SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is SAP's fully managed SaaS platform that unifies SAP and non-SAP data into a governed, AI-ready foundation — bringing together SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Master Data Governance, SAP Reltio, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Databricks and much more under one roof.
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Community & Help
Product, Roadmap, Sizing, Pricing & Customer Stories
- SAP Business Data Cloud on sap.com
- SAP Business Data Cloud - FAQs
- SAP Business Data Cloud – Road Map
- SAP Business Data Cloud Pricing
- SAP Business Data Cloud Capacity Unit Estimator
- How to use SAP Business Data Cloud Capacity Unit Estimator ( Introduction | SAP Analytics Cloud | BDC Connect for Databricks | SAP Datasphere coming soon | SAP Databricks coming soon )
- What is the minimum capacity units (CU) to activate Object Store in SAP Datasphere?
- Customer Success Stories
- SAP Business Data Cloud – release update highlights
- IDC - Explore the value of data products for business ready AI
- GIGAOM - Measuring Data Fabric TCO: How a Unified Business Data Fabric Provides the Foundation for A...
Getting Started, Tutorials & Certifications
- SAP Business Data Cloud - Free Trials
- SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC): A Beginner’s Guide – ( Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 )
- How to Access your SAP Business Data Cloud Free Trial
- Step-By-Step Guide: Getting started with the SAP Business Data Cloud Basic Trial
- Exploring SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP Learning Journey)
- SAP Certified - SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP Certification)
- SAP Business Data Cloud webcasts (Live or on-demand)
- SAP on YouTube (@SAP)
- SAP Certified Data Architect for SAP Business Data Cloud (C_BDCDA) | Preparation Guide
- New SAP Data Architecture Learning Journey & SAP Certified Data Architect Certification is now Live
- Recordings and Slides from webinar series 'Architecting Your SAP Business Data Cloud Journey'
- Creating SAP Business Data Cloud Formations (SAP Help)
Platform
- From Vision to Reality: Enabling Data Mesh with SAP Business Data Cloud
- The Challenges You Face and How SAP Business Data Cloud Helps
- SAP Business Data Cloud: Unifying Enterprise Data for Next-Generation Insights
- SAP Business Data Cloud Customer Spotlights: Building Data Foundations for AI
- The Value of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in The Context of Business Steering
- Data Doesn’t Drive the Business - Trust Does. SAP Business Data Cloud Delivers.
- The value of SAP Business Data Cloud for SAP Cloud ERP Private
- SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) のプロビジョニングガイド
- SAP Business Data CloudについてのFAQ
- SAP Business Data Cloud业务数据云概况介绍
- SAP业务数据云中的Datasphere概况介绍
- Evolution of Data and Analytics with SAP Business Data Cloud
- Introducing the SAP Architecture Center to the Data Professionals Community
- Working with BDC in the SAP Business AI Platform: The Data Analyst Perspective
- Working with BDC in the Autonomous Enterprise: The Enterprise Architect Perspective
- Working with SAP Business Data Cloud in The SAP Business AI Platform: The AI Engineer Perspective
- Lost in Transit: Why AI Needs Business Context
- Inside SAP Business Data Cloud: How Enterprises Run at Scale
- Business Data Cloud & Datasphere: Are the Needs of Mid-Sized Companies Being Adequately Considered?
Architecture
Part I: Define Business Meaning
Part II: Organize for Coherence
- Post 3: Platform Responsibility in a Multi-Platform Analytics Landscape
- Post 4: Modeling Layers for Structured Transformations
- Post 5: Data Products - Structured Reusable Analytical Assets
Part III: Execute with Control
- Post 6: Transformations - Making Architectural Boundaries Enforceable
- Post 7: Artifact Roles - Controlled Execution Units
- Post 8: Data Product Blueprints
- Post 9: AI-Operable Delivery - Executing Pattern Skills with Boundaries
- Post 10: Closing Reflection - From Architecture to Action
- Securing Data Journey with SAP Business Data Cloud
- Introducing the SAP Architecture Center to the Data Professionals Community
- User Insight: How SAP Business Data Cloud is redefining data governance for the modern enterprise
Integration & Source Connectivity
- Integrating SAP Business Data Cloud - S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
- Integrating SAP Business Data Cloud with SAP S/4HANA Cloud using Cloud Integration Automation
- SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Integration with SAP Apps and 3rd Party Apps!
