What is SAP Business Data Cloud?

SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data and seamlessly connects with third-party data—giving line-of-business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions.

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Transform outcomes with intelligent applications

Automate, adapt, and learn in real time with AI-powered applications that understand your business.

 

Connect all your data

Harmonise all your mission-critical data with an open data ecosystem, leveraging a powerful semantic layer to give you an unmatched knowledge of your business.

 

Foster reliable AI

Ensure data across applications and operations has a foundation for agentic AI that is reliable, responsible, and relevant. 

Discover what makes SAP Business Data Cloud unique

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Accelerate data and AI projects with mission-critical data products

Access all your SAP data across your most important business processes with curated data products that eliminate the high costs of data extraction and replication.

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Connect all your data with the world’s industry-leading platform

Connect all your SAP and third-party data with SAP and Databricks in a fully managed SaaS solution.

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Adapt to changes in real-time with intelligent applications

Automate routine tasks and complex business processes with applications that learn from your data over time and can act on your behalf.

Capabilities in SAP Business Data Cloud

Maximise the value of your most comprehensive and mission-critical data across all your data and AI projects.

Analytics Cloud

Bring together analytics and enterprise planning with a single solution.

Datasphere

Discover, share, and model the same trusted data across your business data fabric.

Business Warehouse

Modernise your SAP Business Warehouse data to the cloud without disruption.

SAP Databricks

Effortlessly connect to contextual SAP data and blend with third-party data—without managing pipelines and copying data.

Intelligent applications

Automate, adapt, and learn in real time with AI-powered applications that understand your business.

AI and ML

Choose from a breadth of AI and machine learning capabilities that are fuelled by trusted business data.

Experience SAP Business Data Cloud

See how SAP Intelligent Applications, AI innovation, and data products unlock value.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP Business Data Cloud

Unlocking the full potential of business data

Hear how Henkel is streamlining their data landscape with trusted, AI-ready business data with SAP Databricks in Business Data Cloud.

Driving innovation and smarter mobility

Find out how CAF is connecting third-party solutions, improving data insight, and revolutionising efficiency with SAP Business Data Cloud.

Reducing carbon footprint and costs

See how Zalando democratises data, enhances decision-making, and reduces return rates with SAP data and analytics solutions.

Improving decision-making and data access

Learn how ZEISS achieves real-time data extraction and integration with SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud.

Empower every team with SAP Business Data Cloud

Cloud ERP intelligence

Bring together operational and financial data and deliver intelligence for working capital, profitability, sustainability, and more.

Finance intelligence

Transform finance operations to grow with speed, simplicity, and less risk.

Supply chain intelligence

Enable supply chain resilience with intelligent applications that connect planning, procurement, logistics, and operations.

People intelligence

Deliver people, skills, and third-party benchmarks to help HR teams make smarter talent decisions.

Spend intelligence

Gain total spend visibility with clean, connected data, breaking silos to unlock insights and drive outcomes.

Revenue intelligence

Unify data across sales, service, marketing, commerce, and ERP with semantics and governance intact.

Simplify and fully integrate your data landscape

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Simplify your data landscape with an open data ecosystem

Learn how to maximise your data and AI investments and easily integrate SAP Business Data Cloud with Snowflake, Collibra, Confluent, DataRobot, Google BigQuery and more.

Unlock the power of business data —together

Choose from a growing ecosystem of partner intelligent applications with industry leaders like Adobe and Moody’s, optimise your existing workloads, and discover new use cases based on business process expertise and industry best practices.

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Shape the future of business with intelligent applications

See how SAP Business Data Cloud delivers pre-built, intelligent applications for every line of business.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP

SAP recognised as a Leader in Data Integration

SAP is recognised as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration 2024.

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SAP named as a Leader in Financial Planning

SAP is recognised as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software 2024.

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SAP named as a Visionary in Analytics and Business Intelligence

Find out why SAP is recognised as a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2025.

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Featured resources

Check out the latest insights and trends.

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Discover SAP Business Data Cloud

Learn how SAP Business Data Cloud unifies data and business analytics with semantically rich data.

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The Trust Factor

Learn how a trusted data foundation drives resilience and success based on global research from IT and business leaders.

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Data Maturity: The New Benchmark for Business Leadership

Explore the latest benchmarks to assess your organisation’s data readiness—and discover how data maturity impacts AI, analytics, and decision-making.

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The Data Maturity Advantage

Discover how data-mature organisations outperform their peers—and get practical steps to elevate your own data strategy.

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Explore the value of data products for business-ready AI

Discover how modern organisations accelerate innovation and smarter decisions by treating data as a strategic product.

Frequently asked questions

SAP Business Data Cloud is deeply integrated across SAP applications, so your most critical data retains its original business context and semantics and the hidden costs of data extracts are eliminated—saving you time, resources, and effort.

SAP Business Data Cloud delivers intelligent applications and curated data products across all lines of business. As a complete solution for data and analytics, it also delivers fully managed capabilities for business data fabric, BW modernisation, planning, data engineering, and machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Existing SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud customers can continue their services without interruption. Over time, customers have the option to transition their current solutions to a fully managed solution with SAP Business Data Cloud.

SAP Business Data Cloud is the path forward for current on-premises SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) application customers. With SAP Business Data Cloud, customers optimise their existing SAP BW data by turning it into data products and take advantage of the latest data and AI capabilities, such as bidirectional data sharing and machine learning, while modernising to the cloud.

SAP Snowflake is an SAP Business Data Cloud extension that provides fully managed, comprehensive data and AI capabilities—giving customers greater choice and flexibility while simplifying their data landscape.

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