SAP today announced a host of new AI Copilot and AI governance capabilities for SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Jurgen Mueller, SAP CTO and board member, called the innovations, which include an expanded partnership with data governance specialist Collibra, a “quantum leap” in the company’s ability to help its customers to drive intelligent business transformation through data.
“SAP is executing on a roadmap that brings an important semantic layer to enterprise data and creates the essential foundation for implementing AI-driven use cases,” said analyst Robert Parker, vice-president. President and Director of Industry, Software and Services Research at IDC.
SAP unveiled Datasphere a year ago as a comprehensive data service, built on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), to provide a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation and data virtualization. At the heart of SAP Datasphere is the concept of “business data fabric”, a data management architecture providing an integrated, semantically rich data layer over the existing data landscape, and providing transparent and scalable access to data without duplication. while retaining context and business logic.
With today’s announcements, SAP is building on this vision. The company is expanding its partnership with Collibra to integrate Collibra’s AI governance platform with SAP data assets to facilitate data governance for non-SAP data assets in customer environments.
“We have cataloging in Datasphere: it allows you to catalog, manage metadata, all the SAP data assets that we see,” said JG Chirapurath, director of marketing and solutions for SAP. “We also see customers importing other data assets from other applications or data sources. In this model, it does not make sense for us to say that our catalog must include all these corpora or data. Collibra does a fantastic job of understanding this.
The expanded partnership gives customers the ability to use Collibra as a “catalog of catalogs,” with Datasphere’s catalog also managed by the Collibra platform.