- The Added Value of SAP Business Data Cloud with Databricks, Snowflake and MS Fabric
- SAP ORD Made Simple: What It Does and Why It’s Crucial in your SAP Landscape + Purpose and Value
BDC Connect
- From Data Silos to Business Insight: The Power of BDC Connect
- How to provision SAP BDC Connect for Databricks?
- Provisioning of SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake
- SAP BDC Connect: SAP elevates bidirectional zero-copy data sharing with game-changing partnerships
- Announcing General Availability of SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Google BigQuery
- Fast-track AI-driven Insights with Zero-Copy Data Access between SAP BDC and Google BigQuery
SAP Datasphere
- Refer to SAP Datasphere Knowledge Hub
SAP Analytics Cloud
- Refer to SAP Analytics Cloud Knowledge Hub (coming soon)
SAP HANA Cloud
- Refer to SAP HANA Cloud Knowledge Hub (coming soon)
SAP Master Data Governance
- Refer to Master Data Governance Knowledge Hub (coming soon)
SAP Reltio
- What does the Reltio Acquisition Mean for Master Data Management at SAP?
- What SAP Reltio in SAP Business Data Cloud means for your data
- SAP’s Acquisition of Reltio: A Big Step Toward AI-Ready Enterprise Data - Future Ready!
- Foundational Support Guidance for SAP Reltio
- Provisioning SAP Reltio in SAP Business Data Cloud
SAP Databricks
- Introduction to SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud
- Hands-on Tutorial: SAP Databricks
- Here’s how Databricks fits into the SAP Business Data Cloud landscape
- SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud : Unifying SAP Business Data with Lakehouse Intelligence
- Integrating Non-SAP Semi-Structured Invoices Data with SAP BDC Using SAP Databricks
- Need to Know - Beyond SAP Analytics Cloud AI and Using SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud
- SAP Business Data Cloud – Leveraging SAP Databricks’ assistant to easily build predictive scenarios
- SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud – a Typical Machine Learning Workflow
- Sharing SAP S/4HANA Data with Databricks Using BDC Connect and Delta Sharing
- SAP DatabricksでAIアシスタントAPIを作ってみた
- Provisioning SAP Business Data Cloud Connect and Enrolling with Existing Databricks
- Top SQL Queries Every SAP Databricks Admins Should Keep in your Back Pocket
- SAP Databricks – Best Practices SQL Query Performance Tuning Tips
- Building Bridges Between SAP and Databricks: A Dream Team for Your Data and AI-Powered Analytics
- Hands-on Tutorial (SAP) Databricks triggering ML in SAP Datasphere
- Session 6 Recap: SAP Business Data Cloud + Databricks – Why They’re Stronger Together
- Developing HANA ML models with SAP Databricks
- Integrating Non-SAP Semi-Structured Invoices Data with SAP BDC Using SAP Databricks
- SAP Databricks: Building an Intelligent Enterprise with AI Unleashed
- Part 1 – SQL analytics with SAP Data Products
- Part 2 – Build and deploy Mosaic AI and Agent Tools
- Part 3 – How to use AutoML to forecast sales data
- Part 4 – Connect SAP Data Products with non-SAP data from AWS S3
- Part 5 – End-to-end integration: SAP Databricks, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud
- Part 6 – Create inferences and endpoints for application integration with SAP Build
- Part 7 – SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud - A Typical Machine Learning Workflow
SAP Snowflake
- Announcing General Availability of SAP Snowflake and SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake
- Need to Know - SAP Snowflake and SAP Business Data Cloud: Data + AI Combo That Changes Everything
- Getting Started with SAP Snowflake in Business Data Cloud: Build Your First ML Model
- Beyond SAP Snowflake ML: Calling SAP HANA Cloud ML and RPT-1.5 via External Access Integration (EAI)
- SAP Snowflake: How to Store and Manage Secrets for APIs, Database Credentials, and Keys
