Quo vadis, SAP Data Hub?

In September 2017, we launched with a great success a Data Landscape and DataOps Manage-
ment Solution to the marketplace: SAP Data Hub. In marketing speech: It was designed to help
companies managing the flow of the data across their modern, diverse data landscape by provid-
ing unprecedented data access, governance and creating powerful, organization-spanning data
pipelines. Talking straight: SAP Data Hub should help companies getting value out of their data
mess, as shown in the simplified graphic below.

Since then many hurdles were taken. In this blog, I want to share with you the highlights of our
archived innovations in 2017 and those planned over this year. For some features, I added You-
Tube for further explanation within a solution hands-on. By saying that, I still encourage you for
a deeper dive, since I would like to invite all of you to our upcoming roadmap webinar, with the
leading SAP Data Hub product manager, Marc Hartz, taking place on February 15th, 2018
[11am EST, 5pm CEST].

Achievements
in 2017

Data discovery


• Visually browsing for data in the landscape
• Data profiling with predefined KPIs to check
quality achievement

Security


• Manage complex system landscapes with
differing security and privacy requirements
• Mandatory user authentication when con-
necting to SAP Vora, which is by default
installed with user authentication enabled

Data pipelines & processing 


• Modelling of data pipelines and flows (e.g.

data quality & preparation, embedded
scripts) for Big Data 

• Distributed execution via SAP Vora 

• Content lifecycle management & SAP BW
Data exchange
• Embedding SAP Predictive Analytics models
& machine learning
• Extensible operator concepts
• Container based delivery
• Streaming integration (Kafka)

Landscape management 



• Cockpit with unified monitoring for complete
landscape 

• Define zones & logical systems 

• Adapter framework for connections 

• Access control management

Metadata Governance


• Unified meta data catalog to gain visibility
about landscape wide data
• Easily govern and manage metadata assets
across enterprise systems
• Answer information requests without brows-
ing through multiple systems, repositories or
touching various data models

Orchestration 



• Modelling workflows across your landscape 

• Remote scheduling for SAP BW/4HANA &
SAP Data Services 

• Triggering SAP HANA flow-graphs
• Remote process scheduling for native SAP
HANA scenarios

Goals for 2018

Metadata Governance


• Understand the meaning, complexity and
relationship of data flows and their underly-
ing objects
• Visual lineage shows how data flows
through or within the connected systems in-
cluding the touch points to other processes
• Crawl connected sources to extract relevant
meta data

Self-service with SAP ADP 




• Self-service data prep with SAP Agile Data
Preparation
• Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud Data
pipelines & streaming

Data ingestion & on-boarding 




Roadmap
• Enhancement of connection framework
with in-build data loading via SAP Data
Services focusing on data integration and
connectivity

Integration with enterprise apps



• Further end to end scenarios

• Process orchestration with integration to
IoT, SAP S/4HANA, SAP MDG,
SAP Landscape Transformation Replication
Server, etc.

SAP Data Hub in the cloud 




• SAP Cloud Platform (PaaS) Data

Open source integration 




• Embracement and integration of key
technologies (e.g. Ranger/Atlas)

Do you want to try out SAP Data Hub? Easiest way getting started with the solution is by playing
around with SAP Data Hub, developer edition. For further product updates, webinar or event
invites, stay up to date as a member in our SAP Data Hub LinkedIn Group.

*The arrangement of the features does not suggest any timeline