Why SAP Datasphere Matters
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Integrate data without leaving the SAP ecosystem
⇨ Data remains a challenge for organizations, primarily because there’s so much of it
⇨ SAP customers support 19 data lakes and 23 data-related tools
SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Those customers have long experienced pain when it came to integrating their various data management solutions. The problem is actually worse than you might think. On average, SAP customers support 19 data lakes and 23 data-related tools, according to recent research by SAPinsider.
“Data remains a challenge for organizations, primarily because there’s so much of it—20 years ago, you could run an entire organization using less disk space than that same organization now generates in a morning. The real problem is that data is in multiple systems and locations, and people lack seamless access to it,” said Robert Holland, Vice President and Research Director, SAPinsider.
Organizations need a comprehensive view on a minute-by-minute basis in order to function efficiently. The challenge comes when a company’s supply chain system isn’t connected to its order tracking system or CRM. To make matters worse, these systems might be from different vendors, which makes the integration story complex. One major pain point has been when those organizations have to replicate their data and copy it from one system to another in order to get perspective on it.
Until now, no one has been able to adequately address the problem of integrating SAP data with non-SAP data.
Now, SAP Datasphere, the next generation of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution, solves a lot of the challenges people have with the volume and distribution across data. SAP Datasphere closely aligns existing components in the Business Technology Platform along with newly available data integration, data cataloging, and semantic modeling features.
“SAP Datasphere is designed to provide the ability for organizations to bring together data and the context of that data without needing to leave the SAP ecosystem. This has the potential to offer huge value to SAP customers,” said Holland, who added, “Those customers then won’t have to look to other vendors to get the data insights they require.”
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