SAP Datasphere: the oXya Guide to Modernizing Hybrid Data Architectures

Imagine a world where your critical ERP data and your other data sources are not trapped in isolated silos but are working together in a fluid and secure way. It would allow your organization to make better-informed decisions, improve efficiency and stimulate innovation. Even if the amount and the size of these silos vary from one organization to another, this world is possible. In this article, we will show you how to unify and secure your data to turn it into a source of strength for your company. 

The oXya Guide on SAP Datasphere for Hybrid Data Architectures addresses this issue and helps you synchronize your SAP data with other data warehouses, like BigQuery or Snowflake, for example. 

Presentation of SAP Datasphere 

To start off, SAP Datasphere offers an innovative solution that exploits the strategic data of your organization. It is the new generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and it includes improved features for data discovery, modelling and distribution. 

In more concrete terms, efficient data management often becomes a real challenge for many companies, especially if this data is stored in different silos and in different places.  

The challenge becomes even more striking when the key players in these companies have to extract data from different sources and bring it to a central location. This can sometimes lead to the loss of sensitive and important information.  

SAP Datasphere is a highly efficient solution to data management. It offers a unified experience for data integration, cataloguing, semantic modelling, storage, federation and virtualization. 

In light of this, it is important to understand that SAP Datasphere is a service offered on the SAP BTP platform (“Business Technology Platform”). Moreover, this platform offers comprehensive features for data integration and management. SAP BTP integrates seamlessly with SAP applications, and it connects to other useful data sources. 

SAP Datasphere is a cloud data management platform that helps companies integrate their SAP data (from S/4HANA, for example) with third-party data sources, such as Snowflake or BigQuery.  

This service now allows you to visualize and federate data, while also ensuring superior data governance in a secure and integrated location.  

Moreover, SAP Datasphere has a business-ready semantic layer that helps users more easily understand and analyze SAP data.  

It can also produce analytical reports, which allows for faster decision-making with real-time data coming from different environments. This more secure, federated solution allows you to produce more comprehensive reports that contain a plurality of data. This information can then be used for making strategic decisions regarding business growth, or to enable better management of existing operations, for example. 

This cloud-based service can be obtained through a SAP Datasphere subscription plan, with a minimum commitment based on consumption and the amount of capacity units (CUs). 

oXya, Your SAP Datasphere Partner 

With its international reputation, innovative solutions, long history with SAP, and expertise with large-scale projects for big corporations, oXya can support you in the deployment and configuration of SAP Datasphere.  

To ensure concrete operational results for its clients, oXya has developed a secure way of federating your data and supporting you in how you go about generating analytical reports originating from the unification of cloud data. 

oXya has expert knowledge of SAP Datasphere and will help you synchronize your SAP data (SAP S/4HANA) with other data warehouses. This solution offers business or commercial data standardization and provides a connection to all data sources – hence why it is called data federation – without overburdening daily management. 

The experts at oXya make data management easier by unifying your data through SAP Datasphere. Our step-by-step support will generate superior operational results. For efficient data management, entrust your project to oXya, an industry leader. 

Technical Session on Snowflake and BigQuery SAP Integration 

Snowflake and BigQuery are cloud data warehouses platforms and their architecture allows you to handle a significant amount of data and analyze it. 

More specifically, Snowflake is called a software-as-a-service (SaaS) for data storage. 

As for BigQuery, it is also a data warehouse, but it is entirely managed by Google and compatible with AI. This platform helps you manage and analyze data thanks to a certain number of features. 

However, both Snowflake and BigQuery do not allow you to federate data originating from different sources, such as the ones in siloes or in other environments. Yet, having SAP data linked to other data sources in Snowflake and BigQuery yields a more comprehensive picture of a given situation and provides an analytic layer for faster decision-making. 

To better visualize the benefits of SAP Datasphere and the integration of data from BigQuery, for example, we prepared the following diagram:   

To conclude, SAP Datasphere is in constant evolution and other interesting applications are also underway. 

For now, oXya will support you with SAP Datasphere and help you make the most of the possibilities it offers. At oXya, we are dedicated to helping you improve operational results. For this reason, we invite you to a demo of SAP Datasphere. Contact one of our experts now.