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SAP Datasphere
Formerly SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

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What is SAP Datasphere?

SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic…

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Data Analysis with SAP Datasphere

9 out of 10
October 18, 2023
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What is SAP Datasphere?

SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data…

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What is SAP Datasphere?

SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables users to distribute mission-critical business data — with business context and logic preserved — across the data landscape.

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SAP Datasphere Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesGlobal

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The most common users of SAP Datasphere are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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ÖZLEM ÇETİN | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Now we are using this tool for our sales department. We have the reporting tool Tableu. And we cannot integrate Tableau and our SAP ECC. Because of that, we implemented SAP Datasphere solution to integrate all data.
  • A lot of integration point
  • Increase size
  • Easy to implement
  • Connecting with SAP Datasphere is not easy
  • Network issues
We can integrate SAP ECC and Oracle. We combined data easily. Also, we would like to implement all plants.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We sell it to customers and implement it.
  • User Friendly
  • Easy Data Integration
  • Connection to SAP is seamless
  • BW migrations via BW Bridge seems to be convoluted and not straight forward
  • Need a certification program
  • More capabilities similar to BW4HANA
Less appropriate for existing BW customers. Greenfield it is far easier to convince customers. SAP Datasphere with HANA cloud is extremely expensive.
November 14, 2023

Datasphere review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implement SAP Datasphere (DSP) at our clients to be used as the datawarehouse of choice. On top we use SAP Analytics Cloud to build front end reporting. In DSP both SAP and non SAP (Excel /...) sources are combined, transformed, used to create calculations and business logic uppon. DSP is in that case the sole source of truth for our reporitng.
  • Data integration
  • Data exposure to sac
  • Complex calculations
  • Embed non SAP data
Creating a new datawarehous eplatform for a recently transformed client to S/4HANA. This by replacing the current setups of for example SAP BW.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Productive usage to distribute all relevant SAP BI Data to our customer. For e.g. Qlik Sense and Google BigQuery.
Actual problem, is the integeration in nonSAP tools. The consumtption for openSQL Connection is not that smart as for SAP Analytics Cloud. We want an bi-directional functionality for all interfaces. Neither its an SAP Product or not.
  • development speed
  • performance
  • connection to BW
  • sql modelling
  • integration in non SAP tools
  • differentiation between BW and DS
- suitebale for not to complex data models
- suitable for data integration
- strong space concept
- not suitable for ai
- not suitable for complex datamodells
November 14, 2023

