Today marks the launch of SAP Databricks, a groundbreaking collaboration between Databricks and SAP. This innovative offering addresses the longstanding challenges organizations face in accessing and integrating SAP data for advanced analytics and AI applications. Alongside this exciting partnership, Nousot is thrilled to announce the launch of our own SAP Databricks service line.
In this blog, we’ll outline the specifics of our SAP Databricks service line, how we see this announcement affecting the market, and the value to our clients.
Introducing Naresh Sigamani: Our SAP on Databricks Service Line Lead
Alongside the SAP-Databricks launch, Nousot’s Naresh Sigamani will lead our new service line dedicated to SAP on Databricks. With extensive experience in both SAP and Databricks platforms, Naresh is well equipped to guide our clients through the integration process, ensuring they harness the full potential of this powerful collaboration.
Starting his career with SAP BW, Naresh has successfully assisted numerous large-scale clients in implementing SAP BW, SAP HANA, and Business Objects. As the industry evolved towards cloud data solutions, Naresh expertly guided his clients through strategic planning and implementation tailored to their specific business needs. Moreover, he developed innovative accelerators that ensure smooth transitions, allowing our clients to avoid reinventing the wheel. His proven track record of driving innovation and efficiency makes him the perfect leader for this initiative.
“Naresh brings a unique blend of extensive SAP experience with deep knowledge of data and AI which perfectly positions him to lead our practice focused on this new Databricks partnership.”
– Cavan Dunn, Chief Operating Officer at Nousot
At Nousot, we are committed to staying at the forefront of technological advancements to provide our clients with innovative solutions that drive business success. The launch of SAP Databricks marks a significant milestone, and we look forward to partnering with our clients to unlock new opportunities and achieve their strategic objectives.
Understanding SAP Databricks
SAP Databricks is a native service within SAP Business Data Cloud that integrates Databricks’ leading capabilities in AI, data warehousing, data engineering, and governance. Utilizing a zero-copy approach through Delta Sharing, it eliminates the need for traditional data integration methods, allowing customers to access their SAP data with rich semantic context and combine it with other data sources to develop comprehensive enterprise solutions.
The True Real Impact – Transforming Real-time Access to SAP Data
Until recently, accessing SAP data in real-time posed significant challenges for customers transitioning from SAP Enterprise HANA or SAP BW/HANA to run advanced analytics workloads. The methods often forced businesses to rely heavily on third-party ingestion tools to manage data transfer. Although some hyper-scalers provided native connectors, these tools frequently proved inadequate for handling large data volumes, making third-party solutions indispensable.
Consider a major CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) company that struggled to access SAP inventory data from the last five days in real-time. The complexity of the processes involved led to data being available only in near real-time, not true real-time. For users used to report on SAP Enterprise HANA data, these delays are particularly frustrating and unacceptable. Since multiple data processing steps are involved, it leads to reliability issues, necessitating the creation of a data reconciliation process to maintain data accuracy.
Such scenarios are emblematic of a widespread problem—companies invest heavily in third-party tools and training, yet often fall short of achieving true real-time data access. The lack of real-time data access has notable repercussions for AI and ML capabilities. Without real-time data, predictive models can only work with outdated information, reducing their accuracy and effectiveness. This leads to less reliable forecasts and insights, which can hinder decision-making processes and slow responses to market changes. Advanced analytics requires timely data to train models effectively, adapt to new information, and provide meaningful insights, something that was previously challenging to achieve.
However, the landscape is now shifting. With Databricks’ introduction of zero-copy integration, businesses can access real-time data seamlessly and accurately. This advancement eliminates the previous complexities associated with data ingestion, simultaneously reducing costs and efforts. The collaboration between SAP and Databricks not only aligns with SAP’s ethos of “bringing out the best in every business” but also significantly enhances AI and ML capabilities by providing immediate access to actionable data.
“SAP BDC is the innovative key unlocking SAP data in partnership with Databricks, saving time and effort while delivering unmatched business value, value, value!”
– Naresh Sigamani, SAP Databricks Lead at Nousot
📣 Stay tuned for follow up digging into the launch of our solutions on top of SAP Databricks in the coming weeks! As a follow up, Naresh shares key considerations you should factor into your data strategy with SAP BDC with SAP Databricks.
* This content was originally published on Nousot.com. Nousot and Lovelytics merged in April 2025.
