SAP Datasphere Training (Business Data Fabric)
SAP Datasphere training teaches you to build SAP's cloud data warehouse and business data fabric, the successor to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and the strategic direction beyond classic BW.
- 40 hours
- Intermediate
- Live online
- C_DS_2508
What is SAP Datasphere Training (Business Data Fabric)?
SAP Datasphere training teaches you to build SAP's cloud data warehouse and business data fabric, the successor to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and the strategic direction beyond classic BW. You configure spaces, users and connections, ingest data through replication flows and federation, model with graphical and SQL views, build analytic models and the business layer, orchestrate data and transformation flows, apply the catalog and data governance, and consume the result in SAP Analytics Cloud.
What you get
- Set up spaces, connections and ingestion into Datasphere
- Model with graphical and SQL views over local and remote tables
- Build analytic models and business layer objects
- Design data flows and orchestrate them with task chains
Who this course is for
New to the field
- BW consultants moving to Datasphere
- Data engineers working with SAP sources
- HANA modellers extending into the cloud
Working professionals
- Analytics teams building an SAP data layer
- Consultants on a data platform programme
- Anyone targeting the Datasphere data engineer exam
Prerequisites
- SQL and data modelling knowledge is important.
- BW, HANA or any data warehouse background is a strong advantage.
What you will be able to do
- Set up spaces, connections and ingestion into Datasphere
- Model with graphical and SQL views over local and remote tables
- Build analytic models and business layer objects
- Design data flows and orchestrate them with task chains
- Apply catalog, lineage and data access controls
- Consume Datasphere models in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Explain BW coexistence and migration options
Salary range
- India
- 8-30 LPA
- United States
- 110k-160k
Market ranges for SAP Datasphere Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
Datasphere foundations and spaces
Understand the architecture and the space concept that governs everything.
- Datasphere in the SAP data and analytics strategy
- Relationship to BW, BW/4HANA and HANA Cloud
- Spaces: allocation, members and priority
- Space isolation and data sharing
- Tenant administration and monitoring
- Roles, scopes and privileges
- Elastic compute and sizing
- Lifecycle: development, test, production
Connections and data ingestion
Get data in, whether by copying it or leaving it where it is.
- Connection types: SAP and non-SAP
- S/4HANA and BW connectivity
- Cloud storage and database connections
- Replication flows and delta handling
- Federation versus replication trade-offs
- Data provisioning agent and on-premise sources
- Premium outbound integration
- Monitoring ingestion and troubleshooting
Data modelling: views and entities
Build the models the business will actually query.
- Local tables and remote tables
- Graphical view builder
- SQL views and SQLScript views
- Joins, unions and projections
- Calculated columns and filters
- Dimensions, facts and hierarchies
- Currency conversion and units
- Model validation and impact analysis
Analytic models and the business layer
Expose semantics rather than raw tables.
- Analytic model concept and purpose
- Measures, dimensions and variables
- Restricted and calculated measures
- Business builder objects: dimension, fact, consumption model
- Perspectives and authorisations
- Semantic usage and annotations
- Modelling for SAP Analytics Cloud consumption
- Performance considerations in analytic models
Data flows and transformation
Prepare and shape data inside the platform.
- Data flow design and operators
- Projection, join, aggregation and script operators
- Python script operator basics
- Target tables and load behaviour
- Task chains and orchestration
- Scheduling and monitoring runs
- Error handling and reprocessing
- Incremental loading patterns
Catalog, governance and security
Make the data findable, trusted and appropriately restricted.
- Catalog: assets, terms and metadata
- Business glossary and stewardship
- Data lineage and impact analysis
- Data access controls and row-level security
- Space-level and object-level privileges
- Data sharing between spaces
- Data protection and privacy considerations
- Auditing and monitoring usage
Consumption, BW coexistence and operations
Deliver value to end users and coexist with what already exists.
- Consuming Datasphere models in SAP Analytics Cloud
- Live connection versus import
- Consuming from third-party tools via SQL and ODBC
- BW bridge and BW coexistence scenarios
- Migration considerations from BW to Datasphere
- Monitoring, logs and system health
- Cost and capacity management
- Operating model and team roles
Projects you will build
End-to-end data product
Connect a source, replicate data, model a star schema with graphical views, build an analytic model and expose it as a story-ready data source.
Federated versus replicated comparison
Model the same requirement using federation and replication, compare performance and cost, and justify which one you would put into production.
Governance and security build
Apply data access controls for two user personas, publish assets to the catalog with business terms and demonstrate lineage across the model.
Tools you will use
- Data Builder
- Graphical and SQL view modelling plus analytic models. Your main modelling workspace.
- Business Builder
- The semantic layer: dimensions, facts, consumption models and perspectives.
- Connections and replication flows
- Ingestion configuration and delta monitoring from SAP and non-SAP sources.
- Data flows and task chains
- Transformation and orchestration, including scheduling and error handling.
- Catalog
- Asset publishing, glossary terms, lineage and stewardship.
- Space management
- Storage allocation, member assignment and monitoring across spaces.
Certification
- Exam
- SAP Certified Associate, Data Engineer, SAP Datasphere
- Code
- C_DS_2508
- Level
- Associate
- Exam fee
- US$560 (single exam)
What learners say
I came from BW. The space model and the federation versus replication decision were the two things I needed, and both were covered with real trade-offs.
Business Builder finally made sense as a semantic layer rather than an extra step. The analytic model sessions were excellent.
The governance project is the part most teams skip and then regret. Good that it was mandatory here.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.
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1-to-1 Training
₹49,000
Fixed for every course, no-cost EMI
Private one-on-one coaching at a pace and schedule you set.
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Self-paced Training
₹9,000
One-time fee, lowest-cost option
Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.
Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.
What a day looks like
- Load monitoring
- Checking overnight replication flows and task chains, and reprocessing anything that failed.
- Modelling
- Building or extending views and analytic models against a business requirement.
- Performance work
- Investigating a slow story, usually a federation decision or a join that should have been pushed down.
- Governance
- Publishing assets, tidying business terms and reviewing who has access to which space.
- Business conversation
- Clarifying a definition with a data owner, because most modelling disputes are semantic, not technical.
Training a team?
We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
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