Unveiled at SAP TechEd, the SAP Application Data Foundation embeds the Databricks Data and AI Platform directly inside SAP Business Data Cloud across on-premises and cloud setups. This unified architecture allows companies to run contextual artificial intelligence models and connect intelligent assistants like Databricks Genie and SAP Joule without losing business semantics. Commercial vehicle supplier SAF-Holland has already applied this platform to harmonize over 100 million records, forecasting delivery schedule reliability five times faster than traditional methods.
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Organizations can bypass custom extraction pipelines to lower their total cost of data ow…: Organizations can bypass custom extraction pipelines to lower their total cost of data ownership.
Combining SAP's Joule with Databricks Genie delivers grounded business insights to enterp…: Combining SAP's Joule with Databricks Genie delivers grounded business insights to enterprise teams and autonomous agents.
Major enterprises including Adidas, Zalando, Mondi, and CAF currently utilize the combine…: Major enterprises including Adidas, Zalando, Mondi, and CAF currently utilize the combined technologies to optimize business operations.
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With the new SAP Application Data Foundation, SAP and Databricks customers gain simpler, more performant access in SAP Databricks to data from SAP applications, across cloud and on-premises.
by Sanjay Chheda, Katie Cummiskey, Patrick Werns, Akram Chetibi and Qi Su
Today's AI models are more capable than ever. What they still lack is the business context to understand how your company actually runs. For most enterprises, that context lives in SAP systems. Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies use SAP solutions to manage key business processes, enhance operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge through data-driven decision-making.
Last year, SAP and Databricks introduced SAP Databricks, which natively embedded the Databricks Data + AI Platform in SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC). Since general availability, customers including Adidas, Zalando, Mondi, and CAF have used SAP Databricks and SAP BDC Connect for Databricks to analyze, govern, and build AI on live, semantically rich SAP Data Products through zero-copy, bi-directional OpenSharing.
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