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Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#244 - TOW Updates from Build and Sapphire 2025 (Holger Bruchelt, Goran Condric) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 244 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Sapphire and Ignite. A few weeks back we had SAP Sapphires and in parallel Microsoft Build. There were a tons a new announcements and we thought that today we would spend some time to recap the event. We will not do complete recap, but only concentrate on some of the SAP and Microsoft specific topics. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode244Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com...
2025-06-0626 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#235 - The one with Hands-on Sessions @ DSAG TechXChange 2025 (Martin Pankraz, Martin Raepple, Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 235 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about DSAG TechXChange 2025. We are recording this session on Tuesday. Next Friday (so actually one day before we publish this video), we have 5 different hands-on labs at the DSAG TechXChange 2025 event. You might ask: well, why do I care? I am not even attending? Or if you are, you might not have been able to sign-up, because all the sessions are fully booked. Well, the cool thing is that all the sessions are document and published on GitHub now. So if you were not able to attend, you c...
2025-04-0430 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#202 - The one with options with Copilot and SAP (Robert Hernandez) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 202 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Copilot and SAP. In our last episode we talked about the native integration of Microsoft Copilot in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition and how SAP is shipping out of the box content that customers can use right away. We had also talked about the SAP Joule and Microsoft Copilot integration that Christian Klein announced during Sapphire. Both of these scenarios are fantastic and help customers to immediately get started. However, we also know that customer often need very specific, very unique integration -- obviously a...
2024-08-0235 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#201 - The one with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and Microsoft Copilot (Christian Hoffmann) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 201 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Microsoft Copilot and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition.
We are now at over 200 episodes and I actually saw that we also passed 7000 subscribers -- thank you everyone for listening in and subscribing! To celebrate this achievement I am really happy to have Christian Hoffmann from SAP joining us today. For the last few years we have worked together on the Teams integration SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud. If you attended SAP Sapphire or saw some of the videos online you might have seen the next evolution...
2024-07-2635 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#200 - The one with the SAP & Microsoft Partnership (Silvio Bessa) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 200 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the partnership between SAP and Microsoft. We are at episode 200! 200 episodes ago, Robert, Goran and I started to record this weekly call. We wanted to cover the space between SAP and Microsoft and I think we have done a fairly good job. We had lots of guests from Microsoft, but also SAP and other partners here on the show that talked about the combination of SAP and Microsoft. Today I am really happy to have Silvio Bessa with us, the global Lead of our SAP Business Unit...
2024-07-1235 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#199 - The one with updates on Azure NetApp Files (Geert van Teylingen) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 199 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure NetApp Files. A few weeks ago we already talked about the importance of high IO and throughput when it comes to storage. From an Azure side we have some really powerful storage solutions. Among them is Azure NetApp Files, a first party integration of NetApp Files in Azure. This service has been around for over 5 years and we already talked about it in the past. Now I am happy to have Geert back with us to share with us the latest news on Azure NetApp...
2024-07-0555 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#198 - The one with Zero Trust Security Principles for SAP (Evren Buyruk, Daniel Mauser, Joe Speziale) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 198 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Zero Trust Security with SAP.
When was the last time you thought about security? Especially in the context of your SAP system? When preparing for this podcast I did a little research on SAP and security -- and it is actually pretty horrifying how many incidents are even documented in the public. I guess there are even more incidents happening every day across the world. So securing your SAP system becomes more and more important. To talk a little more about Zero Trust Security Principles for SAP I...
2024-06-2853 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#197 - The one with Converting VMs SCSI to NVMe (Philipp Leitenbauer) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 197 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about how to improve storage throughput.
In our last episode we quickly mentioned how features and capabilities are constantly added to services in the cloud. We talked about this in the context of the Azure Monitor for SAP solutions, but obviously these enhancements and optimizations are also happening on a lower level.
Especially in SAP Hana installations, I/O throughput is super critical. In the past SCSI was used to connect your disks to the VM. Now we can leverage NVMe (non-volatile memory express) using Azure Boost. To tell...
2024-06-2128 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#196 - The one with Azure Monitor for SAP solutions (Sujay Jain & Akarsh Prabhu) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 196 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about two topics. Since we just had Sapphire with some amazing announcements, we first want to do a quick recap from a Microsoft points of view.
Then we also want to take another look at Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions. Although there are no major updates, I always find it fascinating how continues the improvements are in the cloud. That is really one of the main benefits of cloud vs. on-perm that you constantly get new features — but you need to know about them. So that‘s why I am h...
2024-06-1446 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#195 - The one with Azure Backup for SAP (Pradeep Saran Burle Venkata & Tunde Azeez) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 195 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about backup. Already in previous episodes we had talked about Backup as one of the interaction points of the Azure Center for SAP Solutions. Today Pradeep and Tunde provide more details on how Azure Backup for SAP works, what features are available and how customers can use this service. Azure Backup for SAP is not only available for SAP HAHA and SQL Service, but also Sybase.
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode195
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2024-06-071h 03Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#194 - The one with Extending SAP RISE with AI on BTP (Sanjeev Kumar) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 194 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we continue our story with SAP and AI. Last week we had Trond on the show who talked about leveraging the Azure Center for SAP Solutions with AI services. When we look at a lot of SAP customers, they are using the SAP Business Technology Platform with their SAP ECC or S/4HANA System. So today Sanjeev Kumar joins us to talk about a scenario that he has build and published on GitHub which integrates Azure OpenAI GPT-4 with SAP Business Technology Platform.
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2024-05-3146 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#193 - The one with Chatting with your SAP System (Trond Stroemme ) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 193 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the Azure Center for SAP Solutions and how it helps you from the Azure Portal to create and operate SAP systems. We talked about integrating other Azure solutions like Azure Monitor or the Health Check with your SAP system. One cool thing that is availalble under the hood are APIs which allows you to fetch all this information from your SAP system. And this can actually be quite powerful.
Trond Stroemme took these APIs and built a really neat Copilot scenario around it. Using the Azure AI Studio...
2024-05-2432 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#192 - The one with SAP SuccessFactors and Microsoft Teams (Vanessa Li) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 192 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP SuccessFactors and Microsoft Teams integration.
When we talk about how Microsoft is a huge SAP customer we mainly talk about our SAP ERP ECC system or the RISE on Azure and SAP S/4HANA conversions that we are doing at the moment. But we also talk about the different Software as a service solutions that we are using from SAP -- and one of them is SAP SuccessFactors.
When you are using SAP SuccessFactors in a lot of cases, your flow of work does actually start outside...
2024-05-1749 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#191 - The one with operating SAP with Azure Center for SAP Solutions (Kalyani Namuduri) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 191 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about again about Azure Center for SAP Solutions, ACSS.
