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SAP Business Data Cloud brings forth a new era of open cross-platform data sharing. Right? Zero-copy and all, right?

I voiced my concerns in our webinar back in November.

Now, SAP has put phrasing in BDC terms and conditions, that BDC Connect (yes, that much-hyped "zero copy data sharing") may not be used for persisting data in the receiving system.

#sap #businessdatacloud #deltasharing #databricks #bdc_connect #sapbdc

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Re-watch our webinar here:

https://www.nextlytics.com/en/webinar-recording-bridging-business-and-analytics

The mentioned SAP terms that surfaced in March 2026:

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/agreements/cloud/cloud-services.html?search=Supplement%20Business%20Data%20Cloud&sort=latest_desc&tag=language%3Aenglish

"3. ADDITIONAL TERMS: SAP BUSINESS DATA CLOUD CONNECT CAPACITY SERVICES
(...)
3.3 Customer may allow Third-Party Connectors to temporarily store or materialize Data Products (...) systems solely for performance optimization purposes. (...) Customer may not allow Third-Party (...) systems to distribute Data Products to systems other than SAP Business Data Cloud."

Webinar recording: Bridging Business and Analytics

Webinar about the strategic significance of the Data Lakehouse architecture, the SAP BDC innovations, data integration and platform evaluation.