{"id":87201,"date":"2026-04-15T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/blog\/main-blog-page-template\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:17:18","slug":"sap-bdc-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/qa-en\/blog\/sap-bdc-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP BDC Integration: Datasphere, Analytics Cloud, &#038; Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"insights-banner\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"insights-banner-wrapper\">\n            <div class=\"insights-banner-left\">\n                                                <h1 class=\"insights-banner-title h3\">SAP BDC Integration: Datasphere, Analytics Cloud, &amp; Others<\/h1>\n                                <div class=\"badge-wrap d-flex d-flex-wrap\">\n                                                           <span class=\"badge badge-orange\">SAP Analytics Cloud<\/span>\n                                                      <\/div>\n                                 <p class=\"publish-date\">Published: April 15, 2026<\/p>\n                                \n                 \n\n\n\n            <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"insights-banner-right\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SAP-BDC-Integration-Datasphere-Analytics-Cloud-Others.webp\"  alt=\"Banner\" class=\"insights-banner-img\" width=\"720\" height=\"471\">\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n    <div class=\"main-content-blog-section\">\n        <div class=\"main-content-blog\">\n                            <div class=\"pdp-sidebar-sec-wrap\">\n                    <div class=\"pdp-sidebar\">\n                        <ul class=\"ul-none pdp-sidebar-menu-wrap\">\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"introduction\" href=\"#introduction\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" class=\"active\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Introduction<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"sap-bdc-integration\" href=\"#sap-bdc-integration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">What Is SAP BDC Integration?<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"core-building-blocks\" href=\"#core-building-blocks\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Core Building Blocks<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"datasphere-integration\" href=\"#datasphere-integration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Datasphere Integration<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"analytics-cloud-integration\" href=\"#analytics-cloud-integration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Analytics Cloud Integration<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"sap-source-integration\" href=\"#sap-source-integration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">SAP Source Integration<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"third-party-integration\" href=\"#third-party-integration\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Third-Party Integration<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"governance-security\" href=\"#governance-security\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Governance &amp; Security<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"industry-use-cases\" href=\"#industry-use-cases\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Industry Use Cases<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"implementation-best-practices\" href=\"#implementation-best-practices\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">Implementation Best Practices<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                        <li>\n                                <a data-scroll=\"how-accely-can-help\" href=\"#how-accely-can-help\" aria-label=\"tab-link\" >\n                                    <span class=\"body-font-sm text-capitalize\">How Accely Can Help<\/span><\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                    <\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"content-blog-sections\">\n                                                            <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"introduction\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <p>SAP BDC integration works through data products, not point-to-point connectors. SAP applications publish governed data products into Business Data Cloud, Datasphere harmonizes and models them, and Analytics Cloud consumes them. Systems and components are grouped into formations.<\/p>\n<p>Third-party tools like Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric connect through BDC Connect using zero-copy Delta Sharing, so data stays put instead of being copied around. That&#8217;s the shape of it.<\/p>\n<p>Most people searching \u201cSAP BDC integration\u201d already know what Business Data Cloud is. What they actually want is the wiring diagram. How does data get in? How do Datasphere and Analytics Cloud fit together? And what happens when half your stack lives outside SAP, in Databricks or Salesforce or a warehouse nobody wants to rip out?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the part that trips people up. Integration in BDC doesn&#8217;t look like the connector spaghetti you might picture. It runs on a small set of concepts: data products, formations, and BDC Connect. Get those three, and the rest of this falls into place fast.