ServiceServiceA BTP service you subscribe to and bind, rather than install. It has plans and regions, not versions, and may deliver a product that lives outside the atlas.See every one →What this type is →by SAPby SAPPublished by SAP itself. A visible facet, never an input to a reading — a dormant official plugin reads exactly like a dormant independent one.See every one →
SAP Datasphere
SAP's cloud data warehouse: spaces, modelled views and analytic models over data brought in or federated from source systems, with the business context carried along rather than rebuilt.
The product the rest of this corner points at. Three things live in it and the atlas names them separately: the Data Builder, where tables, views and intelligent lookups combine and prepare data and an analytic model becomes the basis for consumption in Analytics Cloud; the integration side, where a space administrator or integrator connects source systems and schedules and monitors replication; and the catalog. SAP's own framing is a business data fabric — harmonising data across the organisation without duplicating or physically moving it where federation will do. Subscribed rather than installed, and released continuously: the documentation names version 2026.19 as current.
Where it sits
Lives in
Provides
Analytic modellingBTPAnalytic modellingDefining what an analytical client actually reads — the multi-dimensional layer between stored rows and a chart: measures, dimensions, hierarchies, filters and parameters, and the associations somebody navigates them by. Distinct from [analytical queries](capability:analytical-queries), which is a service answering the request a chart sends, and from [loading a warehouse](capability:warehouse-loading), which fills the tables underneath it.Loading a warehouseBTPLoading a warehouseGetting data into an analytical store and keeping it current — connections to source systems, replication and the other integration tasks, import jobs and their lifecycle, and the monitoring that tells you a load failed before a report does. Distinct from [replication](capability:replication), which is an application reading data that lives elsewhere as if it were local rather than a warehouse being filled.Cataloguing and lineageBTPCataloguing and lineageFinding what data exists across the estate and what it promises — catalogs and data products, the contract a consumer can rely on, where a field came from, and what a column actually contains once you profile it. The question asked before modelling starts and again when somebody asks where a number came from.
Before choosing this
Conditions
PracticalFunctional boundary
A tenant with spaces and a role model, not a database you point an application at — privileges are granted per space, and what somebody can model depends on the scoped role they hold. Federation is the default answer to moving data, and where it is not, a load has to be scheduled and watched.
What it declares
Every artifact
- Type
- Service
- Origin
- By SAP
As a service
- Plans
- 2
- Regions
- 28
- Support component
- DS-APIDWC-BBLOD-ANA-ADM-APS
Connections
Group by11 of 11 connections
NodeRelationBasis
Functional
Analytic modellingAnalytic modellingMeasures, dimensions and hierarchies an analytical client readsSAP and community, unassessed
provides
stated
provides Analytic modelling
The Data Builder is where the model is made — views with a semantic usage, and analytic models over facts carrying pre-defined measures, hierarchies, filters, parameters and associations.
“Analytic models are the analytical foundation for making data ready for consumption in SAP Analytics Cloud”
Measures, dimensions and hierarchies an analytical client reads
Cataloguing and lineageCataloguing and lineageFinding what data exists, what it promises and where it came fromSAP and community, unassessed
provides
stated
provides Cataloguing and lineage
Carries the catalog the estate is discovered through, and is where Business Data Cloud's intelligent content and data products are worked with.
“Work with SAP Business Data Cloud intelligent content and data products in SAP Datasphere”
Finding what data exists, what it promises and where it came from
Loading a warehouseLoading a warehouseGetting data into an analytical store and keeping it currentSAP and community, unassessed
provides
stated
provides Loading a warehouse
Connections to source systems and databases, and the scheduling and monitoring of replication and other integration tasks, owned by the space's administrator or integrator role.
