Snowflake, the AI Information Cloud firm, and SAP SE, a world chief in enterprise functions and enterprise AI, has introduced a brand new collaboration to allow organizations to seamlessly leverage Snowflake’s AI Information Cloud and SAP Enterprise Information Cloud (BDC) with semantically wealthy information. The joint effort will make Snowflake’s information & AI platform obtainable as a SAP answer extension for SAP BDC prospects. The brand new providing, SAP Snowflake answer extension for SAP Enterprise Information
Cloud, unites SAP’s deep experience in mission-critical enterprise processes and semantically wealthy information with Snowflake’s unified platform capabilities for constructing AI and machine studying options. SAP and Snowflake are additionally enabling zero copy sharing between SAP BDC and Snowflake to assist prospects get richer insights, construct enterprise-grade clever functions and unlock AI-powered innovation that fuels enterprise transformation.
“By tightly integrating SAP and Snowflake, we’re making it easy for enterprises to attach their vital enterprise information with its wealthy context in SAP with the ability of seamless AI app and information agent improvement at scale in Snowflake,” added Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake. “Enterprises can now innovate quicker with Snowflake and SAP BDC and seamlessly share information between the platforms —zero-copy and absolutely ruled.”
SAP Snowflake brings Snowflake into the open information ecosystem of SAP BDC and the enterprise information cloth–empowering prospects with better openness and selection, whereas extending SAP BDC with Snowflake’s AI, analytics, information engineering, Market, and collaboration capabilities. Clients can use SAP BDC with SAP Snowflake as a cloud-scale compute and storage possibility to increase the worth of their information. Leveraging bidirectional, zero-copy information entry, information and AI groups can work with semantically wealthy SAP information merchandise in actual time, inside a unified governance framework. Because of this, prospects can harmonize SAP and non-SAP information whereas optimizing whole value of possession throughout workloads and construct brokers and AI functions in SAP Snowflake fueled by trusted SAP information merchandise.
“Bringing Snowflake to SAP Enterprise Information Cloud empowers our prospects with openness and selection,” mentioned Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Information and Analytics, SAP SE. “Collectively, we mix SAP’s many years of management in mission-critical enterprise functions with Snowflake’s trendy information platform to ship a unified, enterprise-ready, and SAP-supported expertise that extends the worth of enterprise information throughout the complete ecosystem.”
With SAP Snowflake, prospects can:
- Construct a trusted, AI-ready information basis to harmonize SAP and non-SAP information: Unify their information panorama with an built-in enterprise information cloth—enabling extra seamless zero-copy sharing, enriched modeling, and an entire, business-ready view of their information in actual time for all information engineering, analytics, and AI and machine studying workflows throughout the enterprise.
- Speed up AI enterprise worth with semantically wealthy information: Simplify AI governance, floor AI in organizational information, and construct tailor-made brokers—serving to to make sure safer, context-rich, and clever functions throughout the enterprise.
- Develop clever functions grounded in mission-critical enterprise information: Construct, deploy, and repeatedly optimize clever functions quicker with a harmonized and democratized information basis powered by semantically wealthy, trusted information merchandise that speed up the tempo of innovation and manufacturing.
Along with SAP Snowflake, the partnership additionally contains SAP Enterprise Information Cloud Join for Snowflake, a functionality enabling bidirectional, zero copy information sharing with Snowflake. Enterprises already utilizing Snowflake can leverage SAP BDC Connect with combine their current situations of Snowflake with SAP Enterprise Information Cloud for extra seamless, zero‑copy entry, offering Snowflake customers with real-time entry to semantically wealthy SAP information merchandise—with out duplication.
SAP and Snowflake are supporting hundreds of shoppers, together with trade leaders like AstraZeneca, as they rework their industries with this partnership.
“AstraZeneca is consistently pushing the boundaries of science and is pioneering in life-changing medicines,” mentioned Russell Smith, Vice President of ERP Transformation Know-how, AstraZeneca. “Information and AI are central to reaching this intention, and our shut collaboration with SAP and Snowflake turbocharges our skill to entry, course of and analyze real-time information. This announcement will speed up our mission and acknowledges that each minute issues to make breakthroughs for sufferers.”