When running your SAP system on Azure, ACSS is here to help you create, run and operate it. In previous episodes we already looked at this in detailed and talked about some of the features available with ACSS.
While we see the number of customers and registered SAP systems steadily increasing, we are also adding new features to it. To continue with our story from February where we introduced ACSS, I am happy to have Kalyani with us again to...
2024-05-1025 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#190 - The one with SAP & Microsoft Defender (Ankit Garg, Gopalakrishnan Krishnan & Cameron Gardiner) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 190 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about security. SAP states, that it is mandatory to have antivirus, host intrusion, secure DNS clients and other security related software installed on Windows Server OS these days. Microsoft Defender can be used to help protect your SAP system. In this episode we have Ankit Garg, Gopalakrishnan Krishnan & Cameron Gardiner joining us to all about protecting your SAP system on Windows and Linux with Microsoft Defender. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode190Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Robert...
2024-05-0347 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#189 - The one with Printing from SAP with Microsoft Universal Print (Devansh Jain & Martin Pankraz ) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 189 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Printing from the Cloud.
A lot of companies are moving their SAP systems to the cloud. SAP on Azure, RISE with SAP on Azure, or GROW with SAP on Azure are things that we see very often with our customers. But what do you actually do with your printer? If you need to print shipping lables, invoices, product descriptions you cannot put your printer in the cloud. You still have your printer sitting on-premise. So how do we connect our SAP systems in the cloud with our printers...
2024-04-2650 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#188 - The one with Azure DNS Service & Hybrid Networking for SAP (Konstantin Popov & Evren Buyruk) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 188 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about about DNS, Domain Name System. DNS acts like a phonebook to resolve IP addresses through their domain names. When something goes wrong, then often the whole network communication breaks down. It's always DNS! Who doesn't know this term whenever it comes to networking issues. In a lot of cases we see customers using Azure DNS Services in the context of hybrid networking with SAP scenarios -- both Azure native and RISE with SAP. Since this can become quite complicated, I am happy to have two experts with u...
2024-04-1957 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#187 - The one with well-architected framework (Jitendra Singh & Hemanth Damecharla) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 187 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the Well-Architected Framework for SAP. The Framework guides customers through a set of questions to track the status of your SAP on Azure implementation.
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode187
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* Azure well-architected framework for SAP:
Jitendra and Hemanth introduced the tool and its...
2024-04-1232 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#186 - The one with SAP Business One and Copilot Studio (Moshe Nachman, Richard Duffy) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 186 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Business One and Copilot Studio.
In the past we had talked about Copilot and the Integration to SAP data. We showed how to retrieve flight data, we talked about Single sign-on and we also showed how to create a Copilot using Copilot Studio that allowed you to create a Sales Order in the SAP System. In all of these scenarios we were connecting to an SAP ECC or an SAP S/4HANA system. But obviously there are also other SAP backends being used by our customers...
2024-04-0547 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#185 - The one with SAP on Azure Technical Copilot (Amit Lal) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 185 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the SAP on Azure Technical Copilot on the OpenAI GPT Store.
A little over a year ago ChatGPT changed the way how we think about AI. ChatGPT allowed everyone to interact with a bot in ways that were not possible before. OpenAI then soon introduced ChatGPT Plus and with that also the possibility to extend ChatGPT with additional content and features.
Amit Lal was very early and released an SAP & Azure Bot in the GPT Store. Today he will show us the bot and tell us a little...
2024-03-2947 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#184 - The one with SAP API Management and Entra ID (Vinayak Adkoli) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 184 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk again about Single Sign-On.
For a VERY long time when I was working at SAP, I was working alongside a very special colleague and friend, Vinayak Adkoli. He was my partner in crime for a lot of projects. In the last projects we worked together on SAP API Management and simplifying the way how customers could manage SAP APIs.
Then I moved to Microsoft, Vinayak moved from India to the US and today I have the pleasure of welcoming him in our podcast. Last week we already had an...
2024-03-2248 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#183 - The one with SAP GUI MFA mit Entra ID (Martin Raepple & Christan Cohrs) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 183 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Deploying Loftware in HA setup with SAP (ECC) in Azure, End-to-end encryption for your VM data and Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions.
Then we talk about Single Sign-On with SAP GUI.
Single Sign-On with SAP is always a super important topics. Luckily we have experts like Martin Raepple who knows the security world of SAP and Microsoft extremely well. Today Martin joins us again, this time with Christian Cohrs from SAP to talk about very new thing: SAP GUI multi factor authentication with Entra ID...
2024-03-1549 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#182 - The one with SAP Inventory Checks (Jitendra Singh) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 182 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the SAP Inventory Check. Jitendra Singh provides an overview about the reasons for the SAP Inventory Check and walks us through the different features.
- 0:00 Intro
- 1:25 Introducing Jitendra
- 2:45 Customer Experience initiative
- 5:40 ACSS Tools & Framework
- 6:55 Accessing Inventory Checks for SAP
- 8:45 Azure Resources by List
- 10:30 Overview of virtual machines
- 13:25 Azure NetApp Files Information
- 16:40 Virtual Instance for SAP
- 22:30 VIS Compute
- 26:30 Next enhancements
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode182
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2024-03-0730 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#181 - The one with the Webshop of the City of Zurich (Holger Schäfer) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 181 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about BTP and Azure.
In previous episodes we often already talked about the BTP, the SAP Business Technology Platform. It is used with a lot of customers for integration and extensions scenarios -- but it can become even more powerful, if you combine it with other services -- like from Microsoft Azure.
Today we have Holger Schäfer with us who will talk about a customer project he is involved in. With the Webshop 2.0 of the City of Zurich they build a Multi Cloud Omnichannel E-Commerce solution, based on t...
2024-03-0149 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#180 - The one with ACSS and Quality Checks (Kalyani Namuduri & Sagar Keswani) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 180 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Center for SAP Solutions, ACSS. ACSS has been around for quite some time now. We have lots of customers AND partners using it to monitor, control and operate their SAP landscapes on Azure.
In this episode we have Kalyani Namuduri and Sagar Keswani with us from our engineering team in India who will recap what's available today and take a closer look at the Quality Check features and how they can help you operate your SAP system on Azure even better.
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2024-02-2333 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#179 - The one with Azure NetApp Files Backup (Ralf Klahr) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 179 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we have Ralf Klahr back on the show. He shares the latest news on Azure NetApp Files Backup capability. ANF online snapshots are now enhanced with backup of snapshots and
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode179
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* ANF backup for SAP on Azure: Ralf explained the benefits...
