SAP and Databricks announced a way to use SAP data without copying it out. Neither said when it ships or its price.
SAP and Databricks expanded their partnership at SAP TechEd, The Next Web reported on 30 October.
Four more Databricks tools are coming to SAP Databricks, part of SAP Business Data Cloud. Genie is an AI assistant, Lakeflow builds data pipelines, Unity Gateway keeps AI agents and costs in check, and Lakebase is a database for AI apps.
SAP also unveiled SAP Application Data Foundation, meant to make data in its business software easier to reach without copying it.
Databricks says reaching SAP application data has typically meant building custom pipelines, systems that copy it out, losing business context on the way. That matters as SAP moves customers off ECC, its older business software, before mainstream support ends in 2027.
Trailer parts maker SAF-Holland says it now runs analyses five times faster after pulling more than 100 million records into SAP Databricks. Databricks says more than 90% of Fortune 500 firms use SAP.
For a team building a copy pipeline this quarter, the new option has no date to plan around.
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