SAP to Acquire Dremio to Unify SAP and Non-SAP Data to Power Agentic AI
SAP SE and Dremio announced
that SAP has agreed to acquire Dremio, an open, high-performance data lakehouse
platform built to accelerate agentic AI and expand SAP Business Data Cloud's ability
to combine SAP and non-SAP data to more effectively run analytical and AI
workloads in real time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is
still pending regulatory approval.
Most enterprise AI
projects fail to deliver value not because of the AI itself, but because the
underlying data is fragmented, locked in proprietary formats and stripped of
the business context that makes it meaningful. The result is a familiar and
costly pattern: pilots that cannot scale, slow integration of new data sources,
duplicated engineering work and compliance risk when organizations cannot
explain how an AI-driven decision was reached. Dremio helps eliminate that data
fragmentation and integration friction. The acquisition will complement the SAP
Business Data Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud offerings to ensure seamless data
integration across SAP and non-SAP data with high performance and low cost to
accelerate AI-ready context and time-to-value for AI.
"Enterprise AI
doesn't stall because the models aren't good enough; it stalls because the data
isn't ready for AI agents," said Philipp Herzig, CTO, SAP SE. "
Dremio eliminates that bottleneck. Combined with SAP Business Data Cloud, we
can now take customers from raw, fragmented data to governed, AI-ready
intelligence on a single open platform."
With Dremio, SAP
Business Data Cloud will become an Apache Iceberg-native enterprise lakehouse
that unifies SAP and non-SAP data to power agentic AI at enterprise scale.
Apache Iceberg is the industry-standard open table format, and SAP Business
Data Cloud will natively support it as its foundation. This means no data
movement or format conversion will be necessary. SAP and non-SAP data can
coexist on the same open foundation, with federated analytical reach across
every enterprise data source, combined with SAP HANA Cloud's in-memory engine
for real-time transactions and operational performance.
The Dremio lakehouse
platform is set to vastly improve the economics of enterprise analytics. It is
serverless and elastic, scaling up automatically when demand spikes and scaling
back down when it subsides, meaning no fixed capacity to provision and no
performance ceiling when it matters most.
With Dremio, SAP will
deliver a universal, open catalog built on Apache Polaris and the open Apache
Iceberg REST Catalog API. It serves as both the discovery and semantic layer of
SAP Business Data Cloud, giving every connected engine " SAP or non-SAP
" a single point of access to unified business context: meaning,
relationships, access rights and data lineage. This catalog will form the
foundation of the SAP Knowledge Graph, embedding business relationships,
organizational hierarchies, regulatory classifications and cross-system lineage
as native properties.
Dremio has been a
leading steward of open-source projects at the heart of its platform: Apache
Iceberg, Apache Polaris and Apache Arrow," and SAP is fully committed to
continuing to invest in and prioritize these contributions.
Leave A Comment