In today’s hyper-connected market, an enterprise’s most valuable asset — mission-critical data — often remains trapped in legacy silos. For years, leadership teams have navigated a data pipeline dilemma, forced into a cycle of complex data movement that relies on slow, manual extraction processes. This fragmentation strips away essential business context, increases technical debt, and creates operational blindness.
Al is reshaping enterprise operations, but to move beyond simple optimization and actively transform core processes, organizations must be able to turn their vast data into tangible action. The true value of Al lies in its ability to bridge the gap between deep business insights and strong execution. To shift enterprises from a reactive posture to a state of predictive, real-time intelligence, SAP and Google Cloud are delivering a Unified Data Foundation. This deepening partnership connects critical business data directly to intelligent workflows, so that every insight effortlessly transitions from intent to action without disruption.
Here’s a breakdown of the key new features announced today at SAP SAPPHIRE to modernize the enterprise core and unlock true data value:
- Open agent collaboration: Through expanded strategic partnerships, SAP is integrating new agentic capabilities into the SAP Business AI Platform. This establishes an open architectural framework, enabling bidirectional communication between SAP’s Joule agents and intelligent agents built on Google Cloud (such as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Gemini).
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SAP BDC Connect for BigQuery GA: The SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) Connect for BigQuery — currently in private preview — enables customers to share their semantically rich SAP data directly into BigQuery. This establishes bidirectional, zero-copy, and zero-cost data access, allowing organizations to unify their data footprint without the complexity of moving or duplicating massive datasets.
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50% larger memory instances: Breaking the previous 32TB memory limit of the X4 memory-optimized machine type, a new X5 series introduces massive 48TB configurations. This empowers the largest SAP HANA and RISE with SAP customers to easily scale up their mission-critical databases on a single node.
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Sovereign Cloud with S3NS: SAP is partnering with S3NS to deploy its RISE private cloud on a SecNumCloud-qualified platform in France, enabling regulated organizations like Thales to securely transform their ERP environments.
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Google SecOps for SAP: Google and SAP are partnering on agentic security workflows and threat detection for SAP applications. Available in preview, Google SecOps for SAP provides agentic AI security operations and empowers security teams to detect SAP-specific threats alongside their broader IT landscape.
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Google Cloud Cortex Framework: Cortex Framework simplifies your journey from SAP to AI. Now in preview, these data product accelerators lower the risk and cost of building agentic solutions using BigQuery and Gemini.
What they’re saying
Mercado Libre is the leading e-commerce and fintech business in Latin America with more than 100 million users, and Google Cloud’s new memory-optimized instances for SAP are having a big impact:
“We are pushing very hard to use AI capabilities to leverage the information we generate from BigQuery, and we are also using Gemini to empower our employees to be more productive following our migration to RISE. As our business has experienced unprecedented growth, ensuring our data infrastructure can keep pace with this AI-driven trajectory is critical. Google Cloud’s announcement of the new 48TB instances is a game-changer for us. It allows us to seamlessly scale our mission-critical databases on a single node, avoiding major application redesigns and ensuring our real-time operations continue without disruption as we scale.” – Alejandro Bonsignore, Finance and People Systems Senior Manager, Mercado Libre
The agentic future: Making data active
The goal of these integrations is simple: to transform static records into autonomous, agentic workflows. Before Al can act with precision, it requires a comprehensive understanding of how your business runs. By utilizing the BDC connector to extend a unified foundation across the broader enterprise data estate, agents running on Gemini for Google Cloud and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform can natively utilize this trusted data as part of their workflow.
Crucially, Cortex Framework accelerates this journey by moving beyond basic data consolidation to transform fragmented enterprise data silos into context-rich, high-fidelity data products. It establishes a trusted semantic layer that translates raw “database speak” into meaningful “business speak.” This gives your organization the ability to make Al more reliable, accurate, and capable of taking decisive action across platforms.
Transforming data into autonomous action at scale means enterprise-grade governance remains paramount. Together, SAP and Google Cloud provide the holistic capabilities needed to govern Al responsibly across the entire organization. Grounding Gemini models in governed enterprise context directly mitigates Al hallucination risks and drives strong value. With this collaboration, your organization has the peace of mind that every agent operates securely, is grounded in trusted data, and remains fully accountable as it drives measurable business outcomes.
Learn more about the SAP and Google Cloud partnership.
