Databricks is bringing more of its AI and data tools to SAP customers, the company said Friday. The two firms expanded their partnership at SAP's TechEd conference in Berlin this week, and the additions will reach SAP Databricks, the offering that runs Databricks inside SAP's Business Data Cloud. Neither company has said when the new tools will be available.
What new tools is Databricks adding to SAP Databricks?
SAP Databricks launched in February 2025. It will now get four more tools. Genie is an AI assistant. Lakeflow builds data pipelines. Unity Gateway keeps AI agents and their costs in check. Lakebase is a database designed for AI apps.
Will Genie work inside SAP software?
Databricks also plans to connect Genie with Joule, SAP's own AI assistant, so that answers can appear inside SAP software.
SAP made its own move the same week. It unveiled SAP Application Data Foundation, a new way to reach data stored in its business software, whether that data sits in the cloud or on a company's own servers. Databricks says companies have had to build custom pipelines to copy that data out, and that the process strips away business context along the way.
Why does this matter for SAP customers?
The timing matters for SAP's customer base. The company is pushing customers to move off its older ECC software before mainstream support ends in 2027. Databricks says more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies use SAP.
"Data is the foundation for enterprise AI," said Philipp Herzig, SAP's chief technology officer.
Early results are already in from at least one customer. Trailer parts maker SAF-Holland says it now runs analyses five times faster after moving more than 100 million records into SAP Databricks.
The partnership serves both companies. SAP is pushing its Autonomous Enterprise plan to fill its software with AI agents, and it has bought Prior Labs, whose AI reads tables of business data. Databricks, valued at $190 billion, wants more of the data those agents will run on.
This article was written with the assistance of AI.
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