SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources. The ERP giant spent an undisclosed sum on the Iceberg-based lakehouse biz in a bid to help its customers eliminate data fragmentation and improve integration. The purchase will, according to SAP, complement its data warehouse and analytics platform, Business Data Cloud, and SAP HANA Cloud. In a statement, SAP said the Business Data Cloud will become an "Apache Iceberg-native enterprise lakehouse that unifies SAP and non-SAP data to power agentic AI at enterprise scale." Apache Iceberg is an open table format that originated at Netflix . It has a rival in Databricks' Delta Lake format – open source under the Linux Foundation – although Databricks has moved to make the standards more interoperable since its acquisition of Tabular, a company founded by Iceberg's original authors.…