In explaining BDC’s technical features and differentiating factors, Khan described a “flywheel effect,” SAP’s strategy to create a circular engine that leads to data generation, trust-based AI implementation, AI and data integration, and business value creation.
Launched in February, BDC is a SaaS-based data platform that embodies this strategy, said Khan, who directly led its development. BDC integrates and organizes SAP and non-SAP data based on meaning, and is designed to accommodate not only SAP but also third-party data, he stressed. Data collected and integrated by BDC can be used to fuel AI agent functions or SAP’s digital assistant, Joule. “There are few products that have received as much response as BDC,” Khan said.
According to Khan, the strength of BDC is that it can automatically align and synchronize various data sources without ETL or data pipeline management. This will allow customers to reduce the collection, refinement, and quality control tasks that typically account for more than 80% of the overall data management function, and instead focus more time on AI model training and application, he said.
