Organizations generate vast amounts of data, but it only becomes valuable when it is stored, integrated, modeled, and analyzed effectively. This lesson introduces the "data-to-value" concept—SAP’s approach for turning raw data into actionable insights through SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud. You’ll learn how SAP Business Data Cloud brings these capabilities together to centralize data, improve data quality, and enable advanced analytics and planning across the enterprise.
Leveraging SAP HANA Cloud, Datasphere, and Analytics Cloud
Objective
After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain the Data-to-Value concept and the SAP Business Data Cloud components.
Introduction
An Introduction to Data and Analytics
Your company needs a reliable database with high performance for creating custom developments, managing data for analytic topics, and extending on-premise capabilities with capabilities of the cloud. SAP HANA is the main SAP offering for these use cases. Today, data is more important than ever. But even the best data gathered has no value if it isn't utilized.
At SAP, we refer to the process of deriving maximum value from your data as 'data-to-value'. Our combination of data and analytics capabilities is key to this process. You want to analyze or aggregate your data to get insights that can contribute to better planning. Your company needs a data warehousing solution and an analytics solution for building dashboards, telling stories, and getting deeper insights.
Data to Value
SAP Business Technology Platform provides one persistence strategy for all data-driven innovations to turn data into value. In your enterprise you have several spaces where data is stored. In addition to this, you have use cases where you need database capabilities. But all data has no value when you don't store, integrate, model, share and analyze it properly. SAP Business Technology Platform has the right building blocks to tackle this topic with capabilities for data storing, data management, data warehousing and data analytics and enterprise planning mainly through SAP Business Data Cloud. Included are technologies as SAP HANA Cloud Date Lake, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud.
Concept of Data to Value
Start utilizing capabilities to achieve a value out of your data today. This will increase the chances for growth and adaption of your enterprise through better analytics and enterprise planning based on good integration, preparation and modeling of data with Databases and Data Management solutions from SAP.
The Advantages of SAP Business Data Cloud
Organizations that make data-driven decisions today face three big challenges:
- Uncover the hidden potential in their business by unlocking seamless access to critical insights.
- Boost confidence in their data quality and integrity to empower data-driven decisions.
- Harness the power of fragmented, unstructured data sources and turn them into valuable business insights.
SAP Business Data Cloud was built to address these key challenges.
SAP centralizes data from SAP and non-SAP sources into a unified semantic layer, unlocking a new dimension of insights, advanced analytics, and AI capabilities. By integrating cross-company data, businesses gain actionable intelligence to bridge transactional processes and drive AI-powered growth. SAP’s AI agents leverage accurate, context-rich data from both SAP and non-SAP systems to deliver advanced automation, seamless cross-solution collaboration, and innovative decision-making, enabling businesses to adapt, innovate, and thrive at scale. Every part of the business is deeply connected, driving today’s digital first world.
Similar to SAP BTP, SAP Business Data Cloud also features its own cockpit. However, this SAP Business Data Cloud Cockpit differs in its functionality by providing specific capabilities for configuring SAP Business Data Cloud and for browsing and installing Insight Apps.
Out-of-the-box reporting
SAP Business Data Cloud offers powerful out-of-the-box reporting with Insight Apps, enabling one-click business insights for informed decision-making. Unlike traditional solutions, SAP fully manages all artifacts, objects, and process steps, ensuring automated data management, provisioning, and ready-to-use business insights.
One solution for all data and analytics requirements
SAP Business Data Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service solution equipped with data and analytics services needed in a modern world. Together with SAP Business Technology Platform providing foundational services, SAP Business Data Cloud combines strategic solutions such as SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud and their capabilities in one single solution.
Single solution for diverse audiences and use cases
SAP Business Data Cloud provides comprehensive tools for data and analytics needs, including reporting, AI-driven modeling, data management, and planning. By combining manual and AI-powered data integration with innovative reporting capabilities, it meets the diverse requirements of modern enterprises.
End-to-end data lifecycle managed by SAP
SAP Business Data Cloud goes beyond traditional SaaS management by integrating, harmonizing, and transforming customers business data across SAP applications like SAP S/4HANA, SAP Customer Experience, and SAP SuccessFactors. To ensure seamless use across all scenarios and third-party tools, SAP processes this data in a hyperscaler environment with cleansing, harmonization, and enrichment.
Learn more about SAP Business Data Cloud in the Introducing SAP Business Data Cloud Learning Journey.
Key Takeaways Of This Lesson
Start utilizing the capabilities of SAP BTP to achieve a value out of your data today. This will increase the chances for growth and adaptation of your enterprise through better analytics and enterprise planning based on good integration, preparation and modeling of data with Databases, Data Management and Analytic solutions from SAP.
Summary
SAP Datasphere creates semantically rich datasets from S/4HANA data.
Analytics Cloud builds intuitive dashboards on Datasphere models.
Integration supports federated access across SAP and non-SAP sources.