Leveraging SAP Data Effectively for Business Insights with Google Cloud

Every day businesses generate huge volumes of data from multiple sources across the organization. This data has the potential to convey key insights on the performance of the organization and that are crucial for planning purposes. In this data driven environment, SAP systems are crucial as they contain large volumes of relevant business data that can be leveraged to understand current status, predict future demand and disruptions, and  overcome challenges.

SAP and Google Cloud work together to offer customers a comprehensive open data, joint solution designed to simplify data landscapes and scale.  This offering empowers enterprises to leverage their SAP and non-SAP data to draw valuable insights for informed decision-making, while the secure, reliable, and streamlined open cloud infrastructure from Google Cloud provides a holistic organizational view, maximizing the value of mission critical data.

Benefits of SAP and Google Cloud’s Open Data Offering

The SAP and Google Cloud partnership integrates the power of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Datasphere, Google Cloud Cortex Framework, BigQuery, and Google’s generative AI and machine learning (ML) models. By combining data from different SAP solutions, such as SAP Datasphere, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP HANA Cloud, customers can access their most critical data and get insights in real time. Google BigQuery integration adds advanced analytical capabilities providing real-time insights and machine learning capabilities, helps optimize operations, and allows users to discover new growth opportunities by leveraging SAP and non-SAP data.

Companies can use Google’s AI and ML services to train models on data from both SAP and non-SAP systems. SAP Analytics Cloud on Google Cloud can also be used to analyze financial and business outcomes to achieve higher levels of accuracy. With this joint solution from SAP and Google Cloud, companies can create a unified and sustainable single source of truth instead of having disparate data silos.

Furthermore, this solution helps streamline supply chain operations by using artificial intelligence (AI) to build resilient supply chains, leveraging real-time data and AI to optimize resources, formulate strategies, and predict potential disruptions and stock-outs. Native Google data signals such as Google Maps, Ads, and Weather can be utilized directly, which is especially important in supply chain management.

“SAP and Google Cloud now offer an incredibly comprehensive and open data cloud, providing a foundation for the future of enterprise AI. Few resources are as important to digital transformation as data. By deeply integrating SAP software data and systems with our data cloud, customers will be able to utilize our analytics capabilities as well as advanced AI tools and large language models to find new insights from their data.” said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud.