Customer Satisfaction

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.8/10

3.8

User Experience

★★★★★★★★★★ 2.9/10

2.9

Functionality

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.4/10

3.4

Business Value

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8/10

4.8

SAP Datasphere

What is SAP Datasphere?

Cloud-based data platform for building a business data fabric that enables simple, standardized access to SAP data and integration with non-SAP data for both technical and business users.

Data Management & Storage

● Databases & Access Engines

● Data Intelligence, Data Catalogs and Marketplaces

– Data Operations

● Data Pipelining and Data Quality

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SAP Datasphere User Reviews & Experiences

The information contained in this section is based on user feedback and actual experience with SAP Datasphere.

The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.

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Individual user reviews for SAP Datasphere

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Consulting

Source

BARC Panel, The Data Management Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

It can act as a unified semantic fabric making self-service development much more user intuitive.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Vendor promises a lot but hasn't yet delivered on many promises.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Use judiciously for specific self.service use cases for now. It's a long way away from becoming your enterprise data warehouse on the cloud as of now.

How would you sum up your experience?

It's a good platform, but still needs to travel some distance before it can claim to be an enterprise grade DW solution.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Retail

Source

BARC Panel, The Data Management Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Integration in bestehende SAP-Landschaft. Self-Service Modelling / Data-Preparation.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Fehlendes zentrales Monitoring Tool inkl. Warnung von Schwellwerten. Unzuverlässige Berechtigung-Synchronisation mit SAP BW. Wechselnde Empfehlungen der SAP zur idealen Konfiguration / Modellierung.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Datasphere ist gut geeignet als ergänzendes Self-Service Modelling Tool in einer bestehenden SAP Landschaft.

How would you sum up your experience?

Datasphere ist noch nicht reif als vollwertiges Enterprise Data Warehouse und als SAP BW Nachfolger.

Role

Consultant

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Professional services

Source

BARC Panel, The Data Management Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Creation of flows with tables in a single operation.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Improve functionality gaps, avoid system outages when patches/new features are installed.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Shifting from SAP BW to SAP DataSphere is quite a huge change in thinking.

How would you sum up your experience?

Going in the right direction.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Process industry

Source

BARC Panel, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Neuer Ansatz von SAP auch non-SAP Datenquellen zu verbinden und in einem Business User (LOB) geeigneten UI zur Verfügung zu stellen.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Keine Unterstützung von quasi-Standard Interfaces (i.e. RestAPI), auch nicht auf der Roadmap geplant.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Genauen Überblick über die Architektur und relevanten Interfaces erstellen, um die Abdeckung durch Datasphere evaluieren zu können.

How would you sum up your experience?

Gemischt.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Banking and finance

Source

Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Die geringe Einstiegshürde für nicht-SAP Experten (wie Fachanwender).

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Die Performance der Datenabfragen muss weiter verbessert werden.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Startet am Besten von der 'grünen Wiese', Modellübernahme aus Altsystemen ist definitiv keine gute Idee, integriert die Fachanwender in den Implementierungsprozess.

How would you sum up your experience?

Wir nutzen Datasphere bereits seit der Zeit, als es noch Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) hieß. Die Schwächen der Anfangszeit wurden von SAP überwunden und SAP machte auch erhebliche Fortschritte mit der Performance. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist das Fazit: Datasphere ist ein sehr starkes Tool mit einer interessanten Entwicklung!

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Process industry

Source

Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Konnektivität, RealTime, Cloud.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Fehlende Funktionalitäten (noch).

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Langsam beginnen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Gut.

Role

Chief data officer

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Retail

Source

Invited by the vendor, The Data Management Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Selfservice für Endanwender. Konektivität zu Google BigQuery.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Berechtigungskonzept nicht gut. Keine Weiterreichung des Users an BigQuery, sondern eher den Systemuser. Keine Konsole. Wenig offene APIs außerhab des SAP Öko-Systems. Fehlender funktionaler Umfang von SAP Data Intelligence im größeren Style.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Auf das Sizing achten und klein zu starten.

How would you sum up your experience?

Sehr gut, richtiges Produkt, auch wenn es etwas spät kommt im Vergleich zum Wettbewerb.

Role

Data scientist

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Marketing, The Data Management Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Optik.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Performance, Bedienbarkeit.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Datengrundlagen müssen gut vorbereitet sein.

How would you sum up your experience?

Expertenbetreuung ist wichtig. Der Endanwender kann nicht einfach so starten im Self-Service.

Survey Information

Number of reviews for SAP Datasphere

Reviewed versions

81 % version 2024, 19 % version 2023

Peer groups in the survey

Cloud Data Platforms, Data Product Engineering, Data Product Engineering (Big Players), ETL Tools, Data Intelligence Platforms & Marketplaces, Data Intelligence Platforms (Large Scenarios), Data Intelligence Platforms (Big Players)

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