SAP leans on Databricks to unify business analytics in the cloud

The ERP giant rolled out its SAP Business Data Cloud platform along with four Joule copilot agents Thursday.

Dive Brief:

• SAP unveiled a cloud-based analytics and data engineering solution designed in partnership with Databricks Thursday. The SAP Business Data Cloud offering integrates SAP and third-party enterprise data to power machine learning, AI and agentic applications, the companies said.
• “This is a fully managed SaaS service to curate data from SAP applications that are on-prem as well as in the cloud,” Dan Yu, CMO of SAP Data & Analytics, told CIO Dive Monday. The platform includes off-the-shelf analytics tools, dashboards and AI capabilities.
• As part of the rollout, SAP expanded its AI portfolio with prebuilt agents for claims management, sales and customer service and deployed agent customization in the Joule Studio low-code/no-code developer environment.