SAP BDC Fundamentals

Learn SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Fundamentals and Its Strategic Role

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.