In the complex world of enterprise data management, the ability to orchestrate data flows across diverse systems, both on-premise and cloud-based, is crucial. SAP Data Hub, now evolved and integrated into SAP Data Intelligence, is a powerful platform designed specifically to address these challenges by enabling efficient data orchestration, governance, and analytics across hybrid landscapes.
SAP Data Hub is an enterprise-grade data orchestration solution that enables organizations to discover, refine, enrich, and orchestrate data distributed across a variety of heterogeneous sources. It provides a unified environment to manage data pipelines, workflows, and metadata, thereby allowing businesses to unlock the value of their data assets while ensuring governance and security.
With data sprawled across multiple databases, data lakes, cloud storage, and streaming platforms, organizations struggle with data silos, inconsistent formats, and latency issues. Data orchestration solves these problems by automating and managing the end-to-end flow of data — from ingestion, processing, and transformation to delivery — enabling timely and trusted data for analytics and business processes.
SAP Data Hub connects a wide range of data sources — SAP and non-SAP, structured and unstructured, cloud and on-premise — through pre-built connectors and flexible pipelines. This seamless integration breaks down data silos and simplifies complex data landscapes.
The platform offers an intuitive visual interface for designing, monitoring, and managing data pipelines. Business and technical users can collaborate to create reusable workflows, improving productivity and reducing errors.
SAP Data Hub emphasizes metadata management by capturing data lineage, cataloging datasets, and enforcing governance policies. This transparency aids in compliance, auditing, and trustworthiness of data.
Designed for enterprise needs, SAP Data Hub can handle large-scale data volumes and complex workflows. It supports batch, real-time, and streaming data processing, adapting to varied use cases.
SAP Data Hub seamlessly integrates with SAP’s analytics and machine learning tools, enabling advanced insights from orchestrated data. Data scientists can access curated data directly within the platform for AI/ML model training and deployment.
Robust security features, including role-based access control, encryption, and audit logging, ensure that data orchestration complies with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.
SAP Data Hub has evolved into SAP Data Intelligence, which expands on its orchestration capabilities with enhanced machine learning, metadata management, and multi-cloud support. The transition offers customers a future-proof platform aligned with SAP’s broader data management strategy.
SAP Data Hub revolutionizes data orchestration by providing a centralized, scalable, and metadata-driven platform to integrate and manage enterprise data landscapes. By enabling seamless connectivity, pipeline automation, and governance, it empowers organizations to harness their data assets effectively. As businesses face ever-growing data complexity, SAP Data Hub (and its successor SAP Data Intelligence) remains a critical tool in driving data-driven transformation and innovation.