White paper “The Move to SAP Datasphere – Recommended Action for SAP BW Customers”

Read the white paper by SAP and IBsolution to find out how SAP BW customers can move from their SAP Business Warehouse to SAP Datasphere and establish a decentralized data mesh or business data fabric architecture

The effective provision and use of data poses enormous challenges for many companies.

SAP Datasphere enables organizations to realize the full potential of their data. Therefore, companies should start the journey from the previous on-premise BW system to SAP Datasphere.

Our white paper, written in cooperation with SAP, provides concrete recommendations for action. It also describes how SAP Datasphere supports the transition from traditional data warehousing to a decentralized Data Mesh or Business Data Fabric architecture – and makes meaningful data available to every data consumer.

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FAQs about SAP Datasphere

What is SAP Datasphere?

SAP Datasphere is a comprehensive data management solution based on SAP Business Technology Platform that helps companies leverage the full potential of their data. Companies are able to realize a unified data architecture that brings together data from SAP and non-SAP systems. SAP Datasphere simplifies the data landscapes in companies by enabling access to all data stocks with the help of SAP tools and partner tools – while retaining business context and logic.

What functions does SAP Datasphere offer?

SAP Datasphere offers the option of organizing central and local data using spaces so that the business departments can manage their data themselves. Data modeling is state of the art and an explicit business layer provides additional flexibility when creating and adapting data models. SAP Datasphere is also impressive when it comes to connecting data sources from SAP and non-SAP systems – both on-premise and cloud-based.

What is the difference between SAP Datasphere and SAP DWC?

SAP Datasphere is the successor product to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC). The functionalities of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud have been retained and expanded to include semantic modeling functions, a new data catalog and application and data integration. This makes SAP Datasphere a uniform solution for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation and data virtualization.

Why should companies choose SAP Datasphere?

SAP Datasphere supports the shift from traditional data warehousing to a data mesh approach and thus meets the requirements of companies that want to become data-driven organizations. As a unified solution for data integration, data cataloguing, semantic modelling, data warehousing, data federation and data virtualization, SAP Datasphere creates the basis for implementing data mesh principles in a data fabric architecture. This concept enables companies to make meaningful data available to every data consumer.

How do companies benefit from SAP Datasphere?

With the help of SAP Datasphere, business users are able to quickly transform data into insights and derive appropriate measures – a decisive competitive advantage for sustained growth and increasing profitability. The public cloud deployment allows companies to concentrate fully on their business and not have to worry about the operation and maintenance of SAP Datasphere. Thanks to new releases every two weeks, companies always have immediate access to innovations.