About Snowflake and SAP® Zero-Copy Integration¶

Snowflake and SAP® have partnered to offer customers a seamless zero-copy integration between the two platforms. The integration leverages SAP® Business Data Cloud that enables customers to harmonize SAP® and non-SAP® data at scale in Snowflake, while optimizing total cost of ownership across workloads.

Leveraging zero copy data access, data and AI teams can work with semantically rich SAP® Data Products in real time without added cost and complexity of ETL pipelines, and allows them to build AI and machine learning applications fueled by trusted SAP Data Products and grounded in the context of all their mission-critical data, ensuring accurate, reliable, and trustworthy AI outcomes.

Two Ways to Integrate Snowflake and SAP®¶

The integration delivers two distinct offerings, providing customers choice. Both leverage SAP® Business Data Cloud to enable zero-copy data sharing between SAP® Business Data Cloud and Snowflake.

SAP® Snowflake¶

Designed for new Snowflake customers, SAP® Snowflake makes Snowflake available in SAP® Business Data Cloud as a certified SAP® Solution Extension. From advanced analytics and ML to data engineering, applications, and marketplace it puts the Snowflake platform directly in the hands of SAP® users. For more information, see SAP Snowflake in the SAP® documentation.

SAP® Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake¶

Designed for existing Snowflake customers, SAP® Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connect for Snowflake enables customers to share Data Products from SAP® BDC with their existing Snowflake accounts. This gives Snowflake users real-time access to semantically rich SAP® Data Products without duplication of data.

For more information and set up instructions for either of these offerings, see Setup tasks for SAP® Snowflake and SAP® BDC Connect for Snowflake.