Learn SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Fundamentals and Its Strategic Role
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of SAP Business Data Cloud and its role in SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise strategy.
- Differentiate between SAP BDC, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC).
- Establish secure data connections across SAP and non-SAP systems.
- Master the architectural layers of BDC including data, semantic, and business layers.
- Build and manage business entities, fact models, and semantic tags.
- Compare and apply data federation vs. replication strategies.
- Real-time and batch data ingestion for analytics.
- Apply best practices in governance, RBAC, identity management, and compliance (GDPR, ISO).
- Connect and operate BDC across multi-cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Expose modeled data to SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for self-service analytics.
- Explore AI, machine learning, and IoT use cases within BDC.
- Plan and execute BDC implementation including UAT, data migration, and go-live strategies.
- Integrate BDC with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BTP, and partner solutions.
- Navigate connectors, APIs, and integration frameworks to enable end-to-end enterprise data flows.
- Optimize performance and scale BDC solutions across business functions like finance, logistics, and operations.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 5 lectures • 17min.
- BDC Architecture and Core Components –> 5 lectures • 15min.
- Data Connectivity and Integration –> 5 lectures • 16min.
- Modeling and Business Layer in BDC –> 5 lectures • 14min.
Requirements
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) plays a central role in SAP’s modern data landscape, offering a cloud-native platform for unified data modeling, governance, and analytics. This course offers an in-depth exploration of BDC’s core architecture, seamless data integration capabilities, semantic layer design, and support for real-time data flows within the Intelligent Enterprise ecosystem. Tailored for data architects, integration experts, and enterprise analysts, the course equips you with practical skills and strategic insights to harness the full power of SAP BDC across business functions and hybrid-cloud environments.
The course begins with a clear understanding of what BDC is, how it aligns with SAP’s broader Intelligent Enterprise strategy, and how it differentiates itself from similar platforms like SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) and SAP Datasphere. Learners will explore key capabilities such as secure data sharing, semantic layer modeling, metadata tagging, and performance optimization strategies to support real-time and batch data ingestion needs.
Through step-by-step modules, you’ll gain deep insights into system architecture, layered data modeling, and integration methods using APIs, connectors, and multi-cloud deployment across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You’ll also learn how to connect SAP and non-SAP data sources, create business entities and fact models, and expose them through SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for interactive analytics.
This course offers not only technical grounding but also emphasizes business outcomes by highlighting BDC’s strategic role in driving agile, data-informed decision-making across supply chains, finance, and operations. By the end, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to design, deploy, and govern robust data solutions using SAP BDC in complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments.