What is SAP Business Data Cloud?

SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data and seamlessly connects with third-party data—giving line-of-business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions. It combines all the powerful functionality of SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse, plus managed SAP Databricks and Intelligent Applications, including data products for SAP line of business applications.

What is SAP Databricks?

SAP Databricks is an SAP-managed version of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform embedded natively within SAP Business Data Cloud. SAP Databricks brings industry-leading AI/ML, data science, and data engineering capabilities together with semantically rich, business-ready data from SAP applications. Leveraging zero-copy Delta Sharing, companies can seamlessly integrate semi-structured and unstructured data from any source with data products from SAP applications into a single, harmonised data model—eliminating complex data movement with seamless access to high-quality, reliable data.

What is the difference between SAP Datasphere and SAP Databricks?

SAP Datasphere is where business data users go to connect, integrate, federate, prepare, model, and manage enterprise data with semantics intact. It offers industry-leading analytic modelling, enabling a more agile approach with self-service access to data and self-service modelling in business terms. SAP Databricks is where advanced data users (data engineers, AI/ML developers) go to integrate all types of data, develop custom AI/ML solutions, execute ad-hoc SQL analytics, and run data engineering workloads—all within a pro-code development environment.

AI with SAP Business Data Cloud

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Give rise to more powerful AI with SAP Business Data Cloud

Business Data Cloud delivers semantically rich data to AI agents and AI-powered applications, so they understand your business context and deliver trusted recommendations.

Fuel your AI with trusted data and use AI capabilities in Business Data Cloud to automate data management and planning tasks:

Accelerate access to context-rich data with curated data products
Leverage AI models from SAP AI Core to run complete AI lifecycle management
Get trusted answers with AI copilots grounded in SAP Knowledge Graph
Develop AI and machine learning models with end-to-end MLOps with SAP Databricks

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Key benefits

Build AI that truly understands your business

Train and deploy AI agents and applications connected to all your data and business context.

Give AI business context to boost your productivity

A trusted data foundation provides AI with the context it needs to provide reliable answers, predictive forecasting and planning, and automate data management tasks.

Adapt to changes in real time

Use adaptive, AI-powered applications that continuously learn from your data over time, orchestrate workflows, and act on your behalf.

Key features

Ground AI in contextual data

Connect all your data, metadata, and business processes with SAP Knowledge Graph to help AI agents understand and act in business context

Orchestrate smarter workflows with AI agents

Joule agents combine business context and over 1,300 pre-built skills to complete functional tasks, uncover insights, and summarize critical information across your business.

Transform outcomes with intelligent applications

Curated data products in SAP Business Data Cloud provide the semantically rich foundation of a business data fabric—enabling intelligent applications to reason, adapt, and automate decisions by constantly learning from your data.

Accelerate AI and ML development

From model training with SAP AI Core integration to MLOps and foundation model serving, SAP Business Data Cloud provides data professionals with the capabilities to accelerate AI models and applications based on trusted business data.

Govern AI with confidence

Ensure trustworthy AI by anchoring models in well-governed, discoverable, and auditable data—powered by a data catalogue with lineage, access controls, and monitoring.

Simulate business impact with AI

Use AI to automate complex enterprise planning and analytics tasks such as risk assessments, forecasting, and advanced Monte Carlo simulations.

Unleash the power of AI with trusted business data

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Resources

Five ways that AI is changing finance

AI tools are changing the focus of finance work. Human roles will change—to varying degrees—but remain important.

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Boosting AI-driven Business Transformation with Joule Agents

This self-paced course explores how SAP’s Joule AI copilot and intelligent agents enable business transformation through task automation, smart recommendations, and contextual assistance.

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Frequently asked questions

: SAP Business Data Cloud is a fully managed SaaS solution that unifies and governs all SAP data and seamlessly connects with third-party data—giving line-of-business leaders context to make even more impactful decisions. It combines all the powerful functionality of SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Business Warehouse, plus managed SAP Databricks and Intelligent Applications, including data products for SAP line of business applications.
: SAP Databricks is an SAP-managed version of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform embedded natively within SAP Business Data Cloud. SAP Databricks brings industry-leading AI/ML, data science, and data engineering capabilities together with semantically rich, business-ready data from SAP applications. Leveraging zero-copy Delta Sharing, companies can seamlessly integrate semi-structured and unstructured data from any source with data products from SAP applications into a single, harmonised data model—eliminating complex data movement with seamless access to high-quality, reliable data.
: SAP Datasphere is where business data users go to connect, integrate, federate, prepare, model, and manage enterprise data with semantics intact. It offers industry-leading analytic modelling, enabling a more agile approach with self-service access to data and self-service modelling in business terms.

SAP Databricks is where advanced data users (data engineers, AI/ML developers) go to integrate all types of data, develop custom AI/ML solutions, execute ad-hoc SQL analytics, and run data engineering workloads—all within a pro-code development environment.