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: 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...

Upcoming Change: Member Limit Enforcement for Data Action Parameters

OverviewIf you use data actions in SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, particularly those where story scripting is involved - whether triggering a data action directly or via a multi action - there is an im...

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...

Recreating Excel‑Like Heat Maps in SAP Analytics Cloud Using Dynamic User‑Driven Thresholds

Context Aware Data Action Scoping

OverviewData actions are a critical component of end-to-end planning workflows in SAP Analytics Cloud, supporting everything from seeding, to allocations, to complex calculations. Despite their import...

Turning Spreadsheet Logic into a Scalable Calculation Framework in SAP Analytics Cloud

Improved Data Action scoping with the new Data Filter Parameter type

OverviewDesigning powerful planning and analytics processes requires more than static member selections. In many real-world scenarios, planning users rely on dynamic story filters and input controls, ...

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.

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.

I Rebuilt My Home Server Three Times in Six Months. Here's What That Taught Me About Data Strategy.

Last Christmas I decided I wanted a home server. Not because I had a grand plan, the need had crept up gradually. My wife Rachel had spent years building a real physical music library she cared about,...

SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026: What's new in SAP Business Data Cloud: AI innovations

Hello, I’m Shaheen Umer, VP of Product Management for AI in SAP Business Data Cloud. I joined SAP about a year ago after spending most of my career building platform and data foundations that make AI ...

Database @ SAP Sapphire 2026 - Key Sessions to Attend

For database enthusiasts attending SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, make sure to add these three sessions to your agenda: (1) BDC2188, “AI Database for AI agents and apps: Overview of SAP HANA Cloud"; (2...

SAP Business Data Cloud: Best practices for SAP Business Warehouse modernization miniseries

Modernizing SAP BW can feel like a big step.  The good news: you don’t have to figure it out alone.Join our 3-episode miniseries, “SAP Business Data Cloud: Best practices for SAP Business Warehouse mo...

Welcome to Season 10 of SAP Let’s Talk Data!

Season 10 of SAP Let’s Talk Data is built for practitioners who make data work. We’re shifting from high-level storytelling to hard-earned, technical lessons from engineers, scientists, stewards, and ...