Data Products
- Deep Dive into SAP BDC Data products
- SAP BDC业务数据云中的Data Products概况介绍
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Data Product Activation in SAP Business Data Cloud
- The Data Ownership dilemma — and how SAP Business Data Cloud Data Products helps resolve It
- SAP Business Data Cloud Series – Part 1: Introduction to Data Products
- SAP Business Data Cloud Series – Part 2: Extend SAP S/4HANA Managed Data Products
- SAP Business Data Cloud Series – Part 3: Customer-Managed or Custom Data Products
- Data Product Data Governance in SAP Business Data Cloud
- Business Data Architecture: Data Product Blueprints
- The Metadata behind SAP Data Products in SAP Business Data Cloud
- BDC : Data Products to Data Insights Journey
- The consequences of implementing strictly Shift-left architectures
- SAP Business Data Cloud: What Actually Changes When S/4HANA Data Becomes a Data Product
- Where ORD Is Used in SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud & SAP Databricks
- Customer-Managed Data Products in SAP BDC: What Really Happens When Your Source Is a Datasphere VIEW
- Create a Custom SAP BDC Data Product share it with Enterprise Databricks, extend it and send it back
- SAP Revenue Growth Management Integrated with SAP BDC: Seamless Data Integration & Governed Insights
- The Handshake at the Heart of the Data Product Economy: Data Contracts with SAP Business Data Cloud
- Design. Govern. Deliver. Data Products - Data Product Studio
- SAP Business Data Cloud - Create a custom Data Product based on a replication Flow
- Consuming Data Products in SAP HANA Cloud via SAP Business Application Studio/SAP Build Code
- SAP Business Data Cloud Data Products and SAP BusinessObjects: Similar Purpose, Different Approach
- Building a custom, reusable payroll data product in SAP Business Data Cloud
- Business Data Architecture: Data Products - Structured Reusable Analytical Assets
- Customer-Managed Data Products in SAP BDC: What Really Happens When Your Source Is a Datasphere VIEW
- From Raw Data to Data Products: End-to-End Implementation using SAP Business Data Cloud
- Create a Custom Data Product from a dataset in a HANA Space
- SAP Business Data Cloud: カスタムデータプロダクトの作成
- Building a custom, reusable payroll data product in SAP Business Data Cloud
- Beyond Data Mesh: Entering the Data Product Economy with SAP Business Data Cloud
- SAP BDC - Enhance a BW Data product with SAP Databricks
Insight Apps
- Understand Tech Behind SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) - Out of the box 'Intelligent Applications"
- Analytics Evolution: From Traditional Business Content to SAP BDC Intelligent Applications
- How to Configure and Install People Intelligence in SAP Business Data Cloud
- Making the most of your key Finance data in the new world of SAP BDC
- SAP Revenue Growth Management Integrated with SAP BDC: Seamless Data Integration & Governed Insights
- Maximize the value of HR data – Introducing People Intelligence
- Employee Pay Transparency in SAP SuccessFactors: Turning Localization Into an Executable Process
- SAP业务数据云BDC中的Intelligent Application智能应用概况介绍
Knowledge Graph
- What is a knowledge graph?
- What is SAP Knowledge Graph?
- Why SAP Needs a Knowledge Graph: Giving Enterprise AI a Map of the Business
AI Foundation & Agentic Analytics
- Data management concepts and techniques in SAP HANA Cloud
- S/4HANA Public Cloud in the Age of AI and Business Data Cloud
- Why AI Agents Hallucinate on S/4HANA Data, and What a Semantic Layer Has to Define
- Context Gravity vs. Data Gravity: Enabling actionable AI in distributed landscapes with SAP BDC
- Your Data Never Leaves the Room: How SAP BDC and AI Core Keep Enterprise AI Inside the Walls
- Your AI Agent Has Three Different Definitions of "Customer." That's a Problem.