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"sap-bdc-integration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>What Does SAP BDC Integration Actually Mean?<\/h2>\n<p>In older SAP landscapes, integration meant building pipes. Extract from one system, transform it somewhere, load it into another, then maintain that chain forever.<\/p>\n<p>BDC flips the model. SAP applications publish their business data as curated, SAP-managed data products into Business Data Cloud. A data product is a ready-to-use, governed dataset built on SAP&#8217;s own business process definitions, so you&#8217;re not reverse-engineering table structures to figure out what a field means. Datasphere sits in the middle, between those data products and whatever consumes them, adding the business semantics that make the data usable.<\/p>\n<p>So integration here is less about moving data and more about publishing, harmonizing, and sharing it. Less plumbing. More assembling.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"core-building-blocks\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>The Building Blocks of BDC Integration<\/h2>\n<p>Three concepts carry the whole SAP BDC architecture. Worth pinning each one down before going further.<\/p>\n<h3>Data Products<\/h3>\n<p>The unit of integration. Instead of raw tables, SAP packages business data into governed products, finance, HR, supply chain, and so on. Because SAP manages them, you can&#8217;t rewrite their structure, but you can extend and enrich them, combine them with your own data, or push them out to a tool like Databricks. To use one, you find it in the catalog inside your Datasphere tenant and install it into a space. That&#8217;s genuinely most of the work.<\/p>\n<h3>Formations<\/h3>\n<p>A formation is how you group things. It bundles the source systems plus the core components, Datasphere, Databricks, and Analytics Cloud, that consume, enrich, and visualize the data. And you&#8217;re not stuck with one. You can run separate Dev, Test, and Production formations to mirror a normal three-system landscape, which matters the moment you take BDC integration past a proof of concept.<\/p>\n<h3>Intelligent Applications<\/h3>\n<p>The fastest route in. Intelligent Applications are SAP-delivered packages with the data models already built in Datasphere, the data products already wired, and the Analytics Cloud stories ready to go. Install one and you&#8217;ve got working reporting with very little assembly. One catch worth knowing: because their models live in Datasphere, any formation running an Intelligent Application has to include Datasphere. In practice, that&#8217;s every formation.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"datasphere-integration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>How SAP Datasphere Integrates Data in BDC<\/h2>\n<p>Datasphere is the center of gravity. Data products on their own are rarely enough to hand straight to a dashboard. They&#8217;re missing the business context, the relationships, the meaning. Datasphere is where that gets added.<\/p>\n<h3>Harmonizing and Modeling Data Products<\/h3>\n<p>You install data products into a Datasphere space, then build models on top. You can layer on calculations, apply filters for business context, or combine an SAP data product with a customer or partner dataset to make something none of the sources gave you alone. The models you build become the foundation everything downstream reads from.<\/p>\n<h3>The Semantic Layer<\/h3>\n<p>This is the quiet value. Datasphere lets you define what a field actually means, currency, unit of measure, hierarchy, the aggregation behavior of a measure, once, centrally. Then every consumer reads it the same way. No two teams arguing over which revenue number is the real one. Governance is part of this too: you set data access controls that decide who sees what, and because that lives in the model, it travels with the data. This is also where lineage and compliance get real, which is why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/blog\/sap-cloud-services-data-types-and-security\/\">SAP cloud data security<\/a> is worth reading next to this.<\/p>\n<h3>Replication Flows vs Zero-Copy<\/h3>\n<p>Two ways data lands in a Datasphere space. Replication flows physically load it from the Foundation Services into local tables. Or zero-copy through Delta Sharing, where the data stays at the source and you query it in place. SAP has been moving toward the delta share protocol in Datasphere specifically to avoid replicating into local tables. The direction of travel is clear: less copying, more sharing.<\/p>\n                                                            <div class=\"cta-section d-flex d-align-start d-space-between bg-dark pb-sm-0\">\n                                    \n                                    <div class=\"title-content-block\">\n                                                                                    <h3>Integration is where BDC projects live or die.<\/h3>\n                                                                                \n                                                                                    <p class=\"body-font-xl\">We&#8217;ll connect your SAP and non-SAP sources into one governed layer, cleanly.