SAP Datasphere & BDC: Top New Features | August 2026

Explore the latest SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud feature highlights from the August 2026 releases. In this monthly update, Klaus-Peter Sauer covers what shipped across releases 2026.17 and 2026.18, including navigation improvements, expanded file space capacity, new transformation flow capabilities, smarter data quality handling, and enhanced monitoring for SAP Business Data Cloud tenants. You’ll see how these updates can help teams manage multi-space architectures more efficiently, gain better visibility into capacity unit consumption, simplify transformation flows on file spaces, and reduce operational effort when working with growing local tables and data quality exceptions. You will see what is new in: ✅ UI Navigation Changes — Navigate SAP Datasphere with a reorganized sidebar, function-based app grouping, and updated locations for system information and appearance settings. ✅ Copy Spaces and Their Contents — Copy source and consumer spaces together, with cross-space sharing relationships rewired automatically to the copied spaces. ✅ Create up to 20 File Spaces — Build larger multi-domain and multi-space architectures on the object store with an increased file space limit. ✅ Initial Only Load Type for Local Table File Targets — Use initial-only load types in replication flows when writing to local table files from supported object store and other sources. ✅ Enhanced Capacity Unit Monitoring — View resource-specific consumption cards and charts to understand which services are driving capacity unit usage. ✅ Flatten Operator for Transformation Flows on File — Join multiple tables into a single flattened output structure for analytics, machine learning, or downstream processing. ✅ Resolve Erroneous Records with the Data Remediation Table — Capture, review, correct, and reprocess records that fail Python operator validation in transformation flows on file spaces. ✅ Dynamic Range Partitioning — Let SAP Datasphere create new local table partitions automatically as data grows, helping maintain distribution and reduce manual administration. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:28 - UI Navigation Changes 01:11 - Copy Spaces and Their Contents 02:36 - Create up to 20 File Spaces 02:55 - Initial Only Load Type for Local Table File Targets 03:33 - Enhanced Capacity Unit Monitoring 04:06 - Flatten Operator for Transformation Flows on File 04:48 - Resolve Erroneous Records with the Data Remediation Table 05:59 - Dynamic Range Partitioning 06:50 - Wrap-Up • Explore SAP Business Data Cloud: https://sap.to/6056BG6t6y • Learn more about SAP Datasphere: https://sap.to/6057BG6t6J • Watch the SAP Datasphere Top Features playlist: https://sap.to/6058BG6t6K Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://sap.to/6059BG6t6z Instagram: https://sap.to/6050BG6t6M Facebook: https://sap.to/6052BG6t6O Threads: https://sap.to/6054BG6t6u About SAP: As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: https://sap.to/6056BG6t6r #SAPDatasphere #SAPBusinessDataCloud #DataManagement