SAP + Databricks

A Unified Architecture

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Power of 2
Market leader Market leader in Data
in ERP Intelligence Platforms
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTION &
PLANNING OPERATIONS

FI NANCIAL SUPPLY Delta Live Databricks

Mosaic AI Workflows

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MANAGEMENT CHAIN
Tables SQL
elta Live
Tables
The A I powered data intelligence engine to understand the sem antics of your data

DatabricksIQ
HUMAN INVENTORY
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT Unity Catalog
Securely get insights in natural language
SERVICE & SALES &
SUPPORT MARKETING Delta Lake
Data layout is automatically optimized based on usage patterns

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 Historically this has not been easy
• Market
Raw leaderis cryptic
SAP data
in ERP
• Data extraction options differ by SAP
application
• Data extraction options depend on SAP
“Fast”
license the customer has
• Data extraction options depend on version
and location of SAP “Legal” “Cheap”
• Many SAP Customers are planning / in the
middle of multi-year upgrades
• Usage of SAP’s ODP RFC API by third-party
tools is not permitted (SAP Note 3255746) Pick 2
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 SAP Business Data Cloud
Business Data Cloud
Customer’s SAP
applications

S/4HANA RISE S/4HANA RISE, SuccessFactors, Ariba, etc.

Private Cloud
SAP Managed Pipeline

Landed as “BDC Data Products”

SuccessFactors
SAP Managed Pipeline
silver gold
BDC Data
Products
HANA Data Lake Files (HDLF S)
…

Hyperscaler (multi-cloud)

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 SAP Business Data Cloud
Business Data Cloud
Customer’s SAP
applications
Non RISE S/4HANA, S/4HANA Z-CDS-Views, ECC

Self Managed Pipeline

S/4HANA RISE
Private Cloud Landed as “Custom Data Products”

SAP
Datasphere Self Managed Pipeline

SuccessFactors
SAP Managed Pipeline
silver gold silver gold
BDC Data Custom Data
Products Products
HANA Data Lake Files (HDLF S)
…

Hyperscaler (multi-cloud)

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 SAP Databricks: Automatic provisioning of

SAP Business Data Cloud

• Databricks account & workspace & UC metastore
• BDC user identities SCIM’ed to SAP Databricks
• Delta shares provisioned in UC
• Access control provisioned in UC

Business Data Cloud AI/ML on BDC Data DE, DW, AI/ML on blended
Products SAP + non-SAP data
Customer’s SAP
applications SAP Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
BDC Insight with UC
Apps with UC
(AI/ML, SQL) (DE, AI/ML, DW)

DW on BDC Data
SAP Products
S/4HANA RISE Analytics
Private Cloud Zero Copy
Cloud (SAC) Delta Sharing

SAP
Datasphere
SuccessFactors
SAP Managed Pipeline
silver gold silver gold
BDC Data Custom Data
SAP Products Products
BW(/4)HANA SaaS
on RISE PCE HANA Data Lake Files (HDLF S)
…
Non-SAP sources
Hyperscaler (multi-cloud)

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 SAP BDC Intelligence against SAP Applications Roadmap*

Core Enterprise Analytics People Analytics Spend Analytics Insight Apps will be
- Working Capital - Employee Central - Spend Control Tower
- Finance Foundation - Learning - Procurement analysis made available in phased
- Sales Analysis - Skills - Supplier risk analysis approach within BDC.
- Enterprise Asset - Recruiting - Contract Management
Management - Talent - Consolidated Spend
- Solution Business Analysis SAP is starting with Core
Enterprise Analytics for
finance follow by People
Customer Analytics Supply Chain Analytics analytics for
- Customer Data Platform - Order Management SuccessFactors.
- Customer Management - Inventory and Costing
- Sales planning and analysis - Procurement
- Stock forecasting - Manufacturing The first data set
available will be the
Working Capital dataset.

* subject to change
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Insight Apps Benefit

Old Process

Create
Acquire, load Think about Map the
Define models to Create an Create roles
Look for and how you models to Assign roles
required prepare & interactive with
existing data transform want to the to users
measures harmonise dashboard authorization
the data visualise it dashboard
data

New Process

Install an Assign roles

insight App to users

required for BI and AI

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Key Product Milestones
Roadmap Subject to change

SAP BDC & SAP BDC &

SAP Databricks SAP Databricks SAP Databricks
SAP BDC (GA- AWS) (GA- GCP) (GA- Azure)
GA - AWS

Feb 13 April May Q3

2025 2025 2025

Announcement
includes
Delta Share connectors for SAP Data into Native (non-SAP)
SAP Databricks
Databricks to be available within weeks of GA on each Cloud

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 Value of Business Data Cloud and Databricks

• Unlock mission critical SAP data

• Remove complexities & labour of SAP extraction
• Reverse engineer SAP ERP business logic in Databricks
• Zero copy reduces data proliferation, maintain single analytical source
• Ready to consume silver/gold layer BDC Data Products = faster time to value
• Execute Data Science, AI/ML on SAP Data “out of the box”
• Focus labour on analytics rather than data prep

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Thank you!

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Appendix

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 Delta Share SAP Data to Databricks via SAP BDC
Recommended Approach

Business Data Cloud

Customer’s SAP
applications SAP Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
BDC Insight with UC
Apps with UC
(AI/ML, SQL) (DE, AI/ML, DW)

SAP
S/4HANA RISE Analytics
Private Cloud Zero Copy
Cloud (SAC) Delta Sharing

SAP
Datasphere
SuccessFactors
SAP Managed Pipeline
silver gold silver gold
BDC Data Custom Data
SAP Products Products
BW(/4)HANA SaaS
on RISE PCE HANA Data Lake Files (HDLF S)
…
Non-SAP sources
Hyperscaler (multi-cloud)

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 Replicate SAP Data to Databricks via SAP Datasphere
Business Data Cloud
Customer’s SAP
applications Extract SAP data from source via SAP Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
with UC
Datasphere Replication Flows / write (DE, AI/ML, DW)
to cloud storage / ingest into
Databricks via Auto Loader. Can
leverage SAP ODP RFC API. Premium
S/4HANA RISE Outbound Integration applies.
Private Cloud

SAP
Datasphere
SuccessFactors

SaaS
…
Non-SAP sources
Hyperscaler (multi-cloud)

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 Replicate SAP Data to Databricks via Third-Party Tool

Customer’s SAP
applications Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
with UC
(DE, AI/ML, DW)
Use Third-Party Replication tools / write to
cloud storage / ingest into Databricks via Auto
S/4HANA RISE Loader. Cannot leverage SAP ODP RFC API.
Private Cloud

SuccessFactors

SaaS
…
Non-SAP sources
Hyperscaler (multi-cloud)

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 Bi-Directional Integration via JDBC
Business Data Cloud
Customer’s SAP
applications Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
with UC
(DE, AI/ML, DW)
Bi-directional integration between
SAP Datasphere and Databricks
S/4HANA RISE via JDBC
Private Cloud

SAP
Datasphere
SuccessFactors
SAP Data replicated
/ federated into SAP
Datasphere
SaaS
…
Non-SAP sources
Hyperscaler (multi-cloud)

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SAP S/4HANA, ECC, BW APIs

OData
SLT
Operational
Data
CDS Views
Provisioning

RFC
(ODP)
Extractors /
Data Sources

Function Modules / BAPIs

IDOCs

Tables / Views / Queries

ABAP Stack

Database
HANA SQL Oracle DB2

SAP S/4HANA, ECC, CRM, BW

Source: AWS blog post

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https://me.sap.com/notes/3255746

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