ASUG CEO & Chief Community Champion Geoff Scott traveled to New York for the SAP Business Unleashed event, where SAP unveiled its newest offering, SAP Business Data Cloud, and its partnership with Databricks, a data analytics and  management software company.

During his trip, Scott sat down with Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP Data & Analytics. They discussed SAP's new offering and partnership, and how these announcements will help enterprises develop a data foundation for business insights and artificial-intelligence applications.

Key topics from their conversation included:

• How SAP Business Data Cloud is different from SAP Datasphere.
• The way SAP Business Data Cloud will sit in the SAP suite alongside applications such as the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP Analytics Cloud.
• The importance of integrating SAP and non-SAP data into a single data layer.

For more information on these announcements and their impact on the SAP ecosystem, check out the following SAP insights:

• The trust factor: Data, resilience, and innovation
• SAP and Databricks Open a Bold New Era of Data and AI