SAP Business Data Cloud - Unify, Govern, and Activate Your Data!
SAP Business Data Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service solution equipped with data and analytics services needed in a modern world. Together with SAP Business Technology Platform providing foundational services, SAP Business Data Cloud combines strategic solutions such as SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud and their capabilities in one single solution.
What makes SAP Business Data Cloud so powerful, is that it offers the tools and technologies to meet all data and analytics requirements of a modern and agile organization. It uses the latest technology to support scenarios such as:
- Out-of-the-box reporting
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Advanced data modeling and data warehousing
- Powerful planning and reporting
- Intelligent data management
SAP Business Data Cloud provides data warehousing features including a manual data integration and data modeling approach, AI and machine learning based extensions of data models as well as innovative out-of-the-box reporting capabilities side-by-side. With this wide range of functions, it covers all the requirements of a modern data and analytics solution and thus serves different target audiences with different requirements.
Business Data Cloud Architecture
SAP Business Data Cloud system landscape consists of different interconnected components. Each component plays an important role in SAP Business Data Cloud, with specific tasks that are outlined in the following sections. The diagram below depicts SAP Business Data Cloud's architecture, including its core components and their respective tasks, and also how they work together to enable business insights and decision-making.
Our Services
Qnovate offers a full spectrum of services to support your SAP BDC journey, ensuring your data transformation is strategic, seamless, and scalable.
BDC Readiness Assessment
Identify integration needs and evaluate your current SAP and non-SAP data landscape. We make sure of a strong foundation for transformation by assessing in detail data maturity, architecture compatibility, and organizational readiness.
Architecture Design & Deployment
Implement the Business Data Fabric with SAP and third-party integration across hybrid/multi-cloud environments. Our team of experts design scalable, secure, and business-context-aware architectures that maximize data availability and governance.
Data Product Engineering
Design reusable, governed data products customized for your enterprise use cases. We help harmonize master and transactional data, enrich it with metadata, and make it consumable across analytics and AI platforms.
Databricks AI Enablement
We operationalize AI by leveraging SAP-governed data in Databricks, ensuring scalable, explainable, and secure AI pipelines. enabling you to build intelligent workflows with advanced analytics, machine learning, and predictive modelling.
Continuous Optimization & Support
Ongoing enhancement, monitoring, and performance optimization for your BDC setup. We provide proactive governance, SLA-driven support, and evolve your data platform in sync with your digital strategy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. BDC builds upon Datasphere but goes further by embedding AI-readiness, governed data products, and broader business context through the Business Data Fabric architecture.
Yes Absolutely. Seamless integration is supported by BDC for non-SAP, cloud-native, SaaS, and on-premises applications.
Using zero-copy Delta Sharing to access SAP-managed data products without duplication, Databricks provides AI/ML development and real-time analytics capabilities.
BW 7.5 and older customers can, extend system value and prepare for AI-powered modernization by getting SAP BDC—supported until 2030.
Implementation timelines vary depending on data complexity, system landscape, and readiness Usually, a typical deployment, including design, setup, and validation can ranges from 8 to 16 weeks.
Yes. It helps prioritize key business processes and data domains for incremental rollout, reducing risk and ensuring business continuity. Phased migrations are highly recommended.
A wide range of AI use cases are supported by BDC + Databricks, such as demand forecasting, churn prediction, anomaly detection, and financial risk modelling.
Why Qnovate, for BDC?
We help enterprises maximize ROI from BDC quickly and securely, bringing deep, end-to-end expertise in SAP implementation, business data modelling, and AI integration. From system assessment and architecture design to intelligent analytics deployment, we guide organizations through the entire transformation lifecycle. Qnovate’s consultants are skilled in harmonizing SAP and non-SAP data, ensuring the success of Business Data Fabric implementations while unlocking the full potential of Databricks-driven AI workflows. Our commitment extends beyond go-live, offering long-term support, optimization, and governance advisory tailored to your enterprise strategy.