SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Datasphere

While SAP Datasphere is not cheap, like any other Cloud Lakehouse solution, to be fair, but there are use cases that are well worth the money.

Extracting data from Cloud solutions and loading them into traditional On-Prem data platforms such as Native HANA can be difficult. I recall having to play with various Web Services and SDI Adaptors cumbersomely.

Naming a few well-known SAP Cloud solutions: SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Concur, and SAP Field Glass, I can only see a few are natively accessible with SAP Datasphere with or without SDI DP Agent in the diagram below.

There is still some integration work to have those readily available, yet let's rejoice about the ones that are present, such as SAP SuccessFactors!

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Therefore, it strikes me that the combination of SuccessFactors and SAP Datasphere is very powerful for the following reasons:

• Native Cloud integration allows for a straightforward connection between SuccessFactors and the SAP Datasphere. SAP SF remote tables can be imported, and the data can be replicated to improve performance if necessary.
• The segregation of the environment for sensitive HR data is a key feature. This is achieved using the concept of spaces, combined with the appropriate authorization measures, ensuring the utmost security.

The positioning of Datasphere with the Spaces is a shift from the SAP BW concept of unifying all objects into the same Data warehouse. That integration was sold then as BW strength vs the silo approach of Qlik Techs. SAP Datasphere can achieve this by both natively segregating and allowing artifacts to be shared across spaces.

The same situation was observed for SAP Native HANA as for BW. Customers were not invited to create segregated spaces, which presented certain challenges that SAP Datasphere effectively addresses.

I would conclude that the use case for combining SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Datasphere is very good and would be a great entry point into Datasphere for a SAP shop.

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