Landmark Collaboration Redefines Enterprise Data Management
and Unleashes the Full Potential of Agentic AI
NEW
YORK, Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE
(NYSE: SAP) today announced SAP Business Data Cloud, a
groundbreaking solution that unifies all SAP and third-party data
throughout an organization, providing the trusted data foundation
organizations need to make more impactful decisions and foster
reliable AI. The solution harmonizes data from organizations' most
mission-critical applications with data engineering and business
analytics capabilities, paving the way for next-level innovation
and insights.
This landmark partnership between SAP and Databricks marks a new
era in enterprise data management as two leaders in their domains
come together to redefine how applications and data platforms work
together. The new solution natively embeds Databricks technology
for data engineering, machine learning and AI workloads.
"SAP Business Data Cloud unleashes the full value of enterprise
data for Business AI," said SAP CEO Christian Klein. "It combines SAP's unique
expertise in mission-critical, end-to-end processes and
semantically rich data with Databricks' world-class data
engineering capabilities to create a ground-breaking solution that
helps organizations do more with their data than ever before."
"Every company on the planet wants to get more value out of
their data and greater returns on their AI investments," said
Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of
Databricks. "By joining forces with SAP, we're helping
organizations bring together all their data — regardless of format
or where it lives — to govern, analyze and build domain-specific AI
applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform."
Introducing the data product economy
SAP Business Data Cloud also helps SAP foster the growth of a
data product economy. It delivers fully-managed SAP data products
across all business processes – from finance, spend and supply
chain data in SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba, to learning and talent
data in SAP SuccessFactors. These data products maintain their
original business context and semantics, providing immediate access
to high-quality data without costly extraction processes. For
example, if a CFO wants to assess the impact of rising inflation on
profitability, SAP Business Data Cloud integrates real-time
external data such as the consumer price index with financial data
products such as general ledger accounts or cost centers to create
a comprehensive financial snapshot.
SAP Business Data Cloud will also offer new capabilities called
insight apps that use data products and AI models connected to
real-time data to deliver advanced analytics and planning across
all lines of business, including core enterprise analytics, finance
and human resources.
"SAP Business Data Cloud will help us unlock the value of our
data and drive innovation across our business," said Markus Hartmann, Corporate Vice President and
Head of Business Technology and regions Europe, APAC and IMEA, at Henkel, a
multinational chemical and consumer goods company. "Its
semantically rich data products and deep Databricks integration
will enhance our existing data products and empower us to model
scenarios and leverage AI insights, building a sustainable future
for our data ecosystems."
Delivering on the full promise of AI agents
SAP Business Data Cloud will improve how Joule, SAP's generative
AI copilot, accelerates cross-functional workflows and improves
business decision-making with AI agents. Powered by the
highest-quality enterprise dataset in the industry – and the SAP
Knowledge Graph solution, which provides a business-friendly model
of data – Joule agents deeply understand end-to-end processes and
can collaborate across functions to solve complex business
challenges, something no other agent builder technology can do out
of the box.
Underscoring today's announcement and its significance for AI
innovation, SAP also unveiled a series of ready-to-use Joule agents
across finance, service, sales and more to come across the SAP
Business Suite. In finance, for example, agents will work together
across a variety of tasks to process claims faster and improve
cashflow. Joule sales agents, meanwhile, will accelerate multi-step
business processes to resolve disputes and process customer
inquiries faster.
SAP today also announced a powerful new agent builder
capability, so customers can build and deploy their own AI agents
alongside SAP's library of ready-to-deploy Joule agents. SAP's
decades of business process expertise are built into the guided
workflow so users can ground their custom agents in the most
relevant data and business context.
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