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"cta-button-wrap\">\n                                                                                    <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\" \n                                            aria-label=\"link\" \n                                            target=\"_self\" \n                                            class=\"postbtn btn btn-primary\">\n                                                Book a consultation                                                 <span class=\"btn-icon icon-arrow-right\"><\/span>\n                                            <\/a>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"analytics-cloud-integration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>How SAP Analytics Cloud Consumes BDC Data<\/h2>\n<p>If Datasphere is the kitchen, Analytics Cloud is where the food gets served. It&#8217;s the consumption front end, not a separate system you bolt onto BDC.<\/p>\n<h3>Stories and Dashboards<\/h3>\n<p>Analytics Cloud reads the models Datasphere exposes. Build a story or dashboard directly on a governed BDC model and the numbers are trustworthy by default, because the semantics and access rules came along for the ride. The same tooling behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/solutions\/sap-analytics-cloud\/\">SAP Analytics Cloud platform<\/a> is what teams use for this.<\/p>\n<h3>Planning on the BDC Foundation<\/h3>\n<p>Planning runs on the same foundation as reporting, so your forecasts sit on the same governed data as your actuals. No reconciling two versions of the truth before a planning cycle even starts.<\/p>\n<h3>Joule and Natural-Language Analytics<\/h3>\n<p>The newer layer, and a fast-moving one. Joule Agents now let users discover and create data products through natural language, performing joins and transformations automatically and applying governance policies, while business users ask analytical questions in plain language and get context-aware answers across lines of business. The knowledge graph is what makes that work, since it understands the relationships between your data, not just the values.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"sap-source-integration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Integrating SAP S\/4HANA, BW, and SuccessFactors<\/h2>\n<p>Most BDC integration starts with SAP sources. Each has its own path.<\/p>\n<h3>S\/4HANA as a Data Product Source<\/h3>\n<p>S\/4HANA is usually the anchor. It publishes business-ready data products straight into BDC, finance from the Universal Journal, procurement, sales, and the rest, so the system of record becomes a governed source without a custom extraction project. Mapping those sources before you start is where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/services\/sap-s4hana-migration\/\">SAP migration system<\/a> earns its place, especially if your landscape is mid-transition. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/blog\/sap-s4hana-deployment-options\/\">S\/4HANA deployment options<\/a> also shape how this connects.<\/p>\n<h3>BW and BW\/4HANA Modernization<\/h3>\n<p>Decades of BW modeling don&#8217;t have to be thrown out. The BW Data Product Generator turns existing warehouse content into managed data products, and BW Bridge gives you a cloud path that lets you decommission the old warehouse gradually rather than in one nervous weekend.<\/p>\n<h3>SuccessFactors and Line-of-Business Sources<\/h3>\n<p>HR data through SuccessFactors, plus other line-of-business systems, publish as data products the same way. The pattern holds no matter the source: publish, harmonize in Datasphere, consume in Analytics Cloud.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"third-party-integration\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Third-Party Integration With BDC Connect<\/h2>\n<p>This is where BDC integration gets genuinely interesting, and where the old \u201cbuild an ETL pipe\u201d instinct dies.<\/p>\n<h3>Databricks<\/h3>\n<p>The headline integration. BDC Connect for Databricks gives secure, zero-copy access to SAP data products through Delta Sharing, with everything governed in Unity Catalog and no replication or external ETL. Datasphere handles governed modeling and business semantics. Databricks handles large-scale processing, external data, and model training. You model in one and use it in the other without copying anything between them.<\/p>\n<h3>Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric<\/h3>\n<p>The ecosystem is widening. Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric all join the zero-copy sharing ecosystem, with general availability planned for H2 2026. Same principle every time. Business context is managed once, centrally, in BDC, and the data stays where it lives.<\/p>\n<h3>Salesforce and Operational Systems<\/h3>\n<p>Non-SAP operational data fits the picture too. A typical pattern: S\/4HANA publishes data products into BDC, Salesforce data is ingested separately, both get governed together, then joined and served for analytics, all without duplicating data or running external ETL. CRM and ERP, finally reading from one trusted view.<\/p>\n<h3>Master Data With Reltio<\/h3>\n<p>Newer still. SAP&#8217;s Reltio acquisition brings multi-domain master data management directly into BDC, to unify, cleanse, and harmonize data across SAP and third-party sources. Clean master data is the thing most integration projects underestimate, so this one matters more than it looks.