SAP to Acquire Dremio
This news has just hit the presses. Terms are not disclosed as it is still subject to regulatory approval
I could not have said it better myself. From what I can see AI projects are failing because the data that it is using is not fit for purpose.
SAP is as much as admitting this with this purchase despite having SAP BW.
I have been hearing for a while now that AI projects are failing because the underly enterprise data is not fit for purpose. It does not surprise me at all.
From the press release.
Most enterprise AI projects fail to deliver value not because of the AI itself, but because the underlying data is fragmented, locked in proprietary formats and stripped of the business context that makes it meaningful. The result is a familiar and costly pattern: pilots that cannot scale, slow integration of new data sources, duplicated engineering work and compliance risk when organizations cannot explain how an AI-driven decision was reached. Dremio helps eliminate that data fragmentation and integration friction. The acquisition will complement the SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud offerings to ensure seamless data integration across SAP and non-SAP data with high performance and low cost to accelerate AI-ready context and time-to-value for AI.
“Enterprise AI doesn’t stall because the models aren’t good enough; it stalls because the data isn’t ready for AI agents,” said Philipp Herzig, CTO, SAP SE. ” Dremio eliminates that bottleneck. Combined with SAP Business Data Cloud, we can now take customers from raw, fragmented data to governed, AI-ready intelligence on a single open platform.”