What is SAP Business Data Cloud?
SAP Business Data Cloud unifies and governs SAP and third-party data with a business data fabric, enabling the trusted data foundation for agentic AI.
Turn all your data into business outcomes
Harmonise mission-critical data with the business processes, policies, and logic that give it meaning, enabling every agent to draw from universal business context.
Transform outcomes with Joule Agents
Empower teams with Joule Agents that draw on SAP Business Data Cloud’s knowledge core to autonomously orchestrate complex workflows across every domain.
Foster reliable AI
Ensure that applications and operations data has a foundation for agentic AI that is reliable, responsible, and relevant.
Discover what makes SAP Business Data Cloud unique
Accelerate AI with mission-critical data products
Access all your SAP data and skip context rebuilding entirely with curated, semantically rich data products built on SAP's business process definitions.
Run best of breed compute for every workload
Power data and AI workloads across Spark, SQL, and multi-model engines with flexible compute that matches the right engine to what each workload needs.
Anchor agentic AI with a business data fabric
Connect your data with the business processes, policies, and semantics that give it meaning, so every agent and application understands how your business works.
SAP Business Data Cloud capabilities
Maximise the value of your most comprehensive and mission-critical data across all your data and AI projects.
SAP Analytics Cloud
Bring together agentic analytics and enterprise planning in a single solution with AI-ready models connected to your business.
SAP Datasphere
Discover, share, and model the same trusted data across your business data fabric.
SAP Business Warehouse
Modernise your Business Warehouse data to the cloud without disruption.
SAP Databricks
Develop custom AI and machine learning models across your data landscape.
SAP HANA Cloud
Unify transactional, analytical, and AI workloads in a single, multi-model database.
SAP Master Data Governance
Govern master data and policy across your business data fabric so that agents and applications always start from a golden system of record.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP Business Data Cloud
Preserving business meaning across a global network
Ericsson unified semantics and business context across petabytes of data spanning 180+ countries, driven by governed, reusable data products.
Simplifying data governance across 350M+ customers
Vodafone reduced its BW footprint by 80% through consolidating multiple markets into a single semantic layer–delivering governed, trusted data that serves 350M+ customers.
Treating data and AI as a shared business capability
Google reduced manual reconciliation by aligning finance and IT on shared organisational knowledge–enabling faster customer P&L reporting across their business data fabric.
Unifying 500 billion business signals in real-time for AI
Team Liquid unified real-time event, training, and health data with full context for AI, saving 10,000+ hours of manual work.
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.
Maximise your data and AI investments
Simplify your data landscape with an open data ecosystem
Learn how to share data and metadata bi-directionally across your open data landscape with zero copies, preserving meaning across every cloud and platform.
Explore SAP Business Data Cloud capabilities on-demand
Watch on-demand demos showcasing SAP Business Data Cloud’s full capabilities. Get deeper into use cases across data fabric, data modernisation, agentic analytics, and more—and see what’s possible when your data works together.
See what analysts are saying about SAP
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Featured resources
Check out the latest insights and trends.
Measuring Data Fabric TCO
Explore how SAP Business Data Cloud saves up to 67% lower TCO with a data fabric compared to DIY.
The Fabric of Data and AI
Learn how SAP Business Data Cloud brings together context, governance, and orchestration to accelerate insights and intelligence.
The Trust Factor
Learn how a trusted data foundation drives resilience and success based on global research from IT and business leaders.
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.
Why CFOs and IT are leading data strategies for AI
Explore how high-quality, well-governed data gives CFOs a lever for financial performance and growth.