“can schedule and monitor data replication and other data integration tasks”
Getting data into an analytical store and keeping it current
Technical
analytics-cloud-rpt15-prediction-demoanalytics-cloud-rpt15-prediction-demoFastAPI backend for SAP-RPT-1.5 predictions from SAP Analytics Cloudsap official, btp
connected from
derived
connected from analytics-cloud-rpt15-prediction-demo
the data sits in SAP Datasphere; the README's requirement names SAP Datasphere or SAP HANA Cloud
reads every row of the V_PAYMENT_DELAY_PREDICTION view and upserts the predictions into a staging table
“RPT-1.5 is deployed in **SAP AI Core**, the data lives in **SAP Datasphere**, and this **FastAPI** service — deployed to **Cloud Foundry** — wraps the prediction call.”“Predictions (value + confidence interval) are upserted into a staging table.”
FastAPI backend for SAP-RPT-1.5 predictions from SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeSAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeEighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled MCP serverindependent, btp
connected from
derived
connected from SAP Datasphere Plugin for Claude
reaching the configured tenant to run the skills' queries and tool calls
“configure your SAP Datasphere connection by setting the environment variables in `.mcp.json`”
Eighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled MCP server
btp-spend-analysisbtp-spend-analysisIntegration flows pulling SAP Ariba spend data into SAP Dataspheresap official, btp
needed by
derived
needed by btp-spend-analysis
the target the Ariba data is landed in, in a space prepared by the mission's earlier steps
“Due to the format of the API response, there is no direct ingestion mechanism for Datasphere to pull the Ariba data, therefore some form of ETL tooling needs to be introduced for that data movement.”“The integration is specific to the Ariba Spend Analysis entitlement and provides a way for BTP Cloud Integration to pull data from the Ariba Analytical API, process it into SAP Datasphere so that the SAP Analytics Cloud Spend Analysis business content can be used.”
Integration flows pulling SAP Ariba spend data into SAP Datasphere
SAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeSAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeEighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled MCP serverindependent, btp
needed by
derived
needed by SAP Datasphere Plugin for Claude
the tenant the skills and the bundled [@mariodefe/sap-datasphere-mcp](artifact:mariodefelipe-sap-datasphere-mcp) server operate against
“An SAP Datasphere tenant with OAuth 2.0 client credentials”
Eighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled MCP server
analytics-cloud-rpt15-prediction-demoanalytics-cloud-rpt15-prediction-demoFastAPI backend for SAP-RPT-1.5 predictions from SAP Analytics Cloudsap official, btp
optionally used by
derived
optionally used by analytics-cloud-rpt15-prediction-demo
the requirement names SAP Datasphere or SAP HANA Cloud; this is the Datasphere half of that choice
where the V_PAYMENT_DELAY_PREDICTION view and the staging table live, when the data sits in Datasphere
“- **SAP Datasphere / SAP HANA Cloud** with a `V_PAYMENT_DELAY_PREDICTION` view”
FastAPI backend for SAP-RPT-1.5 predictions from SAP Analytics Cloud
Modernization Agents for SAP on AWSModernization Agents for SAP on AWSAWS agents for ABAP, PI/PO and BW modernisation workpartner, abap
optionally used by
derived
optionally used by Modernization Agents for SAP on AWS
The BW modernization use case is run
The target the BW data models are moved into, in Business Data Cloud.
“**Modernize SAP BW to SAP Datasphere / BDC:** move from BW to SAP Datasphere in Business Data Cloud in hours, not months.”
AWS agents for ABAP, PI/PO and BW modernisation work
teched2025-DA265teched2025-DA265TechEd 2025 workshop on Just Ask natural-language questionssap official, btp
used by
derived
used by teched2025-DA265
included in that formation; the workshop itself does not connect to it, because the README says the tunnel connection is in beta.
“SAP Analytics Cloud must be part of a Business Data Cloud Formation, which includes SAP Datasphere, to support a planned ‘tunnel’ connection for Just Ask to index BDC models.”“This workshop does not connect to SAP Datasphere, as the ‘tunnel’ connection between SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere is currently in beta and not available at TechEd.”
TechEd 2025 workshop on Just Ask natural-language questions
teched2025-DA267teched2025-DA267TechEd 2025 workshop on seamless planning for xP&A in BDCsap official, btp
used by
derived
used by teched2025-DA267
where the master data is loaded from and the planning model's data is exposed to, and where the plan versus actual reporting is built on an analytic model.
