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SAP Datasphere

What it is

SAP's business data fabric service, launched in March 2023 as the new name and positioning of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud. It unifies data integration, cataloguing, semantic modelling, data warehousing and virtualisation across SAP and third-party data. It is now part of SAP Business Data Cloud.

Formerly known as: SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

Why it matters for executives

Datasphere keeps the business meaning of SAP data intact when it leaves the ERP. That semantic layer is what AI use cases depend on.

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