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The role of SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud

Written by Patrick Faulhaber | Mar 5, 2025

The digital transformation of companies is inconceivable without a sustainable data framework. With SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP offers a software-as-a-service solution that brings together all SAP data and seamlessly connects it with data from non-SAP systems. SAP BDC simplifies the data landscape, supports an open infrastructure and creates a reliable database so that companies can make better decisions and benefit from more reliable results from their AI applications.

 

 

Connect data, applications and AI in unprecedented ways

 

 

SAP Databricks: Optimized interaction between applications and data platform

SAP Databricks is an integral part of SAP Business Data Cloud. The close partnership between SAP and Databricks, a leading provider of data platforms, is changing the way companies manage, analyze and use their data for decision-making. The aim is to optimize the interaction between applications and data platforms. SAP Databricks combines SAP’s know-how in business-critical end-to-end processes and the semantics of data with Databricks’ expertise in data engineering.

 

The result of the partnership: Companies can combine their SAP data with other company data much more easily than before. SAP Business Data Cloud makes the business value of contextual SAP data available via delta sharing in SAP Databricks as well as in existing and new Databricks implementations and ensures bidirectional harmonization of the data. This data is merged and enriched to develop AI applications and gain AI-supported insights.

 

Source: SAP

 

Seamless integration of business-relevant data

SAP Databricks ensures seamless integration on a uniform, central data platform – for the management and analysis of business-relevant data. Companies can access artificial intelligence, data warehousing and data engineering functions that are managed by the Unity Catalog. This makes it possible to accelerate and simplify the creation of AI models and AI applications based on business data.

 

In addition, SAP Business Data Cloud provides fully managed SAP data products for a variety of business processes. The original business context and semantics are preserved in the data products. By bringing together all company data, SAP BDC ensures that agent-based AI can use precise, reliable data with business context for automated analyses and recommendations.

 

Conclusion: Get more out of your data with SAP Databricks

As OEM software, SAP Databricks brings the power of Databricks directly to SAP Business Data Cloud. The solution gives companies the opportunity to gain real AI-supported business insights. SAP BDC creates a central data platform that enables fast and reliable decision-making and drives innovation. Companies are able to get more out of their data. Thanks to SAP Business Data Cloud and the seamless integration of SAP Databricks, companies can easily connect their SAP data with external data sources and make better decisions based on AI.