SAP SE, has recently announced the launch of its next-generation data management solution, SAP Datasphere. According to the company’s press release on March 8, 2023, the product will simplify enterprise data management and enable easy access to business data across the entire data environment, including SAP and non-SAP data.
Previously, accessing and using data stored in different systems and locations, between cloud providers, data providers and on-premise systems was a complex challenge and customers had to extract the data from the original sources and export it to a central location. With SAP Datasphere, customers can build an enterprise data fabric architecture that enables rapid access to meaningful information while keeping business logic and context intact.
SAP Datasphere is the next generation of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution, enabling data professionals to deliver scalable access to mission-critical business data. The solution has a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere is built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), which includes strong enterprise security capabilities such as database security, encryption, and governance.
SAP also announced strategic alliances with industry-leading data and AI companies such as Collibra NV, Confluent, Databricks, and DataRobot to enrich SAP Datasphere and provide additional application integration capabilities that link data and metadata from cloud solutions from SAP to SAP Datasphere.
The functionality of SAP Datasphere includes data cataloging, simplified data replication, and enhanced data modeling that preserves the rich business context of data in SAP applications. Data cataloging automatically discovers, manages, and governs data. Simplified data replication delivers data and its constant updates in real-time. Enhanced data modeling maintains the context of business data.
Messer Americas, a leading North and South American medical and industrial gases company, has adopted SAP Datasphere, which enabled easy and secure access to data from SAP and non-SAP solutions within the organization to support decision-making based on data and free up IT resources to focus on other strategic tasks.
Bharat Sandhu, SVP, AI & Application Development Platform, SAP, said: “We want to help our customers take the next step to efficiently and confidently integrate SAP data with non-SAP data while preserving all the related business context and logic to unleash the power of business data.”
SAP Datasphere is now available and no additional steps or migrations are required for existing customers of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, who will benefit from the new SAP Datasphere functionality in their product environment
