SAP advises leaving your data in its current location while it examines it
In addition to creating collaborations with businesses claiming to be at the forefront of contemporary data management, SAP has opened up its analytics system to data from sources other than the enterprise software vendor's environment.
Customers of SAP who want to defend their continued investment in the SAP Business Warehouse globe should applaud the decision. The new offering, which goes by the name SAP Datasphere, is actually an upgrade to the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
If the mission-critical business data is stored in the SAP data warehouse, SAP applications, or applications and data stores from other vendors, according to SAP, data experts will be able to access it.
According to SAP, the new product would provide a "single experience" for data federation, data integration, data cataloguing, semantic modelling, and data warehousing.
Juergen Mueller, CTO of SAP, stated that the company intends to "assist customers in seamlessly and confidently integrating SAP data with non-SAP data from third-party apps and platforms, enabling whole new insights and knowledge to move digital transformation to another level."
If this all sounds familiar, it's because data platform companies started opening up to data from outside of their contexts last year. To assist in doing this, Snowflake, Google Data Cloud, and Cloudera have announced support for the Apache Iceberg open table format. In the meantime, a "headless" data warehouse for a related purpose has been promised by Tabular, a business launched by the people who created Iceberg.
Data governance provider Collibra, streaming data platform Confluent, machine learning platform DataRobot, and datalake/lakehouse business Databricks were among the partnerships SAP confirmed as part of its Datasphere news.
The latter connection may provide insight that will help SAP develop its strategy for integrating data from sources other than the SAP environment into the SAP analytics platform without relocating the data from the source system.
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/08/sap_datasphere/