2024-02-1633 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#178 - The one with DSAG Technologietage 2024 (Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 178 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the DSAG Technologiedays 2024 in Hamburg. Holger attended the event and shares some insights on the key topics such SAP Business AI, Security, Identity and Low-Code.
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode178
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* DSAG Technology Days: Holger recapped the event and shared...
2024-02-0924 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#177 - The one with 7 years at Microsoft (Robert Boban) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 177 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Robert :-)
I'm not sure about the exact year but let's say 15 years ago I was working at SAP and I got introduced probably via email to Robert Boban. Robert was working at that time at the value prototyping team. I was very much engaged already at that time in Microsoft integration projects.
I was part of the NetWeaver Regional Implementation Group and in this context I was looking at integrating a search scenario across the SAP and Microsoft stack. I got introduced to Robert and I immediately...
2024-02-0219 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#176 - The one with Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI and SAP OData Connector (Michael Mergell) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 176 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we are going back up the stack. Last week we covered some cool infrastructure related topics, today we want to focus on AI again.
You might remember that we had Noopur, CJ and also Michael in previous episodes talking about Azure OpenAI and how this could be leveraged for example in a Teams bot. Today we have Michael back with us and he shows a nice integration of Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI and the new SAP OData Connector for Power Automate.
https://github.com/mimergel
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2024-01-2639 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#175 - The one with moving to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set (Goran Condric) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 175 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about building Avatars with Microsoft’s Speech Studio. Then we also talk about Copilot Pro, the new offering of Copilot for consumers and then we take a closer look at moving to the SAP System to Flexible Virtual Machines Scale Set.
Goran talks about the new script that simplifies the migration of systems setup using proximity placement groups to moving to flexible Virtual Machines Scale Set.
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2024-01-1948 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#174 - The one with Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure (Martin Raepple, Bastian Ulke) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastWelcome to 2024! In episode 174 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure. Martin Raepple and Bastian Ulke join us to demo a visual inspection use-case that enhances the standard SAP Digital Manufacturing scenarios.
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode174
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2024-01-1250 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#173 - The one wrapping up 2023 (Jürgen Thomas) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 2023 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we look back at 2023. And like in the previous 3 years again have Jürgen Thomas with us to revisit some of the highlight from 2023 -- and it is not only all about AI.
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode173
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* SAP on Azure podcast: Holger, R...
2023-12-221h 07Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#172 - The one with Breaking silos (Robert Boban, Goran Condric, Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 172 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we don't talk too much about technology, but more about something that often prevents technology to be applied.
Back when I was at SAP, one of the biggest challenges that I saw with customers -- especially with bigger customers -- was that the SAP team is not talking to the non-SAP team.
In a lot of organizations there is a dedicated team in IT that looks after the SAP environment and an IT team that is looking after the rest. They often don't even sit on the same floor or build...
2023-12-1534 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#171 - The one with Azure Site Recovery for SAP (Evren Buyruk & Rohan Sahini) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 171 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Disaster Recovery leveraging Azure Site Recovery with Evren Buyruk and Rohan Sahini.
We take a look at the architecture and underlying platform, concepts for SAP on Azure. Then we look how Azure Site recovery can help protect your SAP systems and look at best best practices for replication, RTO & PRO and capacity.
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2023-12-081h 03Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#170 - The one with DMOVE2S4H (Mathias Klein) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 170 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about new capacity pools with Azure NetApp Files. Then we continue a discussion that we stared over a year ago -- the DMO for SAP. At that time we had a very cool session with Mathias Klein from SAP and Taka Hoshino from Microsoft on the new Database Migration Option for Azure. At that time we presented a whitepaper, that outlined the steps to simplify the conversion and make DMO to Azure happen.
We also briefly talked about potential next steps and how all the prerequisite checks could be...
2023-12-0139 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#169 - The one with Enterprise controls in AI SDK (Gopal Nair) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 169 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about updates in October from SAP and Microsoft, the latest M-Series VMs with almost 32 TB of memory, a session at Ignite on how Microsoft IT runs SAP on Azure, how to use Azure Blog storage with ABAP Steampunk and a SAP-on-Azure Technical Copilot on OpenAI.
Then we go deep with Gopal Nair with enterprise controls of the AI SDK for SAP. The Enterprise control features allow customers to manage and control the usage of the AI SDK for SAP in your SAP System.
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2023-11-2447 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#168 - The one with the November Events (Goran Condric & Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 168 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the recent events that happend. We start with SAP Teched 2023 in Bangalore and take a look at some of the key announcements. Then we switch continents and look at asug Tech Connector where Geoff Scott, Jürgen Müller from SAP and Scott Guthrie from Microsoft kicked off the event with a keynote. Then we quickly talk about the OpenAI DevDay before taking another closer look at Microsoft Ignite.
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2023-11-1735 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#167 - The one with Gen AI with SAP CAP (David Kunz) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 167 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Teched 2023, an SAP and Microsoft related Teched blog post and Github Universe. Then we continue with one of the main topics from Teched:
I was lucky to attend SAP Teched in Bangalore and it was a really cool show. One of the key highlights from SAP, was SAP Build Code. SAP Build Code helps developers to create code for the Cloud Application Programming model -- similar like GitHub Copilot. Already during Sapphire earlier this year, Jürgen Müller had already shown a cool sneak preview of CA...
2023-11-1041 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#166 - The one with updates on Premium v2 storage (Peter Kalan, Anbu Govindasamy) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 166 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we go deep on Premium v2 storage with Peter Kalan and Anbu Govindasamy. We look at the different storage options for SAP on Azure, show some performance comparisions, dynamic tiering and snappshotting. Then also talk about how to migrate to premium v2.
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2023-11-0350 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#165 - The one with Configuration Editor with SAP Deployment Automation Framework (Kimmo Forss & Hemanth Damecharla) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 165 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances will be retired by 30 June 2025 and the transition to Virtual Machines, Configuring Azure NetApp Files (ANF) Application Volume Group (AVG) for zonal SAP HANA deployment, Changes to the Azure reservation exchange policy, a look back at the ABAP Story, A Cool use of Open AI in Eclipse, Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event introduces wave of new AI-powered capabilities for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform and Azure OpenAI powered SAP Self-Services.
Then we take a closer look at SDAF, or the SAP Deployment...
2023-10-2755 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#164 - The one with Updates to Master Data from Teams @ Mars (Steve Curtis) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 164 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Master Data updates from Teams.
In previous episodes we had talked about Teams, leveraging AI services for a better chatbot experience and talked about how this could be connected to an SAP system. We even showed some demos -- but it was just that: proof of concepts! Today we have a very special guest: Steve Curtis from Mars. He has build an MDM Chatbot in Teams that allows mass updates to Master Data in SAP MDG using MS Teams -- which is actually live and running...
