Ques:
Your enterprise is exploring a data fabric approach across multiple SAP and non-SAP systems. How does SAP Datasphere support a business data fabric architecture, and what are the benefits of this integration?
Ans:
SAP Datasphere is designed in such a way that it will support business data fabric architecture, enabling enterprises to deliver real-time, rich data across both SAP and non-SAP systems without physically duplicating all the datasets.
Here’s how SAP Datasphere supports business data fabric:
With the building blocks provided by SAP Datasphere, we can follow the approach:
– Unified data access across all the SAP and SAP Systems.
Here we can enable the live data access without duplicating the data using the concept of remote tables.
This way we can support replicated, federated, and virtualized access, which will depend on the governance and performance needs.
– Using Business Builder, we can define business entities, KPIs, and relationships, and ensure all the definitions of the metrics are consistent.
– We should decouple all the technical data structures from business meaning.
– Integrate the role-based access control, analysis, authorization, and spaces for secure access. Data is secured at rest as well as in transit.
– Integration with SAP tools and ecosystem.
– Flexibility in the data processing and movement state. Here we can perform replication for high-performance analytics and federations for minimizing the data movement.
Here’s what the SAP Datasphere fabric architecture key benefits involve:
– You don’t need multiple data warehouses, and there is one version of the truth across all the teams, apps, and reports.
– It will have live data access without any costly ETL and provide complete data governance.
– It offers faster time to value and open integration to both SAP and non-SAP data.
This way, SAP Datasphere enables a business data fabric by allowing us to connect, model, and consume data from multiple systems, including SAP and non-SAP.
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