SAP and Databricks are launching SAP Business Data Cloud, a new solution that unifies all SAP and third-party data throughout an organization, providing a trusted data foundation to make impactful decisions and foster reliable AI.
According to the companies, the solution harmonizes data from organizations’ most mission-critical applications with data engineering and business analytics capabilities, paving the way for next-level innovation and insights.
This collaboration between SAP and Databricks marks a new era in enterprise data management as two leaders in their domains come together to redefine how applications and data platforms work together. The new solution natively embeds Databricks technology for data engineering, machine learning, and AI workloads.
“SAP Business Data Cloud unleashes the full value of enterprise data for Business AI,” said SAP CEO Christian Klein. “It combines SAP’s unique expertise in mission-critical, end-to-end processes and semantically rich data with Databricks’ world-class data engineering capabilities to create a ground-breaking solution that helps organizations do more with their data than ever before.”
“Every company on the planet wants to get more value out of their data and greater returns on their AI investments,” said Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks. “By joining forces with SAP, we’re helping organizations bring together all their data—regardless of format or where it lives—to govern, analyze and build domain-specific AI applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.”
SAP Business Data Cloud also helps SAP foster the growth of a data product economy. It delivers fully-managed SAP data products across all business processes—from finance, spend and supply chain data in SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba, to learning and talent data in SAP SuccessFactors.
These data products maintain their original business context and semantics, providing immediate access to high-quality data without costly extraction
processes. SAP Business Data Cloud will also offer new capabilities called insight apps that use data products and AI models connected to real-time data to deliver advanced analytics and planning across all lines of business, including core enterprise analytics, finance and human resources.
SAP Business Data Cloud will improve how Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot, accelerates cross-functional workflows and improves business decision-making with AI agents. Powered by a high-quality enterprise dataset—and the SAP Knowledge Graph solution, which provides a business-friendly model of data—Joule agents deeply understand end-to-end processes and can collaborate across functions to solve complex business challenges.
In addition to this announcement, SAP also unveiled a series of ready-to-use Joule agents across finance, service, sales, and more to come across the SAP Business Suite.
SAP also announced a powerful new agent builder capability, so customers can build and deploy their own AI agents alongside SAP’s library of ready-to-deploy Joule agents.
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