On Feb 13th 2024 SAP hold an event (SAP Business
Unleashed) where a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution in area of data management
called SAP Business Data Could (BDC) was announced. The solution is marketed as
an evolution of SAP capabilities of planning and analytics solutions like SAP Datasphere,
SAP
Analytics Cloud, and SAP
Business Warehouse. All these are unified with Databricks’s capabilities of
data engineering and machine learning/AI.
What is Databricks? It is a data lakehouse (portmanteau
of "data warehouse" and "data lake") solution
that unifies data warehouses and data lakes on one platform. By handling data,
analytics, and AI workloads.
By mixing of SAP data management portfolio with Databricks customers
get:
- Unified Data & Analytics to combine SAP & non-SAP data
- Scalability & Performance with Apache Spark and serverless
- Delta Sharing for data access across platforms, clouds and regions
- Robust AI & Machine Learning Tool Set
With this new announcement does it mean that SAP Datasphere is dead?
With Databricks now deeply integrated into SAP,
does SAP Datasphere still have a role, or is it redundant? Business Data Cloud
is rather the next iteration of DataSphere. However, it can turn out that some
features will not be build in the Datasphere but rather in Databricks. Thus, for
some use cases the Datasphere may become obsolete.
Release of SAP Business Data Cloud:
Version 1.0 General 1.0 Feb 13, 2025
More information:
Databricks
paper - Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify
Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics
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