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SAP Datasphere

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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 Reviews

What users are saying about SAP Datasphere.
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Pros

  • Comprehensive data integration and harmonization (SAP and non-SAP data)
  • Flexible data modeling with graphical and code-based approaches
  • Self-service capabilities for reporting and analytics

Cons

  • Limitations in Task Chain functionality (scheduling, retries, data deletion)
  • Initial learning curve and complexity for some features
  • Challenges with integration to non-SAP systems and generic APIs

SAP Datasphere in modernization

Incentivized
Suman KandasamyView profile
Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Bosch global software technologies (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a part of SAP modernization we are using SAP Datasphere in place of SAP BW, main usage is to extract data from S/4 and build data products for Analytics

Pros

  • Modelling
  • Integration
  • Live consumption in SAC

Cons

  • User Interface, some features like renaming views are difficult
  • Easy options to integrate
  • Scheduling options, now to get the log is looking weird

Return on Investment

  • As cloud tool charge is in higher side
  • Feature loaded with flexibility
  • Still evolving tool so more scope

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP Business Data Cloud

Other Software Used

SAP Cloud ERP (SAP S/4HANA Cloud), SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA

SAP Datasphere the next Gen Data warehouse concept

Incentivized
Venu Arvinth Nandha KumarView profile
IT Project Manager in Manufacturing at HILTI ASIA IT SERVICES (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Datasphere (DSP) is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC), in our organization we have connected our S4HANA, BW4HANA for our sustainability use case, here we are extracting data from above sources to accelerate our analytics into cloud, and we are further feeding our data into SAC models and also to SCT (Sustainability Control Tower).

Pros

  • We can accelerate our analytics with power of storing in cloud
  • CDS view with real time replication
  • Integration with SAC - Analytic Models, OData Connections (Bi-directional)
  • Object reusability, also there is no need of storing physical data

Cons

  • It has very limited advance modeling compared to SAP BW
  • When the data volume is huge, OPD performance and stability is inconsistent
  • It heavy depends on Sap Analytics Cloud for querying, whereas BW has it own query designer

Return on Investment

  • Real time reporting helps in providing more flexibility to take decisions immediately
  • Reusability of objects with different helps in reducing the time and efforts
  • Data Access Control provide more security on data level, which ensures the data are visible correct personas

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP BW/4HANA

Other Software Used

SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Datasphere

Incentivized
Abdelhalim DadoucheView profile
Freelance Consultant in Professional Services at DJZ Consulting (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, I use SAP Datasphere to test SAP BDC (Business Data Cloud) data products and give access to SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) data

Pros

  • integrates well with SAP systems

Cons

  • the pricing is prohibitive for many customers

Return on Investment

  • SAP Datasphere is becoming the only available / allowed option to extract SAP data

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Databricks and Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Swap SAP Datasphere good to use

Incentivized
Arvind Kumar
analytics in Finance and Accounting at Equinor (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use for sharing data from swap to non SAP

Pros

  • Sharing the data
  • Extraction
  • Modeling

Cons

  • Modeling
  • Semantic
  • Variable and filter

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use
  • Graphical modeling
  • SQL modeling

Alternatives Considered

SAP Analytics Cloud

Real time data replication tool from S4 HANA

Incentivized
Joseph Yeruva
Analytics architect in Information Technology at owens corning (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

data ware house and real time relications and reporting

Pros

  • Data ware house
  • real time replications
  • data modelling

Cons

  • seamless analytical model to power bi connectivity

Return on Investment

  • helps to replicate data quickly real time

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Databricks, Snowflake and Azure Database

Other Software Used

SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform, IBP

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