“Expose the planning model data in SAP Datasphere and build a plan vs. actual reporting using an analytic model and time-dependent master data”“Basic understanding of the concepts of SAP Datasphere”
TechEd 2025 workshop on seamless planning for xP&A in BDC
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Readings
- Strategy and Tool Updates on BW Modernization with SAP Business Data CloudStrategy and Tool Updates on BW Modernization with SAP Business Data CloudDevtoberfest 2026 session DAT-13, in which a product manager for SAP Business Data Cloud sets out the revised BW modernisation strategy, now called optimise, modernise and innovate, and the three tools that carry it. The data product generator transfers BW InfoProviders into local table files in a dedicated BW inbound space of SAP Datasphere, where a data product is still created by hand in the data sharing cockpit; the query template generator turns BW query metadata into an analytical model template in the HANA space; the BW migration assistant, planned to start in Q4 for BW NetWeaver, takes the data flows and transformations below them, and is shown on slides only. That is the loading a warehouse edge, and the demos cover the BW/4HANA cockpit, the ABAP program for the NetWeaver GUI, mass generation with semantics from the BW modeling tools, and the flattening operator for sharing data outside SAP.SAP Developers, published 2026-09-22SAP Developers, YouTube — SAP Developers playlists
- SAP Datasphere Integration Patterns: Lessons Learned from Two Years of ImplementationsSAP Datasphere Integration Patterns: Lessons Learned from Two Years of ImplementationsTwo years of production SAP Datasphere integrations across SAP and non-SAP sources, settling on Replication Flows over remote access for high-volume Finance analytics because remote queries added latency at query time, then tuning the copy with Datasphere-side partitioning, source-side CDS view optimisation and Cloud Connector sizing. For file-based and Kafka sources, SAP Integration Suite iFlows did work a direct connection could not — flattening nested JSON, PGP decryption and orchestrating the SAP Ariba extraction built on SAP's own BTP Procurement Data Extractor content.saikrishna_kalivarapu2, published 2026-08-17saikrishna_kalivarapu2, SAP Community
- Explore your Hyperscaler data with SAP Business Data CloudExplore your Hyperscaler data with SAP Business Data CloudSAP's map of the ways data held on hyperscaler and partner platforms is joined with SAP data in SAP Business Data Cloud, with a sub-page each for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks and Snowflake. It sets four modes side by side: BDC Connect shares data products in both directions over the Delta Sharing protocol from the object store layer, while in the SAP Datasphere layer federation reads remote tables in place, Replication Flows copy SAP data out to stores such as Amazon S3 or Google BigQuery, and Data Flows import files and transform them into Datasphere tables, the last three being the ground loading a warehouse covers. The Snowflake and BigQuery connectors are dated to 2026 releases, and a closing page lists what slows federation, from source and tenant in different regions to queries that do not filter and aggregate at the source.published 2026-05-08SAP Architecture Center, SAP Architecture Center
1 more
- Federated Machine Learning with SAP DatasphereFederated Machine Learning with SAP DatasphereSAP's design for training predictive models on an external machine learning platform against SAP Datasphere data that is not replicated to that platform. The open-source FedML Python library runs in the platform's notebook, connects to Datasphere over Python/SQLDBC and reads the analytic models in which Datasphere unifies SAP and non-SAP sources; a trained model can then be deployed to SAP AI Core, or in several sub-pages to SAP BTP, Kyma runtime, which is the predictive models path where training happens outside SAP. Sub-pages cover Amazon SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, NVIDIA RAPIDS on GPUs and IBM watsonx.published 2025-01-23SAP Architecture Center, SAP Architecture Center
What’s New
from SAP Help Portal, readhelp.sap.com/whats-new, SAP DatasphereSAP’s wordsOn SAP Help Portal
11 entries from to , counted per month.
