SAP agreed to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse platform, to expand its Business Data Cloud's ability to combine SAP and non-SAP data and run analytical and AI workloads in real time, the company said Monday. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction remains subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026.
With the acquisition, SAP Business Data Cloud will become an Apache Iceberg-native enterprise lakehouse, eliminating the need to move or convert data between formats, SAP said. SAP and non-SAP data will coexist on a shared open foundation, with federated analytical reach across enterprise data sources combined with SAP HANA Cloud's in-memory engine for real-time transactions.
SAP said it will also deliver a universal, open catalog built on Apache Polaris and the open Apache Iceberg REST Catalog API. That catalog will serve as the discovery and semantic layer of SAP Business Data Cloud, giving connected engines a single point of access to unified business context including data lineage, access rights, and organizational relationships. It will form the foundation of the SAP Knowledge Graph.