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SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has launched the SAP Business Data Cloud, consolidating data from SAP and external sources to help organizations make informed decisions and advance AI technologies.

SAP's Business Data Cloud is designed to merge data from different applications on a semantic level – for more useful AI applications.

As autonomous agents spread across the vendor landscape, SAP is banking on the rich stores of enterprise data that flow through its ERP software to draw customers to cloud. The analytics and AI solution announced Thursday is the latest migration enticement the company has added to its growing SaaS portfolio.

In this business technologies news, SAP and Databricks unveil SAP Business Data Cloud, a unified data platform designed to optimize AI applications, streamline analytics.

The company also announced a partnership with enterprise data processing and AI company Databricks Inc. The collaboration natively embeds Databrick’s technology for data engineering, machine learning and AI workloads into SAP’s cloud solution.

SAP made one of the most heavily promoted news announcements in recent history. But why SAP Business Data Cloud, and why now? The answer, as expected, leads us right back to AI. Here's my initial take - along with user group reactions.