Item: SAP Datasphere
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Datasphere

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it as data warehouse for business reporting. Building the business logic into SAP Datasphere and provide those models to SAC for building SAC stories. Business problems: Merging several data sources from different systems into one harmonized layer. Blending related data together. Calculating complex metrics and KPIs. And this complex logic to make better performance doing persisting to make Stories run fast.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Graphical Views are easy to work
Have SQL View possibilities for complex logic, where Graphical Views cant do
Have possibility to connect different sources via connectors

Cons

Task chain managing: skipping step, when it is failing, retry functionality, starting task chain from the specific step. Adding pause step to wait several seconds to run
Graphical views - can't do joins using condition "between" or ">"

Return on Investment

Negative impact, that is cloud solution and if something is not working, we need to wait for SAP support will do something.
Also negative impact is upgrade and maintenance, which is causing issues time to time