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From Silos to Strategy: What 20 Years of SAP Data Management Taught One Practitioner

I recently sat down with Rakesh Ramakrishnan, a longtime SAP practitioner who started his career as a C and Visual C++ programmer before an accidental encounter with an SAP customer in Malaysia in the...

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.

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.

The AI Isn't the Problem. The Data Underneath It Is.

The Open Data Institute (ODI), SAP's independent research partner on the Interchange for Data and Enterprise AI (IDEA), is releasing A Framework for AI-Ready Enterprise Data in late June. It's a rigor...

SAP Analytics Cloud Dimension Tables Move to the File Repository

Dimension tables are becoming part of the SAP Analytics Cloud file repository - bringing unified artifact management, dramatically simpler access control, and the end of an overcrowded role maintenanc...

One Data Catalog: AI-Powered Metadata and Search for Better Data Governance

Is your data governance program being held back by incomplete metadata, inconsistent classifications, and data assets that nobody can find?You are not alone. For most organizations, maintaining a well...

A Look Back on my SAP Sapphire 2026 Experience

Sapphire 2026 Orlando is officially in the books, and I am still riding the high from one of the most energizing weeks of the year. Between presenting the SAP HANA Cloud overview session and working t...

Let's Talk Data Season 10 | How SAP Business Data Cloud is Transforming Data Science

Apps, AI, and Data are now equally important in the transition to the autonomous enterprise. For those architecting the data strategy component, the use of data products will be a central component. ...

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,...

From Concept to Practice: Inside My SAP Business Data Cloud Session for Data Teams (BDC2853)

Hi everyone—Kara here SAPPHIRE is just a few days away, which means a lot of great conversations about data, AI, and how the two actually come together in the real world (not just on slides).A bit abo...

Data Modelling @ SAP Sapphire 2026 - Key Sessions to Attend

SAP Sapphire is fast approaching, and if you’re a data modeler, this is your opportunity to learn how you can sharpen your skills and expand what’s possible by leveraging a business data fabric. Imple...

The Challenges You Face and How SAP Business Data Cloud Helps

SAP Business Data Cloud gives data stewards a governed, business‑ready foundation where business context, semantics, data, and usage all come together. Governance isn’t separate from analytics—it’s em...

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 Sapphire 2026, top agenda picks for analytics practitioners

Headed to SAP Sapphire 2026 and interested in analytics? I pulled together 3 must-attend sessions for analytics practitioners: 2 roadmap-driven SAP sessions on agentic, AI-enabled analytics in SAP Bus...

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