Key Takeaways What you need to know
  1. Enterprises are struggling with fragmented data, manual ETL, and stale reporting that limit real-time decision-making.

  2. SAP Business Data Cloud and Google Cloud create a unified, zero-copy data foundation between SAP BDC and BigQuery.

  3. The solution preserves SAP business context while enabling AI, agentic workflows, richer insights, and lower analytics TCO.

The enterprise data challenge

Today’s global enterprises face operational complexity and data fragmentation, often navigating a “data pipeline dilemma” that prevents real-time decision-making. This reliance on manual ETL processes and “data gymnastics” creates latency, strips away essential business context, and increases technical debt. Consequently, leadership experiences “Operational Blindness,” forcing them to make strategic decisions based on intuition or stale reports rather than real-time truth. To build trustworthy AI and make agile, split-second decisions, business leaders can no longer afford the risks,
costs, and delays associated with these traditional data extraction processes.