- Gravitational Shift in SAP BDC: Object Store Centralization and MLOps-Free AI
Administration, Deployment, & Operations
- Provisioning and Administering Databases in SAP HANA Cloud (SAP Learning)
- Introductory Guide to Provisioning of SAP Business Data Cloud
- SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Onboarding
- Introductory Guide to Provisioning of SAP Business Data Cloud
- Provisioning of SAP Business Data Cloud – ( BDC through SAP4Me | Datasphere | Analytics Cloud | Databricks | Insight Apps & Data Products | HANA Cloud | Datasphere, Data Composer | Snowflake | BDC Connect for Databricks )
- Re-wire your existing SAP Datasphere Tenant from SAP BTP to SAP BDC
- Configuration of Cloud Transport Management Service (CTMS) on SAP BTP for SAP BDC/Datasphere Tenants
- Easier Integration of SAP CIS with BDC (SAC, DSP, BDCC) with a new Identity Provider Administration
- Rewiring of SAP Datasphere to SAP Business Data Cloud
- Getting started with the provisioning of SAP Business Data Cloud - frequently asked questions
- How to monitor consumption for SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and its components?
- How to edit a quota assignment in SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)?
- Error message when trying to access "My Products Packages" for SAP BDC
Modernization with BDC
- What exactly is SAP BW PCE… and what it is not!
- Modernizing SAP BW with SAP Business Data Cloud
- SAP BW Modernization and Stewardship with SAP Business Data Cloud - Introduction
- Planning Modernization
- AI has outgrown legacy data architectures like SAP BW — is your stack ready to keep up?
- SAP's New API Policy Is Quietly Rewriting the BW Roadmap
- The SAP BW Migration Decision: Your Real Options in 2026
- Architecture Deep-Dive: Transforming SAP BW with SAP Business Data Cloud
- SAP Analytics Business Intelligence Statement of Direction / アナリティクス製品の方向性に関して
- SAP BDC业务数据云中的BW PCE概况介绍
- For additional content to refer to SAP BW Integration & Modernization section on SAP Datasphere Knowledge Hub
Best Practices & Learnings
- Optimizing Industrial Water Consumption at Scale
- From Fragmented Landscapes to Unified Insights: Business Consent in SAP BDC
- Guide to the BDC Technical Academies: Create Your Own SAP BDC Workshop
- SAP Business Data Cloud : Cybersecurity, Compliance and Data Protection
- The Value of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)
- The Value of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in The Context of Business Steering
- Planning & Analytics is an essential part of SAP BDC
- Key Planning & Analytics components of SAP BDC
- Is AI going to “retire” a dashboard?
- Simulations, a game changer in today’s volatile world
- AI-Augmented Oil Price Scenario Modelling in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Extend existing planning scenarios of SAP BPC/BW-IP in SAP BDC
- Real-time steering with LIVE planning
- PaPM - The role of business calculation engine in business steering
- Self – service analytics and real time business steering
- Business steering powered by AI agents
- Leverage data products in the context of planning & forecasting
- Introducing AI/ML capabilities by SAP Databricks
- SAP PAPM and SAP Business Data Cloud - A Data-Centric Approach to Direct Tax
- User Insight: How SAP Business Data Cloud is redefining data governance for the modern enterprise
- SAP Global Healthcare Industry Strategy: A Modular, Data-Driven, Open, and Interoperable Platform
- SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) for LifeSciences & Healthcare: Building the Data Foundation for AI Era
- Unleash the Power of Business Data for Utilities: The Benefits of SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics C...
- Building AI Ready Life Sciences Enterprise with SAP Business Data Cloud
- Moving from RISE to GROW: The Historical Data Management
- Hybrid Data Modeling in SAP BDC: a simple Framework for product-oriented architecture
- End-to-End Forecasting with SAP Business Data Cloud
- Let's Talk Data Season 10 | How SAP Business Data Cloud is Transforming Data Science
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