As its TechEd conference kicks off today in Las Vegas, Enterprise software juggernaut SAP is announcing the release of version 2.3 of its Data Hub product. Among other things, the release heralds the arrival of containerization onto the Data Hub scene.
Now part of the recently-released SAP HANA Data Management Suite, Data Hub heavily leverages Apache Spark-based SAP Vora, and builds a data catalog as an artifact of the pipeline work.

Dubbed the Cisco Container Platform for SAP Data Hub, the solution leverages Docker container and Kubernetes orchestration technologies to deploy a containerized version of Data Hub, either to on-premises infrastructure or across the major public clouds, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Given the data that needs to be integrated itself lies across these various environments, it makes sense that SAP wants Data Hub to be deploy-able to all of them.
SAP is also announcing a new product called “SAP Data Network, live insights for workforce,” that leverages SAP Data Hub to combine aggregated and anonymized workforce data from SAP SuccessFactors human capital management software and the SAP Fieldglass cloud-based vendor/external workforce management system. SAP says the product is designed to “help companies recruit top talent based on data-driven hiring…about the labor market across industries and geographies.”