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Infosys SAP Business Data Cloud Offering

Deliver Enterprise-wide AI-driven Insights and Maximize Value from Data

Business leaders looking to unlock value from their data and transform outcomes need intelligent applications and analytics. If you are on a quest to connect all your data and gain insights, with a goal to do so by embedding responsible AI into the enterprise, Infosys SAP Business Data Cloud offering provides substantial support.

SAP BDC is a transformative platform that empowers enterprises to harness the full potential of their data assets and build AI-first organizations. It combines SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Databricks capabilities, providing enterprises the complete data and analytics solution needed to deliver next-generation data and AI capabilities.

The Infosys SAP BDC offering is a comprehensive approach to assess your organization’s data and analytics landscape maturity, and to plan and adopt SAP BDC to unlock value from data. It facilitates unified data integration and enables AI-powered analytics across your data ecosystems, including robust data governance.

Next-Generation Business Outcomes, Driven by AI and Data

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Pillars for Data-led Transformation

The Infosys SAP BDC offering has been crafted to transform your data and AI platforms, with SAP BDC at the center of enterprise innovation. It has been built around four key pillars:

  • Data2Value Assessment and Strategy, comprising a maturity assessment of your data and Analytics platforms (people, process, and technology), SAP BDC fitment and opportunities, data strategy with SAP BDC – a roadmap and an operating model
  • SAP Data Estate Modernization includes data engineering services, data lakes/warehouse setup, cloud migration services, and self-service enablement
  • AI-Driven Analytics provides analytics-driven business process acceleration and advanced analytics solutions, which could be both predictive and prescriptive analytics. The pillar also covers data governance enablement for AI-cataloguing
  • Extended Financial Planning which is a basket of services including financial planning strategy and implementation services.

Harness the full power of your data assets and build enterprise-wide insights, with Infosys SAP BDC.

Enablers to Support the Move to AI-first

Every pillar of the Infosys SAP BDC offering is powered by program accelerators that are purpose-built for enterprise success with SAP BDC. These include reference architectures, pre-delivered analytics content in SAP datasphere, industry-specific augmented intelligent solutions and accelerated POCs with standard content. These enablers ensure that every step of SAP BDC adoption is seamless and executed based on industry best practices.

Infosys SAP BDC Enablers for Enterprise Success

Empower your business with personalized and contextual insights in real time, build tight integration of analytics and business processes, and accelerate agility in building data solutions. Build your AI-first organization, with Infosys SAP BDC.

Enablers

Infosys SAP BDC Enablers for Enterprise Success
  • Build tailored roadmaps to accelerate your data and AI integration journey
  • Migrate your existing data infrastructure, integrate AI and analytics, and streamline the data landscape
  • Accelerate and automate your business processes, including GenAI capabilities
  • Eliminate process inefficiencies and gain adoption support

Infosys has redefined the approach to building next-gen data and AI capabilities on SAP, with the Infosys SAP BDC offering. It has been designed leveraging the expertise garnered with a multitude of industry solutions we have delivered on the SAP BTP platform (SAP Datasphere and SAC) that help accelerate value realization. The end result? improved productivity and efficiency in program execution.

Industry-Specific Solutions Ready for Deployment

Industry

Solution

Value Proposition

CPG/Retail
Demand Sensing
Improve forecasts by integrating external data (weather, ads, search) with enterprise data.
Manufacturing
Smart Warehouse Management
Optimize inventory and warehouse operations using real-time analytics.
Utilities
Asset Failure Prediction
Predict asset failures and transition to risk-based maintenance strategies.
All Industries
Spend Analytics with Gen AI
Analyze vendor spend to identify optimization opportunities using conversational analytics.

Our industry solutions have provided customers with tangible business outcomes as demonstrated by:

  • Major US Men’s Grooming Brand: Real-time financial planning and better reporting, leading to 50% reduction in planning efforts
  • Global US-based Clothing Brand: End-to-end visibility of orders and inventory, leading to reduction in stockouts, write-offs and excess inventory by 20%
  • Leading Electric Utility in California: Cloud adoption reducing application ops costs by 25%; better self-service reporting halving time taken for insights generation.
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Challenges & Solutions

SAP BDC integrates and manages SAP data along with third-party data to provide a unified platform for insights across the data ecosystem. The key components include SAP Datasphere for data storage, federation, and data modeling; SAP Analytics Cloud for reporting, dashboards, and enterprise analytics and financial planning; SAP BW Private Cloud to support existing BW investments and SAP Databricks for data integration and AI.

As a trusted SAP partner, Infosys guides you through the effective adoption of SAP BDC in a well-designed, phased approach. First, your business objectives are aligned with technology capabilities. This includes engagement of stakeholders, assessment of the current IT landscape, and prioritization of use cases. Infosys leverages SAP's comprehensive documentation, training resources, and partner support for smooth implementation, ensuring scalability, innovation, and maximum ROI for your enterprise. Infosys offerings have a structured methodology that helps mitigate risks associated with new technology adoption and realize value.

Clients often invest in various technologies like SAP BW, cloud platforms, and Snowflake, leading to a complex and costly data landscape. SAP BDC retains the business context of SAP data and enables integration with non-SAP data using Databricks. This seamless integration reduces the number of data platforms, minimizes data copying, enhances data quality, and simplifies the overall data landscape

Infosys helps you effectively estimate the cost and ROI of your SAP BDC implementation by conducting a thorough planning, analysis, and modeling exercise. Factors such as licensing fees, infrastructure costs, implementation expenses, and expected business benefits are taken into consideration during this assessment. You will engage with Infosys data architects, analysts and SAP experts to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses, this ensures that the initiative is imbued with transparency, accuracy, and aligns well with your organization’s goals.