Developers in the Cardano ecosystem have introduced a new tool called ODATANO, designed to simplify integration between SAP, one of the world's largest enterprise software ecosystems, and the Cardano blockchain.
SAP is known as an enterprise resource planning and business software platform that enables companies to manage core business processes such as finance, accounting, supply chain, human resources, manufacturing, and customer management through a unified enterprise software infrastructure and is used by many large companies worldwide.
In an interview published on the Cardano developer portal, Maximilian, the founder of ODATANO, explained that the project abstracts the Cardano blockchain infrastructure behind a standard OData V4 API, allowing enterprise developers familiar with the SAP development environment to integrate with Cardano without learning the technical details of blockchain technology.
According to Maximilian, a traditional SAP developer would need to learn many blockchain concepts, such as the UTxO model, transaction building, CBOR serialization, transaction fee calculation, assurance mechanisms, and key management, to directly integrate with Cardano. ODATANO, on the other hand, packages these complex processes into a service layer, allowing Cardano to connect to SAP applications as a standard OData service. Currently, the project offers 31 different entities and functions, including data reading, transaction creation, and signing. Blocks, addresses, UTxOs, entities, and protocol parameters can be queried through the system, and transactions can be created, signed, and submitted to the Cardano network. ODATANO can also run as an SAP CAP plugin or be installed as a standalone service.
Several reference applications have also been developed based on the ODATANO infrastructure, including TRACE, QUANTIX, FINCA, and x402. QUANTIX stands out as a B2B raw material procurement and payment application utilizing oracle data, and this project won the Charli3 Oracle Hackathon in 2026. According to the Cardano developer portal, ODATANO is currently funded through the Cardano Catalyst Fund 14.
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