Single source of truth

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use Datasphere to produce sales reporting among multiple instances of SAP to have one source of truth
  • sales reporting combining SAP tables
  • SAP and non-SAP environment integration
  • integration among multiple SAP instances
  • connection to 3rd party can be easier (tableau instead of SAP)
  • ecc and S/4HANA integration at the same time should be easier
i am a user and consultant of SAP BW for many years so Datasphere is now amazing when you compare
Kivanc Oktas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Having troubles with data repository
Single version of truth
Data trace problems
Complex environment
  • Integration
  • Easy to implement
  • Easy to learn
  • Price
  • Handling huge volumes
  • Data variety
It's easier than BW to learn and implement. So that the trainees does not take time.
Well supported by SAP
Future of data platform in SAP
Nayan Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used SAP Datasphere to integrate data from various sources as we had on-premises data servers, cloud applications and IoT devices. This tool allowed us to present the data to non-technical people blatantly and improve the business processes, make better decisions and identify the lacking features in our current application. Overall, SAP Datasphere is a versatile and powerful tool that can help organizations to get more value from their data.
  • semantic modeling
  • data cataloging
  • data virtualization
  • built-in machine learning engine
  • ease of use
  • integration with other products
We have been working on ecommerce company and we have several data servers and point-of-sale systems. We wanted to collect and integrate all this data to create a unified view of its customers, orders and inventory. And we also desired to use this data to power its BI dashboards and reports. Additionally, we wanted to predict the futuristic demand for the goods. Hence, we utilized SAP Datasphere for data catalogue and data governance policies; and created semantic models of the data, then we created the Power BI dashboards and reports to share the insight of data.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP data sphere played an import role in data unification in cases where data from multiple sources is to be ingested into single platform for processing. Theoretically it can support data ingestion from both SAP and non-SAP data sources. It can even access data from foreign sources. SAP has good team of professionals to help you with onboarding and support requirements.
  • Service & Support for onboarding
  • integration with the existing BI platform
  • automating complicated, repetitive laborious manual procedures
  • Lack of documentation availability
  • No Mobile application
  • Cost/ Pricing
One of the best use cases for SAP data sphere is ecommerce and retail business where a lot of locations are constantly generating a lot of data and we need to make important business decisions based on that data. SAP data sphere can help wit integrating multiple data sources and help with analytics, data processing, modeling and making business predictions.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SAP as the inventory, and pricing database for all products globally at out company. I personally use it for web pricing and inventory, however the retail team can also separate things by retail, and warehouse. So we can have separate pricing for retail stores and web store.
  • Price adjustments
  • inventory allocation
  • sales reports
  • ease of use
  • could use a refreshed UX experience
  • data doesn't always flow back to SAP as we would want it to from salesforce
SAP is best suited for large global corporations. It is a very complex software and is difficult to come by individuals who have sufficient enough knowledge to master the product. Globally our company only has 1 person to support us in IT for SAP. It is great if you use a more complex web host such as SFCC as you can make connections to SAP for returns, inventory, price updates, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Over the years, SAP software has been used by our team to address data routine. Specifically, we use SAP Datasphere to integrate data from diverse sources both on-premise and in the cloud. The software assists with cataloging structured and unstructured data assets, which is profoundly useful in saving time as the team is easily all caught-up on their available data.
  • Integrates data from diverse sources; both on-premises or in the cloud
  • Catalog both structured and unstructured data assets.
  • Assess and improve data quality
  • Provides tools for tracking data chain
  • Improve the User Interface to make the software more intuitive.
  • Improve the integration process with other products to boost overall value
  • Increase their documentation and user guide
SAP Datasphere is well suited for various situations and use cases across different establishments. However, they are particularly fitted in large enterprises with multitude and complex data routines as the software solution allows integration from variety of sources. It is also a go-to for operations that extract and load (ETL) data from multiple systems.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP helps me integrate, visualize and process data effectively and efficiently. Data retrieval and analysis using SAP is much easier and more robust comparatively. Also, it is easy to connect and join data at elsewhere and integrate them and/or remove the redundancies more smoothly. The cloud linkage and workflow are the best suite.
  • Data from numerous sources, both locally and on the cloud, is simple to integrate.
  • Simplified and detailed data visualization tools.
