Announcing the General Availability of SAP Business Data Cloud Connect to Databricks

Today, SAP Business Data Cloud Connect is generally available for Databricks customers. Now customers — across all cloud platforms — can connect their SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) solution environment to their existing Databricks instance for zero-copy, bi-directional, live data sharing of SAP's semantically rich and governed Data Products - with no data engineering needed. Built on Delta Sharing, SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Databricks leverages the same open protocols for data sharing that power the Databricks ecosystem.

Why this matters

Blending SAP data with enterprise data from other systems is crucial for processes such as forecasting, inventory management, and supply chain optimization. Until now, customers have relied on fragile replication methods—such as custom API exports, object storage copies, or manual CSV uploads. These introduced:

• Governance risk from multiple replicas
• Data silos when pipelines break
• High cost from constant maintenance
• Manual rebuilding of semantics that SAP applications provide out of the box
• Compliance gaps with unsupported replication methods

Further, AI applications today are constrained by a lack of domain logic from the SAP ERP application and line-of-business systems such as SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Concur and SAP Fieldglass. Without SAP’s embedded domain logic, AI outputs lack critical business context, reducing accuracy and relevance.

Delta Sharing: Secure, content-rich, and live data

The new cloud service for SAP Business Data Cloud Connect to Databricks changes that. Powered by Delta Sharing, the industry’s first open protocol for secure data exchange, SAP Data Products can now be shared directly into your existing Databricks instances - live and with full business context from source SAP applications. This makes it easy to standardize pipelines, enforce governance, and power analytics, data warehousing, BI, and AI across the data estate on a single, trusted platform. You can now treat Databricks as the central operating system for all your data, while SAP BDC continues to be the trusted foundation for mission-critical SAP business processes.

Seamless configuration in a few clicks

Connecting SAP BDC to Databricks is fast, intuitive, and secure. With only a handful of steps, enterprises can establish a trusted link between the two platforms. The integration is protected by a dual-layer security model - mTLS combined with OAuth - helping to ensure a secure, secretless authentication. Once the connection is approved on both platforms, sharing data products in both directions is frictionless: assets published from SAP BDC can be mounted directly into Databricks Unity Catalog and treated just like any other Delta-shared assets. That means teams can start querying and analyzing SAP solution data alongside the rest of their enterprise data almost instantly, unlocking faster insights and more collaborative workflows.

Ecosystem Perspective: Unlocking Business Value

Leading partners are seeing measurable impact.

“The biggest roadblock for scaling AI across the enterprise is a lack of quality data. This latest integration between Databricks and SAP provides a fast and secure way to get trusted data from across the organization and provides the foundation for applying AI and agents across key functions -- from finance and procurement to HR and supply chain.” — Teresa Tung, Global Data Lead, Accenture

“At Celebal Technologies we’re thrilled about the launch, this represents a transformative leap for enterprises seeking to unlock the full potential of their SAP data. This seamless, zero-copy access to SAP Business Data Cloud within Databricks will accelerate the adoption of Agentic AI systems, enabling autonomous decision-making across critical functions like supply chain optimization, demand forecasting, and financial planning. We’re excited to help enterprises leverage this integration to build intelligent, context-aware AI agents that can reason over their most valuable business data in real-time.” — Piyush Gupta - Global Head ERP Modernisation

“The integration of SAP and Databricks marks a transformative milestone on the journey towards intelligent AI-powered enterprises. By harnessing the power of SAP’s rich enterprise data within the Databricks platform, organizations can unlock new levels of GenAI-driven insights, accelerate innovation, and elevate agility across every business function.” — Kavitha Prabhakar, US AI & Engineering leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP

“This Databricks Delta Sharing integration will enable our SAP customers to combine their treasure-troves of transactional data with other enterprise data for analytics, and AI/ML -- enabling them to build agents that can understand SAP and external data together – a massive opportunity to unlock value from their SAP investments.” — Nikhil Goray, EY Americas SAP Technology Consulting Leader

Get Started

The general availability of SAP Business Data Cloud Connect to Databricks, now available on all clouds, marks a major milestone in modernizing enterprise data strategy.

Join us at upcoming events:

• Executive webinar with leaders from SAP, Databricks and The World Bank
• Sessions and hands-on demos at SAP Connect, SAP TechEd and ASUG Tech Connect