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thorebedey
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert

Overview

In today's digital age, the ability to effectively manage and leverage data is paramount for businesses seeking to maintain a competitive edge. SAP Datasphere, with its robust API endpoints, plays a crucial role in this landscape. The significance of utilizing these APIs cannot be overstated, as they empower companies to establish a comprehensive data fabric and implement a robust cloud architecture. This capability is essential for seamless data integration, real-time access, and efficient management across diverse data sources and platforms. By harnessing the power of SAP Datasphere's APIs, businesses can not only streamline their data processes but also lay the foundation for advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making, positioning themselves at the forefront of innovation and efficiency.

Why even access SAP Datasphere via API?

  • Data Management Commands: You can use the APIs to execute various data management tasks. This includes creating, updating, and deleting data sources, data models, users, and spaces. The API endpoints are designed to be straightforward, allowing you to manage their data without the need to access the graphical user interface.
  • Automation and Scripting: Accessing the APIs is particularly useful for automating repetitive tasks. You can write scripts that execute a series of API commands, facilitating batch operations like updating multiple data models or deploying changes across different environments.
  • Integration with Other Tools: The APIs can be integrated with other development tools and platforms. This is particularly useful in DevOps workflows, where you might want to include data operations as part of your continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

These key benefits can be leveraged today through Datasphere's Command Lines Interface (CLI). Through CLI commands, you can call the API endpoints of SAP Datasphere.

Please check the SAP Help documentation for more useful information about the Command Line Interface (CLI).

Also please gain inspiration and a better understanding of valid use cases from the blogs below (growing list):

Conclusion

Interacting with Datasphere by accessing the APIs directly or via the CLI is the key step of transforming your Datasphere into a data fabric. It caters well to advanced users and integrates seamlessly into DevOps workflows, making it an essential tool for those looking to optimize and scale their data operations in a sophisticated and controlled manner.

Ready to accelerate the impact of SAP Datasphere with API Access? Contact me or my colleagues today for a demo and see the effect firsthand.

3 Comments
TuncayKaraca
Active Contributor
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Hi @thorebedey,

I think your blog post heading "Enhance your SAP Datasphere Experience with API Access" and using API in your statements are misleading -at least confusing and it could cause misunderstanding 😁

IMHO What I see you are referring to Accessing SAP Datasphere via the Command Line and as you already gave a links  CLI: Overview  and Use CRUD Operations with SAP Datasphere CLI

This is SAP Datasphere API - Consume Data via the OData APIAccess the SAP Datasphere OData API and SAP Datasphere API

Regards,
Tuncay

thorebedey
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert

Hi @TuncayKaraca ,

thanks for your feedback!
As CLI and API are closely linked, I want to tie that connection between the two with a focus on API. I think it is important to note, that for most use cases the CLI is a tool to call the currently internal APIs that Datasphere is offering.
We are expecting those APIs to be made publicly available so that when embedding API calls into scripting, people do not need to go the way through the CLI.

Thanks and BR,

Thore

TuncayKaraca
Active Contributor
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Thore, you are welcome. Thanks for more information.

Regards,
Tuncay