SAP Databricks documentation

SAP Databricks documentation provides how-to guidance for data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers solving problems in analytics and AI.

What is SAP Databricks?

SAP Databricks is a version of Databricks available as an application in SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC). SAP Databricks provides Databricks' advanced AI and analytics capabilities in an environment that is fully integrated with your SAP landscape.

Key benefits

• Access any data product in SAP Business Data Cloud from your SAP Databricks workspace without replication, eliminating the risk of data inconsistency.
• Combine SAP data with your external data, perform analysis, and publish custom data products back into SAP Business Data Cloud.
• Instantly provision SAP Databricks from "SAP for Me" with automatically integrated single sign-on and security.
• Compute and storage are fully managed. No additional cloud resources are needed.

Key use cases

• Automated forecasting: Build time-series forecasts with the best algorithms and hyperparameters automatically selected.
• Fine-tuning an LLM: Customize foundation models using your own data to optimize performance for your specific applications.
• Exploratory data analysis: Use notebooks to collaborate in a multi-language work surface, allowing you to perform data science, visualizations, feature engineering, and ML model development.
• Business intelligence: Use the SQL editor to run optimized queries and create visualizations for BI reporting.

SAP Databricks architecture

This diagram outlines the relationship between SAP and Databricks.

Features available in SAP Databricks

SAP Databricks is a special edition of Databricks optimized for analytics and AI for data in SAP. For a list of features available on SAP Databricks, see the following articles that outline supported features for each use case:

• Data governance with Unity Catalog
• Business intelligence with Databricks SQL
• Data analysis with notebooks
• Machine learning with Mosaic AI

Supported regions

This table lists the AWS regions supported by SAP Databricks. Some features are available only in a subset of regions.

Region	Location
ap-northeast-1	Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
ap-southeast-1	Asia Pacific (Singapore)
ap-southeast-2	Asia Pacific (Sydney)
eu-central-1	EU (Frankfurt)
us-east-1	US East (Northern Virginia)