{"id":5778,"date":"2023-03-20T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/australia\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T21:19:28","slug":"unleashing-the-power-of-business-data-with-sap-datasphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/australia\/2023\/03\/20\/unleashing-the-power-of-business-data-with-sap-datasphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Unleashing the Power of Business Data with SAP Datasphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

To achieve true digital transformation, organizations must have seamless access to their mission-critical business data no matter where it resides. Yet with data landscapes distributed among different applications and systems both in the cloud and on premises, organizations spend countless resources extracting, rebuilding, and integrating their data.<\/p>\n

When organizations fully harness the power of their data, they become enterprises that use it to innovate faster, create new revenue streams, and adapt to unanticipated changes.<\/p>\n

At SAP, we know the opportunity to capture and use data strategically has never been more paramount. Today, we\u2019re taking a significant step forward \u2014 along with other leaders in our industry \u2014 to enable customers to simplify their data landscape and unleash the power of business data.<\/p>\n

Announcing SAP Datasphere<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We are excited to announce\u00a0SAP Datasphere<\/strong><\/a>, a comprehensive data service built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) that enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. With a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization, SAP Datasphere enables data professionals to easily distribute mission-critical business data \u2014 with business context and logic preserved \u2014 across the data landscape.<\/p>\n

SAP Datasphere is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. We have kept all the capabilities that customers love using today and added new capabilities that enhance the discovery, modeling, and distribution of mission-critical business data. Existing SAP Data Warehouse Cloud customers will automatically see the new functionalities in their product environment today and can continue running their workloads without disruption \u2014 no migration necessary.<\/p>\n

SAP Datasphere offers a range of benefits for businesses to enhance their data strategies.<\/p>\n

Access Authoritative Data<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAP Datasphere provides a direct line to mission-critical business data and metadata \u2013 and the critical relationship between them \u2013 from SAP applications. It makes it effortless for data professionals to solve complex business semantic modeling requirements via the new SAP Datasphere Analytic Model. This capability provides accelerated time-to-value by automatically reusing the semantical definitions and associations from SAP applications, simplifying the steps data professionals must take to deliver mission-critical business data across their organization. We have also made it easier to automatically discover, manage, and govern your data with SAP Datasphere Catalog. Additionally, cataloging data stored in SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere will be provided at no additional charge.<\/p>\n

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Enrich All Data Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAP Datasphere enables organizations to combine all their data and implement transformations that help ensure everyone is always working off the same data. It supports both data federation and new fast data replication, offering powerful options to combine data sources and harmonize heterogeneous data into a business semantic model of customers\u2019 diverse data landscapes. Access to industry data is now even easier with SAP Datasphere Marketplace, which has more than 3,000 curated data sets that can be acquired at the touch of a button to quickly enrich data projects with topical, trusted data. Moreover, we are announcing partnerships with industry-leading open data partners to closely integrate their data and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms with SAP Datasphere to enable customers to combine SAP data with other data sources unlike ever before.<\/p>\n

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Simplify the Data Landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAP Datasphere runs in every cloud and against hybrid environments. This flexibility allows data professionals to have secure access to all their data no matter where it resides. It also enables customers to maximize their on-premise investments, such as SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW). SAP Datasphere, BW bridge, enables the reuse of SAP BW models and connectors, providing a transition path to the public cloud for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BW\/4HANA customers. Once data is integrated, harmonized, and improved in SAP Datasphere, data professionals can use SAP Datasphere Spaces \u2013 a feature to organize, group, and manage data as well as control the level of visibility and collaboration \u2013 to create a \u201cvirtual workspace.\u201d These virtual workspaces can then be delivered to data consumers that rely on packaged data such as marketing, sales, supply chain, or partner data and AI teams.<\/p>\n

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SAP Datasphere can make real the promise of business data being an always-on, always high-quality resource that can be relied on \u2013 without having to second guess if it is fit for purpose.<\/p>\n

Building a Powerful Open Data Ecosystem Around SAP Datasphere<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In a major moment for our industry and customers, SAP is partnering with other open data partners \u2014Databricks<\/a>,\u00a0Collibra<\/a>,\u00a0Confluent<\/a>, and\u00a0DataRobot<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 to radically simplify customers\u2019 data landscapes with a business data fabric. By closely integrating their data and AI platforms with SAP Datasphere, organizations can now access their mission-critical business data across any cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Each of these strategic partners bring the unique strengths of their ecosystems:<\/p>\n