2023-10-1238 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#163 - The one with the UI5 Spreadsheet Importer (Marian Zeis) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast## Introduction
In episode 163 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Excel. When Christian Klein did the keynote on the DSAG Jahreskongress two weeks back, he put up a slide on the evolution of customers running their business. And one of the starting points was Excel! I would argue that even today there are probably very few customers that are not using Excel -- in addition to their SAP system. So integration is key. There are thousands of ways how Excel can work with SAP -- there is even a joke that every month a blog post is...
2023-10-0641 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#162 - The one with Building with the AI SDK for SAP (Gopal Nair) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 162 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about RISE into the Future with SAP, SAP announcing new generative AI assistant Joule and chatBASF.
Then we go back to the AI SDK for SAP. A few weeks ago we already had Gopal joining us where he introduced us to the AI SDK for ABAP. As promised we wanted to take a deep dive on this topic. Gopal has brought some cool examples on how you can use Azure OpenAI as an ABAP developer.
https://microsoft.github.io/aisdkforsapabap/
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2023-09-2939 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#161 - The one with Even more Teams, SAP and AI (Chan Jin Park) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 161 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the DSAG Jahreskongress 2023, SAP Business One with Power Platform and announcing Microsoft Copilot! Then we switch topics:
5 months ago we had a very interesting episode where CJ from our Team in Asia had developed a simple, but amazing scenario on how to leverage Azure OpenAI, Teams and generating SQL queries to access data from SAP. After his session we had Michael Mergell and our intern Noopur Vaishnav joining as well to talk about similar scenarios.
Today CJ joins us again to provide an update on the latest integrations...
2023-09-2255 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#160 - The one with Ontologies for manufacturing with SAP & Microsoft (Erich Barnstedt) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 160 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about about Manufacturing Ontologies. An ontology defines the language used to describe a system. In the manufacturing domain, these systems can represent a factory or plant but also enterprise applications or supply chains.
The Digital Twin Consortium has created an open-source Manufacturing Ontologies reference architecture, where until recently one of the most requested features was the integration of on-premises SAP systems. I say "until recently", because our guest today, Erich Barnstedt just recently published exactly that.
https://github.com/digitaltwinconsortium/ManufacturingOntologies
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2023-09-1531 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#159 - The one with Fusing SAP and Microsoft (James Wood & Paul Modderman) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 159 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Netweaver 7.5 with MaxDB 7.9 on Azure using Azure NetApp Files (ANF), Microsoft Defender Endpoint (MDE) for SAP Applications on Windows Server, HackTogether - Microsoft Power Platform AI Hack and Microsoft announcing new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers.
Then we hear from James Wood, CEO at Bowdark and Paul Modderman, Chief Nerd at Bowdark about their Fuse integration platform.
We have talked already quite often about Power Platform and the integration to SAP. Microsoft provides several out of the box connectors that make the integration quite easy. However...
2023-09-0847 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#158 - The one with updates from ASUG (Geoff Scott) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 158 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk with Geoff Scott from ASUG about Microsoft and SAP.
In previous episodes we often mentioned DSAG, the German Speaking SAP User Group. This is probably not only because Goran and I are both located in Germany, but am also hosting the "SAP on Microsoft Azure" working group within DSAG.
However, did you know that ASUG was founded over 30 years ago and has more than 100.000 members across thousands of organizations? It is actually the biggest SAP user group in the world.
So for todays episode I am really happy...
2023-09-0156 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#157 - The one with SAP, Teams, Power and AI - Internship @ Microsoft (Noopur Vaishnav) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 157 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Interns at Microsoft. Noopur Vaishnav joins us to talk about her Summer internship at Microsoft focusing on SAP, Power Virtual Agent, Power Automate and Teams -- all together leveraging AI. The resulting demo allows anyone to chat with data from your SAP system, find the right products and then create a Sales order in the SAP system.
Make sure to checkout the blog post from Noopur:
Building GPT-4 powered bots for SAP enterprise data on Microsoft Teams: A Low-Code Approach
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2023-08-2530 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#156 - The one with the AI SDK for ABAP (Gopal Nair) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 156 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP on Azure NetApp Files Sizing Best Practices, SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations, NFS v4.1 volumes on Azure NetApp Files for SAP HANA, Announcing public preview of new Mv3 Medium Memory Virtual Machines, the SAP CDC Connector on Azure and Part 2 of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment integration journey with Microsoft blog post, this time about Azure OpenAI & AI SDK for ABAP.
Then we take a closer look at the Microsoft AI SDK for ABAP.
A few months ago, we talked about a...
2023-08-1841 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#155 - The one with VMSS Flex for SAP (Ralitza Deltcheva & Dennis Padia) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 155 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the Magic Quadrant for Robotic Process Automation, Forrester Wave for Low-Code Development Platforms, Generative AI use-cases with SAP and an Open Source Framework for uploading Excel files in UI5 made easy.
Then we talk with Dennis and Ralitza about using Virtual Machine Scale Sets flex with SAP workload.
Typically VMs can be deployed regionally using Availability sets or zonal using Availability zones. VMSS Flex for SAP can now combine these two deployments by logically grouping platform managed virtual machines.
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2023-08-1147 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#154 - The one with Oracle multi-volume performance with Azure NetApp Files (Geert van Teylingen) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 154 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Automated registration of SAP systems at scale with Azure Centre for SAP solutions, Private Preview for DR for Shared Disks with Azure Site Recovery, SAP OData APIs via Azure API Management and link it with Azure Static Web App, Manufacturing Ontologies - with SAP, availability of ABAP Platform Trial and Warmest Welcome to our new SAP Champions!
Then we take a look at Azure NetApp Files. We mainly talk about this in the context of SAP HANA on Azure. But as we briefly touched early as well, ANF...
2023-08-0454 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#153 - The one with Private Link and Azure OpenAI (Harutyun Ter-Minasyan, Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 153 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Migrate Windows Server upgrade, Protect Azure workloads with VM level consistency using Agentless Crash-Consistent Restore Points, Azure API Management and how to work with OData services and Microsoft Sentinel's Impact - Investigating a SAP Breach.
Then we go deep with Harutyun Ter-Minasyan from SAP and Martin Pankraz on the latest news with SAP Private Link Services. Azure OpenAI is now also available and the connection via SAP Private Link offer some unique integration options. Harut and Martin show a nice scenario evaluting BTP Audit-Log files using Azure...
