Snowflake and SAP Partner to Power the Future of Enterprise AI

Snowflake and SAP have joined forces to launch a groundbreaking collaboration that unites the Snowflake AI Data Cloud with SAP’s Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC), marking a new era in enterprise artificial intelligence and data integration. This strategic partnership aims to empower organizations to harness semantically rich business data with the scalability and intelligence of Snowflake’s platform, enabling faster innovation, more informed decision-making, and enterprise-grade AI solutions.

At the heart of this collaboration are two new offerings: the SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake. Together, these products strengthen SAP’s open data ecosystem by allowing customers to integrate and analyze their critical enterprise data in real time. The SAP Snowflake extension makes Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud a certified SAP solution, letting businesses unify their SAP and non-SAP data through zero-copy integration, meaning data can be shared seamlessly without duplication. This enables organizations to build intelligent applications and AI models grounded in trusted, semantically enriched business data (Snowflake).

SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, on the other hand, provides bidirectional, zero-copy data sharing between the two systems. This feature allows enterprises already using Snowflake to directly access SAP data products, such as finance, operations, and supply chain datasets, without having to replicate them. The integration facilitates real-time access, supports unified governance, and simplifies AI-driven insights across platforms. Companies can now create and deploy intelligent agents, automate workflows, and develop machine learning applications using harmonized data from both ecosystems (SAP).

Executives from both companies highlighted how this integration represents a major step forward for enterprise AI. “By tightly integrating SAP and Snowflake, we’re making it simple for enterprises to connect their critical business data with its rich context in SAP with the power of seamless AI app and data agent development at scale in Snowflake,” said Christian Kleinerman, Executive Vice President of Product at Snowflake. Similarly, Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data and Analytics, emphasized that the partnership “empowers customers with openness and choice,” combining SAP’s decades of expertise in business processes with Snowflake’s modern data and AI capabilities (Yahoo Finance).

The partnership has already drawn attention from leading global enterprises, including AstraZeneca, which views data and AI as central to accelerating scientific discovery. Russell Smith, Vice President of ERP Transformation Technology at AstraZeneca, noted that the collaboration “compliments our ability to access, process, and analyze real-time data,” reinforcing the company’s mission to deliver life-changing medicines more efficiently. By merging SAP’s trusted business context with Snowflake’s AI-driven analytics, AstraZeneca and other organizations can move toward a future where every data-driven decision is both faster and smarter (SAP).

Ultimately, the SAP-Snowflake partnership is more than a technical integration, it’s the foundation for a new generation of intelligent enterprises. By harmonizing structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, the collaboration allows companies to leverage AI with full business context, optimize costs, and scale operations securely. The result is a unified data fabric that bridges the gap between enterprise resource planning and modern AI development, helping businesses transform insights into real-world impact. Both SAP Snowflake and SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake are expected to be generally available in 2026, ushering in a new standard for openness, interoperability, and AI-powered innovation across industries (Snowflake; SAP; Yahoo Finance).

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