Bengaluru: Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and SAP SE, a leading company in enterprise applications and business AI, have announced a new strategic collaboration.
Through this collaboration, the companies aim to help organizations seamlessly leverage Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC). The partnership introduces the SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud, which will be available as an SAP solution extension.
This joint effort combines SAP’s deep expertise in mission-critical business processes and semantically rich data with Snowflake’s unified data and AI platform capabilities. The collaboration will enable zero-copy data sharing between SAP BDC and Snowflake, allowing enterprises to gain deeper insights, build enterprise-grade intelligent applications, and drive AI-powered innovation across their business operations.
Seamless Integration for AI and Data Innovation
Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake, said, “By tightly integrating SAP and Snowflake, we’re 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. Enterprises can now innovate faster with Snowflake and SAP BDC and seamlessly share data between the platforms — zero-copy and fully governed.”
The SAP Snowflake solution integrates Snowflake into the open data ecosystem of SAP BDC, empowering customers with greater openness and flexibility. It extends SAP BDC’s capabilities with Snowflake’s advanced AI, analytics, data engineering, and collaboration tools. Organizations can use SAP BDC with SAP Snowflake as a cloud-scale compute and storage option, extending the value of their data assets across the enterprise.
Building a Trusted, AI-Ready Data Foundation
With 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. This integration enables businesses to harmonize SAP and non-SAP data efficiently while optimizing the total cost of ownership across workloads.
“Bringing Snowflake to SAP Business Data Cloud empowers our customers with openness and choice,” said Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data and Analytics, SAP SE. “Together, we combine SAP’s decades of leadership in mission-critical business applications with Snowflake’s modern data platform to deliver a unified, enterprise-ready, and SAP-supported experience that extends the value of business data across the entire ecosystem.”
Empowering Customers and Driving Business Value
With SAP Snowflake, customers can:
- Build a trusted, AI-ready data foundation to unify SAP and non-SAP data for analytics and AI.
- Accelerate AI business value using semantically rich data that grounds AI in organizational context.
- Develop intelligent applications faster, leveraging trusted business data for more secure and context-rich innovation.
In addition, the partnership introduces SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, enabling bidirectional, zero-copy data sharing. This allows enterprises already using Snowflake to integrate their existing instances with SAP BDC for real-time, duplication-free access to semantically rich SAP data products.
SAP Snowflake is expected to be generally available in the first quarter of 2026, while SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake is planned for general availability in the first half of 2026.
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