Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and SAP, a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, are partnering to enable organizations to leverage Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) together with semantically rich data.
The joint effort will make Snowflake’s data and AI platform available as an SAP solution extension for customers of the SAP BDC solution.
The new offering, SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud, unites SAP’s deep expertise in mission-critical business processes and semantically rich data with Snowflake’s unified platform capabilities for building AI and machine learning solutions, the companies said.
SAP and Snowflake are also enabling zero-copy sharing between SAP BDC and Snowflake to help customers get richer insights, build enterprise-grade intelligent applications, and unlock AI-enabled innovation that fuels business transformation.
“By tightly integrating SAP and Snowflake, we’re making it simple for enterprises to connect their critical business data with its rich context in SAP with the power of seamless AI app and data agent development at scale in Snowflake,” added Christian Kleinerman, EVP of product, Snowflake. “Enterprises can now innovate faster with Snowflake and SAP BDC and seamlessly share data between the platforms—zero-copy and fully governed.”
SAP Snowflake brings Snowflake into the open data ecosystem of SAP BDC and the business data fabric—empowering customers with greater openness and choice while extending SAP BDC with Snowflake’s AI, analytics, data engineering, Marketplace, and collaboration capabilities.
Customers can use SAP BDC with SAP Snowflake as a cloud-scale compute and storage option to extend the value of their data. Leveraging bidirectional, zero-copy data access data and AI teams can work with semantically rich SAP data products in real time, within a unified governance framework.
As a result, customers can harmonize SAP and non-SAP data while optimizing total cost of ownership across workloads and build agents and AI applications in SAP Snowflake fueled by trusted SAP data products.
“Bringing Snowflake to SAP Business Data Cloud empowers our customers with openness and choice,” said Irfan Khan, president and chief product officer for SAP data and analytics, SAP. “Together, we combine SAP’s decades of leadership in mission-critical business applications with Snowflake’s modern data platform to deliver a unified, enterprise-ready, and SAP-supported experience that extends the value of business data across the entire ecosystem.”
In addition to SAP Snowflake, the partnership also includes SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, a capability enabling bidirectional, zero copy data sharing with Snowflake.
Enterprises already using Snowflake can leverage SAP BDC Connect to integrate their existing instances of Snowflake with SAP Business Data Cloud for more-seamless, zero-copy access, providing Snowflake users with real-time access to semantically rich SAP data products—without duplication.
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