How to Learn SAP Datasphere – The Cloud-Based Data Warehouse / Data Fabric Solution

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SAP Datasphere plays a major role within SAP Business Data Cloud, our new data analytics platform.

SAP Datasphere is also a full-grown powerful data fabric / data warehouse solution on its own.

It provides graphical and pro-code options for data harmonization and integration. It is SAP’s strategic solution for this purpose.

You can even integrate native SAP HANA models (For details about these models, read Jan ZWICKEL’s blog about SAP HANA Calculation views).

In this community, you will find blogs and other resources on SAP Datasphere. As this is a highly dynamic topic with a new wave every 2 weeks, please check regularly for updates. Feel free to ask questions. Please feel free to use this new community and connect with us and other learners.

Your feedback on these resources is highly welcome. Also let us know about topics you would like to have covered in future live sessions and blogs, so that we can make our content even more suited to your needs.

So, how can you take up knowledge about SAP Datasphere and prove it?

Learning about SAP Datasphere

• If you want to find a short overview, the 3 hour online course Exploring SAP Datasphere suits you best. Search for DSPE01 on https://learning.sap.com.
• If you need information about the cloud-based SAP BW/4HANA tenant called SAP Datasphere, SAP BW bridge, we offer the 4 hour online course SAP Datasphere, SAP BW Bridge.

 What if you want to practice?

Here again, we have nice courses for you!

• The SAP Datasphere Overview  (online tour offers a complementary system. (Search for TRIAL_INT_DSP_OVERVIEW on https://learning.sap.com.)

• If you want to dive deeper and ask questions, book the instructor-led DSP01 - Introduction to SAP Datasphere | SAP Training. Create your own models in several hands-on exercises based on 3 typical scenarios: file upload for self-service, fuzzy data matching, data harmonization from 3 different sources. (Search for DSP01 on https://training.sap.com)

Live Sessions

In addition to courses and practice systems, the SAP Learning portal offers live sessions that are useful to go keep learning, ask questions, deepen your knowledge on specific topics. These sessions are delivered by subject-matter-experts (SMEs), either from SAP Training, SAP Partners or other experts at SAP such as Product Managers.

The sessions come under five categories:

• Get Started
• Expert Deep Dive
• What's New
• Get Certified
• Stay Certified

Some of the live sessions are available for free, some require a subscription. This is visible in the example below:

SAP Datasphere Live Session catalog sample on SAP Learning 

For example, we offer topics on Graphical Modeling for SAP Analytics Cloud, Performance Optimization for Backend Modelling and SAC Stories.

Want to prove your knowledge and increase your value?

When you feel prepared enough, you should take the certification.

SAP Datasphere is part of the AI-based practice certification C_BDCBC.

Happy learning with SAP!