SAP TechEd — the analytics sessions that matter

As of 2026-04-30

12 SAP TechEd sessions picked for a SAP analytics consultant, across 8 tracks — Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, Joule. A short, opinionated short-list, not the full catalogue.

By track

The short-list

• Keynote — SAP's data and AI strategy: Datasphere, BDC and Joule for the AI-powered enterprise
  Data & AI · keynote · 60 min · Datasphere · BDC · Joule · Strategy
  Strategic positioning of SAP's data and AI portfolio: Business Data Cloud convergence, Datasphere semantic layer, Joule grounding on BDC catalogues, and the Databricks-in-BDC partnership. Sets the direction for every analytics roadmap conversation in 2026.
  Juergen Mueller (CTO, SAP SE), Gerrit Kazmaier (President, Data & Analytics)
• SAP Business Data Cloud × Databricks: zero-copy interoperability deep dive
  BDC · lecture · 45 min · BDC · Databricks · Delta Sharing · Architecture
  Technical session on the bidirectional connector between BDC and Databricks: Delta-Sharing semantics, governance handoff, cost model, and the production patterns that emerged from the Q2 2026 wave.
  BDC Product Team
• SAP Datasphere — Q2 2026 release: replication flows, semantic models, and BW bridge
  Datasphere · lecture · 45 min · Datasphere · Replication Flows · BW Bridge · Semantic Models
  Walkthrough of the Datasphere Q2 2026 release: 2-3× throughput boost on replication flows from S/4 HANA, native BW bridge for migration projects, and the semantic-model improvements that simplify cross-tenant data products.
  Datasphere Engineering
• SAP Analytics Cloud planning — FP&A patterns for cross-entity rollups and predictive forecasting
  SAC · lecture · 45 min · SAC · Planning · FP&A · Predictive
  Production patterns for planning workloads on SAC: cross-entity rollups via the new model relationships, predictive forecasting on top of historical data, and write-back into S/4HANA Group Reporting.
  SAC Planning Specialists
• Joule Studio — building custom skills for SAP-native copilots
  Joule · lab · 90 min · Joule · Joule Studio · AI Agents · Skill Authoring
  Hands-on lab: low-code skill authoring in Joule Studio. Build a skill that grounds on a Datasphere catalogue, calls a SAC story, and writes back to an S/4HANA transaction. Covers the agent-runtime architecture introduced in TEV25.
  Joule Product Team
• BW/4HANA — mainstream maintenance to 2030: what changes, what stays
  BW/4HANA · lecture · 30 min · BW/4HANA · Roadmap · Migration
  Why SAP extended BW/4HANA mainstream maintenance to 2030, what the upgrade path to Datasphere looks like, and the concrete checklist for customers running BW 7.5 today.
  BW/4HANA Product Management
• Cross-tenant data products on BDC — the architecture that replaces inter-tenant replication
  BDC · lecture · 45 min · BDC · Data Products · Multi-tenant · Datasphere
  How the Q2 2026 cross-tenant data products feature lets you share Datasphere spaces across SAP IDs without copying data — the architecture, the governance model, and the patterns it makes obsolete.
  BDC Product Team
• S/4HANA embedded analytics — when to embed vs. when to lift to Datasphere
  S/4HANA · lecture · 45 min · S/4HANA · Embedded Analytics · Datasphere · Architecture
  Decision framework for embedded analytics in S/4HANA vs. external Datasphere modelling. CDS view design, performance characteristics, and the emerging pattern of dual-mode reporting where operational queries stay embedded and strategic ones lift to Datasphere.
  S/4HANA Analytics PM
• Grounding Joule on enterprise data — Datasphere catalogues, SAC stories, and the BDC semantic layer
  Joule · lecture · 45 min · Joule · Datasphere · Grounding · RAG
  How Joule grounds responses on enterprise data: the catalogue API, the semantic layer integration, and the auditability story for regulated industries.
  Joule + Datasphere Joint Team
• SAP Analytics Cloud Story 2.0 — the new design experience
  SAC · demo · 30 min · SAC · Story 2.0 · UX
  Demo-heavy session on the redesigned story canvas: faster prototyping, better mobile rendering, and the migration path from classic SAC stories.
  SAC Design Team
• Data fabric architecture — Datasphere as the federated semantic layer across SAP and non-SAP sources
  Datasphere · lecture · 45 min · Datasphere · Data Fabric · Federation · Architecture
  Reference architecture for federating SAP and non-SAP sources through Datasphere as the semantic layer. Covers virtualisation vs. replication tradeoffs, lineage, and the governance model.
  Datasphere Architecture Team
• GenAI in SAP analytics workflows — beyond the demo
  AI · lecture · 45 min · GenAI · SAP Business AI · Joule · Production Patterns
  Production-grade patterns for GenAI in analytics: prompt-engineering for Joule, structured-output enforcement, evaluation harnesses for SAP-bound LLM applications, and the regulatory line-items for EU AI Act compliance.
  SAP Business AI Team

Source: SAP TechEd 2025 (TEV25) — Virtual Catalog — official catalogue · short-list as of 2026-04-30.