New partnership empowers organizations with access to rich data insights required to power AI apps that accelerate businesses outcomes<\/p>\n
BOZEMAN, Mont. and WALLDORF, Germany \u2014\u00a0Snowflake<\/a> (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, and SAP SE<\/a> (NYSE: SAP), a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, today announced a new collaboration to enable organizations to leverage Snowflake\u2019s AI Data Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) together with semantically rich data.<\/p>\n Advancements in AI agents, data, and platform capabilities equip developers with the tools to drive business transformation<\/p>\n The joint effort will make Snowflake\u2019s 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\u2019s deep expertise in mission-critical business processes and semantically rich data with Snowflake\u2019s unified platform capabilities for building AI and machine learning solutions. 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.<\/p>\n \u201cBy tightly integrating SAP and Snowflake, we\u2019re 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,\u201d added Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake. \u201cEnterprises can now innovate faster with Snowflake and SAP BDC and seamlessly share data between the platforms\u2014zero-copy and fully governed.\u201d<\/p>\n SAP Snowflake brings Snowflake into the open data ecosystem of SAP BDC and the business data fabric\u2014empowering customers with greater openness and choice while extending SAP BDC with Snowflake\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n \u201cBringing Snowflake to SAP Business Data Cloud empowers our customers with openness and choice,\u201d said Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data and Analytics, SAP SE. \u201cTogether, we combine SAP\u2019s decades of leadership in mission-critical business applications with Snowflake\u2019s modern data platform to deliver a unified, enterprise-ready, and SAP-supported experience that extends the value of business data across the entire ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n With SAP Snowflake, customers can:<\/p>\n Build a trusted, AI-ready data foundation to harmonize SAP and non-SAP data: Unify their data landscape with an integrated business data fabric\u2014enabling more seamless zero-copy sharing, enriched modeling, and a complete, business-ready view of their data in real time for all data engineering, analytics, and AI and machine learning workflows across the enterprise.<\/p>\n Accelerate AI business value with semantically rich data: Simplify AI governance, ground AI in organizational knowledge, and build tailored agents\u2014helping to ensure more secure, context-rich, and intelligent applications across the enterprise.<\/p>\n Develop intelligent applications grounded in mission-critical business data: Build, deploy, and continuously optimize intelligent applications faster with a harmonized and democratized data foundation powered by semantically rich, trusted data products that accelerate the pace of innovation and production.<\/p>\n 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\u2011copy access, providing Snowflake users with real-time access to semantically rich SAP data products\u2014without duplication.<\/p>\n SAP and Snowflake are supporting thousands of customers, including industry leaders like AstraZeneca, as they transform their industries with this partnership.<\/p>\n \u201cAstraZeneca is constantly pushing the boundaries of science and is pioneering in life-changing medicines,\u201d said Russell Smith, Vice President of ERP Transformation Technology, AstraZeneca. \u201cData and AI are central to achieving this aim, and our close collaboration with SAP and Snowflake compliments our ability to access, process and analyze real-time data. This announcement will accelerate our mission and recognizes that every minute matters to make breakthroughs for patients.\u201d<\/p>\n SAP Snowflake is planned to be generally available in Q1 2026. SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake is planned to be generally available in H1 2026.<\/p>\n Learn more<\/p>\n Learn more about the power of SAP and Snowflake together here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Discover what makes the SAP Business Data Cloud unique here<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information on SAP Snowflake, visit the SAP and Snowflake partner page<\/a> and read this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stay on top of the latest news and announcements from Snowflake on LinkedIn<\/a> and X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Visit the\u00a0SAP News Center<\/a>. Get SAP news via\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>.<\/p>\n SAP TechEd 2025 Media & Analyst Program: Find event information, news and media assets all in one place<\/p>\n About Snowflake<\/p>\n Snowflake is the platform for the AI era, making it easy for enterprises to innovate faster and get more value from data. More than 12,000 customers around the globe, including hundreds of the world\u2019s largest companies, use Snowflake\u2019s AI Data Cloud to build, use and share data, applications and AI. With Snowflake, data and AI are transformative for everyone. Learn more at snowflake.com<\/a> (NYSE: SNOW).<\/p>\n About SAP<\/p>\n As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP (NYSE:SAP) stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. 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