2023-07-2740 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#152 - The one with Steampunk on Azure (Frank Jentsch & Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 152 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about AzAcSnap support for DB2 on Azure NetApp Files, Microsoft Azure Boost Preview, reCAP 2023 Videos, Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge, Public Preview of OData API type in Azure API Management and SAP Business One - A discussion with Rainer Zinow from SAP.
Then Frank Jentsch and Martin Pankraz join us to talk about Steampunk, or the SAP Business Technology Platform ABAP Environment. About 4 years ago Harald Kuck, Head of ABAP Platform, published a blog post on Steampunk and since then it is used by lots of customers...
2023-07-2138 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#151 - The one with SAP CAP and Azure Cosmos DB (Volker Buzek & Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 151 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the SAP Community events that happend last week: reCAP and the UI5Con in St. Leon-Rot and also the hackathon on SAPs Cloud Application Programming model with Azure Cosmos DB.
Volker Buzek and Martin Pankraz join us to talk about how the event was planned and the results.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode151
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2023-07-1435 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#150 - The one with Azure DDoS Protection for SAP workloads (Evren Buyruk & Amir Dahan) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 150 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Premiums SSD v2, Azure NetApp Files double encryption at rest, Reference architectures with SAP AI Core service on SAP BTP with Azure OpenAI, Reducing your CO2 footprint using a smart Generative AI application on SAP BTP, the reCAP Hackathon - CAP & Azure Cosmos DB, Part 1 of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment integration journey with Microsoft and new playbooks for Microsoft Sentinel for SAP.
Then we take a deep dive into Brute Force and DDoS attacks protection with Evren Buyruk & Amir Dahan. They are talking about security...
2023-07-071h 16Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#149 - The one with SAP, Azure Open AI and Power Virtual Agent (Michael Mergell) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 149 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about a guide deploying SAP workloads across Azure Availability Zones, Azure Charts, From zero to hero security coverage with Microsoft Sentinel for your critical SAP security signals, Terraform provider for SAP BTP now available for non-productive use, Mercedes-Benz enhancing drivers’ experience with Azure OpenAI Service and Public Preview announcement for Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data.
Then Michael Mergell joins us to talk about Chatbots in Teams. This time not focusing on business processes (like approving Sales orders), but on scenarios for the SAP Basis admin: how to check us...
2023-06-3051 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#148 - The one with Visual Studio and Power Platform (Robert Boban) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 148 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in more regions, SQL Server 2022 is released for SAP NetWeaver, Data protection with BlueXP backup and recovery with SAP HANA on AZure NetApp Files, SAP Start/Stop Automation using Azure Center for SAP Solutions, Principal propagation in a multi-cloud solution between Microsoft Azure and SAP, Part VII Invoke RFCs and BAPIs with Kerberos delegation from Microsoft Power Platform, SAP BTP ABAP Environment integration journey with Microsoft Excel and GitHub Copilot Early Adoption phase at SAP.
Then Robert Boban walks us through a...
2023-06-2341 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#147 - The one with HANA scale-out N+N Architectures (Abbas Ali Mir & Momin Qureshi) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 147 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about BTP ABAP Environment / Steampunk on Azure, additional tutorials about leveraging Steampunk on Azure with other Microsoft services, Integration 2023, new BTP Private Link services for Azure OpenAI, SAP AI Built for Business and Microsoft Copilot.
Then Abbas and Momin join us to talk about HANA scale-out system and different configuration scenarios. They walk us through the configuration and show us the results live in Azure.
In case you want to tase a delicious chicken, check out this recipe from Momin:
2023-06-161h 12Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#146 - The one with MaxDB HA on Windows Cluster (Steffen Müller) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 146 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Optimizing Microsoft’s SAP environment with Microsoft Azure, Virtual Machine Scale Sets for SAP workload, How to easily migrate an existing SAP system VMs to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set and SAP on Azure High Availability Setup of Content Server 7.53 with MaxDB database in Linux Environment.
Then Steffen Müller joins us to talk about his recent blog posts on Installation of an SAP NetWeaver ERP based on WSFC with clustered ASCS and SAP MaxDB.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode146
2023-06-0251 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#145 - The one with GA and Updates of Azure Center for SAP Solutions (Kalyani Namuduri & Aron Stern) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 145 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Microsoft Build and SAP Sapphire:SAP Sapphire and Microsoft Build just finished this week.
From SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, SAP Business AI, Green ledger, Copilot plugins, Copilot for Windows, Edge, ... so much new topics were presented.
However, in this episode we focus on Azure Center for SAP solutions, which went just GA. Aron Stern and Kalyani Namuduri join us to talk about the "Controltower" for your SAP solution and demo how it works.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode145
2023-05-261h 05Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#144 - The one with GA of Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (Sujay Jain & Akarsh Prabhu) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 144 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we recap SAP Sapphire 2023 in Orlando with lots of announcements around Azure Center for SAP Solutions and other topics.
Then we have Sujay Jain and Akarsh Prabhu joining us talk about the general availability of Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions, or AMS. Sujya and Akarsh walk us through the motivation and main features and then show us how it looks like in the Azure portal.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode144
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2023-05-1942 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#143 - The one with Low-Code with Neptune Software and M365 (Martin Fischer & Abesh Bhattacharjee) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 143 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Advanced Settings with the SAP CDC Connector and SLT and the upcoming Sapphire. Then we welcome Martin Fischer and Abesh Bhattacharjee from Neptune Software.
In previous episodes we have often talked about low-code and SAP. In most cases that meant Power Platform and SAP. However, there are obviously lots of other solutions out there. SAP has their own low-code solution with SAP Build -- and there are some great ways to integrate. But there are also other partners: like Neptune Software. They also offer...
2023-05-1247 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#142 - The one with Power Platform and Single Sign-On (Martin Raepple) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 142 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the DSAG Investment Report 2023, Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks, Power your business with AI, Microsoft AI SDK for SAP and Power Platform being more than just a toy.
Then we focus on Power Platform and SAP. One of my recommendation to customers is always to use Single Sign-On when using Power Platform and SAP. With the new SAP ERP Connector the configuration for using Kerberos has been simplified quite a bit! Martin Raepple walks us through and end-to-end process and some...
2023-05-0545 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#141 - The one with updates on HA with SAP on Azure (Ralitza Deltcheva) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 141 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Enabling SAP CAP with Azure services without OData APIs using SAP Private Link, SAP on Azure DNS Integration whitepaper, UIcon & re>≡CAP, Microsoft and SAP quarterly numbers and focus on AI / OpenAI, Sapphire and finally the new Microsoft AI SDK for SAP.
Then we look at single point of failures. Running an SAP system still means you have to care of SPOF like ACSC or fileshares. Ralitza Deltcheva joins us to talk about the lastest for high availability with SAP on Azure, like file share options, pac...
