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Updated 15th January 2026
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VP, IT
1B - 3B USD, Consumer GoodsFAVORABLE
“Fast real-time data replication with SAP, limited connectors for others”
DATA ARCHITECT
1B - 3B USD, Healthcare and BiotechCRITICAL
“Platform Integration Appreciated, But Scaling Brings Additional Complexity and Expense”
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Company Description
SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.
Company Details
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1972
Head office location
Walldorf, Germany
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
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Director of IT
Data Warehouse question. Based on recent guidance from SAP, we are no longer permitted to use ODP to transfer data from SAP to non-SAP environments. We are evaluating the use of SAP Datasphere for SAP centric data and Azure Synapse for external data as well as some SAP data. Reaching out to the community to see if there has been any experience (good or bad) with this approach?Deputy Director - Human Resources and Finance
See Full DiscussionThe decision to discontinue the use of the ODP protocol seems reasonable to me, as it can be a potential source of data leaks due to weak authentication and authorization controls, and lack of encryption.
Director of IT
We are currently on SAP/4HANA and BW/4HANA with traditional perpetual license. If we migrate BW/4HANA to SAP Datasphere, how will it impact our BW spend? Will it be more expensive and what is the ball park % increase? Director of Data Platforms
See Full DiscussionThat's a very good question and one that I would be interesting to see an answer to as well. We're just starting our assessment and what we can see already is that the answer is the proverbial "it depends" because DataSphere has many capabilities and the cost depends highly on what you use. What's clear however is that SAP is pushing DataSphere and is likely to give you some incentives for jumping on it, but I can already see that it will be hard to beat the cost of the on prem BW as we have such a mature setup where we've optimized heavily that the TCO of that will be hard to beat, for a stable setup. I think the difference will play out more on whether we need scalability, something that is costly to bring on an onprem platform. Nothing really new when it comes to comparing cloud and on-prem
Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud Reviews and Ratings
- VP, IT1B-10B USDConsumer GoodsReview Source
Fast real-time data replication with SAP, limited connectors for others
DataSphere is an excellent tool for data-warehousing if the core ERP is SAP. It seamlessly integrates with SAP and we can get real time replication of data. If we have tables with large data in SAP then its very easy to get data replicated to Datasphere whereas other tools/pipelines take a lot of time to get data populated
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