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SAP Databricks in SAP Business Data Cloud : Unifying SAP Business Data with Lakehouse Intelligence

MonaWalia
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
‎2025 May 13 1:11 AM
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We’re excited to announce that SAP Databricks as part of SAP Business Data Cloud, is now generally available to customers on AWS.

Overview

As an evolution of our portfolio, SAP Business Data Cloud brings together Datasphere, Analytics Cloud, and Business Warehouse with a unified experience that delivers transformational insights across all lines of business. In addition, it brings the power of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform natively into SAP Business Data Cloud, enabling enterprises to connect business applications and data platforms for trustworthy AI.

 

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SAP Databricks combines advanced AI/ML, data science, and engineering capabilities with semantically rich data from SAP applications. Its serverless lakehouse architecture enables a pro-code environment where data engineers, scientists, and analysts can collaboratively work with both SAP and non-SAP data to generate meaningful business insights.

Value Proposition

SAP Databricks provides a unified, secure, and scalable platform for advanced analytics and AI/ML on SAP data. With pro-code development environments, zero-copy access to SAP data products, it enables faster use case deployment, BW modernization, and streamlined operations—reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerating time-to-insight.

    • Enterprise-Ready AI Foundation: SAP Databricks delivers an enterprise-grade lakehouse platform with scalable data engineering, collaborative model development, and built-in MLOps for governance and traceability. SAP Business AI complements this by embedding AI in business processes and model training on proprietary SAP data. Together, they provide a robust foundation for future innovation—supporting everything from custom ML to generative agents and next-gen enterprise AI.

 

    • Faster time to insights using SAP data products: Data from SAP applications is vital for enterprises, and using AI/ML on this data drives innovation throughout business processes. Instantly access curated, trusted SAP data products —starting with S/4HANA—via zero-copy delta sharing. Avoid data replication, reduce integration overhead, and enable rapid AI/ML use case deployment on SAP data products.

 

    • SAP BW modernization -SAP Databricks helps customers extract value from their historical SAP BW data as they transition to S/4 HANA. Rich curated historical data in customers BW landscapes can automatically be made available as custom data products using SAP Business Data Cloud which enables rapid creation of AI/ML scenario development. 

 

    • Streamline data integration - Reduce manual integration effort and pipeline maintenance with bi-directional sharing of data products between SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Databricks built upon the delta sharing protocol and SAP’s Open Resource Discovery

 

    • Unified Provisioning, Security, and Commercial set-up – SAP Databricks can be easily onboarded, provisioned, and managed as part of SAP Business Data Cloud which reduces operational burden and removes integration complexity and compliance risks. SAP Databricks is commercially available as part of SAP Business Data cloud meaning customers can get started in no time.

 

    • Boost productivity across data teams - Data and AI/ML analytics work best when everyone’s playing on the same team. SAP Databricks provides a pro-code environment for data engineers, data scientist, and data analysts with a collaborative, integrated, and end-to-end analytics experience.

 

Key Capabilities at a Glance:

  • Access SAP data products using zero copy delta share approach via SAP Business Data Cloud cockpit and catalog.
  • Ingest non-SAP data using Spark and Python based connectivity for a unified analytics experience
  • Pro code data science development and feature engineering using Notebooks and Databricks AI Assistant.
  • Run pipelines on schedule using in-notebook scheduling.
  • Manage AI/ML lifecycle right from experimentation to productization of use cases using Auto ML, ML Flow and Notebooks.
  • Create inferences and utilize in SAP Business Data Cloud for analytics and planning use cases or create endpoints for application integration.
  • Build and deploy generative AI and ML applications using Mosaic AI.
  • Analytics and data exploration using SQL warehousing.
  • Govern and manage all artifacts ensuring trusted insights from source to model using Unity Catalog.

This means data engineers can reduce time for accessing SAP data, data scientists can accelerate model development, and business users can access real-time insights—all from a shared platform.

Demo

We’ve recorded a demo to showcase how SAP Databricks brings together the best of both worlds: SAP’s deep business context and Databricks’ Intelligence platform.

Watch the demo here: https://sapvideo.cfapps.eu10-004.hana.ondemand.com/?entry_id=1_b3apeahj 

In the demo, you’ll see how a data scientist and SAP BDC admin can:

  1. Activate Working capital Insight app and share SAP data products to SAP Databricks using SAP Business Data Cloud cockpit.
  2. Transform the data product to make it ML ready and use AutoMLfor forecasting cashflow
  3. Create a model serving endpoint for application consumption
  4. Delta share the inference result to SAP Business Data Cloud for planning and analytics use cases.

Huge thanks to my colleague @martinboeckling for helping me record this demo.

Ready to Get Started?

SAP Databricks is generally available as part of SAP Business Data Cloud on select AWS regions. To help get you started, SAP is offering SAP Databricks services at a 40% discounted consumption rate until April 30th, 2026. This unique offer provides additional capacity at no additional cost to allow you and your teams to test out new SAP Databricks features and speed up your innovation roadmaps. This limited-time offer is available to all customers who purchase SAP Business Data Cloud through April 30th, 2026. Get started now to maximize your savings!

We would love to hear what you think. Please comment below or contact your SAP account team for more details.

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