2023-04-2852 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#140 - The one with Sentinel for SAP (Yoav Daniely, Yossi Hasson & Martin Pankraz, Sebastian Ullrich)In episode 140 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Automation support for PowerShell 7.2, Support for Linux clients to use identity-based access to Azure file shares over SMB, SAP Cloud Identity Services offered as Trial Version, Demystify Single Sign-On on Server Side for SAP RISE Customers and Azure Logic Apps' New Data Mapper for Visual Studio Code (Preview).
Then we talk about Security: Next to AI, Security is one of the most important topics in the discussions with my customers at the moment. With the "Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications" we also...
2023-04-2156 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#139 - The one with the Power Platform & SAP Roadshow (Mahesh Iyer & Marlene Willersinn) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 139 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about DR scenario for SAP Windows application servers, SAP Private Link in Action at FrieslandCampina and Part 3 of the SAP CDC Connector and SLT. Then we switch over to low-code.
Low-code and SAP are top of mind in a lot of my discussions with customers and partners at the moment. One reason might be the Power Platform and SAP roadshow that we just ran in Germany. We had stops in three cities and in all locations we had trouble fitting everyone in -- all shows...
2023-04-1433 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#138 - The one with Azure Open AI and SAP S/4HANA (Chan Jin Park) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 138 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Firewall enhancements, sector size of Azure Premium SSD v2, Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event, DSAG Working-group Open AI & SAP, Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter, SAP Developer Insights Survey 2023 and GitHub Codespaces for Students and Educators.
Then we talk about a very hot topic: OpenAI, ChatGPT, Copilot, Dalee, or Azure Open AI are currently mentioned almost everywhere. In the midsts to a lot of strange and completely useless scenario we can also see some gems popping up. Especially in the area of SAP and Open AI we s...
2023-04-0748 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#137 - The one with Using SAP CDC via SLT (Manish Shah) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 137 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about an upcoming CAP and Cosmos DB Hackathon, news of Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Security Copilot, Reference architecture of an SAP BTP CAP application using GPT Models of OpenAI, 30 Days Of Azure AI and SAP CDC Connector and SLT - Part 2 - Initial Configuration by Bartosz. Then we welcome Manish Shah with us. One of the most popular topics at the moment is how to work with data from SAP in a Microsoft context. SAP Datasphere was recently announced by SAP and one of the key integration points was...
2023-03-3151 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#136 - The one with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) & Teams (Zoltan Farkas, Zoltan Miklos Biro) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 136 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Microsoft 365 Copilot, DSAG and Reference Architectures from SAP on OpenAI, BTP and Azure, GROW with SAP, Building a bot using Microsoft’s Power Virtual Agent on S/4 HANA on-premise… using SAP BTP, Microsoft Power Apps at the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event and then Design Considerations when Integrating IBP Tasks into Microsoft Teams.
Then we have Zoltan Miklos Biro and Zoltan Farkas joining us to talk about the latest integration of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Tasks Integrated with MS Teams with a live demo...
2023-03-2458 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#135 - The one with the Refresh Day (Robert Boban) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 135 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Protecting your Rise and S/4HANA application layer with MS Sentinel today and the certified Microsoft Sentinel 1.0 connector for SAP, Microsoft Azure Applications for Neptune DXP, a new ebook on modernizing SAP on the Microsoft Cloud, updates to the SAP Collaborative ERP with Share to Microsoft Teams, and an upcoming reCAP event which will also look at Cosmos DB integration.
Then we Robert will talk about a "refresh day" which should remind customers and partners to revisit their cloud implementations with SAP...
2023-03-1731 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast(fixed) #134 - The one with SAP Business One (Moshe Nachman & Richard Duffy) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 134 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about using Azure NetApp Files AVG for SAP HANA to deploy HANA with multiple partitions, Secure Communication to Fetch SAP NetWeaver SAP Control and SAP RFC Metric Data in Azure Monitor for SAP, ChatGPT Integration with SAP S/4HANA, Build solutions faster with Microsoft Power Platform and next-generation AI and Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot.
Then we talk about a question that we got in several comments: SAP Business One. Especially how you can extend and integrate your SAP Business One system with Azure...
2023-03-1044 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#134 - The one with SAP Business One (Moshe Nachman & Richard Duffy) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 134 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about using Azure NetApp Files AVG for SAP HANA to deploy HANA with multiple partitions, Secure Communication to Fetch SAP NetWeaver SAP Control and SAP RFC Metric Data in Azure Monitor for SAP, ChatGPT Integration with SAP S/4HANA, Build solutions faster with Microsoft Power Platform and next-generation AI and Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot.
Then we talk about a question that we got in several comments: SAP Business One. Especially how you can extend and integrate your SAP Business One system with Azure...
2023-03-1002 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#133 - The one with students building SAP and Power Platform Solutions (Christian Drumm) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 133 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about DNS integration with SAP RISE, Public Preview announcements of Azure NetApp Files, SAP SuccessFactors and AAD integration, Pulse oft he SAP Customer Research by ASUG, SAP IBP integration with Teams, the Power Platform + SAP Roadshow and the upcoming DSAG Technologietage 2023.
Then we have Christian Drumm with us who is a professor at the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences and he has been teaching students about SAP for quite some time. For the last semester we teamed up with him to also i...
2023-03-0344 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#132 - The one with a Hands-on workshop integrating SAP and Microsoft (Karl Kessler, Harish Bokkasam, Martin Pankraz, Bart Delanghe) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 132 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about how customers and partners can develop integration. Recently we had a great workshop with DSAG, the German Speaking SAP Usergroup, and 50 customers and partners. Based on an S/4HANA 2022 system we developed an integration using events in Microsoft Teams, showed how to load data in Excel, create a simple Bot and also build a small app in Microsoft Word to fetch data from SAP.
Together with Karl Kessler and Harish Bokkasam from SAP and Martin Pankraz and Bart Delanghe from Microsoft, we t...
2023-02-2442 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#131 - The one with Scenarios with SAP and Power Platform (Ronald Knienieder) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 131 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Power Platform and SAP. Lots of customers are currently looking at leveraging Low-code with SAP and obviously Power Platform and SAP is top of the list. Ronald Knienieder joins us to talk about several use-cases where SAP processes are integrated and visualized with Power App and Power Automate.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode131
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2023-02-1745 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#130 - The one with Events from SAP to Azure (Karsten Strothmann) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 130 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP ASE on Azure NetApp Files, SAP on Azure Oracle Performance scripts, Identity federation between Azure AD B2C and SAP Cloud, Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, Microsoft Roadshow about SAP & Power Platform and Events-to-Business Actions. Then we have Karsten Strothmann from SAP joining.
