Data Power-Up: How Federation Strengthens RISE with SAP

Introduction

The world of business never stops, and in the heart of it all is data. Leveraging the power of data is key, and this is where DIF with RISE with SAP makes a difference. With RISE with SAP, enterprises can streamline their data architecture, gain better access to consistent data, and make smarter decisions. Data federation affords a mechanism to access data from various sources in an integrated manner.

The way of a single virtual database, providing a consolidated view of important business information. When applied in such a way, organizations can maximize their operations, enhance analytics, and seize the stranglehold on their digital transformation journey.

In this blog post, we’re going to examine the mechanics of data federation in RISE with SAP: What it does, how it benefits your business, and helps you make smarter decisions.

Data Federation with SAP RISE

What is Data Governance?

Data Federation Definition:
The concept of data federation allows the user to unify multiple distinct datasets into a single, virtualized layer. Rather than shipping data, federation permits companies to look at, report on, and analyze data from disparate systems as if it were from one system. This provides faster and simplified access to real-time data throughout the organization.

Benefits of Federation:
By data federation, businesses using RISE with SAP benefit in multiple respects:

• Consistency: Ensures data consistency in different systems by replicating between them without involving lengthy ETL.
  
• Higher-Quality Data: Data federation allows organizations to improve the quality of their data by bringing information together from all sources into a single, consistent view and eliminating silos, gaps, and inconsistencies.
  
• Ease of Use for Real-time Information: With federation, users can get to real-time data within multiple systems quickly, which is important because who wants old data when making real-time decisions.
  

Augmenting RISE with SAP Through Data Federation

Enhanced Integration:

The data federation is essential and guarantees seamless integration of on-premises systems to SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) or other cloud solutions. By implementing data federation, organizations can encourage better communication between disparate systems and break down silos of legacy data to enable an agile IT infrastructure.

Improved Analytics:

And, thanks to the magic of data federation, businesses can now do more sophisticated analytics. It affords businesses the ability to combine data from disparate systems and sources, gain a 360-degree view of their companies, and get better insights. Whether it’s in customer data, sales data, or supply chain information, they can feel confident they have access to a holistic view of actionable intelligence.

Scalable Solutions:

As businesses expand, so do their data demands. Data federation makes it possible to scale your integration aspirations with your organization. By adding federation to SAP solutions, companies have a way to scale their data infrastructure without the need for replacing current systems, providing a more agile option when addressing rising data volumes.

SAP RISE Cloud Solutions

SAP RISE Integration:

SAP RISE is designed to make it easier for companies to move to the cloud with less complexity and more flexibility. Licensed into the SAP Cloud, RISE allows customers to move workloads to the cloud and connect them with on-premises applications.

• Real-time Integration: Data federation provides unified, real-time access between all of these cloud and on-premise applications to enable better, faster integration.
• Cost and Complexity Reduction: SAP’s system and application integration means that you can finally leave the costs and complexity behind of operating so many separate on-premise or cloud platforms.

Advantages of Cloud Integration:

One of the major advantages of SAP RISE is that it can be extended to multi-cloud environments in order to enable a more agile and elastic IT landscape.

• Adaptable infrastructure: As business needs change, SAP RISE with integrated cloud allows companies to easily evolve, scale up their operations, and bring out new capabilities.
  
• Cost-effectiveness and agility: The cloud isn’t just cheaper than maintaining an on-premise setup; it’s faster too, allowing us to be more agile by deploying solutions more rapidly and gaining competitive advantage in time-to-market for business results.
  

Case Studies and Examples

A global retailer used for integration multiple e-commerce platforms and legacy ERP systems on RISE with SAP with help of data federation. It also allowed them to communicate with inventory systems in real-time, which would reduce uncertainties of a forecast and improve customer satisfaction because they are more capable of correlating better estimated shipment dates.

Global Retailer:

Gain: Faster and truer syncing of data from multiple sites to a number of platforms, improved efficiency.

Manufacturing Leader:

One of the world’s largest producers employed data federation technology to bring SAP S/4HANA’s system more rapidly into play with its disparate, worldwide supply network. And with better visibility into suppliers’ performance and inventory position, the company reduced procurement costs from 3% to 5% and improved supplier collaboration.

• Main Benefit: Better visibility and collaboration across the value chain to save money, make real-time decisions better.
  

Conclusion

SAP RISE Data Federation is a key asset to enable integration and simplify access to real-time data. Taking advantage of this technology will enable companies to streamline decision-making, simplify operations, and scale analytics. Federated data means companies can join up on-premises and cloud environments without sacrificing the integrity, security, or performance of their data.

We’ve got the knowledge you need to move to a cloud-based world rapidly and seamlessly, enabling your team. Cremencing Solutions is your trusted companion in improving business operations via RISE with SAP. Get in touch to revolutionize your data strategy and streamline integration.

For more insights on SAP Rise read our blog How AWS Cloud WAN Can Simplify RISE Connectivity

FAQs

• What do you mean by data federation with SAP RISE?
  Data Federation is the process of unifying data from different and distinct sources in a single place, enabling enterprises to easily view and query among the data sets without exchanging or copying all records.
  
• What is the value of cloud integration for SAP RISE?
  RISE with SAP delivers cloud integration that lowers the cost of doing business, supports costly and time-consuming advanced analytics, and reduces the overall cost of operations so companies can both scale more easily and respond to changing demands.
  
• Why would anyone ever need business data federation?

Data federation simplifies data access, improves data quality and enforces a common standardization across applications. It allows companies to build artificial intelligence-based decision making applications by providing real-time insights and accelerates digital transformation projects.

• How does data federation add to analytics?

Federated data – Data federation joins together data from different point solutions to allow companies to gain a complete view of their business and thus improve forecasting, reporting and decision making.

Resources

• SAP Community on Data Federation
  
• SAP Business Technology Platform Overview
  
• Data Federation and Cloud Integration Considerations