Cardano is now Speaking Fluent OData - ODATANO 1.0 Is Live
Hello Cardano community,
I’m excited to share that ODATANO 1.0 shipped yesterday, the final deliverable of my Catalyst Fund 14 project (Project #1400109).
What is it?
ODATANO is a bridge between Cardano and the SAP world. SAP is the software that a huge share of the world’s largest companies use to run their day-to-day business. From purchasing and accounting to supply chains.
Until now, it was pretty hard for SAP developers to do anything with Cardano. They would have had to spend months learning a whole new world of tools and concepts. ODATANO removes that. From their point of view, a Cardano integration can now feel like just another service they already work with every day.
Why OData?
The “OData” in ODATANO stands for Open Data Protocol because this is the key to the whole project. OData is an official OASIS and ISO standard for exchanging data between systems over the web. It was originally created by Microsoft and is now maintained as an open standard, used by SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, IBM, Dell, and countless others.
In practical terms, OData is one of the most widely adopted ways for enterprise software to talk to other services. If you’ve ever used SAP Fiori, Microsoft Dynamics, Power BI, Excel’s “Get Data from Web,” or Salesforce, you’ve already used OData, probably without knowing it. Tens of thousands of enterprise applications speak it natively.
That’s why this approach matters: instead of asking the enterprise world to learn Cardano’s language, ODATANO abstracts Cardano’s complexity to speak theirs. Any tool that already understands OData can now talk to Cardano out of the box. No proprietary SDKs, no vendor lock-in, no retraining.
Why this matters for Cardano
SAP alone is used by more than 400,000 companies worldwide, and the broader OData ecosystem reaches even further. If those companies want to use Cardano for supply chain proofs, payments, digital assets, and so on they need an easy way in. That’s exactly what ODATANO provides.
In short: im trying to making it as simple as possible for enterprises to plug Cardano into what they’re already doing, without their developers having to become blockchain experts first.
What ODATANO 1.0 can do
- Read: look up blocks, transactions, wallet balances, assets, stake pools, and more
- Write: build, sign, and submit transactions to the network
- Smart contracts: full support for Plutus V3
- Enterprise-grade security: works with common browser wallets or with professional key-management hardware
- Fast and stable: thoroughly tested with nearly 1,300 automated tests
- Ready to use: Usable as a standalone service inside SAP’s Cloud Platforms or integrable in all kinds of SAP Cloud Applications as a plugin
A real-world example: TRACE
To show this isn’t just theory, i also built TRACE a prototype for tracking medicines through the pharmaceutical supply chain. Every step, from manufacturer to pharmacy, is recorded tamper-proof on Cardano, and the whole thing runs through the SAP interface.
The cool thing is TRACE as Example Application, integrates ODATANO as plugin and with just a few lines of code and a quick configuration, it can access and use all Cardano-related services and actions ODATANO provides out of the box.
This pattern makes ODATANO easy to integrate into any SAP CAP application that requires the use of blockchain in any form and capacity.
Links
- ODATANO: GitHub - ODATANO/ODATANO: ODATANO connects SAP systems to the Cardano blockchain via a CAP-based OData V4 API, enabling secure on-chain data access and blockchain transaction execution. Built with SAP CAP and Cardano SDKs, it provides an unified integration layer that brings Cardano into SAP processes with full enterprise-grade security and auditability. · GitHub
- TRACE: GitHub - ODATANO/TRACE: Trusted Records Anchored on Chain for Enterprise · GitHub
Thanks
A huge thank you to the Catalyst Fund 14 voters and every one involved, who made this Project possible, to the Cardano builder community whose tools ODATANO is built on, and to everyone who reviewed our work and gave feedback along the way.
Feedback, questions, and ideas are very welcome, just reach out.
But also Happy to answer questions here in the thread.
Thanks
Maximilian Weber