Your SAP data, modeled for BigQuery and ready for Gemini — with the Cortex Framework
The Google Cloud Cortex Framework is an open-source accelerator that lands your SAP ECC or S/4HANA data into BigQuery as predefined, analytics-ready data products — so reporting and AI don’t have to wait on months of custom pipelines. Because it’s a reference architecture published free on GitHub, there’s no licence and no SKU: you pay only for the Google Cloud services it stands up. Altivate deploys, customizes, and extends it around your real SAP landscape — then grounds Gemini on the modeled data so answers reflect your actual business, not generic training data.
What the Cortex Framework actually is
An accelerator, not a licence
Cortex — the Cortex Data Foundation — is an open-source reference architecture Google publishes on GitHub. There’s no product to buy and no per-seat cost: you pay only for the underlying Google Cloud services it deploys. It’s a head start on months of data engineering, not another SKU on your bill.
Predefined SAP data products
Instead of hand-building models table by table, Cortex ships tested, documented views over core SAP modules — finance, sales, inventory, supply chain — already joined, harmonized, and reporting-ready in BigQuery. Your team starts from working data products, not raw SAP tables.
ECC and S/4HANA, both in scope
Whether you’re still on SAP ECC or already on S/4HANA, Cortex has content for both — so you can build a modern analytics and AI layer today and carry it forward through your S/4HANA journey without rebuilding the foundation.
From SAP tables to AI-ready data in BigQuery
The SAP to BigQuery pipeline
Cortex sets up replication from SAP into BigQuery and applies its data models on top, turning transactional SAP structures into clean, query-ready fact and dimension views. The result is a serverless, data-to-AI warehouse over your SAP data — no cubes to maintain, no extracts to babysit.
One model, many sources
SAP is rarely the whole story. Cortex is built to blend other sources — Salesforce, marketing, operational and third-party data — alongside the SAP data products in the same BigQuery foundation, so a single query can span finance, pipeline, and demand in one governed place.
Reporting that’s finally consistent
Because every downstream dashboard reads from the same modeled data products, Looker and self-serve reporting stop disagreeing. One definition of revenue, margin, and inventory — governed once, trusted everywhere.
Predefined SAP content, out of the box
Gemini-grounded AI on your modeled SAP data
AI that answers from your SAP truth
Once SAP is modeled in BigQuery, you can run BigQuery ML forecasting and analytics in plain SQL — and invoke Gemini models directly against the data. Because the AI is grounded on your own governed data products, answers reflect your actual finance, sales, and inventory position, not a generic guess.
From dashboards to agents
The same foundation feeds the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) and Gemini Enterprise, so you can move beyond static reports to agents that answer business questions over SAP data. Newer agentic tooling inside BigQuery is emerging — we help you adopt it deliberately, within our ISO/IEC 27001-governed environment.
How Altivate deploys and customizes Cortex
Deployed around your SAP reality
Out of the box, Cortex assumes a standard SAP. Real estates have custom fields, Z-tables, and industry-specific tweaks. We map the framework to your actual configuration and extend the models so the data products reflect how your business really runs.
SAP expertise, not just cloud plumbing
Cortex is where deep SAP knowledge earns its keep. As an SAP Gold Partner, we know what CO-PA, ledger, and material-ledger data actually mean — so the modeled data products are correct at the SAP level, not merely loaded correctly.
Governed, secured, and supportable
We stand Cortex up with the access controls, data lineage, and cost guardrails an enterprise needs — governed to ISO/IEC 27001 — and hand you a foundation your team can own, extend, and trust.
Proven on real SAP estates
When we migrated a global trading leader’s entire SAP estate to Google Cloud, the win wasn’t only a faster, more resilient platform — it put their core business data where BigQuery and Gemini can reach it. That’s exactly the foundation Cortex is built to exploit: SAP as a governed, analytics-ready source instead of a locked box. Read the Basamh success story →
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Let’s scope a Cortex deployment against your SAP landscape — and get finance, sales, and supply-chain data working for analytics and AI in weeks, not quarters.
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