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Most organizations running SAP are sitting on fragmented data that cannot support the AI use cases they’re being asked to deliver. SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) is designed to change that — but adoption is still in its early stages, and the gap between strategic intent and operational reality is wider than most teams realize.
New research from SAPinsider reveals where organizations actually stand on data unification, governance maturity, and AI readiness — and what early adopters are already achieving. Only 3% of organizations have a unified governed data layer today, while 38% still operate in fully siloed environments. At the same time, investment momentum is accelerating fast, with analytics modernization, AI and agent-based use cases, and S/4HANA transformation emerging as the top drivers pushing organizations toward SAP BDC.
Watch this on-demand briefing to understand how SAP BDC is reshaping the data and AI landscape for SAP-running organizations — and what it takes to move from fragmented infrastructure to a governed, AI-ready foundation.
Key findings include:
– Only 3% of organizations have achieved a unified governed data layer, while 38% remain in siloed environments with no cross-domain visibility
– One-third of organizations lack formal data governance — a gap that directly limits analytics progress and AI scalability
– Analytics modernization (28%), AI and agentic use cases (26%), and S/4HANA transformation (26%) are the leading investment drivers for SAP BDC adoption
– Finance data products, AI-ready datasets, and cross-domain composites have each reached 47% adoption, reflecting urgency around LLM-ready data
– Budget constraints (44%), landscape complexity (34%), and unclear platform positioning (32%) remain the top barriers to deployment
– Where SAP BDC is in production, organizations report greater than 25% improvements in decision-making speed, operational efficiency, data quality, and AI acceleration
Watch now to benchmark your organization’s data and AI readiness against your peers — and identify the highest-impact moves available to you.