Modernize Your BW Landscape with SAP Business Data Cloud | Lift, Shift & Innovate | feat. Sandy Tran

About this episode

This episode discusses the modernization of Business Warehouse (BW) and the transition to SAP Business Data Cloud with insights from Sandy Tran.

In this episode we discuss Business Warehouse (BW) modernization and BW transformation highlighting how customers can move from SAP BW 7.5 and BW/4HANA to SAP Business Data Cloud. Gaurav Dey is joined by Sandy Tran, Product Manager for SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) on SAP BTP, to discuss Business Warehouse (BW) modernization and BW transformation. Together they outline how customers can move from SAP BW 7.5 and BW/4HANA to BDC via the pragmatic “lift → shift → innovate” approach. Sandy details the new Data Product Generator, showing how legacy BW InfoProviders become SAP data products ready for AI in SAP scenarios—whether you’re using SAP Datasphere, SAP Databricks, or intelligent copilots like SAP Joule. Listeners also get an early look at the SAP roadmap for 2025, which promises deeper object associations, automated dependency handling, and smoother SAP cloud migration paths. Also in this episode:  Lift, Shift, Innovate Approach: Move existing Business Warehouse (BW) assets to SAP Business Data Cloud without large re-implementation effort, then layer innovation on top. Data Products & Intelligent Applications: Turn BW InfoCubes, MultiProviders, and DSOs into…

People in this episode

Host: Gaurav Dey

Guest: Sandy Tran

Topics covered

• Business Warehouse modernization
• SAP Business Data Cloud
• Data Product Generator
• AI integration
• cloud migration

Keywords

• BW transformation
• lift shift innovate
• data products
• intelligent applications
• AI workflows

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SAP

Products: SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP BW 7.5, BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, SAP Databricks, SAP Joule

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