SAP Business Data Cloud
Unlock the potential of your enterprise data with SAP Business Data Cloud, to seamless integrate and drive strategic growth through intelligent insights. Have a look at transformative solutions designed to empower decision-makers with real-time analytics and enhanced data visibility.
SAP Business Data Cloud
SAP Business Data Cloud is a data platform that harmonizes all data from SAP and non-SAP sources, into a unified semantic layer of trusted data, to power advanced analytics and to build AI applications.
By integrating all types of cross-company data, which includes structured - for example, transactional and master data, and non-structured data - for
example, emails, businesses collect actionable intelligence to bridge transactional processes and drive AI-powered growth.
SAP Business Data Cloud Assets
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Knowledge Transfer Sessions in 2025 - Overview & Navigation
- Overview on SAP Business Data Cloud
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- SAP Datasphere
- SAP Business Warehouse
- SAP BDC Connect, incl. Databricks & Snowflake
- Intelligent Applications & Data Products
Date: January 29, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
KP Sauer, Senior Director Data Warehousing, SAP
Kick off The Next Era of Business Data with an overview of SAP Business Data Cloud in 2026. In this live session, we explore how SAP BDC is evolving into a trusted, open foundation for analytics, AI, and decision-making, and what that evolution means for organizations planning their data strategies today.
This session is ideal for business leaders, data and analytics professionals, IT and enterprise architects, and SAP practitioners who want a clear view of where SAP’s data platform is heading. Join us to understand the key themes, capabilities, and opportunities shaping the future of business data and to set the stage for the sessions that follow in the series.
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Date: March 19, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
Gaurish Dessai, Principal Enterprise Architect, SAP
As enterprise and data architects, we're tasked with bridging the gap between strategic vision and technical reality. A challenge that becomes exponentially complex when modernising enterprise data landscapes. SAP Business Data Cloud represents not just another data platform, but a fundamental shift in how organisations architect for business context, governance, and AI-readiness across SAP and Non-SAP Hybrid ecosystems. In this session, we cut through the marketing to provide architects with a pragmatic, pattern-based view of SAP BDC's role in modern enterprise architecture.
You'll learn:
- The evolution path from siloed SAP data to unified business data fabric
- Architecting data products that preserve business context across SAP and non-SAP sources
- Governance-by-design: embedding data quality, lineage, and access control at the architecture level
- How BDC Connect is making the Open Ecosystem Real with Zero Copy Architecture
- And finally , What "AI-ready" actually means from an architecture perspective (hint: it's about trust, not just storage)
The decisions you make today about your data architecture will determine your organisation's ability to compete, innovate, and adapt for the next decade.
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Date: April 16, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
Brian Raver, SAP
This session provides a comprehensive overview of SAP Business Data Cloud consumption metrics. You will learn about the SAP BDC Capacity Unit Estimator, a key tool for effectively calculating the Capacity Unit requirements for unique workloads. Additionally, the session will include an overview of relevant information available in SAP for Me, ensuring understanding of how to access and interpret essential data for subscription, consumption, and operational decisions.
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Date: On demand
This course provides you with an introduction to SAP Business Data Cloud.
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Date: February 26, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
Product Manager SAP BDC, SAP
In this live session, discover how SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) brings business data to life when powered by SAP Business Data Cloud. We explore how trusted, semantically rich data from across the enterprise can be connected seamlessly to analytics, planning, and predictive insights, without introducing complexity or duplication.
Learn how SAP BDC provides a unified data foundation, while SAP Analytics Cloud enables faster decision-making through real-time insights, integrated planning, and AI-assisted analytics.
The session highlights how organizations can move from fragmented reporting to a consistent, business-ready analytics experience that scales across lines of business and supports confident, data-driven decisions.
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Date: October 14, 2025 - Time: 15:00 - 16:00 pm (CEST)
Presenter/s:
Daniel Lauer, Head of Planning Engineering | SAP Corporate Processes and Information Technology, SAP SE
End-to-end planning is a business opportunity to accelerate value realization by aligning cross-functional planning processes. Learn from SAP’s IT how we drive the harmonized transformation towards a fully integrated enterprise planning platform in the cloud by leveraging analytics and planning capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud solution.
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Date: February 19, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
KP Sauer, Senior Director Data Warehousing, SAP
The SAP Business Data Cloud solution is redefining the future of data. This session explains what it means for users of the SAP Datasphere solution, clarifies its role in your existing data stack, and explores real-world use cases including rewiring of existing Datasphere tenants. Learn how this evolution can elevate your SAP data strategy and unlock new possibilities.