A few years ago, when I was still working at SAP I had often discussions with architects at customers about Events and Event Driven Architectures. At that time we painted a lot of interesting diagrams how e...
2023-02-1050 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#129 - The one with Storage Options with SAP on Azure (Siddhartha Rabindran) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 129 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about ANF Backup, DB2 Installations on ANF, HA deployment with File Share running on Windows failover to DR region using ASR, a new blog post series on Event Drive Architectures between SAP and Microsoft, OpenAI and Microsoft Extending their Partnership, Interviews in Davos with Satya Nadella and Christian Klein, Garnter Magic Quadrants for iPaas and Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, SAP and Power Apps use cases, Private Link with Azure Cosmos DB and SAP S/4HANA app for Microsoft Teams.
Then we have Siddhartha Rabindran joining us...
2023-02-0349 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#128 - The one with Oracle ASM configuration (Cameron Gardiner) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastThis episode is a little different. Ideally you watch the video as well.
Some time ago Cameron Gardiner joined us to talk about best practices with SAP on Oracle on Azure. We got several questions on how to actually do an installation and configuration of Oracle ASM. Cameron published a blog post with all the required steps and in this episode we will walk through the full setup.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode128
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2023-01-271h 27Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#127 - The one with Backup with ANF (Ralf Klahr) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 127 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about creating Maintenance Request in SAP S/4HANA using SAP Build Apps(aka AppGyver) and Azure Anomaly Detector.
Then we talk about Backup. Last week we talked about Disaster Recovery and we had a very good session on how to recover your system in case of a disaster. One option is to do backup & restore. In the area of SAP we often see customers using Azure NetApp Files being used. We already had covered ANF in several previous shows and because of that I am very h...
2023-01-2032 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#126 - The one with Disaster Recovery Guidelines for SAP Workload (Dennis Padia) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 126 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about using the SAP CDC Connector for ADF, Implementing an Event-Forwarding Mechanism using SAP Business One B1iF and Microsoft Azure, SAP Oracle 19c System Refresh Guide on Azure VMs and SAP Applications and Microsoft Defender for Linux.
Then we welcome Dennis Padia to talk about Disaster Recovery Guidelines for SAP Workload. Azure provides a lot of flexibility and options on how to ensure your SAP System can cope with disaster recovery. Dennis walks us through all the things you need to consider when setting up y...
2023-01-131h 05Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#125 - The one with Securing SAP with Azure Services (Evren Buyruk) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 125 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Looking back on 2022, Azure Backup for SAP HANA, Shortage of Security experts, ABAP Cloud, SAP Business One and Microsoft Azure and how the Power Platform can help you modernize your mainframe application.
Then we take another deep dive on SAP and security. Bad actors are getting more aggressive and it is easier to attack a company using different tools and services. That's why it is so important to also use services to protect your IT systems -- not only SAP. Evren Buyruk joins us again...
2023-01-061h 23Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#124 - The one wrapping up 2022 (Jürgen Thomas) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 124 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we are wrapping up the year 2022 and are really happy to have Jürgen Thomas back with us. Looking back at our episodes in this year and we had lots of things to cover:
From an infrastructure perspective with (almost) 24 TB VMs, amazingly many RISE on Azure projects, updates with Azure Monitor for SAP, improvements with Azure Backup for SAP, the Quality Checktool, Sentinel for SAP, Azure Center for SAP Solutions, SAP Private Link between BTP and Azure, Teams integration and of course Power Platform and SAP.
2022-12-211h 07Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#123 - The one with working with partners (Robert Boban) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 123 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Cross Zonal Restore of Azure Virtual Machines from Azure Backup, Azure NetApp Files cross-zone replication, Optimize HANA deployments with Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA and Coca-Cola United automating over 50,000 orders in complex SAP invoicing process with Microsoft Power Platform.
"Partners make more possible". From the very beginning partners were and are a central pillar for Microsofts success.
If we look at SAP and Microsoft, this is even more important. We have now a lot of pure SAP partners that...
2022-12-1630 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#122 - The one with Ransomware and Back to Business (Sebastian Ullrich & Martin Steiner) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 122 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Private Link with Web Application Firewall, Automatic renewal of certificates using Azure Key Vault and Logic Apps and Solution Diagrams and icons for SAP Business Technology Platform.
Then Martin Steiner and Sebastian Ullrich join us to talk about security. If you do a Google search or just look at the news, then unfortunately we hear more and more often that customers are impacted by security related incidents. So it is not a matter of if, but *when* you will be attacked. With this in...
2022-12-091h 00Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#121 - The one with SAP @ Microsoft (Frederic Huet) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 121 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Munich Re benefits of running SAP on Azure, insights on Disaster recovery for SAP workload and sizing reports for SAP BWonHANA.
Then we have Frederic Huet from Microsoft IT with us to talk about our own usage and implementation of SAP at Microsoft, focusing on the landscape, our own digital transformation jounrey and the vision for an open & agile platform.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode121
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2022-12-0245 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#120 - The one with Azure Backup for SAP (Kartik Pullabhotla) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 120 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP on Oracle, SAP Enable Now and syncing with Azure Active Directory and Microsoft using SAP SuccessFactors.
Then we have an update on Azure Backup for SAP. Kartik Pullabhotla joins us and shows the latest features like Snapshot- and stream-based backup, cost optimization and ransomware protections.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode120
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2022-11-251h 01Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#119 - The one with Updates to the SAP CDC Connector (Ulrich Christ) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 119 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP TechEd 2022, Microsoft sessions during SAP TechEd, a look back from Azure on latest releases, SAP and Microsoft Office integration, Azure Automation, the new PowerShell 7.3 and Process Mining with Power Automate.
Then we welcome Ulrich Christ back on the show. The SAP CDC Connector which allows customers to blend data from SAP into Azure is now general available. Ulrich shows us a demo and provides us with an overview on the latest enhancements.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode119
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2022-11-1844 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#118 - The one with the New SAP Connector for Power Platform (Jon Gilman) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 118 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about GitHub Universe, migrating your SAP PI/PO flows to Cloud Native, news on SAP HANA Large Instances, Creating SAP HANA cluster resources, kickstarting your SAP Deployment with Azure Center for SAP Solutions and a look back at the SAP Business Connector. Then we welcome Jon Gilman to our call this week.
About a year ago Microsoft acquired ClearSoft and by this added a lot of SAP experience to the Power Platform team. The results of this acquisition can already been seen: during the Power Platform...
