Accelerate Your Cloud Journey: Migrate from SAP BW to SAP Datasphere

As AI shifts from hype to reality, data has become the new currency. Despite this, many modern businesses continue to grapple with data segregation challenges. Business-critical data is often scattered across various IT systems and applications. It makes it more difficult for decision-makers to access accurate and timely information.?

To tackle this issue, SAP introduced SAP Datasphere last year, along with an open data ecosystem. This innovative solution establishes a business data fabric that provides real-time, reliable data. Datasphere quickly became a popular option among top enterprises, empowering data-driven decision-making and streamlining complex data environments by offering accessible, harmonized data.

While SAP Datasphere has radically simplified the data landscape, making it easier for businesses to connect, unify, and manage SAP and third-party data, the story doesn't end there. At yesterday's SAP Data Unleashed virtual event, SAP furthered its innovative spirit by announcing the SAP Datasphere knowledge graph. This new feature will enable enterprises to discover hidden patterns across their heterogeneous business landscape.?

Get the Insights You Need Wherever Your Data Resides

SAP has always strived to improve its cloud offerings in leaps and bounds. The newly introduced Datasphere Knowledge Graph aims to help organizations uncover hidden patterns in their data, regardless of where it's stored. This tool allows users to understand data relationships deeply, even without technical expertise.

As data is processed and integrated into SAP Datasphere, the knowledge graph automatically creates an ontology, showing how data is connected. Users can customize this ontology to fit their specific needs. This makes it easier for you to analyze data and uncover new insights.

The SAP Datasphere Knowledge Graph is particularly useful for complex questions, like developing marketing strategies for specific cities. It can also simplify AI models and reduce errors. By using existing data from SAP Datasphere, the knowledge graph significantly reduces the effort and cost of manual creation. Additionally, you can use it with Joule, SAP's generative AI co-pilot, to quickly find answers to your various questions.

As SAP continues to completely transform planning— with a business data fabric and robust tools and features such as Datasphere knowledge graph and SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine— it may be time to reconsider your Data Warehouse strategy, or should we say switch to SAP Datasphere from your traditional on-premise SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) solution. This strategic move not only streamlines your data landscape but also unlocks a realm of possibilities for leveraging data as a strategic asset.

Let’s explore the advantages of migrating from BW to SAP Datasphere for data-driven enterprises.?

But Why Should I Migrate from SAP BW to Datasphere?

The seamless access to insights provided by the SAP Datasphere Knowledge Graph lays a strong foundation for businesses to consider migrating from SAP BW to SAP Datasphere. SAP BW, while a robust solution, has limitations that make it challenging for modern enterprises to keep pace with the rapidly evolving data landscape.

SAP BW is known for its complexity and high maintenance costs, making it difficult for organizations to adapt to changing business needs and market demands. Additionally, SAP BW is designed for batch processing, which can result in delays in accessing real-time data and insights. This limitation becomes increasingly problematic in today's fast-paced business environment, where timely decision-making is critical.

Advantages of Migrating from SAP BW to SAP Datasphere

Built on SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere is the next-generation SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) offering a comprehensive data service. It goes beyond traditional data fabric approaches by maintaining business logic and application context from data intact (the data’s DNA). This eliminates the need to recreate lost business context- enabling business stakeholders and data consumers to make decisions more quickly and confidently,? a full picture of their data, regardless of how or where it was stored. It provides data cataloging, integration, semantic modeling, federation, virtualization, and analytics capabilities in a single platform.

Migrating from SAP BW to SAP Datasphere offers several advantages for businesses. Firstly, SAP Datasphere radically simplifies the data landscape, making it easier for businesses to connect, unify, and manage SAP and third-party data for more informed decision-making.

Key Features of SAP Datasphere:

• Strategic Target Solution: SAP Datasphere is SAP's strategic target solution for all data warehousing use cases in the Public Cloud.
• Browser-Based Access: It offers browser-based access for workforce empowerment with cloud-based simplicity, available as a SaaS on SAP BTP.
• Self-Service Capabilities: No-code/low-code graphical data modeling and analytics capabilities empower business users.
• Hybrid Scenarios: It allows innovation in the cloud by leveraging existing investments in SAP BW, including hybrid scenarios (BW/4HANA or native HANA).
• Semantically Rich Data Access: Access semantically rich data via a business layer from any source, SAP, or non-SAP, across on-premises and inter-cloud.
• Open for External Tooling: SAP Datasphere is open for external tooling for data integration, data modeling, and consumption.
• Advanced Analytics: It offers advanced analytics capabilities through powerful embedded integration with SAP SAC.
• Safeguarding Previous Investments: SAP Datasphere enables SAP BW customers to reuse up to 80% of existing content, saving costs and time.

Migrating to SAP Datasphere allows you to take advantage of advanced analytics capabilities offered by SAP Analytics Cloud. This integration enables your organization to transform planning processes by unifying financial, operational, supply chain, and workforce planning through a business data fabric architecture. You can access authoritative data, enrich all data projects, and simplify the data landscape. It accelerates your time-to-value by reusing semantic definitions and associations from SAP applications, harmonizing heterogeneous data into a business semantic model, and accessing all data across hybrid and cloud environments.

Start Your Migration Journey with Crave InfoTech

The cloud-first approach is not going anywhere. Thus, it makes perfect sense for businesses to execute their SAP BW to SAP Datasphere migrations to get the most out of their data. However, the migration process varies based on your organization's specific needs and the complexity of your SAP BW environment. This is where you need a trusted migration partner with extensive industry experience, specialized tools, and expertise – this is where you need Crave InfoTech.

As one of the few SAP-certified migration factory partners worldwide, Crave InfoTech is uniquely positioned to accelerate your cloud journey and help you get the best out of your data. Our team of experts has extensive experience in SAP migrations and can provide you with the guidance and support you need to seamlessly migrate from SAP BW to SAP Datasphere. Contact us today to maximize the value of your data and improve your business outcomes!

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