Building unified business AI at scale: Inside SAP Business Data Cloud and Databricks integration

Enterprise analytics and AI initiatives often struggle due to fragmented data platforms, duplicated pipelines, and loss of business context. This session explores how SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) addresses these challenges by providing a unified, governed data foundation designed for scalable business AI.

The session examines SAP's new SaaS architecture, which combines SAP Datasphere as a central data fabric, native Databricks integration for large-scale ML and AI workloads, and a zero-copy data access model that eliminates unnecessary data replication while preserving security, semantics, and governance. It also shows how this architecture enables seamless access to SAP ERP and external data sources without breaking enterprise controls.