Secure, SAP compliant ingestion of S/4HANA data into Microsoft Fabric.
The SAP Explore Zone for Microsoft Fabric is a pre built, SAP compliant integration framework that enables organisations to rapidly and safely ingest SAP S/4HANA data into Microsoft Fabric for enterprise analytics, reporting, and data exploration.
Designed by NTT DATA, this package removes the complexity, risk, and delay traditionally associated with SAP data access. It provides a governed, scalable foundation that empowers business users with timely insights while ensuring IT maintains control, compliance, and architectural integrity.
At the core of the Explore Zone is a secure and SAP approved integration approach, leveraging SAP Datasphere to extract and replicate S/4HANA data into Fabric using delta mechanisms and business aware data models. This ensures audit safe access to SAP data without placing unnecessary load on operational systems or introducing compliance risk.
The solution establishes an automated SAP data lake in Microsoft Fabric, giving analysts, data engineers, and power users immediate access to detailed, granular SAP data, eliminating manual exports, “data dumping,” and shadow IT practices.
A metadata driven ELT framework underpins the solution, significantly accelerating the onboarding of new SAP datasets. IT teams can respond rapidly to evolving business requirements by adding new CDS views and data objects with minimal manual effort, turning SAP from a bottleneck into an analytics enabler.
The Explore Zone also provides a strong governance and security foundation, aligning Azure AD groups with Fabric roles to enforce enterprise grade access controls, role separation, and data security from day one. This ensures Fabric analytics scale safely across teams and use cases.
Delivered as a structured 5 week engagement, the package results in: • A high speed, compliant connection between SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Fabric • High value SAP CDS views mapped directly to business outcomes • An Explore Zone environment ready for immediate data discovery, engineering, and analytics • Automated data movement powered by metadata, reducing ongoing operational overhead • A future ready platform foundation for enterprise analytics, AI, and reporting
The SAP Explore Zone for Microsoft Fabric is the ideal starting point for organisations looking to unlock the value of their SAP data, accelerate analytics initiatives, and adopt Microsoft Fabric with confidence, without rework, risk, or compromise.