2022-11-1138 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#117 - The one with integrating SAP Digital Supply Chain with Microsoft (Domnic Benedict & Bartosz Jarkowski) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 117 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about latest improvements to efficiency in Microsoft datacenters, sustainability guidance for Azure Kubernetes Services, using availability zones for HA in Azure NetApp Files, Premium SSD v2 storage configurations for SAP HANA, SAP events on Azure Event Grid, GA of Power Apps Ideas and Calling the Microsoft Graph on behalf of the SAP-authenticated user.
Then we have Domnic Benedict from SAP and Bartosz Jarkowski joining us to talk about integrating the SAP Digital Supply Chain with Microsoft services.
The integration with Microsoft Teams via Adaptive...
2022-11-0447 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#116 - The one with Sustainability aspects with Microsoft (Paul Edlund) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 116 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about sustainability.
Two weeks ago the German Speaking SAP user Group had its annual conference in Leipzig, Germany. Christian Braukmüller and Marcel Scherer had hosted a session about "Auf der Suche nach Nachhaltigkeit - Vorsicht bei Greenwashing" (e.g. "On the search for sustainability - lookout for greenwashing"). In their presentation they talked alot about sustainability, Carbon footprint, and raised the question how companies are dealing with sustainability topics in general.
Paul Edlund provides a fascinating look into the efficiency of Azure datacenters, c...
2022-10-281h 04Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#115 - The one with Working with Oracle and ANF (Kellyn Gorman & Geert van Teylingen) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 115 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we look back at the GA of the SAP CDC Connector for Azure Data Factory, discuss a new blog post by Martin on SAP Private Link with Azure Kubernetes Services and then take a closer look on updates with Azure NetApp Files with Geert van Teylingen.
After that we go deep on Oracle with THE expert on this: Kellyn Gorman. We take a closer look on the AWR Report which allows us to really get a good understanding on what is happening in your Oracle system.
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2022-10-2158 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#114 - The one with Azure Functions SDK for SAP (Martin Pankraz, Will Eastbury) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 114 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we start to talk about Ignite! The Book of news covers lots of interesting news -- including about SAP. We kick-off with a live connection onsite to Ignite Munich, then highlight a few announcements like the SAP S/4HANA Cloud integration via Adaptive Card-based Loop components into Microsoft Teams, new certified "close to 24 TB memory" virtual machines on Azure, updates to the Azure Center for SAP Solutions, Bartosz blog post on the new CDC Connector for Azure Data Factory to SAP, Principal Propagation for live OData feeds with Power Query...
2022-10-141h 21Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#113 - The one with SAP Release Management using Azure DevOps (Jaganmohan Reddy, Ram Gudupalli) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 113 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP BTP Private Link, Azure DataFactory and SAP, SAP Supply Chain leveraging Azure ML and integrating via Adaptive Cards in Teams, Ignite and DSAG Jahreskongress.
Then we have Jaganmohan Reddy and Ram Gudupalli joining us to talk about SAP Release Management using Azure DevOps
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode113
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* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
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2022-10-0755 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#112 - The one with SAP on DB2 (Peter Kalan) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 112 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about new regions for Azure NetApp Files and cross-region replication, Hybrid work and the impact also to Viva, the Kusto Detective Agency, SAP TechEd and Single Sign-On and a new webinar series from DSAG and Microsoft.
In previous episodes we already talked about running SAP on HANA, running SAP on Oracle and best practices. But obviously HANA and Oracle are not the only databases that customers can use running SAP on Azure. There is Microsoft SQL Server, ASE and of course DB2. So today we have...
2022-09-3055 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#111 - The one with Cloud Infrastructure Security (Paul Edlund) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 111 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we look at Cameron Gardiner "SAP on Azure General Update August 2022", see how the SAP BTP Destination Service can be used to connect to services from Azure, look at SAP Process Automation and how it can connect to Outlook and Excel and deep dive on some SAP related announcements done during the Power Platform Conference this week. The new SAP Connector that was announced there, not only comes with new capabilities, but also with a set of predefined templates for Power Apps and Power Automate which for example allow you...
2022-09-231h 07Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#110 - The one with the Azure Center for SAP Solutions (Aron Stern) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 110 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about a Bridge Framework to integrate SAP systems with Teams, support for NFS shares with Azure Files, Integrating Signavio with SAP solution Manager hosted on Azure using Azure Application Gateway and SAP on Azure high availability – change from SPN to MSI for Pacemaker clusters using Azure fencing.
Then Aron Stern joins us to talk about making Azure SAP-aware. The Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) allows customers to deploy and manager their SAP systems directly from within Azure. With a few clicks -- or via APIs, CL...
2022-09-1653 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#109 - The one with Power Platform & SAP Business Technology Platform (Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 109 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about live resizing of SSDs, High availability with DB2 and the Security Community. Then we take a closer look at how to use SAP Business Technology Platform Services from a Power Automate Flow.
In addition to the built in Power Platform AI Builder, customers can also consume external services -- like the Document Information Extraction Service.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode109
Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran C...
2022-09-0923 minUnofficial SAP on Azure podcast#108 - The one with Physical Security @ Microsoft (Paul Edlund) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 108 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about porting your legacy SAP middleware flows to cloud-native PaaS solutions,Inbound and outbound internet connections for SAP on Azure, High availability solutions on Microsoft Azure by SLES for SAP Applications, deploying SAP Dialog Instances with SAP ASCS/SCS high availability VMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a new hands on workshop for SAP, Data and AI and All Things SAP on Azure with Azure Net Apps Files with SAP.
Then we have Paul Edlund joining us. Paul is doing lots of data center tours and p...
2022-09-021h 00Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#107 - The one with SAP on Oracle in Azure (Sambit Mishra) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn episode 107 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about how to use SAP Private Link with SAP Cloud Integration and the SAP Launchpad, S/4HANA Cloud 2208 release now supporting Share with Teams", Microsofts statement on usage of Microsoft 365 and Teams in the public sector in Germany, SAP themselves using Teams and migrating 15.000 users in India to Teams Phone in one day, inline editing with Power Apps grid controls and Microsoft Ignite.
Then we have Samit Mishra joining us to continue our focus on SAP on Oracle on Azure. What are the supported versions, what...
2022-08-2648 min
Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast#61 - The one with first examples of our partnership (Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video PodcastIn Episode 61 of the SAP on Azure Video Podcast we talk about the upcoming openSAP course for SAP and Microsoft integration, Azure credits for open source projects, the European Eclipse Data connector, Trusted cloud principles, Azure Purview going GA, Azure virtual Datacenter tour with SAP, Microsoft Research Summit, Microsoft ignite, abapConf 2021 and Steampunk. Then Holger Bruchelt talks about some preview that are currently available for our customers and partners in the context of SAP and Microsoft.
https://github.com/hobru/SAPonAzure
https://youtu.be/oNQdoHSqnu8
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