SAP just launched the SAP Datasphere solution, the latest generation of its data management portfolio, which provides customers with quick access to business-ready data across the data landscape.
To enhance SAP Datasphere and enable businesses to build unified data architecture that securely melds SAP software data with non-SAP data, SAP also announced strategic agreements with industry-leading data and AI firms Collibra NV, Confluent Inc., Databricks Inc., and DataRobot Inc.
It has been a difficult issue up until now to access and use data distributed across several systems and locations, including cloud providers, data vendors, and on-premise systems.
Customers have been forced to extract data from original sources and export it to a single place, losing crucial business context along the way and being able to reclaim it only through ongoing, dedicated IT projects and manual effort.
With the innovations made today, SAP Datasphere assists in eliminating this hidden data tax and enables companies to create a business data fabric architecture that quickly provides useful data while preserving business context and logic.
“With SAP customers generating 87% of total global commerce, SAP data is among a company’s most valuable business assets and is contained in the most important functions of an organization, from manufacturing to supply chains, finance, human resources and more,” said Juergen Mueller, Chief Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP SE.
“We want to help our customers take the next step to easily and confidently integrate SAP data with non-SAP data from third-party applications and platforms, unlocking entirely new insights and knowledge to bring digital transformation to another level.” He added.
SAP Datasphere
The newest version of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution is now available and is called SAP Datasphere. It makes it possible for data experts to provide scalable access to vital corporate data.
Data experts may assist in distributing mission-critical business data throughout their organization’s data environment with SAP Datasphere thanks to its unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization.
The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), on which SAP Datasphere is based, has strong enterprise security features such as database security, encryption, and governance. Existing SAP Data Warehouse Cloud users may make use of the new SAP Datasphere feature in their production environment with no extra procedures or migrations needed.
Improved data modeling protects the rich business context of data in SAP applications, while data cataloging, which automatically detects, organizes, and governs data, simplifies data replication to provide data and its continual modifications in real time. There are plans for further application connectivity features that connect the data and metadata from SAP cloud solutions to SAP Datasphere.
To improve data-driven decision-making and free up IT staff to focus on other strategic activities, Messer Americas, a leading industrial and medical gas manufacturer in North and South America, needed easy and secure access to data from SAP and non-SAP systems inside the organization.
Messer Americas was able to create a cutting-edge data architecture using SAP Datasphere while preserving the context of its company data.
“SAP Datasphere simplifies our data landscape, giving us more confidence in the data we’re working with every day so we can better deliver on the needs of the business,” said David Johnston, Chief Information Officer, Messer Americas.
“We can react faster to emergent changes in supply and demand, resulting in better inventory management, improved customer service, and optimization of our supply chain,” he added.
Strategic Partnerships
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide will be helped by SAP and its new open-data partners in making data-driven, business-critical decisions. Strategic partners of SAP enable customers to combine all of their data like never before by offering the distinctive capabilities of their ecosystems.
“Everybody wants access to SAP data, so leveraging partnerships among tech suppliers is absolutely necessary for a comprehensive data strategy,” said Dan Vesset, group vice president of data and analytics market research, IDC.
Vesset added that “Organizations today live in a world where a multi-cloud, multivendor, and off- and on-premise data landscape is the norm. SAP is taking a new approach by partnering with a select group of leading partners, treating third-party data as a first-class citizen to better meet the needs of customers.”
Initial partners include:
- Collibra plans to have a customized connection with SAP, enabling customers to accomplish an enterprise governance strategy by developing a full data catalog with lineage across their whole data environment — including SAP and non-SAP data. Collibra makes reliable data accessible throughout any company.
- Confluent plans to connect its data streaming platform, giving businesses the ability to access valuable business data and link it in real-time with other applications. The fundamental platform for data in motion, Confluent’s cloud-native service enables unrestricted real-time data flow from diverse sources across an organization.
- Databricks customers may combine their Data Lakehouse with SAP software to transfer data while keeping semantics intact, allowing them to simplify their data environment.
- DataRobot enables businesses to utilize multimodal automated machine learning capabilities on top of SAP Datasphere and integrate them directly into their business data fabric, regardless of where it sits in the cloud.
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