Montana-based AI Data Cloud company Snowflake and German enterprise application and business AI company SAP have joined forces to enable organizations to leverage both platforms together to benefit from semantically rich data and AI capabilities.
The partnership will make Snowflake’s data and AI platform available as an SAP solution extension for customers of the SAP BDC solution. The new offering unites SAP’s semantically rich data with Snowflake’s unified platform capabilities for building AI and machine learning solutions.
Zero-copy sharing between SAP BDC and Snowflake is being implemented to allow customers to access enhanced insights, develop enterprise-level intelligent applications, and adopt AI-driven innovations for business transformation.
The partnerships core principles are to: Build a trusted, AI-ready data foundation to harmonize SAP and non-SAP data; Accelerate AI business value with semantically rich data; Develop intelligent applications grounded in mission-critical business data.
Customers can use SAP BDC with SAP Snowflake as a cloud-scale compute and storage option to extend the value of their data. Leveraging bidirectional, zero-copy data access data and AI teams can work with semantically rich SAP data products in real time, within a unified governance framework. This collaboration is intended to bring customers harmonized results across workloads with cost-effective solutions for building agents and AI applications fueled by SAP data products.
Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product at Snowflake, said: “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. Enterprises can now innovate faster with Snowflake and SAP BDC and seamlessly share data between the platforms — zero-copy and fully governed.”
Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data and Analytics, SAP SE, said: “Bringing Snowflake to SAP Business Data Cloud empowers our customers with openness and choice. Together, we combine SAP’s decades of leadership in mission-critical business applications with Snowflake’s modern data platform to deliver a unified, enterprise-ready, and SAP-supported experience that extends the value of business data across the entire ecosystem.”
In addition to SAP Snowflake, the partnership also includes SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, a capability enabling bidirectional, zero copy data sharing with Snowflake. Enterprises already using Snowflake can leverage SAP BDC Connect to integrate their existing instances of Snowflake with SAP Business Data Cloud for more-seamless, zero‑copy access, providing Snowflake users with real-time access to semantically rich SAP data products—without duplication.
Russell Smith, Vice President of ERP Transformation Technology of AstraZeneca – a user of SAP Snowflake – said: “AstraZeneca is constantly pushing the boundaries of science and is pioneering in life-changing medicines. Data and AI are central to achieving this aim, and our close collaboration with SAP and Snowflake compliments our ability to access, process and analyze real-time data. This announcement will accelerate our mission and recognizes that every minute matters to make breakthroughs for patients.”
SAP Snowflake is planned to be generally available in Q1 2026. SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake is planned to be generally available in H1 2026.