SAP announced today a host of new AI copilot and AI governance features for SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Jurgen Mueller, SAP CTO and executive board member, called the innovations, which includes an expanded partnership with data governance specialist Collibra, a “quantum leap” in the company’s ability to help customers drive intelligent business transformation through data.
“SAP is executing on a roadmap that brings an important semantic layer to enterprise data, and creates the critical foundation for implementing AI-based use cases,” said analyst Robert Parker, SVP 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 SAP Datasphere’s core is the concept of the “business data fabric,” a data management architecture delivering an integrated, semantically rich data layer over the existing data landscape, and providing seamless and scalable access to data without duplication while retaining business context and logic.
With today’s announcements, SAP is building on that 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 inside Datasphere: It allows you to catalog, manage metadata, all the SAP data assets we’re seeing,” said JG Chirapurath, chief marketing and solutions officer for SAP. “We are also seeing customers bringing in other data assets from other apps or data sources. In this model, it doesn’t make sense for us to say our catalog has to understand all of these corpuses or data. Collibra does a fantastic job of understanding it.”
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.
