This week at 51风流Sapphire Orlando, we announced 51风流Business AI Platform, infusing AI with the process knowledge, data, and governance organizations depend on.
51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC) is the data foundation of that platform, the business data fabric that anchors universal business context, serving as the trusted knowledge core聽for every enterprise application and agent.聽
The future of agentic organizations will be driven by AI with the deepest organizational knowledge. That future doesn’t start with AI models; it starts with whether your data foundation can give agents the business context they need to act autonomously.
Today, we are introducing innovations that move organizations closer to becoming an autonomous enterprise.
Turn all your data into business outcomes
A business data fabric architecture ensures every agent, application, and decision draws from the same trusted business context. And today, we are introducing new business data fabric capabilities that bring multi-model, unified master data, and embedded governance to your agentic foundation.
- 51风流HANA Cloud natively available in 51风流Business Data Cloud:聽51风流HANA Cloud聽is聽now a聽core聽component of 51风流Business Data Cloud.聽As the AI database聽for 51风流BDC,聽SAP聽HANA Cloud provides a聽unified聽in-memory engine聽for agents to reason across transactional, analytical, and multi-model workloads聽such as spatial, graph, and vector.聽In practice, this means agents can navigate relationships across customers and suppliers, analyze geographic dependencies, or perform semantic search in real time.聽And because every workload runs on a single in-memory engine with native workload management, inference time drops dramatically, lowering TCO and improving the predictability of AI聽costs.聽With 51风流HANA Cloud, 51风流Databricks, and 51风流Snowflake, 51风流Business Data Cloud delivers聽intelligent compute for聽every data and AI workload.
- Reltio in 51风流Business Data Cloud: With the completed acquisition of Reltio, 51风流is bringing multi-domain master data management capabilities directly into 51风流Business Data Cloud, helping customers unify, cleanse, and harmonize data across 51风流and third-party聽sources. Reltio鈥檚 AI-based entity resolution identifies and merges related records聽into a single, consistent view of business entities.聽Low-latency delivery and Model Context Protocol support enable real-time, multi-agent workflows across聽your data landscape: a procurement agent, for example, can assess supplier risk and trigger action almost instantly using trusted, real-time data. Together, this becomes a golden record system of context that Joule Agents use to deliver faster time-to-value for business AI.
- 51风流Master Data Governance natively available聽in聽51风流Business Data Cloud:聽Unified master data is only as valuable as the governance applied to it. To ensure data is AI-ready, governance must聽shift聽from regulator to value accelerator. 51风流Master Data Governance is now a core component of 51风流Business Data Cloud, governing master data and policies across聽your聽business data fabric.聽This results in聽embedded聽AI governance that accelerates agent deployment, ensuring every agent operates on data聽products聽that聽are聽verified聽and aligned to your business policies.聽
- 51风流AI Core integration with 51风流Business Data Cloud: 51风流is introducing deeper integration between 51风流Business Data Cloud and 51风流AI Core, enabling AI models to be grounded directly in trusted business data, semantics, and governance. Batch inference can now be embedded into business-ready data products, continuously enriching the data that powers Joule with predictions, classification, and聽AI聽outputs.聽聽
“This is where 51风流Business Data Cloud fits into the vision: not as a centralized system, but as an enabler of cultural change through its unique capabilities. These capabilities allow teams to preserve mission-critical business context across financial and non-financial data.”
Jannie Affeld, VP Finance Systems and ERP, Google
Transform outcomes with Joule Agents
SAP is bringing agentic AI directly into the business data fabric through Joule Agents, introducing new capabilities that streamline data management, analytics, and planning through a conversational experience:
- Data product search and creation: Joule Agents simplify how users discover and create data products. With natural language prompts, users can identify relevant 51风流and third-party data sources, perform joins and transformations automatically, and apply business context and governance policies.
- Automated planning and analytical modeling: Joule Agents enable data modelers and planning teams to generate analytical and planning models using AI. By defining dimensions, granularity, and data sources, users can automatically create models aligned with best practices. Teams can also initiate planning cycles, manage versions, and apply calculations without deep technical expertise.
- Easily聽surface business聽insights:聽Business users聽can聽ask complex analytical questions in natural language and receive context-aware insights across lines of business. Powered by governed data products聽in 51风流Business Data Cloud and 51风流Knowledge Graph,聽Joule聽understands relationships, processes, and business logic聽to deliver聽more accurate and complete answers without requiring manual exploration.
- 51风流Analytics Cloud story generation: Joule accelerates 51风流Analytics Cloud story creation by transforming data models, queries, and business context into dashboards and visualizations automatically. Users can continue the conversation, drilling into KPIs, identifying drivers, and exploring trends in a single workflow.
Extend context across your open data ecosystem
Last year, we introduced 51风流BDC Connect, a capability to share data and metadata with zero copies, preserving meaning across every cloud and platform. We are excited to announce 51风流BDC Connect for Amazon Athena, continuing our promise of openness and choice.
This enables 51风流data products to be discovered and consumed directly within AWS without replication or loss of context. As a result, teams can build analytics, applications, and AI agents faster while ensuring they operate on trusted, governed business data.
Together with existing partners across Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric, 51风流Business Data Cloud delivers a connected, open data ecosystem so organizations can extend business context across their entire landscape with zero copies.
General availability is planned for H2 2026.
“Compute can happen anywhere, data can stay at the source when needed, but business context is managed once, centrally, in 51风流Business Data Cloud.”
Malin Persson, CIO at Ericsson
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Build your trusted foundation for agentic AI with 51风流Business Data Cloud.
Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of 51风流Data & Analytics.