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.22
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.21
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.20
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.19
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.18
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.17
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.16
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.14
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.13
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.12
SAP Datasphere Features for Version 2026.11
Others providing
Analytic modellingAnalytic modellingDefining what an analytical client actually reads — the multi-dimensional layer between stored rows and a chart: measures, dimensions, hierarchies, filters and parameters, and the associations somebody navigates them by. Distinct from analytical queries, which is a service answering the request a chart sends, and from loading a warehouse, which fills the tables underneath it.SAP and community, unassessed
- SAP Analytics CloudSAP Analytics CloudSAP's SaaS front end for analytics: business intelligence, planning and predictive in one product, and the place a Datasphere analytic model is meant to end up being read.sap official, btpSaaS for business intelligence, planning and predictive analyticsfrom BTP/BAIP
- bw-modeling-mcpbw-modeling-mcpReads, creates and modifies BW/4HANA modelling objects through the same internal APIs Eclipse BWMT and the BW/4HANA Cockpit use — and can run centrally on BTP with each caller reaching BW as themselves.independent, btpMCP server for BW/4HANA modelling objectsfrom BTP/BAIP
- sap_analytics_cloud_mcpsap_analytics_cloud_mcpThe SAP Analytics Cloud REST API as ninety tools across eleven service areas — content, data import and export, user management, transport, scheduling and translation.independent, btpMCP server for the SAP Analytics Cloud REST APIfrom BTP/BAIP
- MBT Logical Object ListerMBT Logical Object ListerAn app that reads the object model of an SAP BW, SAP BPC or SAP BW/4HANA system and displays its metadata, deployed into that system with the MBT Installer rather than abapGit.independent, abapMetadata viewer for SAP BW, SAP BPC and SAP BW/4HANA object modelsfrom ABAP
- SAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeSAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeEighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled 45-tool MCP server — exploration, view and analytic-model design, BW Bridge migration, security architecture and catalog governance.independent, btpEighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled MCP serverfrom BTP/BAIP
- @mariodefe/sap-datasphere-mcp@mariodefe/sap-datasphere-mcpForty-five tools across a Datasphere tenant — discovery, metadata, analytics, ETL extraction, database users, lineage and column profiling — with config-driven PII masking applied before anything reaches the model.independent, btpMCP server with forty-five tools across a Datasphere tenantfrom BTP/BAIP
Loading a warehouseLoading a warehouseGetting data into an analytical store and keeping it current — connections to source systems, replication and the other integration tasks, import jobs and their lifecycle, and the monitoring that tells you a load failed before a report does. Distinct from replication, which is an application reading data that lives elsewhere as if it were local rather than a warehouse being filled.SAP and community, unassessed
- SAP Analytics CloudSAP Analytics CloudSAP's SaaS front end for analytics: business intelligence, planning and predictive in one product, and the place a Datasphere analytic model is meant to end up being read.sap official, btpSaaS for business intelligence, planning and predictive analyticsfrom BTP/BAIP
- ERPLERPLA DuckDB extension that reads SAP ERP tables, CDS views and BW queries from SQL over RFC, BICS and ODP, and can mount an SAP system as a DuckDB catalog to join against other data.independent, abapDuckDB extension reading SAP ERP tables, CDS views and BW queriesfrom ABAP
- bw-modeling-mcpbw-modeling-mcpReads, creates and modifies BW/4HANA modelling objects through the same internal APIs Eclipse BWMT and the BW/4HANA Cockpit use — and can run centrally on BTP with each caller reaching BW as themselves.independent, btpMCP server for BW/4HANA modelling objectsfrom BTP/BAIP
- sap_analytics_cloud_mcpsap_analytics_cloud_mcpThe SAP Analytics Cloud REST API as ninety tools across eleven service areas — content, data import and export, user management, transport, scheduling and translation.independent, btpMCP server for the SAP Analytics Cloud REST APIfrom BTP/BAIP