  • simple and rapid development
  • Integrate previously existing data models.
  • High cost and maintainence
  • There are no free services available, no free demo application use cases which makes the user not have an overview how efficient it is.
  • Virtual servers are sometimes laggy and slow..
SAP is quite good at combining data from several sources. It has the ability to connect to a range of databases, cloud services, and on-premises systems. Before transferring data to other systems for analytics or reporting, we can utilize it to transform and clean the data.
SAP Datasphere is good for large volumes of data; small datasets get the stuff overcomplicated.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Previously, we were using Google Analytics on all our sites to visualize user analytics, behaviors, etc. But recently, we made the switch to SAP Datasphere, which is also a SaaS. As our organization was already using SAP BTP, we were able to make the switch to SAP Datasphere conveniently, which helped us in Data Discovery and distribution. This was particularly needed in our organization as we have a vast number of data-oriented platforms and have a huge number of clients using those. Hence, we started using SAP Datasphere for tracking, managing, and modeling those data across all our platforms.
  • Catalogs data across all our platforms into a single and centralised hub.
  • Data Discovery, Data Governance and of course real time visualisation of data.
  • Includes access controlled mechanism to monitor data reading privileges.
  • Need to have a good understanding of the SAP ecosystem to implement and use it.
  • From a cost perspective it can be little bit on the expensive side for enterprises.
  • The platform is still new and hence more subjected to bugs. But support for it is always good from the SAP team.
The sites and platforms that we implemented already were using SAP BTP and SAP Ariba, and hence were well suited and habituated to the SAP ecosystem. Hence making the switch to SAP Datasphere along with SAP Cloud Analytics wasn't that difficult for our team and organisation. Just our team has more than 200 sites contained in 6 different platforms. Tracking, modeling, and analyzing data across all these different platforms was very cumbersome for us sometimes. But SAP Datasphere, with its Data Discovery, was able to centralize all those data which we were easily able to model and analyze.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We now have all of our data catalogued and unified with SAP Datasphere. We are using it to create new visuals for our data reports and delviering bettern analysis in general. Some of our researchers can be really granular but the ecosystem adjusts to it well.
  • Visualisation
  • Data cataloguing
  • Integrated services
  • Not intuitive to set up
  • Not for novice users
  • Not enough of visual choices
  • Data not always verified properly
It is not built for super complex tasks but for the daily operations it is perfect. Data intergrity checks would definitely need some attention as we've been having difficulties with them. Current visuals are enough but there always can be more. Not every user in my team was able to jump on the tool without a proper walkthrough.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a new Data management tool from SAP with tight integration with SAP BTP. The positioning is little confusing since not sure whether it replaces SAP BW, or any other CDP platform. It is a combination of individual components like SAP analytics cloud and help in all processes of data in the organization
  • Data visualization on SAC
  • Keeping the core clean using SAP BTP
  • API support
  • Nothing as such. Tool needs maturity
It is suited if you have entire ecosystem of SAP products and need one robust platform to manage all your data and analytics needs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use SAP Datasphere on a daily basis at workplace. I am able to relish a lit of issues with the help of this program. It is seamless, rapid and accurate to model, prepare and visualize data across varied sources.
  • SAP Datasphere allows me to make informed decisions by automating data modeling, preparation and visualization.
  • Furthermore, SAP Datasphere offered prebuilt content and pre-integrated services like datalake and databases.
  • It simplify data landscape through business data fabric.
  • It offered a free trial.
  • Too bad, SAP vendor does offer free trial but seldom do they offer freemium version.
  • Unavailability of mobile application and deficiency in documentation for features.
SAP Datasphere allows me to bring SAP and non-SAP data in one central location for real-time data modeling and visualization when making decisions.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
With SAP Datasphere, I am able to reduce manual data modeling, integration and visualization procedures through automation.
  • Accelerated implementation by offering built-in services such as data lake and databases.
  • Unify data across multi-cloud and on-premise sources.
  • SAP Datasphere is allocates at a fair cost estimation compared to alternatives such as Amazon Redshift.
  • Accelerate time to value by reusing semantical definitions automatically.
  • Unfortunately, there’s no mobile application for SAP Datasphere.
  • The vendor offers free trial, but doesn’t offer freemium version.
Based on my experience, SAP Datasphere best suit all business scenarios that encompass data. It has enabled me to automatically integrate, model and visualize data in real-time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We recommend our clients use SAP Datasphere to bring their data from their ABAP system and make it ready for consumption in various BI applications.
