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SAP & ERP Modernization, Celebal Technologies
Principal Consultant, Celebal Technologies
6 min read•February 13, 2025
For years, enterprises have navigated a complex landscape of disparate data systems, struggling to generate maximum value from their SAP data. Critical business decisions require combining SAP data with other business data points such as OT data, third party logistics, external data points for demand sensing etc. For achieving the same, customers had challenges managing complex landscapes to get a unified view of their enterprise data from SAP and non-SAP systems. Fortunately, SAP and Databricks are rewriting the rules. They have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Databricks within the SAP Business Data Cloud, enhancing data-driven decision-making.
This collaboration aims to provide enterprises with a unified data ecosystem that seamlessly combines SAP’s trusted business data with Databricks’ powerful AI and analytics capabilities. With SAP set to offer this as a bundled solution, enterprises can expect an optimized approach to leveraging their data for advanced insights and innovation. This simply means, the future of enterprise data is here, and it’s more connected than ever.
From SAP Datasphere to SAP Business Data Cloud: SAP's Data Journey, To the Cloud and Beyond
SAP’s journey towards an integrated and intelligent data ecosystem has evolved significantly over the years. SAP Datasphere, formerly SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, was introduced to unify and simplify access to distributed data landscapes. It provided businesses with a flexible data fabric to connect, manage, and analyze structured and unstructured data efficiently.
While SAP Datasphere continues to play a critical role in enabling data connectivity and governance, SAP has now taken a major leap forward with the introduction of SAP Business Data Cloud. This latest evolution not only maintains the core principles of Datasphere—such as seamless data integration and governance—but also enhances them with the power of integrated Databricks.
Combining Strengths: SAP and Databricks Working Together
SAP Business Data Cloud unifies, governs, and maximizes the value of enterprise data, enabling organizations to realize its full potential. By embedding Databricks into this ecosystem, SAP bridges the gap between operational and analytical data, allowing enterprises to:
- • Achieve Faster Insights: Databricks’ data capabilities enable organizations to analyze SAP data, leading to faster and more informed decision-making.
- • Break Down Data Silos: With SAP and Databricks working together, companies can eliminate silos and create a single, governed data environment that supports end-to-end analytics.
- • Enhance Advanced Analytics Use Cases: Organizations can build and deploy AI models on top of SAP data with Databricks platform, advancing intelligent analytics.
- • Ensure Compliance and Security: The integration maintains SAP’s data governance and security standards, ensuring enterprise-grade compliance while leveraging Databricks’ scalability and flexibility.
The Enterprise Advantage: What This Partnership Means for You?
- • Simplified Data Management: By offering Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud as a bundled solution, businesses can avoid the complexity of integrating disparate systems and instead rely on a seamless, end-to-end data strategy.
- • Advanced Analytics: The joint solution will allow businesses to tap into ML insights directly within their SAP environment, accelerating innovation in areas like supply chain optimization, customer experience, and financial forecasting.
- • Improved Cost Efficiency: By offering Databricks as a native component within SAP Business Data Cloud, companies can streamline their analytics investments and maximize ROI.
- • Data Products: By embedding Databricks with SAP ecosystem enterprises can now combine these data products with advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, ultimately leading to faster decision-making, improved efficiency, and greater business agility.
Envisioning the Future: Data Innovation with SAP and Databricks
This partnership is set to redefine enterprise data management, enabling enterprises to innovate faster and extract deeper insights from their data. With SAP offering this as a bundled solution, enterprises can now combine SAP’s enterprise-grade data governance and Databricks’ AI-driven analytics without the hassle of complex integrations.
Are you ready to amplify your SAP data strategy with SAP Business Data Cloud?
As a premier partner to SAP and Databricks, Celebal Technologies is committed to helping enterprises accelerate their adoption of SAP Business Data Cloud. To ensure a smooth transition, we offer tailored starter packages:
- • Assessment for SAP BDC Readiness: A comprehensive evaluation of your current data landscape to determine readiness for SAP Business Data Cloud and Databricks integration.
- • Re-imagine SAP BW Models on SAP BDC: Seamless deployment of existing SAP BW models onto the Business Data Cloud, ensuring continuity and enhanced performance.
- • Re-imagine HANA Models on SAP BDC: Seamless deployment of existing HANA models to take full advantage of the embedded Databricks capabilities for advanced analytics and AI-driven insights
Expert Insight:
“The integration of Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud carries immense strategic significance for modern enterprises. We're witnessing a convergence of enterprise-grade data insights with a leading data and AI platform. This isn't just about running Spark jobs closer to your SAP data; it's about fundamentally changing how enterprises approach real-time analytics, AI/ML model development, and the creation of intelligent data products directly within the SAP ecosystem. The ability to leverage Databricks' Delta Lake, advanced ML capabilities, and seamless integration with SAP Datasphere will be a game-changer for those seeking a unified, performant, and governed data landscape”.
Piyush Gupta,Head
SAP & ERP Modernization at Celebal Tech.
Celebal Technologies: Your Partner for SAP and Databricks Success!
Celebal Technologies is a top Databricks and SAP technologies global partner specializing in Data and AI technologies. Celebal's Leadership team comes with decades of SAP experience in SAP Product development and Global Consulting. Our deep industry domain expertise coupled with SAP skills has enabled us to deliver a comprehensive suite of cloud and data-driven solutions for Enterprise customers in over 20 countries globally. Celebal is also the only SAP partner invested in by Databricks Ventures and leads ERP Data Modernization initiatives on Databricks platform across all three regions - Americas, EMEA and APJ. Our dynamic suite of advanced solutions built on Data Modernization, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, Industry Data Models, SAP Innovate and App Modernization, positions us at the nexus of traditional enterprise systems and modern cloud innovation.