In this lesson, you'll discover the main advantages provided by SAP Business Data Cloud and its key innovations that meet the challenges of organizations that want to make data-driven decisions.
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.
Let's introduce the core innovations of SAP Business Data Cloud that drive these changes.
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
What makes SAP Business Data Cloud so powerful, is that it offers the tools and technologies to meet all data and analytics requirements of a modern and agile organization. It uses the latest technology to support scenarios such as:
- Out-of-the-box reporting.
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence.
- Advanced data modeling and data warehousing.
- Powerful planning and reporting.
- Intelligent data management.
SAP Business Data Cloud provides data warehousing features including a manual data integration and data modeling approach, AI and machine learning based extensions of data models as well as innovative out-of-the-box reporting capabilities side-by-side. With this wide range of functions, it covers all the requirements of a modern data and analytics solution and thus serves different target audiences with different requirements.
End-to-end data lifecycle managed by SAP
One of the core innovations of SAP Business Data Cloud is that SAP's role as a provider goes beyond the tasks that maintain security, availability, and performance in a Software-as-a-Service landscape. Rather, SAP uses its knowledge and experience to bundle, integrate, harmonize, and transform customers' business data across different business applications such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Customer Experience or SAP SuccessFactors in an unprecedented approach. To prepare for seamless use across all SAP Business Data Cloud scenarios and third-party tools, the business data that is managed by SAP is integrated into a hyperscaler environment, and undergoes cleansing, harmonization, and enrichment.
Out-of-the-box reporting
A key highlight of SAP Business Data Cloud is its out-of-the-box reporting capability, featuring Insight Apps, which create business insights with a single click, empowering informed decision-making. The concept of this feature is based on predelivered artifacts and objects that may remind you at the first glance on the well-known business content in SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, or SAP Analytics Cloud. But there's a significant difference to the existing concepts. Unlike before, all artifacts, objects, and process steps for a ready-to-consume full-stack application are included and fully managed by SAP. Specifically, here is what happens when you install an Insight App:
- Automated creation of artifacts across all tools and components.
- Automated data management steps.
- Automated data provisioning from data source to dashboard.
- Automated ready-to-consume business insights.
In this lesson, you learned about SAP Business Data Cloud's core innovations with the wide range of functionalities such as the out-of-the-box reporting with Insight Apps, and the main advantages provided by SAP Business Data Cloud.
