October 29, 2026
What this Datasphere semantic layer webinar is about
Most Datasphere projects look healthy until month three. Then the story takes eleven seconds to open, a measure totals to something finance will not sign, the currency column is empty for half the rows, and a hierarchy that exists in the model arrives in SAP Analytics Cloud as a flat list. None of that is an SAC problem. It is the shape of the Datasphere semantic layer underneath.
Ingo Hilgefort spends 45 minutes walking the layers in a live tenant and showing what belongs in each one. Not a clean demo either. He uses the failure modes the team keeps meeting in the field, because those are the ones you are going to meet too.
What you will learn about the Datasphere semantic layer
Every layer, in order, and what belongs where: sources, views, semantic types, the analytic model, the story. Get that division right and the four symptoms above stop happening. Get it wrong and no amount of work in SAC will rescue the report.
You will see why a measure aggregates to a number finance will not sign, and where that gets decided. Why a currency column empties out for half the rows. Why a hierarchy that is right in Datasphere lands flat in SAC. And why an eleven-second story is almost never the fault of the story.
You will leave with a checklist to run over a model before you hand it to whoever builds the reports.
Who should attend
- Data modelers and Datasphere space owners
- SAC content builders who inherit a model somebody else built
- Solution architects sizing a build before it starts
Why attend this Datasphere semantic layer session
Because the alternative is finding out in month three, in front of whoever asked for the report.
The symptoms in this session are not exotic. They are the ordinary result of decisions taken early, by people acting reasonably, without a shared view of which layer owns what. That is a straightforward problem to avoid and an expensive one to unpick, and the difference between the two is about 45 minutes and a checklist.
Ingo has done the unpicking. This is the shorter path. And if you joined his session on displaying live Datasphere reports in SAC, this is the layer underneath everything that session showed.
Your speaker
Ingo Hilgefort
Senior Director SAP Business Data Cloud at SimpleFi Solutions
Date and Time
Thursday, October 29, 2026
10:00 to 10:45 AM Central
11:00 to 11:45 AM Eastern · 9:00 to 9:45 AM Mountain · 8:00 to 8:45 AM Pacific
45 minutes, live and virtual. A recording goes to everyone who registers.
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