How SAP, Databricks, and Tredence Streamline Data Integration and Enrichment to Fuel AI Innovation
Enterprises are driven by SAP technology. Nearly all (98%) of the world’s top global companies use SAP enterprise resource planning and customer relationship, supply chain, procurement, and travel and expense management software to run and grow their businesses and generate 84% of the world’s global commerce. These systems have valuable data that leaders want to leverage for business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) innovation. They’d also like to share and monetize data with partners by improving operations, developing rich customer segmentation strategies, and enabling advanced personalization.
SAP and Databricks are long-time partners that are deepening their relationship. In 2023, Databricks was one of four launch partners for SAP Datasphere, a data service enabling seamless, scalable access to SAP data across its systems of record.
At the Databricks Partner Kickoff FY26, held in early February in Las Vegas, Nevada, Databricks and SAP announced a new joint solution: SAP Business Data Cloud. With this new offering, Databricks will be hosted on the SAP Cloud as an exclusive first-party service, enabling joint customers to seamlessly integrate SAP data sources and products within their existing ecosystem. SAP and Databricks customers now have greater options and flexibility for how they use, share, and enrich data.
What the SAP Business Data Cloud Means for Global Enterprises
Previously, companies could extract data from SAP into external platforms such as data clean rooms, enriching it with third-party data sets to develop integrated BI reporting and AI/ML capabilities. However, moving data was more challenging, as SAP enforced strong governance, including over CDS views and external tools, and access to right level of data was both limited and cumbersome. In addition, many chief data officers (CDOs) don’t want to move their SAP data to another hyperscale platform to maintain control over sensitive business and customer data.
With the SAP Business Data Cloud, enterprises now have a frictionless way to develop analytics and AI while maintaining governance. They:
- Gain in-platform access to Databricks: CDOs can unlock SAP data for analytics and AI-driven insights without migrating it to another platform and applying governance there. CXOs gain more value from their SAP investments and speed time to value with AI innovation.
- Enrich data with third-party data sets: Many companies use data clean rooms and Databricks Delta Sharing to securely share and enrich data with partners while maintaining control over underlying data. With SAP Business Data Cloud, companies can use Delta Sharing to combine SAP and external data with minimal movement, reducing the cost and complexity of these efforts. That will enable joint customers to increase analytics and AI innovation.
What This Development Means for Databricks and SAP
This strengthened partnership is a win-win for Databricks and SAP. Databricks gains exclusive access to SAP data sets. It can enrich SAP data with third-party data, create an integrated data foundation, and drive AI/ML use cases from within its ecosystem. In addition, Delta Sharing enhances Databricks’ consumption-based revenue model (DBUs) within the SAP-embedded Databricks environment.
SAP wins by extending its partnership with Databricks, the world’s first data intelligence platform powered by generative AI. SAP can better meet enterprise analytics and AI innovation requirements, preventing potential migrations to competitor systems that might occur if it did not enable more seamless data sharing.
Getting Ready for the SAP Business Data Cloud
Beyond the partner announcement, there’s little information on when the SAP Business Data Cloud will be released. However, CDOs that want to enable this game-changing capability will seek a partner to help them unlock the full power of their SAP data in the coming months.
Tredence works with leading enterprises to modernize data in scalable cloud infrastructure, develop advanced analytics, create visualization and reporting layers for decision-makers, and enable focused AI/ML innovation. We are a strategic partner of Databricks, having been named Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods Partner of the Year three years running. We are also a long-time partner of SAP and have deep expertise in their ecosystem.
CDOs can work with Tredence to:
- Evaluate innovation opportunities: Tredence provides deep industry and domain expertise, partnering with enterprises to evaluate their analytics, AI, and monetization opportunities. We deeply understand industry trends, SAP processes, SAP standard operational data models, SAP analytics tools, and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, operating SAP and Databricks Centers of Excellence. As a result, we can help you build curated and context-rich data products that drive operational efficiency and growth.
- Ingest and Transform data: Tredence with its Accelerators and Frameworks ensures seamless SAP data ingestion from SAP systems like S/4HANA, HANA DB, Ariba, SuccessFactors and others and transforms it into high-value data products. By leveraging SAP BTP, including Datasphere, HANA Cloud, SAC, Tredence enables real-time insights, and deploys planning solutions in short timelines.
- Deploy data models: Tredence offers industry-specific data models with hundreds of curated key performance indicators (KPIs) that enable leaders and teams to unlock deep business insights and drive measurable business value. They encompass all major SAP workflows, including procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, hire to retire and more. Using our data models accelerates the delivery of a modern data foundation by 30%, enabling companies to put new capabilities to work faster. Our out-of-the-box KPIs, business glossary, and prebuilt reports and applications drive organizational efficiency and productivity by more than 40%.
- Accelerate AI/ML adoption: Tredence enables enterprises to solve last-mile data and AI challenges by adopting our AI/ML accelerators. Tredence offers more than 150+ AI/ML ecosystems natively built on Databricks and available in our ATOM.AI ecosystem. These accelerators, spanning notebooks, APIs, and pre-deployed models, enable companies to speed modernization timeframes by 50-60%.
- Develop intelligent applications: Tredence develops GenAI applications powered by retrieval augmented generation (RAG), agentic AI, and text-to-SQL-based accelerators. With these capabilities, companies can extract greater value from SAP data, empower teams to answer business questions efficiently, and drive productivity by 50% or more—all while enforcing strong AI governance.
- Increase stakeholder trust in data: Tredence offers accelerators that improve data quality, master data management (MDM), and anomaly detection. Our Brickbuilder AI-powered MDM accelerator, Sancus, seamlessly integrates SAP data with external datasets, improving data quality and enhancing business KPI accuracy by over 30%. Teams can confidently use data and KPIs to make strategic and operational business decisions.
- Implement data clean rooms: Tredence is a leader in enabling Delta Sharing and data cleanroom ecosystems within Databricks. We have strategic partners with leading third-party data providers and deliver pre-curated data assets to the SAP ecosystem, empowering companies and partners to enrich business data using secure, governed technology and processes.
- Ensure data observability and governance: Tredence has developed advanced data observability solutions, Tredence Cloudi, on Databricks to monitor data freshness, volume, quality, schema, and lineage. Companies benefit by developing trustworthy data for cross-functional use. With Data observability, we can bring cost advantages to our customers in upwards of 30%.
In addition, Tredence’s UnityGO! Brickbuilder solution strengthens SAP data governance by integrating this data into Databricks Unity Catalog, ensuring comprehensive data cataloging, monitoring, and compliance. UnityGo helps accelerate migration to Databricks Unity Catalog by 60%.
Accelerate SAP Data Transformation with Tredence and Databricks
With SAP Business Cloud, CDOs get the best of all worlds. They can harness the richness and robustness of the SAP platform, which is deeply intertwined with their business processes while capitalizing on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, which provides an open, unified platform for all data, AI, and governance and a data intelligence engine that understands the uniqueness of their data. Then, they can partner with Tredence to develop new data products and AI models that unlock more business value for their company.
Tredence, a strategic Databricks and SAP partner, enables enterprises to seamlessly integrate, enrich, and accelerate AI-powered insights from SAP data. From curated data models to AI/ML accelerators and intelligent applications, we help you transform your data foundation for measurable business impact.
Ready to accelerate your SAP data transformation? Schedule a free 60-minute discovery call with Tredence to explore AI-driven opportunities with the SAP Business Data Cloud.
