SAP has announced the launch of SAP Business Data Cloud, a transformative solution designed to unify both SAP and third-party data across organizations. This integration provides a trusted data foundation, enabling impactful decision-making and fostering reliable AI applications.
Key Features of SAP Business Data Cloud:
- Comprehensive Data Harmonization: The platform harmonizes data from mission-critical applications, combining data engineering and business analytics capabilities to drive innovation and insights.
- Strategic Partnership with Databricks: This collaboration embeds Databricks’ technology for data engineering, machine learning, and AI workloads, redefining enterprise data management by seamlessly integrating applications and data platforms.
- Introduction of Data Product Economy: SAP Business Data Cloud delivers fully managed data products across various business processes, maintaining original business context and semantics. This approach provides immediate access to high-quality data without the need for costly extraction processes.
- Insight Applications: The platform offers new capabilities called insight apps, which utilize data products and AI models connected to real-time data. These applications deliver advanced analytics and planning across all lines of business, including core enterprise analytics, finance, and human resources.
Enhancing AI Capabilities with Joule:
SAP Business Data Cloud enhances the functionality of Joule, SAP’s generative AI copilot. By leveraging a high-quality enterprise dataset and the SAP Knowledge Graph solution, Joule agents gain a deep understanding of end-to-end processes. This enables them to collaborate across functions to solve complex business challenges effectively.
SAP has also introduced a series of ready-to-use Joule agents across finance, service, and sales sectors. For instance, in finance, agents can work together to process claims more efficiently and improve cash flow. In sales, Joule agents accelerate multi-step business processes to resolve disputes and handle customer inquiries more swiftly.
Additionally, SAP unveiled a powerful new agent builder capability, allowing customers to build and deploy their own AI agents alongside SAP’s library of ready-to-deploy agents.
This initiative underscores SAP’s commitment to redefining enterprise data management and unleashing the full potential of agentic AI in business operations.
Read more at: https://news.sap.com/2025/02/sap-business-data-cloud-databricks-turbocharge-business-ai/
