SAP to acquire data lakehouse vendor Dremio

SAP on Monday announced plans to acquire Dremio, which bills itself as an agentic lakehouse company, for an unspecified price. The move is complicated by similar offerings from existing SAP partners Snowflake and Databricks, but analysts point to key differences with Dremio, especially in its ability to work with data while it sits in the enterprise’s environment, rather than having to live externally. One of SAP’s justifications for the acquisition is that it will theoretically make it easie...