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Date: October 08, 2025 - Time: 17:00 - 18:00 pm (CEST)
Presenter/s:
KP Sauer, Senior Director, Data Warehousing, SAP
Laying a foundation for data, analytics, and AI
Turning data into insights and decisions is complicated when your data landscape is complex.
A simplified, open data ecosystem makes business data ready for consumption. Unlock your data, delivering seamless and scalable access to business users for faster, more confident decisions.
Join us for an interactive workshop and explore the modeling capabilities of SAP Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud. Discover how to deliver authoritative data, enrich data products, and simplify your data landscape to support your organization's analytics needs. Learn about:
- Creating and enhancing existing analytical models
- Importing third-party data and creating new views by joining SAP and external tables
- Transforming key attributes into custom measures for analytical consumption
- Deploying and validating your model for integration into SAP Analytics Cloud or downstream planning scenarios
Enhance your workshop experience by joining our interactive sessions with a free SAP Business Data Cloud Basic Trial. Prepare in advance by reading this blog to set up your trial environment for the hands-on activities.
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Date: July 23, 2025 - Time: 17:00 - 18:00 pm (CEST)
Join the SAP Datasphere product management team for the session and get the latest information about features and functions delivered in Q2, 2025. You can ask the product experts in the Q&A section live during the session and will get an overview on the upcoming features planned for 2025.
The session will cover the following topics:
👉 General Product Updates
👉 Updates in Data Integration
👉 Updates in Data Modeling
👉 Updates on various other topics
👉 Outlook
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Date: July 03, 2025 - Time: 15:00 - 16:00 pm (CEST)
Presenter/s:
Florian Gattung, Product Owner Data Product Experience, SAP SE
Jonas Fritsch, Product Expert, SAP SE
The last two years have been about building up and promoting data democratization strategy at SAP. The execution is now in full swing and we have a lot to share about how to use SAP Datasphere and Collibra at the company scale of SAP.
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Date: April 29, 2025 - Time: 17:00 - 18:00 pm (CEST)
Join the SAP Datasphere product management team for the session and get the latest information about features and functions delivered in Q4 2024. You can ask the product experts in the Q&A section live during the session and will get an overview on the upcoming features planned for 2024.
The session will cover the following topics:
👉 General Product Updates
👉 Updates in Data Integration
👉 Updates in Data Modelling
👉 Updates on various other topics
👉 Outlook
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Date: February 05, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
Sandy Tran, Senior Product Manager SAP BDC, SAP
SAP Business Warehouse modernization is not about starting over. It’s about extending the value of trusted reporting while enabling the speed, flexibility, and business relevance today’s analytics demand.
In this overview session, we explore why organizations should modernize their SAP BW landscapes and how they can do so with confidence. You’ll gain a clear, practical view of the available modernization paths, from system conversion and selective transition to integration with SAP Business Data Cloud, along with the key business and technical trade-offs behind each option.
The session shows how to simplify architectures, reduce data redundancy, and unlock faster, more adaptive analytics, all while protecting existing investments and minimizing operational disruption.
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In this session, we'll discuss how with SAP Business Data Cloud, you can lift your existing SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) system to the private cloud, and secure your SAP BW investments while exposing SAP BW data as data products for direct consumption and creating new use cases in SAP Business Data Cloud.
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This session provides a comprehensive overview of SAP’s Business Data Cloud (BDC) and its role in modernizing BW landscapes. Attendees will explore the SAP Data Product Generator, learn about implementing Lakehouse Architecture in Datasphere with Object Store, and understand practical transition paths for BW to BDC. The agenda is designed to equip participants with actionable strategies for leveraging next-generation SAP data solutions.
EGI Goals – What Customers Can Expect to Achieve
- Gain a clear understanding of BDC’s capabilities and its impact on SAP BW modernization.
- Learn how to accelerate data product creation using the SAP Data Product Generator.
- Discover best practices for implementing Lakehouse Architecture in Datasphere with Object Store.
- Identify tailored transition paths for moving from SAP BW to BDC, including key considerations and steps.
- Acquire practical insights to drive enterprise integration and maximize value from SAP’s evolving data ecosystem
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Date: March 12, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
San Tran, Product Manager SAP BDC, SAP
In this live session, discover how BDC Connect expands the open data ecosystem by enabling secure, zero-copy data access across platforms. Built on industry standards with a focus on Delta Sharing, BDC Connect allows organizations to integrate SAP Business Data Cloud seamlessly with external data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake, while preserving governance, semantics, and trust.
We’ll explore how a zero-copy approach supports customer choice, eliminates data silos, and delivers real-time access to business-ready data wherever it resides. Learn how this unified business data fabric accelerates analytics and AI use cases without introducing the hidden costs and complexity of traditional data movement.
