From SAP Business Warehouse to BDC in 10 weeks for insight velocity
SAP Business Warehouse (BW) end-of-maintenance is on the horizon as 2027 fast approaches. Organizations without a structured migration path from SAP BW to SAP Business AI will face escalating support risk, rising costs and a compressed runway to act. What’s more, data fragmentation and an inability to unlock SAP Business AI will hold back business potential. The question is: How to modernize data without a multi-year migration program?
DXC Fast BDC with SAP is a fixed-scope sprint to live AI-enabled operations. Fast BDC scopes to a single priority business domain, delivering a live production slice rather than a proof of concept. The result? A working system, not workshop output. Establish the SAP Business Data Cloud foundation that SAP Business AI requires and scale across the enterprise with a roadmap for BW migration.
One priority business domain, fully in production in SAP Business Data Cloud with AI capabilities activated. Fixed scope and fixed timeline are measurable at delivery.
SAP research shows cloud workload shifts to SAP Business Data Cloud can help reduce TCO by up to 75%. Fast BDC is designed to establish that workload shift efficiently, with zero-copy architecture eliminating duplication cost from day one.
Fast BDC eliminates batch-oriented reporting cycles. Business teams can access current data at any time, with AI-driven querying removing the dependency on pre-built reports.
DXC has partnered with AWS to co‑develop the proprietary Fast BDC accelerators, leveraging the latest AI capabilities across SAP, DXC and AWS platforms.
Obtain decision velocity and deliver ready-to-run transformational insights with SAP BDC live in production using out-of-the-box analytical models, dashboards and workflows infused with AI/ML.
A secure, locally deployed tool that analyzes your BW landscape — including objects, usage patterns, data volumes, lineage, and custom code complexity. It delivers hard evidence for migration decisions without moving production data outside your environment.
DXC’s Migration Factory converts BW models, logic and data definitions into SAP Business Data Cloud while preserving business meaning. The result is SAP Data Products — curated, business-ready data assets fully managed by SAP.
BDC Connect enables zero-copy and delta-share access across SAP and non‑SAP data sources without replication. Analytics and AI work directly on source data, reducing cost while preserving data integrity.
Prebuilt, fully managed applications combine dashboards, data pipelines and AI models directly within the BDC environment. No custom pipeline upkeep and no ongoing IT overhead.
A phased, evidence-based roadmap extends BDC across additional domains and systematically retires remaining BW workloads. Each step is grounded in insights from the assessment accelerator.
Purpose-built AI accelerators run agentic analysis directly on your SAP BW system, capturing objects, usage patterns, data volumes, lineage and custom code to deliver hard evidence for complex migration decisions.
Transitions BW models, business logic and data definitions directly into BDC Data Products, preserving business semantics throughout. AI-assisted analysis guides conversion decisions with human review at key checkpoints.
Senior BW and BDC expertise remains essential. Every BW landscape is highly customized; custom ABAP logic and authorization complexity require experienced practitioners. Accelerators compress effort; DXC expertise ensures quality.
DXC collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop the DXC Fast BDC assessment and migration accelerators, taking advantage of the latest agentic AI and automation capabilities within SAP and AWS. Leveraging cloud-native AI and automation capabilities, the Fast BDC streamlines the assessment phase, jump-starts code conversion, and ensures data validation, while working securely within any customer technology landscape. Together, DXC and AWS are helping clients accelerate cloud adoption by combining deep SAP and data expertise with AWS’s advanced cloud and AI services.
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Fast BDC complements it. Go live in one domain while the longer-term program is scoped, delivering validated scope data and a proven accelerator toolkit.
The automated landscape assessment surfaces complexity in Week 2. Most environments have at least one well-bounded domain that can go live on time.
Delay compounds risk. Starting in 2026 avoids the 2027 demand surge and delivers immediate production value.
