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SAP Datasphere

Score8.3 out of 10

237 Reviews and Ratings

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What is SAP Datasphere?

SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables users to distribute mission-critical business data — with business context and logic preserved — across the data landscape.

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What users are saying about SAP Datasphere.
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Swap SAP Datasphere good to use

Incentivized
Arvind kumar
analytics in Finance and Accounting at Equinor (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use for sharing data from swap to non SAP

Pros

  • Sharing the data
  • Extraction
  • Modeling

Cons

  • Modeling
  • Semantic
  • Variable and filter

Return on Investment

  • Easy to use
  • Graphical modeling
  • SQL modeling

Alternatives Considered

SAP Analytics Cloud

Enterprise-Wide Reporting and Analysis Platform SAP BW Replacement

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Corporate (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Strategic replacement for SAP BW, aimed at enabling enterprise-wide reporting and analytical capabilities. The platform supports core functionalities such as data modeling, orchestration of data loads, and centralized governance. Particularly useful when the main source is SAP S/4.

As the solution is still relatively new within SAP’s product portfolio, the central enterprise team is currently focused on building foundational expertise and operational stability. Once the team has gained sufficient familiarity and confidence with the platform, we plan to introduce dedicated line-of-business spaces.

Pros

  • Integration to SAP S/4 CDS views.
  • Modeling towards reporting in SAP Analytics Cloud.
  • Control of agile development via the lineage functionality.

Cons

  • Support for 3rd party front ends like Power BI is lacking, open SQL on HANA cloud is not an ideal workaround because of user maintenance/RLS.
  • Data Flow functionality and UI is neglected but still necessary as the new flow types do not support all source types.

Return on Investment

  • Pricepoint is reasonable and easier to get started with than traditional SAP offerings.
  • However, the change that makes BTP credits unusable in the Business Data Cloud has been detrimental to the trust in the SAP license model.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Fabric and SAP BW/4HANA

Other Software Used

Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA Cloud

Review SAP Datasphere

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it as data warehouse for business reporting. Building the business logic into SAP Datasphere and provide those models to SAC for building SAC stories. Business problems: Merging several data sources from different systems into one harmonized layer. Blending related data together. Calculating complex metrics and KPIs. And this complex logic to make better performance doing persisting to make Stories run fast.

Pros

  • Graphical Views are easy to work
  • Have SQL View possibilities for complex logic, where Graphical Views cant do
  • Have possibility to connect different sources via connectors

Cons

  • Task chain managing: skipping step, when it is failing, retry functionality, starting task chain from the specific step. Adding pause step to wait several seconds to run
  • Graphical views - can't do joins using condition "between" or ">"

Return on Investment

  • Negative impact, that is cloud solution and if something is not working, we need to wait for SAP support will do something.
  • Also negative impact is upgrade and maintenance, which is causing issues time to time

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, MicroStrategy Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Qlik Analytics Platform, MicroStrategy Analytics

SAP Datasphere Analytics

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We recently bought databriks and now we have SAP Datasphere to join the data from ECC, but also from the data platform in the same place.

Pros

  • Different source systems
  • Delta share
  • Graphical modeling

Cons

  • Planning features
  • Security
  • Hierarchies

Usability

SAP Datasphere used for data integration to a datalake

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Datasphere as an ETL tool to extract data to an outside AWS Cloud Databricks (S3 buckets) to build a datalake with data from different domains (finance, HR, ...) Might use it for modelisation and reporting in the future.

Pros

  • Simple interface to extract the data
  • Clear error messages

Cons

  • Dashboards for insights (number of rows extracted, % of failure, average duration)
  • Embedded advice on the best setup based on the volumetry ( not through the calculator on the SAP site )
  • Integrate an easy performance monitoring tool for the source systems (to assess the impact of the extraction)
  • Easier tracking of cost

Return on Investment

  • Able to centralized data in a datalake easily
  • Initial cost incurred by high volumetry of data can be hard (and difficult to assess )
  • Financial reporting enablement

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Informatica Cloud API & App Integration and Talend Data Integration

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