Data Products & Studio

As of 2026-05-29

Data products are BDC's core abstraction — a governed, business-ready, semantically-described data package with a schema, owner, quality expectation, and consumption contract (the opposite of a raw table). The "product" framing carries business context + a contract + ownership, which is why SAC, Databricks ML, and Joule can all consume one product and get the same answer. SAP ships pre-built foundation data products (Finance/HR/Procurement, semantics intact, maintained across upgrades); customers build custom ones in BDC Studio. Senior decision per domain: adopt the SAP foundation product where it fits, build custom where the need is specific — don't rebuild what SAP delivers. Contracts make self-service safe (with impact analysis M077 + catalog M080). Designing the data-product portfolio is BDC-architect, rate-setting work.