Mar 5, 2026
•6 minute read
SAP BW
‘The Gap Between AI Ambition and AI Delivery Is a Data Architecture Gap’: Gaurish DessaiEnterprise architect Gaurish Dessai explains why AI ambitions often fail without strong enterprise data architecture. In this interview, he shares insights on BW modernization, clean core principles, and building resilient SAP data foundations.
Why An Effective AI Strategy Needs SAP Business Data CloudSAP has launched the Business Data Cloud (BDC) to help enterprises effectively integrate and manage SAP and non-SAP data within a unified data fabric, enhancing AI and analytics capabilities while preserving business context for informed decision-making.
Nov 4, 2025
•5 minute read
Modernizing SAP BW: The Path to Business Data CloudAs SAP NetWeaver BW 7.5 approaches the end of mainstream maintenance in 2027, customers must decide whether to maintain their existing systems or transition to a cloud-ready future with SAP Business Data Cloud, which offers a pathway to modern capabilities like AI and machine learning while preserving valuable data assets.
May 21, 2025
•5 minute read
Unlocking the Future of SAP Data: How Dell’s Lakehouse Architecture Redefines Enterprise Data ManagementDell Technologies is addressing the challenge of data silos in SAP environments by introducing a next-generation Data Lakehouse that unifies structured and unstructured data, enabling real-time analytics and reducing integration costs, ultimately empowering businesses to drive insights, innovation, and competitive advantage.
Apr 28, 2025
•3 minute read
SAP Business Data Cloud Unifies Enterprise DataSAP has announced SAP Business Data Cloud, a new solution that aims to unify SAP and third-party data across an organization. The company sees the offering as an evolution of data, analytics, and planning strategy that addresses the challenges SAP is seeing in the data market today. Some of those hurdles include data silos, the high cost of data and analytics, and a struggle to implement an effective data strategy to support business transformation due to data quality issues and disconnects between IT systems and business applications.
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering with a single URL and a single contract. It brings together SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Business Warehouse (BW), and SAP Databricks, a fully embedded component of Databricks that will ensure native integration through zero-copy delta sharing, allowing for seamless data exchange.
SAP Business Data Cloud is one of SAP’s most significant solution launches. With new features and offerings, the ability to resolve many of the data challenges that customers face today, and the integration of existing solutions with the new SAP Databricks offering, there is much for SAP insiders to digest and understand.
• SAP BDC offers the potential of a next-generation data and AI ecosystem.
• The licensing and usage model adds complexity.
• AI agents will only add to the benefits of SAP BDC.
Feb 14, 2025
•5 minute read
The Big Flex – Redefining Cloud Transformation with SAP BTPBusinesses must continuously adapt and transform their operations to succeed in today's digital landscape, leveraging technologies like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP Datasphere to facilitate cloud migration, data integration, and innovative planning solutions amidst evolving market demands. SAP provides tailored cloud migration paths that aligns business goals and current on-premise solutions, offering approaches that best fit organization’s needs.
Nov 18, 2024
•4 minute read
Creating an Automation Fabric with SAP BTP with Redwood’s RunMyJobsAs enterprises expand, their IT environments becomes more complex, needing advanced workload automation (WLA) to handle complex job scheduling, data management, analytics, application development, and artificial intelligence, which autonomously manage these tasks, ensuring uninterrupted performance of critical business functions. Technology platforms like SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) play a crucial role in optimizing operations by […]
Aug 27, 2024
•2 minute read
The Great (SAP BW) Migration to the CloudThe migration from SAP BW to cloud-based solutions like SAP BW/4HANA or SAP Datasphere is gaining momentum as organizations seek to enhance data accessibility and scalability. With nearly half of all organizations still relying on SAP BW, the shift towards cloud adoption presents a significant opportunity to overcome the limitations of on-premise systems, such as high maintenance costs, complexity, and delays in accessing real-time data. Cloud migration not only unlocks advanced analytics capabilities like AI and machine learning but also simplifies data integration across diverse applications. Tools like Precog further streamline this transition by automating data extraction from over 2,000 API sources, eliminating manual coding, and ensuring seamless compatibility with SAP and non-SAP systems. This approach empowers businesses to quickly derive value from their data, enabling more informed and agile decision-making.
Aug 19, 2024
•2 minute read
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