Databricks & lakehouse news
As of 2026-07-08
Databricks, Delta Sharing and the lakehouse patterns that now sit beside the SAP estate.
Analytics Legends has indexed 16 Databricks & lakehouse stories published 2026-03-12 to 2026-07-08, from 10 sources. Each row links to the publisher and to the concept cards the story touches.
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Why trusted context is becoming the currency for enterprise AI
AI is getting most of the attention in enterprise technology. Governance, ownership, and data quality do most of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. And yet, as organizations move from AI experiments to production…
infoworld.com · 2026-07-08
Concepts: SAP Datasphere Catalog (governance layer) · GSTACK — Governance Discipline for SAP Analytics Consultants · AI Is Everywhere In GTM. Customer Value Isn’t.
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SAP Completes Acquisition of Dremio
WALLDORF & AUSTIN — SAP has completed the acquisition of the open, high-performance data lakehouse platform.
news.sap.com · 2026-07-08
Concepts: Tableau Next — Salesforce-platform-native rebuild · SAP × Dremio — Federated Data for Agentic AI · BARC — Benchmark: How fast is your BI platform, really?
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Dmitry Kuznetsov
Meet Dmitry, an SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics consultant, trainer, and certified Databricks data engineer with 20 years of experience in SAP. Specializing in Data & Analytics, he has evolved alongside SAP’s major…
community.sap.com · 2026-05-30
Concepts: Databricks Unity Catalog — Data Sharing (External + Internal) · BARC — SAP Business Data Cloud: New approaches to data integration in the SAP ecosystem · SAP Datasphere Delta Sharing
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SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition
ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration
theregister.com · 2026-05-19
Concepts: SAP × Dremio — Federated Data for Agentic AI · SAP × Prior Labs — Frontier AI Lab Europe · BARC — SAP Business Data Cloud: New approaches to data integration in the SAP ecosystem
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BARC Perspective on SAP’s Dual Acquisition of Prior Labs and Dremio
What happened? SAP intends to acquire Prior Labs, a research lab and provider of tabular foundation models for predictive AI on structured data, and Dremio, an open data lakehouse platform enabling high-performance…
barc.com · 2026-05-19
Concepts: SAP × Prior Labs — Frontier AI Lab Europe · TabPFN / TabICL — Tabular Foundation Models · SAP Business AI
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SAP: Acquisition Of Dremio To Expand AI Data Integration And Lakehouse Capabilities - Pulse 2.0
SAP: Acquisition Of Dremio To Expand AI Data Integration And Lakehouse Capabilities Pulse 2.0
pulse2.com · 2026-05-19
Concepts: SAP × Dremio — Federated Data for Agentic AI · Tableau Einstein Copilot + Pulse · Knowledge Core — The Data-Fabric-for-AI Evolution
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SAP BDC at Sapphire: Joule Agents in Data Cloud, Fabric Connect GA Q3, BDC Reaches 13 Azure Regions
SAP Business Data Cloud announcements at Sapphire 2026: Joule Agents in BDC can create data products, prepare datasets, generate dashboards and build planning/analytics models via natural language. Conversational data…
news.sap.com · 2026-05-13
Concepts: SAP BDC Roadmap 2026 — Q2 / Q3 / Q4 Delivery Calendar · SAP × Dremio — Federated Data for Agentic AI · SAP BDC Connect — Standard Service for Partner Integrations
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SAP to acquire data lakehouse vendor Dremio
SAP on Monday announced plans to acquire Dremio, which bills itself as an agentic lakehouse company, for an unspecified price. The move is complicated by similar offerings from existing SAP partners Snowflake and…
infoworld.com · 2026-05-07
Concepts: SAP × Dremio — Federated Data for Agentic AI · Mistral — Europe-Headquartered Frontier Option for Regulated Enterprises · OpenAI GPT-5 Family (GPT-5.5) — Architecture, Reasoning, Enterprise Trade-offs
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SAP buys Dremio to accelerate its data and AI strategy
SAP is acquiring Dremio, a specialist in data lakehouse and open analytics architectures. The objective is to strengthen SAP’s position in modern data architectures alongside competitors such as Snowflake, Databricks,…
silicon.fr · 2026-05-04
Concepts: SAP × Dremio — Federated Data for Agentic AI · SAP BDC Roadmap 2026 — Q2 / Q3 / Q4 Delivery Calendar · Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Architectures — Mixtral / DeepSeek / Grok
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Unlocking SAP Business Context in Databricks with Semantic Metadata Delta Sharing
SAP data is powerful, but it can be difficult to correlate with each otherAnyone...
databricks.com · 2026-05-04
Concepts: BARC — SAP Business Data Cloud: New approaches to data integration in the SAP ecosystem · Databricks Unity Catalog — Data Sharing (External + Internal) · BDC Connect for Databricks
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SAP Business Data Cloud — the 2026 umbrella for Datasphere, SAC, BW bridge and embedded Databricks
BDC is SAP's unified cloud data platform combining Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, federated access to SAP Business Warehouse content, and the embedded Databricks engine. For consultants: this is now the canonical…
sap.com · 2026-04-07
Concepts: Threat-First SAP Analytics Architecture (the T in GSTACK) · BDC AI-Infused Workflows — Joule Inside the Daily Tasks · SAP Business Suite 2026
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SAP Business Data Cloud — help portal, architecture references and setup guides
BDC's help portal — landing page for admin guides, integration patterns, Databricks onboarding flow and the data-products catalogue. Bookmark for any BDC scoping or PoC: the SAP-native architecture diagrams here are…
help.sap.com · 2026-04-02
Concepts: Threat-First SAP Analytics Architecture (the T in GSTACK) · BDC Connect for Snowflake (+ SAP Snowflake solution extension) · BARC — SAP Business Data Cloud: New approaches to data integration in the SAP ecosystem
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SAP Analytics Cloud — help portal, connector coverage and planning-model reference
SAC's technical reference — every connector, every data-source type, every planning-model feature. Go here before quoting a client: connector support shifts quarterly, with Databricks live-connect and S/4HANA embedded…
help.sap.com · 2026-03-30
Concepts: Connections & Source Systems · SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics · Live vs Import Connections
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Databricks Data + AI Summit — the 2026 stage for SAP-Databricks joint roadmap items
Data + AI Summit, San Francisco in June 2026, is the venue where SAP and Databricks co-announce BDC-related roadmap items. For consultants: the keynote plus a handful of partner sessions are the fastest way to…
databricks.com · 2026-03-18
Concepts: SAP BDC Connect — Standard Service for Partner Integrations · SAP BDC Roadmap 2026 — Q2 / Q3 / Q4 Delivery Calendar · BDC Connect for Snowflake (+ SAP Snowflake solution extension)
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Databricks Unity Catalog — the governance layer the BDC-Databricks integration plugs into
Unity Catalog is Databricks' cross-workspace governance layer: lineage, access policies, row-level security, fine-grained audit. In BDC deployments sharing data with Databricks, Unity Catalog is where permissions for…
databricks.com · 2026-03-15
Concepts: SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) · Databricks Unity Catalog — Data Sharing (External + Internal) · Databricks-in-BDC Lakehouse Pattern
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Databricks customer stories — filter for SAP joint references before scoping a BDC-Databricks PoC
Databricks publishes customer success stories filterable by industry and product. Filter for SAP joint references to ground client conversations in concrete architecture patterns (lakehouse plus SAP ERP, Datasphere…
databricks.com · 2026-03-12
Concepts: BDC Connect for Snowflake (+ SAP Snowflake solution extension) · Delta Sharing Protocol · SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)