Highlights:
- SAP SE has launched its SAP Datasphere platform to help enterprises simplify data access and use across many systems and locations.
- SAP Datasphere is considerably more than a rebranding of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, noting additional features such as data cataloging that can automatically identify, manage, and control data.
With the launch of its new SAP Datasphere platform recently, business software giant SAP SE stated that it intends to assist organizations in minimizing the complexity of accessing and utilizing data spread across multiple systems and locations.
SAP Datasphere is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and is intended to act as the primary integration point for linking, harmonizing, and distributing data from SAP and non-SAP applications. According to the business, it is based on the SAP Business Technology Platform, which delivers robust corporate security features such as database security, encryption, and governance.
SAP is partnering with some of the industry’s premier data analytics startups, such as Collibra NV, Databricks Inc., Confluent Inc., and DataRobot Inc., to help businesses accomplish more with their data.
The company noted that many organizations struggle to access dispersed data among cloud providers, data suppliers, and on-premises systems and consolidate it in a single area where it can be utilized more effectively. Clients were required to extract data from sources and transfer it to a central place, resulting in the loss of crucial business context and necessitating continuous, dedicated information technology initiatives and manual labor to recapture it, according to the company.
SAP Datasphere removes a significant portion of this manual labor, making it easier for businesses to construct a business data fabric architecture that preserves business context and logic. According to SAP, businesses may utilize their data in various advantageous ways.
SAP’s Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer, Julia White, said, “Taking a data-first approach is key. Data management and analytics have become the defining resources of corporations. Achieving this seamless data access is hard.”
White stated that SAP Datasphere is considerably more than a rebranding of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, noting additional features such as data cataloging that can automatically identify, manage, and control data. She also highlighted its simplified data replication features, which enable data and its ongoing changes to be sent in real-time, and its improved data modeling protects the business context of SAP application data.
“It’s a new generation of our data technology,” White said.
SAP also touted its strategic alliances, claiming that they will enable millions of users to make informed business decisions throughout the globe. For example, Collibra is creating a customized interface with SAP Datasphere to assist clients in constructing a comprehensive data catalog with lineage across their whole data environment to support their governance policies.
Additional partners include Confluent, which will integrate its real-time data streaming technology with SAP Datasphere so that users may leverage this data to power intelligent applications. Meanwhile, Databricks announced that clients could integrate their Data Lakehouse with SAP, facilitating the sharing of data while preserving its semantics. On top of SAP Datasphere, DataRobot will give machine learning capabilities.
Messer Americas, a subsidiary of Messer SE & Co. KGaA, is among the platform’s early users. Chief Information Officer David Johnston stated that the industrial gas firm aimed to obtain simple and secure access to SAP and non-SAP data to boost its organization’s data-driven decision-making. It utilized SAP Datasphere to construct a new data architecture that preserves the context of its complete corporate data repository.
David Johnston shared that “Data fundamentally can become a speed barrier. Datasphere has become a catalyst to helping us drive more transformation opportunities.”
SAP Datasphere is available starting at the earliest. Existing customers of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud will be automatically upgraded to the new platform without additional steps or migrations required.
