In this blog, you will learn, detailed steps required to create an SAP Datasphere Service Instance in the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), If you’ve signed the Consumption-Based commercial model i.e. SAP BTP Enterprise Agreement(BTPEA) or Pay-As-You-Gofor the SAP Business Technology Platform. SAP Datasphere is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, which is a unified service for data integration, data cataloging, a semantic modeling layer, data warehousing, and virtualizing workloads for critical SAP and Non-SAP business data.
Pay-As-You-Go or CPEA BTP accounts enable you can access the SAP BTP cockpit and view all currently available services in a global account. Here, we are focusing on the SAP Datasphere service. Initially, you need to structure this BTP global account into subaccounts and create other related artifacts, like directories, spaces, entitlements, services, environment instances, etc. Free tier service plans are open to customers, partners, and individual developers and let you try out and learn more about the SAP BTP services for free. These account types enable you to test your proof-of-concept business scenarios and offer the option to upgrade to paid service plans.
3. SAP BTP administration authorization on the subaccount that is entitled to SAP Datasphere
4. Recommended browser: Google Chrome.
5. To verify, you should be able to see SAP Datasphere in the table of the list of service plans as seen below. This step is completed.
To create an SAP Datasphere service instance in SAP BTP, you need to choose the service plan. There are two service plans while creating a service instance:
Free | SAP Datasphere tenant for a limited time (90 days) for trial use. Restrictions. |
Standard | SAP Datasphere tenant for productive and non-productive use. |
Parameter Name | Value |
Service | SAP Datasphere |
Plan | Standard or Free (Restrictions) |
SAP Datasphere Instance Name | Enter a name to identify your instance (up to 32 alphanumeric characters, periods, underscores, and hyphens; cannot contain white spaces). |
Subaccount Space | *Select the SAP BTP space where you want to create the service instance. *No selection is required if you create the instance from the subaccount space area. No action is required at this stage. |
Runtime Environment | Cloud Foundry (This is a subaccount environment) No action is required at this stage. |
5. Enter the following information about the SAP Datasphere system owner, who will be notified when the service instance is created. Click Next.
6. Review your selections on the wizard's final page, and click Create to exit the wizard. An information message is displayed service instance creation is in progress.
Note: If the creation of the service instance "failed" status is displayed, you must first delete the failed instance and then create a new SAP Datasphere service instance.
7. The creation of the Datasphere instance can take a while (Approximately ~30 minutes, this may vary). Please wait and take a coffee break.
8. Once the service instance is created, the SAP Datasphere system owner receives an email confirming its availability, and a link to navigate to the SAP Datasphere tenant.
The SAP Datasphere welcome email NOT received? It might be delayed by up to 2 hours. In the meantime, check your junk mail folder. For more info, see SAP Note 3262894 - Welcome email not received for SAP Datasphere.
9. To view Datasphere Instance, go to your subaccount space, and services Instance page. In the search box put 'Datasphere', now you should see the newly created Datasphere instance with the status as Created (you can view the progress of its creation). Then on the rightmost side click on 3 dots(...) and then View Dashboard ( or Check the email box to find a URL of the newly created SAP Datasphere tenant). It will launch the SAP Datasphere instance service. Hurray!!! It's time to do some Datasphering with unified data experience.
SAP BW bridge is a function enhancement of SAP Datasphere, that needs to be configured. It provides customers an option who is running an SAP BW, SAP BW/4HANA with access to the public cloud for hybrid use cases and re-use the existing developments and investments.
SAP Data lake is a fully managed cloud service for securely storing and is an essential component designed to store and process large volumes of raw and unstructured data leveraging economical storage options for data that is infrequently updated.
For more information and configuration steps on this topic, refer to my colleague's blog, Add BW Bridge and/or Embedded Data Lake to SAP Datasphere Service Instance created from SAP BTP Plat...
If you’ve signed the Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement (CPEA) or Pay-As-You-Go for SAP Business Technology Platform(BTP), you can simply create and set up the SAP Datasphere service instance by following the steps mentioned in this blog. Service plan type Free, provides exceptional flexibility with a quick-start try-out approach and knowing more about the SAP BTP services for free and making hands dirty. The free service time limit is for 90 days with an option to upgrade to the Standard plan for productive business scenarios.
I believe this blog will help and guide you in setting up the SAP Datasphere service instance for a unified data experience. Please give it a try to explore the unparalleled and unique capabilities of the SAP Datasphere. Start your journey TODAY!
Happy Learning 😀!
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