  • Replication of SAP data
  • Ability to integrate with non-ABAP systems
If a client has SAP BW on prem and is interested in moving BI to the cloud
ankita soni | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Effectiveness with getting insights for data collected from different sources. Elegant and robustness with data visualization for apps on the cloud. Tantalizing with ETL data virtualization.
  • Magnificent with data virtualization through data modeling.
  • The efficiency with automation of repetitive tasks.
  • Terrific with a collection of data from different sources, which makes business decisions simple.
  • It requires skilled personnel with IT to use.
  • Magnificent with data collection from various sources which makes decision making easy.
  • Terrific with the elimination of data duplication for ensuring the integrity of our data.
Excellent at ensuring data integrity by eliminating duplications. Built-in AI capabilities help with model evaluation and automating repetitive tasks.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SAP solved all kinds of business problems since we needed a SAAS tool with data warehousing capabilities. Given the large business use cases we use, real time data availability was a challenge and SAP data warehousing has solved this for us with ease. Cloud transitions have been easy as well.
  • Data Integration
  • Real time data
  • Data lookup
  • More seamless cloud integration
  • More visual analytics
  • Tackling more complex data
SAP Data Warehouse Cloud provides great data integration capabilities and warehousing almost the entire data through cloud and even provides analytics considering the wide range of data. It is suited for organisations which want real time data availability. Cloud integration on the other hand could be more seamless with some better analytics available in terms of visualisation
Nitesh Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is one of the most simplified tool and its user interface helps in easy familiarization. Overall for Inventory management, FEFO adherence and for tracking and tracebility it is one of the best software. It helps in SKU wise segregation and picking packing list generation system based. Automated picking list helps in creating trust with customers.
  • Automatic Picking List
  • Location Control
  • Tracking and tracebility
  • Inventory controls
  • Could be Integrated with Barcodes
  • Further Improvisation with training modules
  • Updation of softwares
It is one of the key warehouse management tools available today whose Interface is user friendly and helps in understanding important pointers at just click. It helps to understand the Touch points so well and help in mapping locations and Inventory control be it Distribution or dispatch quite easily. Overall one hell of software
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While managing the sales of our products with the customers available in all over India. Customer sitting in any corner of the country can buy the product by accessing through SAP. Not only sales but also after sales services like attending the customer compliant in terms of quality and quantity shall be taken care through SAP
  • Stock Accounting
  • Daily, Monthly and Yearly Reports MIS
  • Ease of Operation
  • Reasonable price
  • Cancelled data also need to be captured
  • Time to solve the problems faced while using it
Managing the warehouse property from intake of material to properly storing it and then dispatching it on time. It is very much user friendly and easy to understandable. Any updates also will not impact much in the operation. Good coordination with all the stack holders like Production, Finance, Quality and Marketing
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We have one space managed by IT for all governed data models and expose this to other spaces where users from each department can enhance the models to their own needs! In this way, end users have way more flexibility in making changes to the models without interference from IT
  • No code modeling
  • Data access controls
  • Selfservice
  • Combining data from DWC with predictive analysis in SAC with a live connection
DWC is the first tool I have seen that really can easily facilitate self service data warehousing from a business user point of view
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Consolidate data from S/4HANA Cloud and SuccessFactors.
  • Modeling
  • Lineage
  • View persistence
  • Predictive analytics with SAC
  • Improved modeling data builder performance
It’s less stored for complex analytics scenarios with 60+ developers. This is due to the extremely limited and poor transport management and change management capabilities. Please please just use git - do not re-invent the wheel.
November 28, 2022

DWC Improvement request

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently we are doing POC using SAP DWC. WE are running into few issues like loading JSON file in DWC is very tedious. When we will have hierarchy node authorization support in DWC? When will the consumption CDS views supported in DWC? We would also like to know when data extraction using rest API will be supported in DWC? Last but not least when can we use Standard Hierarchy in S04?
  • Modelling with non SAP data and SAP data
  • Easy to connect with Azure data sources
  • Simple and easy data builder
  • Hierarchy node authorization
  • Using Rest API for data extraction
  • Loading JSON files easily
  • Using consumption cds view from S04
  • allow to use S04 Standard Hierarchy in DWC
Very well used for SAP and Non SAP data integration and comparison scenarios.
Answering some of the Audit challenge questions.
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