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"governance-security\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Governance and Security Across Integrations<\/h2>\n<p>Worth its own section, because integration without governance is just a faster way to make a mess.<\/p>\n<p>Governance in BDC isn&#8217;t bolted on after the fact. Data products are governed at the source. Access controls live in the Datasphere models, so they apply wherever the data is consumed. When data moves to Databricks, Unity Catalog carries the lineage and permissions. The point is that one set of rules follows the data across every hop, instead of each tool inventing its own. For regulated industries, that single thread of governance is often the reason BDC wins the architecture conversation at all.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"industry-use-cases\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Industry Use Cases<\/h2>\n<h3>Manufacturing<\/h3>\n<p>A manufacturer publishes S\/4HANA production data as data products, enriches it in Datasphere, then runs the combined picture through Databricks for predictive maintenance and yield models. Sensor data from outside SAP joins through BDC Connect. One loop, not three disconnected systems.<\/p>\n<h3>Retail<\/h3>\n<p>Retail runs on data that rarely lines up: POS, inventory, loyalty, plus whatever marketing platform is in play. Data products harmonize the SAP side, BDC Connect brings in the non-SAP tools, and merchandising teams get governed demand and replenishment views without a custom build for every report.<\/p>\n<h3>Banking and Financial Services<\/h3>\n<p>Banks need governed, auditable data for risk and regulatory work, and serious compute for fraud and credit models. The split fits cleanly. Datasphere supplies the governed layer, Databricks runs the models, and governed lineage holds the whole thing together for the auditors who will absolutely ask.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"implementation-best-practices\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>Implementation Considerations and Best Practices<\/h2>\n<h3>Planning Your Formations<\/h3>\n<p>Decide your formation structure before you build. Map which source systems feed which components, and set up separate Dev, Test, and Production formations from the start. Retrofitting that later is painful.<\/p>\n<h3>Data Product and Governance Strategy<\/h3>\n<p>Before turning on Joule or wiring up third-party connectors, settle which datasets are authoritative, how they&#8217;re governed, and who can use them. That catalog is what makes everything downstream, especially the AI, trustworthy. Skip it and you&#8217;re building on sand.<\/p>\n<h3>Phased Rollout vs Big-Bang<\/h3>\n<p>Phased almost always wins. Start with one source and one Intelligent Application, prove the loop end to end, then widen. Big-bang integrations look efficient on a slide and rarely survive contact with real data.<\/p>\n<h3>Monitoring and Optimization<\/h3>\n<p>Integration isn&#8217;t done at go-live. Watch replication health, query performance, and consumption patterns, and tune as usage grows. This is the kind of ongoing work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/services\/sap-managed-services\/\">AI-assisted SAP managed services<\/a> is built to carry, so it doesn&#8217;t fall on a team already stretched.<\/p>\n                                                            <div class=\"cta-section d-flex d-align-start d-space-between bg-dark pb-sm-0\">\n                                    \n                                    <div class=\"title-content-block\">\n                                                                                    <h3>Zero-copy sounds simple. The setup rarely is.<\/h3>\n                                                                                \n                                                                                    <p class=\"body-font-xl\">We&#8217;ll scope your Databricks, hyperscaler, and BW connections before you commit.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n\n                                    <div class=\"cta-button-wrap\">\n                                                                                    <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\" \n                                            aria-label=\"link\" \n                                            target=\"_self\" \n                                            class=\"postbtn btn btn-primary\">\n                                                Book a consultation                                                 <span class=\"btn-icon icon-arrow-right\"><\/span>\n                                            <\/a>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                                                <section class=\"insights-middle\"  id=\"how-accely-can-help\" >\n                        <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                            \n                        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n                            <h2>How Accely Helps With SAP BDC Integration<\/h2>\n<p>The hard part of BDC integration isn&#8217;t clicking install on a data product. It&#8217;s the design decisions around it. Which formations, which sources first, how the governance model should work, and where the line sits between Datasphere modeling and Databricks engineering.