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Door 5Draft

Run AI using data platforms

What this road promises

“Accelerators turn SAP data from ECC or S/4HANA into AI-ready models.”Source: Google Cloud

Ask yourself:

1Pick the platformAsk yourself:Do we already have one, and is SAP data even in it?

Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric, BigQuery or another.

2Choose how to extract SAP dataAsk yourself:Will our extraction still work after SAP's December 2026 deadline?

Choose how SAP data gets out.

Decision point

How do you pull SAP data out today?

3Model SAP data so it means somethingAsk yourself:Who still knows what our tables and Z-fields mean?

Turn SAP tables into business meaning.

Source: Google Cloud (Official product documentation)
4Rebuild permissions on the copyAsk yourself:SAP authorizations don't travel with the data. Who decides who sees what?

Decide who sees what on the copy.

5Build the AI use casesAsk yourself:Is AI on a copy good enough for the business?This gives answers. Acting back in SAP needs another road.

Build answers and analysis on the data.

6Keep the pipelines runningAsk yourself:Every change in SAP can break a pipeline.

Fix pipelines when SAP changes.

7When we migrateAsk yourself:Extraction built on ECC structures will need a redesign for S/4.

Redesign for S/4HANA structures.

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Where this road lands

AI you get
Answers across SAP and other data.
Time to production
No public benchmark.
Cost
Platform usage, pipelines, data engineering.
Team load
High on data. Medium on SAP.
New systems
Data platform, pipelines, data models.
Survives migration
Platform stays. Extraction needs redesign.
Security and licensing
Permissions rebuilt outside SAP. Rules changing.
Source: Matillion docs (Vendor and partner content)Source: SAPinsider (Independent press and analysts)
Adoption risk
Medium. Depends on data freshness.

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