Name: Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud
Rating: 4.4 (56 reviews)

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Updated 15th January 2026

What is Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud?

Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud is a software that facilitates data integration, management, and sharing across distributed systems. It offers features for collecting, transforming, and modeling data from various sources, supporting seamless collaboration and governance. The software enables organizations to unify structured and unstructured data, maintaining security and compliance standards. It addresses business problems related to siloed information, providing tools for consistent data quality and streamlining analytics processes to enhance operational decision-making based on reliable data assets.

Overall experience with Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud

SOLUTION ARCHITECT

500M - 1B USD, Miscellaneous

FAVORABLE

“Datasphere Enables Unified Data Context with Simplified Artefact Identification Features”

5.0

Nov 19, 2025

Datasphere provides a unified data foundation to connect diverse connected models, preserving business context and supporting self-service analytics. It is a core component to ensure governed data is transformed to measurable business outcomes

ERP Analytics CC Lead

3B - 10B USD, Energy and Utilities

CRITICAL

“Datasphere's Promising Vision Faces Challenges in Quality and Scalability”

3.0

Dec 11, 2024

Datasphere offers attractive vision and great on paper, but so far lack quality and cloud readiness combined with unjustified pricing policies

About Company

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

Website

http://www.sap.com

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Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Reuse of Business Semantics Also used as a staging layer for transformation into external capabilities Trustworthy insights and analytics Every artefact can be identified for potential combination in a simplified UI

Reach semantic support Virtual data access Strong OLAP capabilities

Strong integration with other SAP products Solid governance Performance and scalability

Integrating external non sap sources are a bit complicated Cost optimization during the use of Premium outbound Still an evolving application compared to competitors

lots of bugs and errors lack of dynamic scalability limited consumption capabilities

Quit difficult for new users Integration with Non-SAP tools

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Deputy Director - Human Resources and Finance

The 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 Data Platforms

That'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

50M-1B USD

Miscellaneous

Review Source

Datasphere Enables Unified Data Context with Simplified Artefact Identification Features

IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

1B-10B USD

Software

Strong Integration with SAP Products and Governance Praised, Steep Learning Curve Noted

Nov 3, 2025

I really appreciate how well it integrates with other SAP products S/4HANA , BW/4HANA

SAP BW Consultant

Energy and Utilities

Exploring the Efficiency of SAP Datasphere for Data Warehousing

Dec 18, 2024

SAP Datasphere is a very good data warehousing tool with easy to integrate.

Datasphere's Promising Vision Faces Challenges in Quality and Scalability

Data and Analytics Analyst

Gov't/PS/Ed

Government

Data Integration Made Easy: A Look at This High-Performing Product

The functionality of the product is exceptional and the interface is user friendly.

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What is Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud?

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Overall experience with Datasphere in SAP Business Data Cloud

“Datasphere Enables Unified Data Context with Simplified Artefact Identification Features”

“Datasphere's Promising Vision Faces Challenges in Quality and Scalability”

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Datasphere Enables Unified Data Context with Simplified Artefact Identification Features

Strong Integration with SAP Products and Governance Praised, Steep Learning Curve Noted

Exploring the Efficiency of SAP Datasphere for Data Warehousing

Datasphere's Promising Vision Faces Challenges in Quality and Scalability

Data Integration Made Easy: A Look at This High-Performing Product

4.4

(35 Ratings)

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