WALLDORF, Germany, March 8,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today
announced key data innovations and partnerships that give customers
access to mission-critical data, enabling faster time to insights
and better business decision-making. SAP announced the SAP®
Datasphere solution, the next generation of its data management
portfolio, which gives customers easy access to business-ready data
across the data landscape. SAP also introduced strategic
partnerships with industry-leading data and AI companies – Collibra
NV, Confluent Inc., Databricks Inc. and DataRobot Inc. – to enrich
SAP Datasphere and allow organizations to create a unified data
architecture that securely combines SAP software data and non-SAP
data.
Until today, accessing and using data located in disparate
systems and locations – across cloud providers, data vendors and
on-premise systems – has been a complex challenge. Customers have
had to extract data from original sources and export it to a
central location, losing critical business context along the way
and recapturing it only through ongoing, dedicated IT projects and
manual effort. With today's announcements, SAP Datasphere helps
eliminate this hidden data tax, enabling customers to build a
business data fabric architecture that quickly delivers meaningful
data with business context and logic intact.
"With SAP customers generating 87% of total global commerce, SAP
data is among a company's most valuable business assets and is
contained in the most important functions of an organization, from
manufacturing to supply chains, finance, human resources and more,"
said Juergen Mueller, Chief
Technology Officer and member of the Executive Board of SAP
SE. "We want to help our customers take the next step to
easily and confidently integrate SAP data with non-SAP data from
third-party applications and platforms, unlocking entirely new
insights and knowledge to bring digital transformation to another
level."
SAP Datasphere
Available today, SAP Datasphere is the
next generation of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution. It
enables data professionals to deliver scalable access to
mission-critical business data. With a unified experience for data
integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing,
data federation and data virtualization, SAP Datasphere enables
data professionals to help distribute mission-critical business
data – with business context and logic preserved – across their
organization's data landscape. SAP Datasphere is built on SAP
Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), which includes strong
enterprise security capabilities, such as database security,
encryption and governance. No additional steps or migrations are
required for existing customers of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, who
will benefit from new SAP Datasphere functionality in their product
environment. New functionality includes data cataloging that
automatically discovers, manages and governs data; simplified data
replication to deliver data and its constant updates in real-time;
and enhanced data modeling that preserves the rich business context
of data in SAP applications. Additional application integration
capabilities that link data and metadata from cloud solutions from
SAP to SAP Datasphere are planned.
Messer Americas, a leading industrial and medical gas company in
North and South America, needed
simple and secure access to data from SAP and non-SAP solutions
within the company to strengthen data-driven decision-making and
free up IT resources to focus on other strategic tasks. With SAP
Datasphere, Messer Americas was able to build a modern data
architecture that maintained the context of its enterprise
data.
"SAP Datasphere simplifies our data landscape, giving us more
confidence in the data we're working with every day so we can
better deliver on the needs of the business," said David Johnston, Chief Information Officer,
Messer Americas. "We are able to
react faster to emergent changes in supply and demand, resulting in
better inventory management, improved customer service and
optimization of our supply chain."
Strategic Partnerships
SAP and its new open-data
partners will help hundreds of millions of users across the world
make informed business-critical decisions rooted in massive amounts
of data. SAP's strategic partners provide the unique strengths of
their ecosystems and enable customers to combine all their data
like never before.
"Everybody wants access to SAP data, so leveraging partnerships
among tech suppliers is absolutely necessary for a comprehensive
data strategy," said Dan Vesset, group vice president of data and
analytics market research, IDC. "Organizations today live in a
world where a multi-cloud, multivendor and off- and on-premise data
landscape is the norm. SAP is taking a new approach by partnering
with a select group of leading partners, treating third-party data
as a first-class citizen to better meet the needs of
customers."
Initial partners include:
- Collibra plans to have a tailored integration with SAP,
enabling customers to achieve an enterprise governance strategy by
building a complete data catalog with lineage across their entire
data landscape – both SAP and non-SAP data. Collibra makes trusted
data discoverable across any organization.
- Confluent plans to connect its data streaming platform,
empowering companies to unlock valuable business data and connect
it with external applications in real time. Confluent's
cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in
motion – permitting the uninhibited flow of real-time data from
various sources across an organization.
- Databricks customers can integrate their Data Lakehouse
with SAP software so data can be shared with semantics preserved,
helping customers simplify their data landscape.
- DataRobot enables customers to leverage multimodal
automated machine learning capabilities on top of SAP Datasphere
and bring it directly into their business data fabric on whichever
cloud platform it resides.
For more information, visit the Announcement Blog. Follow SAP on
Twitter at @SAPNews.
About SAP
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