SAP Datasphere & SAP Business Data Cloud: Top New Features | March 2026

New month, new capabilities. Get a quick tour of the March 2026 feature highlights across SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud, with practical takeaways you can use right away. In this update, Klaus-Peter Sauer walks through what shipped across two March releases, focusing on improvements that help teams model more accurately, govern access with less friction, move data more efficiently, and operate workloads with more control. You will see what is new in: ✅ Currency conversion in SAP Datasphere modeling: Control decimal shift in analytic models, plus simpler sharing of SQL views with currency conversion across spaces. ✅ Data Access Control (DAC) for fact and dimension data: Apply a dimension’s DAC directly to fact data and review it under “Applied via dimension.” ✅ Replication flows and parquet for object store targets: Create fewer, larger parquet files for supported cloud object stores, especially useful for large initial loads. ✅ Replication flow CLI plus operational reliability: Run, stop, and check replication flow status via CLI, plus email notifications before scheduled-task consent expires. ✅ Performance optimization and data lineage for BW DTPs: Define Z-ORDER columns during optimize tasks for faster queries, plus improved lineage and impact analysis for BW DTPs and transformations. Chapters: 00:28 Currency Conversion shift option and simplified sharing 01:14 DAC Support for associated dimensions of fact data 01:42 Support Large Parquet Files for Object Store Targets 02.02 Manage Replication Flow Runs via the Command Line 02.22 Email Notification for Expiring Consent 02:53 Define Z-ORDER COLUMNS While Running an Optimize Task 03.39 Data Lineage enhancement for the BW DTPs 04:12 Summary and outro Learn more about SAP Datasphere: https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/datasphere.html Join our SAP Datasphere community to stay up to date: https://community.sap.com/topics/datasphere Check out our product roadmap for SAP Datasphere: https://roadmaps.sap.com/board?PRODUCT=73555000100800002141 Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sap Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SAP/ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@sap 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://www.sap.com/index.html #SAPDatasphere #DataFabric #BusinessAI