An Architect’s Blueprint for SAP Business Data Cloud as the Foundation for Enterprise AI ✨

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As enterprise and data architects, we’re tasked with bridging the gap between strategic vision and technical reality. A challenge that becomes exponentially complex when modernising enterprise data landscapes. SAP Business Data Cloud represents not just another data platform, but a fundamental shift in how organisations architect for business context, governance, and AI-readiness across SAP and Non-SAP Hybrid ecosystems. In this session, we cut through the marketing to provide architects with a pragmatic, pattern-based view of SAP BDC’s role in modern enterprise architecture.

You’ll learn:
1. The evolution path from siloed SAP data to unified business data fabric
2. Architecting data products that preserve business context across SAP and non-SAP sources
3. Governance-by-design: embedding data quality, lineage, and access control at the architecture level
4. How BDC Connect is making the Open Ecosystem Real with Zero Copy Architecture
5. And finally , What “AI-ready” actually means from an architecture perspective (hint: it’s about trust, not just storage)

The decisions you make today about your data architecture will determine your organisation’s ability to compete, innovate, and adapt for the next decade.

SAP Business Data Cloud introduces new possibilities that we must evaluate and act on today!
We look forward to seeing you!! 😀

🧩 Chapters 🧩
00:00 – 02:33 Introduction
02:34 – 05:13 Overview & Why Data Architecture Matters
05:13 – 07:04 Data Architecture Pattern: The Data Warehouse
07:05 – 08:28 Data Architecture Pattern: The Data Lake
08:29 – 09:56 Data Architecture Pattern: The Data Lakehouse
09:57 – 11:42 Data Architecture Pattern: The Data Fabric
11:43 – 13:44 Data Architecture Pattern: The Data Mesh
13:45 – 19:41 Data Products
19:42 – 21:31 Intelligent Applications
21:32 – 24:42 BDC Connect
24:43 – 28:13 Demo: BDC Connect with SAP Databricks
28:14 – 40:07 AI in SAP Business Data Cloud
40:08 – 42:04 Next Steps
42:05 – Q&A

Explore the entire series: https://events.sap.com/data-analytics/en_us/home.html

📣Speaker:
Gaurish Dessai, Product Manager, SAP

🎬 Host:
Tania Dinnendahl – Executive Liaison Manager, SAP Global User Groups Organization
💫Join me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tania-dinnendahl/

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