SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) is a fully managed Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that unifies and governs data from SAP and non-SAP applications to power advanced analytics and AI. SAP BDC includes many new innovations that are required to power a data platform that is able to handle the demands of AI now and in the future.
SAP BDC was developed to meet the challenges faced by organizations who want to build a modern data fabric to support current and future AI powered applications, but are held back by their current data platforms.

SAP BDC provides the data layer that bridges the applications and AI. SAP BDC provides a data platform to manage all SAP and non-SAP data and is used to build advanced analytical applications and AI.
SAP BDC is not a single software product. SAP BDC is a platform that includes multiple software components that work together to provide all the services required of an AI-ready data platform. Customers choose which of the listed SAP BDC components they want to use depending on their use case. They can start with a simple SAP BDC landscape and grow this as their requirements evolve.

