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What Is SAP Business Data Cloud?
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully-managed SaaS offering that comes with a single URL and a single contract, SAP BDC brings together data activation and extensions, third-party consumption tools, and an open data ecosystem. The solution is a data management solution designed to unify and harmonize data from various sources, enabling seamless integration, governance, and accessibility across an enterprise. It supports a data-driven approach by connecting SAP and non-SAP data, facilitating analytics, AI/ML applications, and business insights. The solution helps organizations break down data silos, ensuring high-quality, trusted data for decision-making while maintaining security and compliance.
Key capabilities include:
- SAP BDC combines the business semantics of SAP Datasphere, the analytics and planning of SAP Analytics Cloud, BW modernization through a lift and shift from SAP BW, and SAP Databricks which will be a fully OEM’d component within SAP BDC.
- Insight apps for advanced analytics and planning with prebuilt applications across all lines of business.
- Generative AI is supported across applications and operations that is reliable, responsible, and relevant.
What Is SAP Business Data Cloud?
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully-managed SaaS offering that comes with a single URL and a single contract, SAP BDC brings together data activation and extensions, third-party consumption tools, and an open data ecosystem. The solution is a data management solution designed to unify and harmonize data from various sources, enabling seamless integration, governance, and accessibility across an enterprise. It supports a data-driven approach by connecting SAP and non-SAP data, facilitating analytics, AI/ML applications, and business insights. The solution helps organizations break down data silos, ensuring high-quality, trusted data for decision-making while maintaining security and compliance.
Key capabilities include:
- SAP BDC combines the business semantics of SAP Datasphere, the analytics and planning of SAP Analytics Cloud, BW modernization through a lift and shift from SAP BW, and SAP Databricks which will be a fully OEM’d component within SAP BDC.
- Insight apps for advanced analytics and planning with prebuilt applications across all lines of business.
- Generative AI is supported across applications and operations that is reliable, responsible, and relevant.
Further Resources for SAPinsiders
SAP Unveils Business Data Cloud: A Unified, AI-Powered Future for Enterprise Data. SAP Business Data Cloud aims to tackle poor data quality and fragmentation in organizations by providing a unified, managed platform for SAP and third-party data, enhancing decision-making through AI-driven insights and automation, while also partnering with Databricks for advanced analytics integration.
SAP Business Data Cloud Unifies Enterprise Data. SAP 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.
Databricks and SAP Join Forces to Ready Data for AI with SAP Databricks. Databricks has partnered with SAP to create SAP Databricks, a native integration of its Data Intelligence Platform into SAP’s Business Data Cloud, aimed at dismantling data silos and enhancing enterprise data accessibility for AI-driven insights, while addressing longstanding challenges in integrating SAP data with other systems.
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SAP Business Data Cloud Unifies Enterprise DataFeb 14, 2025 — SAP 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.
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Databricks and SAP Join Forces to Ready Data for AI with SAP DatabricksFeb 16, 2025 — Databricks has partnered with SAP to create SAP Databricks, a native integration of its Data Intelligence Platform into SAP's Business Data Cloud, aimed at dismantling data silos and enhancing enterprise data accessibility for AI-driven insights, while addressing longstanding challenges in integrating SAP data with other systems.
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SAP Unveils Business Data Cloud: A Unified, AI-Powered Future for Enterprise DataFeb 13, 2025 — SAP Business Data Cloud aims to tackle poor data quality and fragmentation in organizations by providing a unified, managed platform for SAP and third-party data, enhancing decision-making through AI-driven insights and automation, while also partnering with Databricks for advanced analytics integration.
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Beyond the Hype: Demystifying SAP BTP vs. SAP Business Data Cloud for Finance LeadersAug 21, 2025 — SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Business Data Cloud (BDC) work together to enhance enterprise agility and data management, with BTP enabling application development and automation and BDC unifying data to create actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
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What Is the Difference Between SAP Datasphere and Business Data Cloud?Sep 11, 2025 — SAP has introduced SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud to help organizations modernize their data infrastructure, with Datasphere focusing on creating a unified data architecture and Business Data Cloud serving as a comprehensive SaaS solution that integrates, governs, and analyzes data across various sources.
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Leveraging SAP Datasphere using Intelligent Lookup and SAP AI Fuzzy Search to deliver fast business solutionsJan 14, 2025 — Expertise from Arellius Enterprises sheds light into the integration of AI within SAP tools, highlighting the importance of choosing the right AI technology for specific problems, while also addressing generative AI's capabilities, the significance of fuzzy search in data management, and the user-friendly features of SAP Datasphere, emphasizing the necessity for human oversight in AI applications.
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Modernizing SAP BW: The Path to Business Data CloudMay 21, 2025 — As 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.
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SAP Business Data Cloud: Key Questions from the LaunchAug 21, 2025 — SAP has launched the Business Data Cloud (BDC) to unify enterprise data from both SAP and non-SAP sources, addressing integration with existing solutions like SAP Datasphere and answering key user questions regarding its implementation and strategic role in modernizing analytics and AI capabilities.
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How SAP Business Data Cloud Drives Decision IntelligenceNov 13, 2025 — Explore how SAP Business Data Cloud empowers organizations to unify fragmented data, embed governance, and turn raw information into actionable insights. This blog from Crave InfoTech illustrates how decision intelligence—backed by consistent metrics, AI-readiness, and real-time reporting—drives smarter, faster, and more confident business decisions.
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