Platforms · SAP
Your ERP runs the business. Let it inform the decisions too.
SAP holds the finance, supply chain and operational record of many enterprises, and it is often the hardest data to get into analytics and AI. We work with data from SAP: we bring it into a governed foundation with the definitions intact, so the numbers on a dashboard or in a model match the numbers finance closes on.
Where you might be
The SAP questions we hear.
SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud are SAP products. We work with the data they hold; we do not resell or implement SAP itself.
Getting the data out
SAP data is locked in the ERP
Reporting runs on exports and spreadsheets that reconcile them. We design the route from SAP into your analytics platform with your SAP owners, so it is supportable and within your licence terms.
An ageing warehouse
BW reporting still runs the month-end
The warehouse is rarely all broken. We test each component and decide what to keep, what to fix and what to move, rather than starting a rebuild by default.
Which data layer?
Datasphere, a lakehouse, or both
SAP Business Data Cloud brings SAP Datasphere and SAP's analytics tools together. Whether your SAP data should be modelled there, in Fabric, Databricks or Snowflake, or across both, is decided on your workloads and your team.
What we build with SAP data
From the ERP record to a decision.
Integrate
SAP data in a governed foundation
SAP sources joined with CRM, operational and third-party data on Fabric, Databricks or Snowflake, with pipelines that alert when they fail.
Define
One definition of each measure
Revenue, margin, inventory and cost defined once, traced back to the SAP source, so finance and operations stop reconciling each other's numbers.
Report
Decision-ready BI
Governed metrics and dashboards in Power BI or Tableau, built on the same definitions finance closes on.
Predict
Forecasting and planning models
Demand, lead-time and cost models fed from ERP history and built into the planning decision, not a separate report.
Ask
Generative AI over ERP data
Assistants and agents that answer from governed SAP data with sources cited, and access limited to what each user may see.
Secure
Access and agent permissions
Least-privilege access for the people, pipelines and agents that reach ERP data, reviewed inside your existing security programme.
How we work with SAP estates
Your SAP system stays the system of record.
We do not replace the ERP, and we do not ask your SAP team to change how it runs. We build around it, with them.
- SAP owners in the room from the first week, because they know where the definitions and the exceptions live
- Licence and support terms checked before an integration route is chosen
- Keep, fix or build on every existing extract, model and report
- Your cloud, your accounts: what we build is yours to run
Related practices
The practices behind this work.
Ways in
Start with a fixed scope.
Starter service · 2–4 weeks · fixed fee
Data Platform Accelerator
A diagnostic of your estate, including the SAP sources, then a foundation built from what survives it.
See the starter service →Starter service · 2 weeks · fixed fee
AI & Data Assessment Sprint
What is true in your systems, what it blocks, and what each path costs to build and to run.
See the starter service →Business priority
Data Readiness
Is it the model, or the data underneath it?
Read more →Next step
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