Post by Dominik Kurz

Today’s data architectures are stuck in the past. Built to feed dashboards, they’re now expected to power AI, agents, and real-time applications — and they’re failing. 📣 ⏳ A stack designed for deterministic workloads and price-performance optimization simply cannot keep up with the speed, context, and dynamism modern AI demands. Static pipelines and siloed systems are becoming the bottleneck, not the solution. Call to Action! 🎤 🥇 🔥 🛫 Now is the right moment to move a legacy SAP BW to SAP Business Data Cloud if you want to get serious about AI, for three key reasons: 🥇 AI needs live, contextual data – not just historical reports. Modern GenAI, agents, and ML models depend on fresh, granular, well‑defined data products. Classic SAP BW is batch‑oriented, tightly coupled, and hard to plug into flexible AI workloads. 🥈 SAP BDC turns your SAP BW investment into an AI‑ready asset instead of technical debt. You can lift SAP BW models, semantics, and data flows into cloud‑native data products and analytic models, instead of rebuilding everything from scratch. That means faster time‑to‑value and far less migration risk. 🥉 There is a real window of opportunity right now. Maintenance timelines, cloud strategies, and exploding AI demand are converging. If you modernize SAP BW into SAP BDC now, you create a clean, governed foundation for AI for the next 5–15 years, instead of pouring more effort into a legacy stack that can’t keep up. In short: legacy SAP BW slows your AI ambitions down. SAP Business Data Cloud gives you a future‑proof, open data foundation where AI can actually scale and deliver measurable business impact. Alexander Klaeger Jan Bungert Thomas Duschek Mohamed Abdel Hadi Lars Jakob Christian Scheidel Wolfgang Epting Dr. Hagen Jander Prakash Nanduri Andreas Krause Adeem ZIA UL HAQ Alberto Sierra Pantoja Christian Suelzer Tobias Heilig Fabian Hartje Matthias Kraemer Thomas Pfiester Klaus-Peter Sauer Check out this blog to learn more about AI‑ready data architectures for unlocking legacy data. https://lnkd.in/e4Dsxj45