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Data Management · 17 July 2024

Getting Acquainted with SAP Datasphere

SAP Datasphere integrates, analyses and manages data while preserving business context — providing data discovery, modelling and distribution across the data landscape.

In the data-driven era, organisational success depends on effective data management and analysis. SAP Datasphere is an innovative platform that guides businesses on their journey into the data universe, providing integrated solutions for handling data and building competitive advantage.

What is SAP Datasphere?

It is a robust data service integrated into the Business Technology Platform, designed to empower data professionals with seamless, scalable access to crucial business data. Evolved from SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, it encompasses unified integration, cataloguing, semantic modelling, warehousing, federation and virtualisation.

Features and benefits

The platform delivers capabilities including secure environments, centralised spaces, diverse connections to SAP and non-SAP sources, low-code/no-code tools, sophisticated transformation, an embedded data marketplace, data matching, comprehensive catalogues, multi-dimensional modelling, impact analysis, collaboration, metadata reuse, business content, and seamless integration with analytics tools.

Navigating the platform

Datasphere comprises five primary components: the Catalog for discovering enterprise data resources, the Data Marketplace for third-party data, Semantic Onboarding for importing semantically-rich objects, the Business Builder for refining data objects, and the Data Builder for direct imports and transformation workflows.

Conclusion

Enhanced self-service capabilities empower business users to independently access and analyse the data they need — reducing reliance on IT and speeding up decision-making.

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