SAP agrees to acquire Dremio to expand Business Data Cloud
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Updated · SAP News · May 4
SAP agrees to acquire Dremio to expand Business Data Cloud
12 articles · Updated · SAP News · May 4
The Walldorf- and Austin-based companies said the deal, with undisclosed terms, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 pending regulatory approval.
SAP said Dremio will make Business Data Cloud an Apache Iceberg-native enterprise lakehouse, letting SAP and non-SAP data coexist without data movement or format conversion.
The acquisition is aimed at reducing fragmented data, speeding real-time analytics and agentic AI, and extending open-source technologies including Apache Iceberg, Polaris and Arrow.
Is SAP's billion-euro AI bet on Dremio and Prior Labs enough to challenge cloud-native giants like Databricks and Snowflake?
Can SAP's Dremio deal truly open its data ecosystem, or is this a strategy to control the future of agentic AI?
With SAP BW's 2027 deadline looming, will this acquisition solve the data migration nightmare for thousands of enterprise customers?
SAP’s $2 Billion Acquisition of Dremio Set to Revolutionize Enterprise AI with Open Lakehouse Architecture by Q3 2026
Overview
SAP's planned acquisition of Dremio, expected to close in Q3 2026, aims to solve the critical issue of data fragmentation that causes many enterprise AI projects to fail. By integrating Dremio's technology, SAP will unify data from both SAP and non-SAP sources, creating an open lakehouse architecture that accelerates AI and analytics capabilities. Dremio's architecture reduces unnecessary data movement, cutting costs and latency, while automating complex management tasks to ease operational challenges. This integration positions SAP as a leader in the open lakehouse market, offering customers faster, cost-efficient AI insights, though challenges like migration complexity and low awareness remain to be addressed.