategic approach involves partnerships to enhance data capabilities and encourage adoption. Collaborating with technology leaders like Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Google for AI models and tools, and integrating complementary capabilities with firms like Data Robot, Collibra, and Confluent, enriches SAP’s cloud portfolio, facilitating the development of AI-driven use cases and solutions.

For seamless integration, SAP partners with third-party data platforms like Amazon DataZone and Microsoft OneLake. To promote adoption, SAP collaborates with resellers and implementation partners to assist customers with cloud migrations and AI solution implementation. Additionally, SAP engages in research with academic institutions to ensure their AI offerings are technologically advanced and aligned with business needs.

SAP's AI-First, Suite-First strategy leverages the potential of SAP Business AI, SAP Business Data Cloud, and Joule. SAP is strategically positioned to utilize comprehensive business data, embedding AI across their solutions to deliver exceptional insights and value. SAP BDC serves as the foundational data platform, unifying semantically rich data products across diverse architectures. As a central repository for critical business data, SAP BDC transforms raw data into actionable insights, driving strategic decision-making. powering AI functionality with semantically rich data products across varied data architectures, and simplifying data extraction from both SAP and non-SAP systems.

Incorporating SAP applications into this data ecosystem further enhances visibility and control over business processes. It enables thorough analysis of spending patterns, supply chain dynamics, and potential cost-saving opportunities, amplifying the strategic value of SAP applications through the advanced AI and data science capabilities offered by SAP BDC, leading to informed business decisions and optimized operational processes.