Databricks Expands SAP Partnership with Genie, Lakeflow, and Lakebase
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Databricks announced on October 30, 2026, that it is expanding its partnership with SAP. As part of this expansion, the capabilities of Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase are being integrated into the SAP Business Data Cloud and made available for SAP Databricks. In addition, a new SAP Application Data Foundation is being introduced to enable access to SAP application data. Databricks framed this expansion within a business context. The company explained that today's AI models still lack the context to understand how a business actually operates, and that for most enterprises, this context resides within SAP systems. According to Databricks, more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies use SAP solutions. SAP published its own account of the expansion on October 29, 2026, at SAP TechEd Berlin. The post was authored by Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP Data & Analytics. SAP described the expanded scope as follows: Lakeflow, Agent Bricks, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase are coming to SAP Databricks within the SAP Business Data Cloud. This is part of a broader series of announcements regarding lakehouse and business data fabric solutions. Databricks and SAP launched SAP Databricks on February 13, 2025, as a strategic product and go-to-market partnership that natively integrated the Databricks Data + AI Platform into the newly introduced SAP Business Data...
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