As we explored in our previous post, SAP’s ecosystem makes it costly and complex to centralize data, especially when organizations need to blend SAP and non-SAP sources for unified analytics. Between restrictive licensing, limited compatibility, and constrained export options, SAP’s architecture often creates more roadblocks than results.
But enterprises are eager to use their SAP data outside the SAP ecosystem — and they don’t have to remain locked in. Change is coming in September 2025 with the EU Data Act (Act), which gives businesses new rights to access their data and switch providers without approval — tackling vendor lock-in head-on. It also introduces binding obligations for data holders and cloud service providers, including Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and edge computing.
However, global enterprises have already taken charge of their SAP data with Fivetran.
Fivetran is one of the only data integration solutions that works seamlessly with the SAP ecosystem, enabling companies to overcome these hurdles with an easy-to-use platform and support for 700+ data sources and destinations. In this fourth installment of our SAP blog series, we’ll spotlight how leading companies are using Fivetran to replicate SAP and non-SAP data to the cloud with speed, scale, and zero vendor lock-in. From healthcare to retail to manufacturing, organizations are unifying fragmented data and transforming it into real-time insights without compromising security or performance.
How LVMH unlocks real-time SAP insights across 75 luxury brands
LVMH is a global luxury leader, encompassing iconic brands like Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy, and Dior. With 75 distinct lines of business operating independently, LVMH faced a massive challenge: fragmented data, inconsistent tooling, and siloed insights that slowed decisions and limited operational efficiency.
To unify its data landscape, LVMH turned to Fivetran to automate and standardize data integration across dozens of systems, including SAP. The company can now move data from SAP and 60+ other sources into BigQuery without bespoke, expensive, engineering-intensive data pipelines.
Fivetran provided near real-time access to SAP data across LVMH’s global footprint. For Moët Hennessy, this meant instant visibility into sales transactions, product delivery, and financial performance — a breakthrough in a historically complex SAP environment. Unlocking its SAP data allowed LVMH to build a 360-degree customer view, optimize their global marketing spend, launch real-time supply chain dashboards, and respond quicker to market shifts.
“We need real-time SAP data, and Fivetran enables us to make real-time decisions. It removes all the complexities, helps us understand our customers better, and improves supply chain efficiency.”
— Naim Yalaoui, Head of Data Delivery and Operations at Moët Hennessy
Cemex cuts SAP processing time from weeks to minutes
Cemex is a global leader in building materials, operating across more than 1,800 facilities worldwide and grossing over $17 billion annually. Like many enterprises running on SAP, Cemex faced challenges extracting data from its heavily customized landscape, spanning over 4,000 SAP tables. Maintaining Informatica-based pipelines required a dedicated team of consultants and employees, and even then, replication was limited to hourly batch updates. Economic and supply chain analysis took weeks.
The company turned to Fivetran to replicate data from all 7 of its global SAP ECC and HANA instances. With Fivetran, Cemex shifted from hourly batch jobs to real-time updates every 2 minutes, dramatically accelerating decision making. Teams can now analyze data from any region on demand, powering critical use cases across the business.
One such use case is a real-time customer 360 view that feeds directly into its contact centers and mobile app. The app allows customers to track orders, schedule deliveries, and make updates — all backed by live SAP data. Today, over 93% of Cemex customers use the app to manage their purchases.
With fresher, more accessible data, Cemex has also unlocked the ability to track carbon emissions across its global facilities and experiment with new AI/ML use cases.
“Fivetran has revolutionized our global SAP data delivery, reducing time to insights from days to minutes. We can react swiftly to market changes and track our sustainability efforts at any moment.”
— Gerardo S. Reyna Caamaño, Global Data Architecture Manager at Cemex
Pitney Bowes transforms its global logistics with real-time data for 800M+ packages
Pitney Bowes is a global B2B technology company specializing in ecommerce, shipping, and mailing, moving over 800 million parcels a year across 16 distribution facilities. For an enterprise that serves 750,000 businesses, fast and reliable decision making is mission-critical. But SAP data was locked in proprietary structures and siloed from the rest of the business, delaying key operational insights, including those tied to package delivery SLAs.
To solve this, Pitney Bowes replaced its custom batch scripts and legacy ETL tools with Fivetran’s automated pipelines, purpose-built for SAP. Batch load times dropped by 95%, shrinking data processing from days to under an hour. With change data capture (CDC), the company now syncs SAP data multiple times a day instead of every 2-3 days, all without impacting source systems.
This agility unlocked revenue-generating innovations. Pitney Bowes launched a customer 360 portal and rolled out predictive analytics to forecast delivery demand. They also built a real-time operational dashboard that provides a unified view into parcel volume, labor, and efficiency across all facilities. Executives gained deeper visibility into enterprise operations, while facility managers used granular data to optimize labor planning.
With real-time SAP data fueling faster decisions, Pitney Bowes introduced a Guaranteed Delivery program and predictive truck scheduling — initiatives that improved customer satisfaction and increased lifetime value.
“Before Fivetran, we could only sync data every 2-3 days. Now we sync to Fivetran at least 4 times a day. SAP was a major factor of investing in Fivetran at the onset.”
— Vishal Shah, Data Architect Manager at Pitney Bowes
Adragos centralizes SAP data to scale its acquisition strategy
Adragos Pharma, a global contract development and manufacturing organization founded in 2020, has rapidly expanded through acquisitions. With production sites across France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, and Japan, each acquisition brings new complexity, especially when sites have fragmented systems or lack IT infrastructure.
Adragos needed to unify data from SAP S/4HANA and other core systems, but each location used a different mix of legacy tools and processes. The data team spent weeks addressing workflow failures that delayed SAP data availability, creating bottlenecks that impeded timely decision-making.
To solve these bottlenecks, Adragos used Fivetran to automate integration for SAP S/4HANA and other data sources. This saved weeks per year of pipeline building and maintenance, providing continuous, reliable access to critical data. With Fivetran, Adragos established a robust, scalable data foundation without adding engineering resources.
The team quickly centralized and modeled SAP and other data sources across newly acquired sites. Real-time data access accelerated decision-making, enabling strategic efforts like renegotiating procurement contracts and delivering measurable cost savings. This unified approach also supported faster onboarding and consistent reporting as the company expands globally.
“Fivetran has transformed how we manage SAP data by streamlining connectivity, eliminating workflow issues, gaining reliable access to critical insights, and enabling faster, strategic decisions.”
— Bastian Baur, Global Head of Digitalization & IT at Adragos
Fivetran gives SAP-powered enterprises the access they need
To serve the needs of the business, data must be accessible regardless of origin. With Fivetran, organizations gain the freedom to modernize their data strategy without sacrificing security, compliance, or performance.
Fivetran automates the extraction and centralization of data in any deployment setting, helping organizations drive real-time insights, power advanced analytics, and accelerate AI initiatives. Despite SAP’s efforts to create a fully enclosed ecosystem, whether you’re running SAP ECC, S/4HANA, or managing a mix of SAP and non-SAP systems, Fivetran offers the means to integrate your data with minimal complexity and risk.
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