German software giant SAP is pushing the bar on the data front to power next-gen AI use cases. The company today introduced Business Data Cloud (BDC), a new SaaS product that embraces lakehouse ...

Business users can take this managed data from SAP in combination with Databricks into their applications directly and it will also be used to supercharge Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot.

With partners Collibra, Confluent, Databricks and DataRobot, SAP wants to help enterprises create a unified architecture for data, whether it’s stored inside SAP’s cloud or elsewhere.

The new solution natively embeds Databricks technology for data engineering, machine learning and AI workloads. In October 2024, Jesper Schleimann, head of business AI for SAP in EMEA, said the ...