May 26, 2021
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SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud: Foundation for Today’s Analytics
As SAP customers navigate the transition from on-premise data warehouses to cloud-native architectures, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (now SAP Datasphere) has emerged as a strategic platform for unified data integration, modeling and analytics. SAPinsider coverage of SAP’s data warehouse path to the cloud highlights how organizations are modernizing data infrastructure to support advanced analytics, AI and real-time decision-making.
What Is SAP Data Warehouse Cloud?
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, now evolved into SAP Datasphere, is a cloud-native data warehousing solution built on SAP HANA Cloud. It combines database, data integration, data modeling and analytics capabilities in a single SaaS platform. SAP Datasphere integrates with SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Business Data Cloud, enabling organizations to consolidate data from SAP and non-SAP sources into a governed, business-context-aware data layer for enterprise analytics.
What Use Cases Are Referenced?
The Great SAP BW Migration to the Cloud examines how organizations are transitioning from SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP Datasphere and SAP BW/4HANA as SAP BW 7.5 mainstream maintenance ends in 2027, with options for cloud-native or hybrid migration paths.
Embracing SAP BW Modernization with SAP Business Data Cloud explores how organizations can migrate legacy BW environments to SAP Business Data Cloud, preserving valuable data models while gaining cloud scalability, agility and advanced analytics capabilities.
Optimizing SAP Data Warehouses with DBT covers how organizations integrate data build tool (DBT) frameworks with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud to enhance analytics pipelines, improve data quality and accelerate time-to-insight across enterprise reporting environments.
SAP Business Data Cloud Explained outlines how SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BW capabilities converge within SAP Business Data Cloud to deliver a fully managed SaaS environment for unified enterprise data management and analytics.
What SAPinsider Research Supports This Topic?
SAPinsider Analyst Insight: Modernizing SAP BW finds that as SAP NetWeaver BW 7.5 approaches end of maintenance in 2027, organizations must evaluate migration paths to SAP Business Data Cloud or SAP BW/4HANA to preserve data assets while adopting cloud-native analytics and AI capabilities.
SAPinsider Guide: Key Considerations When Migrating to SAP BW/4HANA identifies critical architectural decisions for organizations migrating data warehouses, including the choice between SAP BW/4HANA and SAP HANA native data warehousing approaches.
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