Databricks said on 30 October that it and SAP plan to bring four more capabilities — Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway and Lakebase — to SAP Databricks, expanding the platform they introduced last year. The announcement came during SAP TechEd, where SAP announced Application Data Foundation to make application data available through SAP Business Data Cloud, including to SAP Databricks.
SAP Databricks embeds the Databricks Data + AI Platform in SAP Business Data Cloud. Databricks says customers can use SAP BDC Connect for Databricks to access SAP data products through zero-copy, bi-directional OpenSharing rather than build custom extraction pipelines. The company says Genie gives teams access to governed data with business context, while a planned two-way integration with SAP’s Joule could bring its answers and actions into SAP applications.
Lakeflow is intended to combine SAP data with other sources, Unity Gateway to govern AI tools and spending, and Lakebase to support data applications and agents. Databricks said Adidas, Zalando, Mondi and CAF have used SAP Databricks and SAP BDC Connect for Databricks since general availability.
