One platform for planning, management reporting and consolidation
SAP Business Data Cloud enables seamless enterprise planning through a unified architecture that combines trusted SAP business data, analytics, and AI capabilities into a single cloud platform built on SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Databricks.
Graphical / SQL Views feed Analytical Models and Planning Models. Source systems replicate into SAP Datasphere. Seamless Planning in SAP Analytics Cloud reads SAP Datasphere live.
- Replication
- Federation Live
Connect your financial, operational, and strategic planning processes in real time, improving visibility, accelerating decision-making, and fostering better collaboration across departments.
Highlights of Seamless Planning
Connect financial, operational, and strategic planning in real time with trusted data, embedded AI, and the ability to simulate before you commit.
Unified xP&A
Break down silos between Finance, HR, and Supply Chain. Integrated planning allows for a single version of truth across all lines of business.
Real-time Agility
Seamless Planning ensures that as transactional data changes in S/4HANA, your strategic plans update instantly, enabling rapid re-forecasting.
Predictive Insights
Embedded AI and Machine Learning suggest optimal planning paths based on historical trends and external market signals.
Data Foundation & Governance
Ensure trusted, governed data across the enterprise with a unified data foundation. Maintain accuracy, compliance, and confidence in every planning decision.
Scenario Simulation
Run multiple scenarios and simulate financial and operational outcomes. Assess risks, compare alternatives, and make smarter, faster decisions.
A connected data foundation
The platform provides a connected data foundation for integrated financial, operational, and strategic planning, bringing together data from multiple business functions into a unified and trusted platform.
Real-time across functions
As transactional data changes in S/4HANA, plans update instantly, so re-forecasting is a routine action rather than a quarterly project.
Built on SAP standards
Core components (SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Databricks) mean no bespoke integration layer to maintain, and a governed path from source system to statement.
Architecture - SAP Business Data Cloud
A unified, governed architecture that connects your SAP and non-SAP sources, turns business data into managed data products, and serves analytics, planning, consolidation, and AI from a single trusted foundation.
- Corporate Data Assets
- Legacy Data Flows
- Data Product Generator
- Entitlement Management
- Data Product Installation
- Security and Governance
- Data Models
- Data Products
- Data Integrations
- Zero Copy
- Bi-directional Sharing
- Custom AI/ML
Inside SAP Business Data Cloud
Five components, one governed platform. Each one earns its place in the architecture. Here is what it does and what it gives you.
SAP BW PCE
Corporate data assets, legacy data flows & the Data Product Generator
Organizations running legacy SAP BW can modernize their analytics landscape by adopting SAP BW Private Cloud Edition as part of SAP Business Data Cloud, preserving existing SAP BW investments while transitioning to the cloud at their own pace, without rebuilding the entire data warehouse.
The Data Product Generator automatically interprets complex BW data models, relationships, semantics, and business logic, converting these artifacts into standardized, governed data products instead of recreating them by hand.
- Seamless cloud-based analytics and reporting
- Reuse of trusted enterprise data models
- Faster integration with SAP Analytics Cloud and AI-driven scenarios
- Hybrid architecture support between BW and cloud environments
- Reduced migration effort and accelerated cloud transformation
SAP BDC Cockpit
Entitlement management, data product installation, security & governance
The SAP BDC Cockpit simplifies the operational management of SAP Business Data Cloud through a unified interface for entitlement management, data product installation, and governance administration. It lets organizations centrally control how data products are provisioned, accessed, secured, and consumed across business domains.
Enterprises can manage the lifecycle of both SAP-delivered and custom-built data products while ensuring compliance, governance, and controlled access across cloud environments.
- Centralized entitlement and access management
- Simplified installation and activation of data products
- Security, governance, and policy administration
- Controlled distribution of trusted enterprise data assets
- Streamlined onboarding for SAP Datasphere and analytics scenarios
- Reduced operational complexity across hybrid and cloud landscapes
SAP Datasphere
Data models, data products & data integrations
SAP Datasphere simplifies enterprise data integration by combining data modeling, business semantics, governance, and virtualization into a unified cloud platform. It connects, harmonizes, and models data from SAP and non-SAP sources while preserving business context and semantics.
- Unified business semantic layer across enterprise data
- Integration of SAP and non-SAP data sources
- Business context preservation and semantic modeling
- Knowledge Graph capabilities for relationship-driven insights
- Support for data federation, replication, and virtualization
- Seamless integration with SAP Analytics Cloud and AI scenarios
- Accelerated development of custom data products
- Governed self-service analytics and data consumption
SAP Analytics Cloud
Budget, forecast & simulate, plus enterprise business intelligence
SAP Analytics Cloud combines analytics, planning, business intelligence, simulations and consolidations into a single cloud platform. By integrating analytics and planning into one solution, SAC helps organizations move from reactive reporting to proactive decision-making.
Business users can create interactive dashboards, perform ad-hoc analysis, build financial and operational plans, and use AI-driven insights within a unified experience, including legal and management consolidation through HICONSOL.
- Unified planning, analytics and consolidation platform
- Real-time dashboards and interactive visualizations
- Enterprise planning and forecasting capabilities
- Predictive analytics and AI-assisted insights
- Collaborative planning and workflow integration
- Trusted governance and centralized data consumption
- Mobile-enabled analytics and executive reporting
- Live and hybrid data connectivity
SAP Databricks & Snowflake
Zero copy, bi-directional sharing & custom AI/ML
SAP Business Data Cloud integrates with SAP Databricks and Snowflake to provide bi-directional data sharing, zero-copy data access, and scalable cloud-native analytics. Organizations consume trusted SAP data products directly, without unnecessary duplication or complex data movement.
- Zero-copy data access and bi-directional sharing
- High-performance cloud-native analytics and warehousing
- Support for advanced AI, ML, and data science workloads
- Seamless consumption of SAP data products
- Reduced data duplication and movement complexity
- Open ecosystem connectivity across enterprise platforms
- Governed and secure enterprise data sharing
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