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Business Data Architecture: Artifact Roles - Controlled Execution Units

The clock is ticking. It's month-end closing. Revenue numbers don't match between the executive dashboard and detailed report. You open the Revenue Data Product and find ten artifacts with technical n...

Business Data Architecture: Transformations - Making Architectural Boundaries Enforceable

You understand the concepts - modeling layers organize data flow, data product types structure reuse, platforms own domains. But when a developer asks: "Can I add Revenue Growth % to my Definition lay...

Business Data Architecture: Data Products - Structured Reusable Analytical Assets

Now we define what is built - Data Products.Without clear contracts, analytical assets fragment across platforms - the same metric calculated differently in SAP Datasphere, Snowflake, and Power BI, wi...

Business Data Architecture: Modeling Layers for Structured Transformations

Transformations end up everywhere when teams lack a shared understanding of what's been done to data and what still needs to happen. Modeling layers solve this - layers that define where transformatio...

Business Data Architecture: Platform Responsibility in a Multi-Platform Analytics Landscape

Without explicit platform ownership, organizations end up with the same metric calculated differently on each platform, duplicate ingestion pipelines creating version conflicts, and teams unable to an...

Building a Cashflow for Compass: An approach to NPV calculations for appraisals in SAC (1/3)

Part 1 of moving a finance appraisal into SAC Compass. We start with the problem that trips up every Excel modeller first: there's no cell to the left. How do you carry a balance forward when the calc...

The Architecture Question Your AI Strategy Can't Avoid

The ODI's supplementary research on data fabrics, released alongside the main framework, maps this to three specific capabilities: integration, cataloguing, and governance.

Business Data Architecture: Defining Business Meaning

Why do analytics environments break down as they scale? Not because of data - but because meaning gets mixed together. In this post, we unpack a simple but powerful shift: separating what you measure ...

SAP BW Modernization and Stewardship with SAP Business Data Cloud - Introduction

Decades of SAP BW data, an AI era that demands it, and a maintenance clock that's ticking - this blog series covers how to modernize SAP BW with SAP Business Data Cloud without a big-bang migration.

Your AI Agent Has Three Different Definitions of "Customer." That's a Problem.

MDM is no longer a data governance discipline. In an agentic world, it's AI infrastructure.

Business Data Architecture for Modern Analytics Landscapes

Business meaning fragments as analytics scales. Metrics calculated differently across teams. Logic duplicated in reports and data models. The same term meaning different things to different stakeholde...

Business Data Architecture: Why Business Meaning Matters in Modern Analytics Landscapes

When business meaning isn't defined explicitly, it hides - fragmented across Power BI reports, HANA views, dbt models, BW queries, and platform solutions. Which one is right?Without explicit architect...

Use Formations to Link SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere for Seamless Planning

If you are setting up seamless planning with SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere, there are two ways to link the tenants: via the Tenant Links tab in the SAC system administration, or via a formati...

Live Versions for Planning Models in SAP Analytics Cloud: Microsoft Azure Is Here!

With QRC2.2026, Microsoft Azure joined Google BigQuery and Snowflake in the live versions portfolio — meaning you can connect your SAC planning model directly to fact data in Azure, no replication req...

DataPros @ SAP Sapphire Virtual 2026 - Key Sessions to Attend

Can’t make it to Orlando or Madrid for SAP Sapphire this year? Don’t worry, you haven’t missed the boat. SAP Sapphire Virtual is happening this week from May 12-13. This event brings all the insights,...

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