The rapid adoption of hybrid cloud architectures has transformed how organizations manage and leverage their data. A hybrid cloud combines on-premise infrastructure with public cloud services, enabling agility, scalability, and cost efficiency. However, this distributed landscape introduces complexities around maintaining consistent data quality and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
SAP Datasphere, a cornerstone of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), provides a unified environment to tackle these challenges. It enables seamless data integration, governance, and monitoring across hybrid environments, helping organizations uphold data quality and meet compliance standards.
This article explores how SAP Datasphere supports data quality and compliance in hybrid cloud deployments.
Hybrid cloud environments typically involve:
Data flows continuously across these systems, increasing risks such as:
Addressing these risks requires a robust data management framework capable of spanning multiple platforms.
SAP Datasphere serves as a business data fabric that integrates data regardless of location or format. It offers:
These capabilities help organizations maintain a consistent, governed data environment in hybrid settings.
SAP Datasphere allows data stewards to define and apply data quality rules centrally. Common validations include:
Profiling tools integrated with SAP Data Intelligence enable ongoing quality assessments, flagging anomalies proactively.
Data quality issues can trigger automated workflows for remediation. For example:
This automation ensures faster resolution and consistent data reliability.
Customizable dashboards provide real-time insights into data quality KPIs across the hybrid environment, enabling teams to track improvements and spot trends before they impact business processes.
Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA require visibility into data origin, transformations, and usage. SAP Datasphere’s lineage capabilities document every step data takes, supporting:
SAP Datasphere supports role-based and attribute-based access controls (RBAC & ABAC), restricting sensitive data access based on user roles, data classification, and context.
This minimizes the risk of unauthorized exposure and supports data privacy mandates.
Sensitive data can be masked or encrypted both at rest and in transit. SAP Datasphere integrates with SAP’s security services to apply these protections seamlessly across hybrid environments.
Organizations can define data retention schedules within SAP Datasphere, ensuring data is archived or deleted in accordance with legal requirements.
Hybrid cloud architectures bring flexibility and scalability but also increase complexity in maintaining data quality and compliance. SAP Datasphere offers a powerful, integrated solution to unify data governance across disparate environments.
By leveraging its capabilities for centralized quality management, lineage tracking, access control, and security, organizations can confidently harness hybrid cloud benefits while minimizing risks.
Ensuring trusted data and regulatory compliance is no longer a barrier but a business enabler with SAP Datasphere as the foundation.