DSP01: Introduction to SAP Datasphere — Lesson 1: SAP Datasphere Architecture, Spaces, Connections, and Governance

Learning Objectives

• Explain how SAP Datasphere Architecture, Spaces, Connections, and Governance supports governed SAP Datasphere analytics.
• Complete the workflow and produce a reviewable Datasphere architecture and space design workbook.
• Evaluate the condition where a connection is technically valid but exposes tables to an unintended development space and select a supported response.

Detailed Topics

• Datasphere architecture: business purpose, responsible roles, and SAP objects that establish the operating scope.
• space management: configuration choices, master-data dependencies, and determination logic shaping the result.
• source connections: transaction flow, status behavior, integration effects, and reviewable operational evidence.
• governance responsibilities: control points, exception paths, testing needs, and release criteria protecting the outcome.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces Datasphere architecture, space management, source connections, governance responsibilities through the scenario, explaining navigation, decisions, dependencies, system responses, and the evidence retained in Datasphere architecture and space design workbook. The walkthrough also investigates the condition where a connection is technically valid but exposes tables to an unintended development space.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled activity covering Datasphere architecture, space management, source connections, governance responsibilities and preserve the result in Datasphere architecture and space design workbook.

1. Confirm the business objective, organizational scope, roles, source data, and expected SAP result.
2. Execute the workflow in sequence while capturing settings, transactions, messages, and observations.
3. Introduce the stated exception and isolate the earliest divergence from the expected behavior.
4. Correct or contain the issue, retest the affected path, and record the accountable owner.

Scenario Analysis

• Which SAP object, rule, record, or process step most strongly influences SAP Datasphere Architecture, Spaces, Connections, and Governance?
• What evidence separates configuration, data, authorization, integration, and timing causes in this scenario?
• How should the Datasphere architecture and space design workbook be approved, retained, monitored, and updated after handover?

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start at the earliest point where expected behavior differs from the observed result. Review process sequence, relevant data, configuration, authorization, integration, and timing as separate hypotheses. Treat “a connection is technically valid but exposes tables to an unintended development space” as unconfirmed until settings, documents, logs, reports, and focused retesting support the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required roles, structures, data, settings, and dependencies for SAP Datasphere Architecture, Spaces, Connections, and Governance are present.
• The Datasphere architecture and space design workbook links each conclusion to objective and reviewable SAP evidence.
• Normal processing, the stated exception, integration behavior, and access boundaries were tested.
• Corrections, retest criteria, ownership, monitoring, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply SAP Datasphere Architecture, Spaces, Connections, and Governance, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through Datasphere architecture and space design workbook.