What is SAP Business Data Cloud?
SAP BDC is a data platform that harmonizes all data from SAP and non-SAP sources, into a unified semantic layer of trusted data, to power advanced analytics and to build AI applications.
SAP Business Data Cloud harmonizes SAP and non SAP data into one semantic layer, delivering trusted data for analytics and AI.
SAP Business Data Cloud provides a SAP-managed, subscription-based service with real-time data replication from SAP applications, reducing data preparation to decrease time to insights.
SAP Business Data Cloud uses a single domain model to harmonize business entities from all SAP applications and preserve metadata.
SAP Business Data Cloud includes SAP-managed intelligent applications and data products to provide ready-to-consume insights installable by business users.
- SAP Business Data Cloud supports an open data ecosystem approach integrating with external data platform vendors.
Software Components of SAP Business Data Cloud
SAP BDC combines existing best-of-breed SAP solutions with new software components.
SAP have taken its two flagship data management and analytics solutions, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud and they have embedded SAP Databricks. SAP have also provided the opportunity for customers to include their existing SAP BW in their SAP BDC landscape.
Let’s list the software components of SAP BDC.
The existing SAP solutions that are part of the architecture of SAP BDC:
- SAP Datasphere – to provide the data integration and modeling layer
- SAP Anaytics Cloud – to provide the analysis layer
- SAP BW – if a customer already has SAP BW, this can be used as a data source.
The new software components of SAP BDC:
- SAP Databricks – to provide AI and machine learning development tools.
- SAP BDC Foundation Services – to manage the data products in a single domain model.
SAP BDC is not a replacement for SAP Datasphere or SAP BW. SAP BDC is a super-set of those solutions and adds many more capabilities including machine learning and AI development. SAP Datasphere is an essential component of SAP BDC. SAP BW, if required, can also play an important role in SAP BDC. SAP BDC is an evolution of the data fabric that SAP began developing with SAP Datasphere.
