India, 05th November, 2025: Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, and SAP SE, a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, have announced a strategic collaboration to help organizations unify, analyze, and innovate with their business data more intelligently. The partnership brings together Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), enabling enterprises to seamlessly access and leverage semantically rich SAP data within Snowflake’s unified AI and data platform.
The new SAP Snowflake solution extension for SAP BDC integrates SAP’s deep expertise in business processes and trusted data with Snowflake’s powerful capabilities for AI and machine learning development. This integration allows enterprises to build enterprise-grade, AI-driven applications, derive richer insights, and accelerate business transformation all while maintaining zero-copy, fully governed data sharing between SAP BDC and Snowflake.
“By tightly integrating SAP and Snowflake, we’re making it simple for enterprises to connect their mission-critical SAP data with the scale and intelligence of Snowflake,” said Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake. “Enterprises can now innovate faster, share data seamlessly, and develop AI applications at scale with zero-copy access.”
Through this collaboration, Snowflake becomes part of SAP’s open data ecosystem within SAP BDC, providing customers greater flexibility and scalability for compute, storage, and analytics. Organizations can now harmonize SAP and non-SAP data in real time under a unified governance model, while optimizing operational efficiency and total cost of ownership.
“Bringing Snowflake to SAP Business Data Cloud empowers our customers with openness and choice,” added Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data and Analytics, SAP SE. “Together, we’re delivering a unified, enterprise-ready experience that maximizes the value of business data and drives AI-powered innovation across the ecosystem.”
Key Benefits for Enterprises
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AI-Ready Data Foundation: Unify SAP and non-SAP data under a single, trusted business data fabric, enabling real-time visibility and enriched analytics for AI and ML workflows.
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Accelerated AI Business Value: Simplify AI governance and build context-rich intelligent applications grounded in organizational knowledge and semantically rich SAP data.
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Intelligent Application Development: Rapidly build and deploy AI-driven applications powered by harmonized, business-ready data for faster innovation and impact.
Additionally, the partnership introduces SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, enabling bidirectional, zero-copy data sharing between SAP BDC and Snowflake. This gives existing Snowflake users seamless, real-time access to SAP’s semantically rich data products—without duplication.
Global enterprises like AstraZeneca are already benefitting from this partnership.
“Data and AI are central to our mission of delivering life-changing medicines,” said Russell Smith, Vice President of ERP Transformation Technology, AstraZeneca. “Our collaboration with SAP and Snowflake turbocharges our ability to access, process, and analyze real-time data, accelerating breakthroughs for patients.”
Availability:
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SAP Snowflake is expected to be generally available in Q1 2026.
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SAP BDC Connect for Snowflake will follow in H1 2026.
This collaboration represents a major step in empowering global enterprises to unlock the full potential of their business data—combining SAP’s enterprise-grade foundation with Snowflake’s AI-driven innovation for a new era of intelligent business transformation.
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