Hybrid Architecture Design

What you will learn

• Design a hybrid SAP analytics architecture — map workload types (operational reporting, enterprise analytics, data science, real-time) to the correct platform layer (S/4 embedded, Datasphere, BDC, SAC, Databricks)
• Apply the three hybrid architecture patterns (Federated Query Hub, Replication + Semantic Layer, and BDC Data Product Mesh) and select the right pattern per engagement context
• Produce an Architecture Decision Record (ADR) for a hybrid architecture choice — document drivers, constraints, options considered, decision rationale, and migration path
• Identify and mitigate the five principal hybrid architecture failure modes (latency mismatch, governance fragmentation, CU cost overrun, network bottleneck, skills gap)

Module overview

Hybrid SAP analytics architecture is not a temporary phase on the way to a "pure cloud" end state — for the overwhelming majority of enterprise clients, it is the permanent operating condition. A greenfield deployment where an organisation runs nothing but SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud, with no legacy BW, no on-premise HANA, and no embedded S/4HANA analytics in production, is genuinely rare. Every other engagement — which is to say nearly all of them — inherits a landscape where several analytics layers coexist, each with its own strengths, its own latency profile, and its own governance model. Senior hybrid architecture is not a contest between platforms. It is the discipline of assigning each workload to the layer that serves it best, then governing the contracts at the boundaries between layers so the whole estate behaves as one coherent system rather than four uncoordinated ones.

Prerequisites

• Intermediate hands-on experience on SAP analytics projects
• Review core concepts first: C035, C033, C032

Outcomes

• Understand the core concepts behind hybrid architecture design
• Apply Hybrid in a typical SAP analytics engagement
• Explain the core architecture and decision points for Hybrid Architecture Design
• Apply a repeatable implementation pattern in a 15-minute lab format