Databricks launches SAP Databricks to enhance data integration for businesses

Databricks announced on the 14th that it will launch SAP Databricks.

This is part of a strategic product and market go-to-market partnership with SAP, featuring the native integration of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform within the newly launched SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC). Through this collaboration, businesses can leverage SAP's core business data in conjunction with Databricks' data warehousing, data engineering, and AI platforms, allowing for consistent governance through the Databricks Unity Catalog.

Databricks recently announced a funding round of $15 billion (approximately 21.8 trillion won) and plans to allocate $250 million (approximately 360 billion won) to support the successful implementation and migration of SAP Databricks. This will enable clients and systems integration partners to maximize the business value of SAP data using SAP Databricks.

SAP applications are core systems that support key corporate decision-making in business planning, procurement, personnel, and travel management. Most corporations seek to maximize the value of SAP data by combining it with data from other major business systems; however, each system varies and many still operate on-premises through legacy methods, making it difficult to develop advanced analytics and AI applications. SAP Databricks pre-cleanses and enriches all relevant datasets, enabling a wide range of applications from data warehousing to AI-based decision-making system construction.

The strength of SAP Databricks lies in its ability for customers to easily combine SAP data with other data within corporations. Bidirectional data sharing through Delta Sharing technology between the SAP Databricks environment and existing Databricks environments allows for the integration of all data without complicated data engineering processes.

This greatly enhances the productivity of teams driving innovation based on core data. The integrated data asset ensures consistent governance and security through the Unity Catalog, enabling corporations to conduct data science exploration and large-scale SQL analysis based on trustworthy data. This allows corporations to maximize data utilization while fully understanding the business context. Additionally, by utilizing the Mosaic AI capability, corporations can easily develop domain-specific AI based on their private SAP data, thereby establishing agent systems that support core business functions.

SAP Databricks will be offered by SAP as part of the SAP Business Data Cloud and is expected to be gradually released on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.