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Date: September 24, 2025 - Time: 17:00 - 18:00 pm (CEST)
Presenter/s:
San Tran, Product Manager, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP
Fueling AI Innovation with SAP Databricks
AI opens the door to greater insight and faster decisions, when it’s built on the right data. SAP Business Data Cloud helps amplify the value of AI by uniting critical application data, creating a context-rich foundation to fuel AI.
Join us for an interactive workshop to learn how SAP Databricks, a fully managed version of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform natively available within Business Data Cloud, delivers industry-leading AI/ML, data science, and data engineering capabilities to your SAP application data.
During the workshop, SAP product experts guide you through experiences including:
- Connecting SAP and third-party data through zero-copy Delta Sharing
- Developing AI and machine learning models with end-to-end MLOps
- Enhancing data products using Databricks notebooks
- Fine-tuning models and forecasting with data science workflows
Enhance your workshop experience by joining our interactive sessions with a free SAP Business Data Cloud Basic Trial. Prepare in advance by reading this blog to set up your trial environment for the hands-on activities
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Date: June 24, 2025 - Time: 15:00 - 16:00 pm (CEST)
Presenter/s:
Yann Colin, Business Analyst, SAP SE
Discover how you can scale data and machine learning (ML) engineering by leveraging the SAP Databricks solution in the SAP Business Data Cloud solution and integrating it with your SAP solutions. You can find out how to benefit from our high-business-value data products and AI solutions by combining SAP and third-party data.
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Date: March 26, 2026 - Time: 16:00 - 17:00 pm (CET)
Presenter/s:
Fenja Schulz, Product Manager SAP BDC, SAP
In this live session, we introduce SAP Data Product Studio, a new capability in SAP Business Data Cloud designed to help developers and data teams build, manage, and govern data products at scale. You’ll see how a visual, collaborative workspace makes it easier to model and enrich custom data products across SAP and third-party sources, without losing control over semantics, performance, or trust.
We’ll explore how teams can leverage metadata from the data catalog to define schemas, lineage, and transformation logic, apply SQL-based transformations, and manage versioning and governance through a shared domain catalog. The session highlights how SAP Data Product Studio brings structure to the full data product lifecycle, enabling faster innovation while maintaining consistency across the business data fabric.
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Date: September 10, 2025 - Time: 17:00 - 18:00 pm (CEST)
Presenter/s:
Matthias Kraemer, Senior Vice President. SAP Business Data Cloud & Insights, Head of SAP Planning & Analytics, SAP
Rithivika Acharya, Senior Product Specialist, SAP Business Data Cloud & Insights, Cross Product Management, SAP
Unlocking faster outcomes with intelligent applications
Better connected data with context allows you turn data into actionable recommendations to help you make confident decisions that improve specific outcomes.
Join us for a hands-on workshop to see how intelligent applications and data products deliver out-of-the-box analytics, eliminate manual data preparation, and enable domain-specific recommendations.
During the workshop, attendees will explore a curated catalog of the intelligent applications in SAP Business Data Cloud and experience
- Installing an intelligent application to deliver real-time insights across lines of business
- Embedding AI and analytics into prebuilt apps using SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud
- Enhancing intelligent applications to meet your business requirements
Enhance your workshop experience by joining our interactive sessions with a free SAP Business Data Cloud Basic Trial. Prepare in advance by reading this blog to set up your trial environment for the hands-on activities.
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Date: June 24, 2025 - Time: 11:00 - 11:30 am (CEST)
Presenter/s:
Peter Bilotta, Chief Product Expert, SAP
Andrea Domhardt, Director of Product Marketing, SAP SuccessFactors
Aizad Siddique, Global Solution Advisory Lead, SAP SuccessFactors
Building an agile foundation for smarter decisions
Explore how SAP Business Data Cloud serves the needs of every business leader. We’ll dive into the capabilities of prebuilt, intelligent applications that are seamlessly integrated with trusted data products, AI tools, and business simulations. In a live demo, you’ll see how intelligent applications can impact your organization from Finance to HR and learn more about:
- Equipping business leaders and everyday users with intelligent applications built on trusted SAP data products
- Simulating “what if” scenarios with semantically rich, business data
- Accelerating planning and execution by embedding intelligence into core business workflows
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Date: June 11, 2025 - Time: 15:00 - 16:00 pm (CEST)
Presenter/s:
Oliver Huth, Head of Platform SAP Enterprise Analytics, SAP SE
At SAP, we’re turning business data into a semantically rich data treasure, fueling human and artificial intelligence with the SAP Business Data Cloud solution. Hear from experts in our internal IT department to find out how we’re implementing a data product architecture to accelerate SAP’s own data product journey and drive our transformation.
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