Dive Brief:
- AI data cloud vendor Snowflake is partnering with German software vendor SAP to connect Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to the SAP Business Data Cloud, according to a Tuesday announcement.
- The integration aims to simplify data sharing between the platforms and help enterprises “connect their critical business data with its rich context in SAP” with AI agent development capabilities in Snowflake, Christian Kleinerman, EVP of product at Snowflake, said in a release accompanying the announcement.
- Snowflake also unveiled new developer tools on Tuesday that aim to help enterprises build, test and deploy AI applications, including AI agents.
Dive Insight:
The integration reflects the latest step in Snowflake and SAP’s efforts to spur industry collaboration and standardization.
The two companies announced in September the Open Semantic Interchange initiative to create a vendor-neutral framework standardizing how semantic metadata is shared across platforms.
Part of the initiative’s goal was to create common definitions that helped AI tools analyze data from different applications, as enterprises rapidly deploy new products such as AI agents. BNY, Colgate-Palmolive, Walmart and PepsiCo are some of the large companies rolling out agentic AI to advance business goals.
SAP and Snowflake’s latest announcement of SAP Snowflake – the extension connecting the two cloud products – will allow SAP Business Data Cloud customers to access Snowflake’s AI, data engineering and marketplace capabilities. Meanwhile, Snowflake customers can access SAP’s data products.
The collaboration “empowers our customers with openness and choice,” Irfan Khan, president and chief product officer for SAP data and analytics, said in the announcement.
“Together, we combine SAP’s decades of leadership in mission-critical business applications with Snowflake’s modern data platform to deliver a unified, enterprise-ready, and SAP-supported experience that extends the value of business data across the entire ecosystem,” Khan said.
SAP’s cloud revenue climbed 22% in Q3 2025, marking the vendor’s fifth consecutive quarter of high cloud revenue figures. The company is focused on developing and releasing AI agents to continue increasing business value, SAP CEO Christian Klein said during an earnings call last month.
