SAP rounds out data warehouse cloud functionality, renamed Datasphere

“A
significant
part
of
SAP’s
evolution
towards
this
new
strategy
is
recognizing
that
no
single
vendor
will
own
the
entire
customer
stack,”
he
said.
“That
customer
stack
is
in
fact
very
heterogeneous.”

In
the
past,
SAP
and
other
vendors
have
assumed
that
if
they
create
a
new
product,
customers
will
move
their
data
to
it
—
but
that
has
not
always
worked
out
well
for
either
vendors
or
customers.

SAP
is
no
longer
taking
a
hard
line
on
moving
data
to
its
applications,
Khan
said.

“If
you’re
running
a
marketing
campaign,
more
likely
you’ll
need
to
have
access
to
SAP
data,”
he
said.
“But
it
just
makes
it
a
lot
easier
to
have
access
to
the
SAP
context
through
the
business
data
fabric,
through
Datasphere,
without
having
to
redundantly
move
the
data,
lose
the
context,
lose
semantics,
and
then
have
to
go
to
the
painful
exercise
of
having
to
reconstitute
all
that
again.”

The
new
functions
Datasphere
offers
over
Data
Warehouse
Cloud
include
automated
data
cataloging,
simplified
data
replication,
and
improved
data
modeling.

The
move
from
Data
Warehouse
Cloud
to
Datasphere
will
be
easy,
according
to
Khan:
Existing
customers
will
automatically
have
access
to
the
new
functionality
and
will
be
charged
for
usage
under
their
regular
SAP
consumption
agreement.
“There’s
nothing
more
to
pay
if
you
don’t
use
it,”
he
said.

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