What Is SAP Snowflake?

SAP Snowflake extends SAP Business Data Cloud with Snowflake-based data engineering, analytics, AI, and interoperability capabilities as part of SAP’s broader open data ecosystem strategy. SAP Snowflake is positioned as a solution extension for SAP Business Data Cloud. In this model, Snowflake capabilities are provisioned, sold, billed, and supported through SAP while remaining aligned with native Snowflake platform services and capabilities. SAP Snowflake provides flexible compute and storage capabilities that complement the broader SAP Business Data Cloud architecture. Organizations can use Snowflake capabilities together with SAP-managed data products, intelligent applications, SAP Datasphere, and SAP BW modernization scenarios. This figure illustrates SAP Snowflake participating within the SAP Business Data Cloud architecture through interoperable data products, analytics and AI workloads, and integration across external analytical platforms. The platform supports multiple workload categories, including data engineering, large-scale analytics, AI and machine learning, and application development and collaboration. It also supports structured, semistructured, and unstructured da...