- @mariodefe/sap-datasphere-mcp@mariodefe/sap-datasphere-mcpForty-five tools across a Datasphere tenant — discovery, metadata, analytics, ETL extraction, database users, lineage and column profiling — with config-driven PII masking applied before anything reaches the model.independent, btpMCP server with forty-five tools across a Datasphere tenantfrom BTP/BAIP
- pawelwiejkut/bw_remove_characterspawelwiejkut/bw_remove_charactersAn ABAP class for a BW transformation's end routine that strips the characters an InfoObject cannot accept, checked against transaction RSKC, before they cause an activation error.independent, abapABAP class stripping invalid characters in BW end routinesfrom ABAP
- pawelwiejkut/bw_trfn_pocketknifepawelwiejkut/bw_trfn_pocketknifeA framework that handles SAP BW transformation start routines from a customisation table with its own maintenance view, instead of a routine class written per transformation.independent, abapFramework for BW transformation start routines from a tablefrom ABAP
- dbt-sap-hana-clouddbt-sap-hana-cloudA dbt adapter, installed as a Python package beside dbt-core, that lets a dbt project target SAP HANA Cloud as its warehouse through a profile in profiles.yml.sap official, btpdbt adapter targeting SAP HANA Cloud as its warehousefrom BTP/BAIP
Cataloguing and lineageCataloguing and lineageFinding what data exists across the estate and what it promises — catalogs and data products, the contract a consumer can rely on, where a field came from, and what a column actually contains once you profile it. The question asked before modelling starts and again when somebody asks where a number came from.SAP and community, unassessed
- SAP Business Data CloudSAP Business Data CloudSAP's umbrella over the data estate: installed intelligent content and data products, a governed catalog they are published through, and a path out to SAP Databricks.sap official, btpData products, a governed catalog and a path to SAP Databricksfrom BTP/BAIP
- SAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeSAP Datasphere Plugin for ClaudeEighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled 45-tool MCP server — exploration, view and analytic-model design, BW Bridge migration, security architecture and catalog governance.independent, btpEighteen Datasphere skills over a bundled MCP serverfrom BTP/BAIP
- sap-bdc-mcp-serversap-bdc-mcp-serverAn MCP server over SAP's BDC Connect SDK that creates, validates, publishes and deletes Databricks Delta shares as data products in SAP Business Data Cloud.independent, btpMCP server managing Delta shares in SAP Business Data Cloudfrom BTP/BAIP
- @mariodefe/sap-datasphere-mcp@mariodefe/sap-datasphere-mcpForty-five tools across a Datasphere tenant — discovery, metadata, analytics, ETL extraction, database users, lineage and column profiling — with config-driven PII masking applied before anything reaches the model.independent, btpMCP server with forty-five tools across a Datasphere tenantfrom BTP/BAIP
- sap-bdc-mcpsap-bdc-mcpDiscovery and contract tooling for SAP Business Data Cloud — ORD discovery, CSN contract checks and non-executing share planning — behind redaction, policy gates and bounded output.independent, btpMCP tooling for SAP Business Data Cloud discovery and contractsfrom BTP/BAIP
- mcp-sap-datasphere-servermcp-sap-datasphere-serverThe read-only Datasphere server: explore spaces, list assets, preview rows, profile columns and summarise analytical models — and nothing that changes anything, by design.independent, btpRead-only MCP server for exploring SAP Dataspherefrom BTP/BAIP
Details
Sources
Sources are graph entities: the same page may back several entries, and an unreachable source flags every row that rests on it.
Compatibility and provenance
discovered viaSAP Help Portal
first seen in the atlas
ecosystem and domainbtp, data-and-persistence
History in the atlas
- SAP moved the What's New entries for SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud to the Business Data Cloud feed; the old BTP feed had stopped carrying them.
- Entered so the data and analytics capabilities have SAP's answer as an artifact rather than as a paragraph with a citation — the asymmetry every one of those three coverage notes admitted to. Written from SAP Help, read today, which is what the checked date means.
- Added by me the day it was entered, and it did not hold: the data and analytics capabilities are on the BTP door only, so on CAP this was counted behind the door and grouped under nothing. A CAP service reaches it through a destination, which is the BTP door's concern.
- First seen.
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