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s our lane. As an SAP Gold Partner with 25+ years in SAP delivery, we run AI-assisted assessments of your current landscape, then design the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/solutions\/sap-business-data-cloud\/\">AI-enabled SAP Business Data Cloud<\/a> integration around how you actually operate, formations, data products, third-party connectivity, the lot. The aim is an integration that holds up as you scale it, not a proof of concept that quietly breaks the first time real volume hits it.<\/p>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n                                                        <\/div>\n            \n            \n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"insights-middle insights-middle-conclusion\" id=\"conclusion\">\n    <div class=\"insights-container\">\n        <div class=\"insights-middle-content\">\n            <div>\n                           <div class=\"insights-conclusion\">\n                                        <h4 class=\"insights-conclusion-title\">Conclusion<\/h4>\n                                        <div class=\"insights-conclusion-text\">\n                        <p>SAP BDC integration is simpler to reason about once you drop the old pipe-building mental model. Data products are how data gets published. Formations are how systems and components are grouped. Datasphere harmonizes and adds meaning. Analytics Cloud consumes it. And BDC Connect extends the whole thing to Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric, and beyond with zero-copy sharing.<\/p>\n<p>The shift is from moving data to publishing and sharing it, with governance running through every step instead of being patched in at the end. That&#8217;s what makes BDC integration scale where older approaches stalled.<\/p>\n<p>Planning a BDC integration, or trying to work out which sources and formations to start with? Talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accely.com\/contact-us\/\">Accely&#8217;s SAP consultation team<\/a> and we&#8217;ll map it to the landscape you actually have.<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <\/div> \n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"insights-middle insights-middle-faq faq-sec\" id=\"faq\">\n     <div class=\"insights-container\">\n                     <div class=\"title-content-block\">\n               <h4>Frequently asked questions<\/h4>\n          <\/div>\n                              <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">What is a data product in SAP BDC? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>A data product is a curated, SAP-managed dataset built on SAP&#8217;s business process definitions, published from applications like S\/4HANA into Business Data Cloud. It&#8217;s the unit of integration in BDC. You install data products into Datasphere spaces and build models on them, rather than extracting raw tables and rebuilding the business meaning yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">What is a formation in SAP BDC architecture? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>A formation groups the source systems and core components, Datasphere, Databricks, and Analytics Cloud, that ingest, enrich, and consume data together. You can create separate Dev, Test, and Production formations to mirror a standard three-system landscape, which keeps non-production work isolated from live data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">How does SAP BDC Connect work? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>BDC Connect shares data between Business Data Cloud and third-party platforms using zero-copy Delta Sharing. Data stays at the source instead of being replicated, and governance and lineage carry across. It currently supports Databricks, with Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric joining the ecosystem through 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">Can you integrate non-SAP data with SAP BDC? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>Yes. Non-SAP data integrates through BDC Connect and Datasphere. Tools like Databricks and Salesforce connect via Delta Sharing or ingestion pipelines, and the data is governed alongside SAP data products. You can combine SAP and non-SAP sources in a Datasphere model without duplicating data across systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">Does SAP BDC integration require Databricks? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>No. SAP Databricks is a core component for data engineering and AI workloads, but BDC integration through data products, formations, Datasphere, and Analytics Cloud works without leaning on it. How much you use Databricks depends on your machine learning and external-data needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n               <\/div>\n                         <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"faq-inner\">\n                              <p class=\"faq-title body-font-xl\">How does SAP BDC integrate with SAP S\/4HANA? <span class=\"plus\">+<\/span><\/p>\n                              <div class=\"faq-content\">\n                    <div class=\"body-font-lg color-secondary-alt\"><p>S\/4HANA publishes business-ready data products directly into BDC, including finance data from the Universal Journal, procurement, and sales. 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