The acquisition will strengthen SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC)
SAP SE and Reltio Inc. recently announced that SAP has agreed to acquire Redwood City, California-USA headquartered Reltio, a leading master data management (MDM) software provider, to help customers make their SAP and non-SAP enterprise data AI-ready. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Once closed, the acquisition will strengthen SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC)—integral for SAP’s AI-First and Suite-First strategy—and accelerate the evolution of SAP BDC to a fully interoperable enterprise data platform for enterprise-wide Agentic AI. It will provide customers with the tools they need to unify, cleanse and harmonize data across sources for superior enterprise-wide agentic AI.
“Reltio is a natural fit with SAP,” stressed Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, SAP Product & Engineering. “Acquiring them will further improve our position as a leading business AI provider, combining SAP and non-SAP data to deliver data context that business AI requires. AI cannot reach its full potential when data is fragmented across business units, platforms and domains without connection or context,” he added.
Fully AI-ready
By integrating Reltio after closing the acquisition, SAP will make customers’ enterprise data fully AI-ready. Customers will be able to rely on trusted, high-quality data across SAP and non-SAP sources that Joule and Joule Agents use to deliver faster time-to-value for business AI.
Customers running AI tasks will benefit from increased reliability and consistency of data, bundled in a sole source of truth, improving business AI. With that, customers can trust that AI results are correct, and AI-interactions are resolved fast.
“Joining forces with SAP presents a tremendous opportunity for us to accelerate our mission,” observed Reltio Founder and CEO Manish Sood said. “This combination accelerates our ability to deliver Reltio as the system of context across SAP and non-SAP environments, while maintaining continuity for our customers and our partner ecosystem,” he continued.
Reduce complexity
Reltio’s data cleansing, unification capabilities and agent-driven workflows will work alongside SAP Business Suite applications to improve decisions, reduce integration complexity and deliver trusted, consistent data critical for successful business processes and AI use cases integrations, and solutions tailored to sectors like life sciences, healthcare and financial services.
The transaction is expected to close in Q2- or Q3-2026, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, a joint press statement concluded.
