Databricks Expands SAP Partnership with Genie, Lakeflow, and Lakebase

Databricks has significantly expanded its partnership with SAP, integrating its Genie AI data assistant, Lakeflow data pipeline product, and Lakebase lakehouse offering directly into SAP's enterprise data ecosystem. The integration is designed to let SAP customers query, process, and build AI applications on top of their enterprise data without complex ETL migrations, using Databricks' AI and data infrastructure as the underlying engine. For developers and data engineers working in SAP environments, this means access to Databricks' full AI toolchain — including model training, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows — within familiar SAP contexts. The partnership reflects a broader trend of AI infrastructure companies embedding deeply into established enterprise software stacks rather than requiring lift-and-shift migrations. This is a meaningful unlock for organizations that have historically been constrained by SAP's data gravity.