SAP TechEd 2025 — the analytics sessions worth a replay (archive)

As of 2026-04-30

Edited by Cédric Mary, sole editor and publication director — 27 years in the SAP ecosystem. How these pages are produced, and where automation is used.

8 SAP TechEd 2025 sessions picked for a SAP analytics consultant, across 6 tracks — Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, Joule. A short, opinionated short-list, not the full catalogue. An archive of the 2025 edition — not the programme of the current one.

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 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
• 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.