SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2025
Today at SAP TechEd 2025, we are excited to share the next evolution of the Microsoft-SAP partnership. Building on decades of collaboration, we continue to advance RISE with SAP on Azure and deepen integrations with SAP S/4HANA Cloud public edition. Our latest innovations deliver enhanced security for SAP and non-SAP workloads, while unified analytics and AI-driven Copilot experiences empower customers to make smarter decisions. These advancements are designed to help customers accelerate their digital transformation, drive operational excellence, and unlock new business value. Customer Spotlight: Medline Medline’s SAP transformation on Microsoft Azure is fueling new levels of agility and intelligence across its operations with SAP on Azure. The company’s migration boosted system resilience, improved key SAP workload transaction times by more than 80% and enabled real-time collaboration and predictive analytics for clinicians and business users - laying the groundwork to extend these insights through Copilot and Azure AI. “When we partnered on the migration, it ushered in a completely new way in which Microsoft and Medline work together. It became a partnership, with the cloud migration becoming a stepping stone to bigger and brighter, more business-outcome–driven engagements.” — Jason Kaley, SVP, IT Operations & Architecture, Medline Customer Spotlight: Commerz Real Commerz Real, a German financial services firm specializing in real estate, infrastructure, and leasing, modernized its SAP infrastructure by migrating its complete SAP landscape to SAP RISE on Azure. Built to address stringent regulatory, security, and performance demands, the platform delivers high scalability, real-time monitoring, and faster, more stable operations. “The decision to use Microsoft Azure was a deliberate one. In the past, security concerns and strict regulatory requirements kept us from moving SAP to the cloud. Today we say: If you don’t do that, you won’t survive in the market.” — Nadine Felderer, Head of SAP Services, Commerz Real We are pleased to announce additional SAP with Microsoft product updates and details to further help customers innovate on the most trusted cloud for SAP. Bi-directional Agent to Agent communication between Microsoft Copilot and SAP Joule. Enterprise-ready SAP API enablement for AI through MCP in Azure API Management. General Availability of our agentless Sentinel for SAP data connector with significantly simpler onboarding through SAP Integration Suite. Ready for the future. SAP released S/4HANA Cloud public edition for our Sentinel Solution for SAP. Microsoft Entra ID advances SAP identity governance with new OAuth 2.0 support, SAP IAG integration preview, and expanded SAP Access Control migration for unified, secure access. Advanced support for High Availability with SAP ASE (Sybase) database backup on Azure Backup. SAP Deployment Automation Framework now supports highly available scale-out architectures with HANA System Replication for large-scale resilient configurations. SAP Testing Automation Framework enhances high availability testing with offline Pacemaker cluster validation for RHEL/SUSE, and native Linux-based validation tools quality checks Enhanced SAP Inventory and Observability Dashboard to reduce operational risk, and supports production-ready SAP systems, along with a customizable Windows Quality Checks PowerShell template. Let's dive into the summary details of product updates and services. Extend and Innovate and Secure Copilot Studio and SAP Joule Since the release of the Joule and Copilot integration earlier this year, we have seen great interest and adoption with customers and partners. The Joule as a host integration is planned to be released later this year. Integrating Joule with Microsoft 365 Copilot | SAP Help Portal For customers on their journey towards RISE and GROW, we also worked on the Azure API Management team to enable the exposure of SAP OData Services from your SAP Systems as an MCP server which then can be consumed in Copilot using Microsoft Copilot Studio. This enables the interaction of end-users with their SAP system based on any OData services. For more details, check out Expose REST API in API Management as MCP server and Copilot + SAP: Azure API Management, MCP and SAP OData. To simplify the integration and help customers and partners get started faster, we are releasing preconfigured Copilot Studio Agent that can orchestrate over other agents like SAP, Fabric and Microsoft 365. Customers can use these agents out of the box or use them as a foundation to extend and build their own Copilot Agents. Microsoft Security for SAP Security is being reengineered for the AI era - moving beyond static, rule-bound controls and after-the-fact response toward platform-led, machine-speed defense. Attackers think in graphs - Microsoft does too. We are bringing relationship-aware context to Microsoft Security suite - so defenders and AI can see connections, understand the impact of a potential compromise (blast radius), and act faster across pre-breach and post-breach scenarios. SAP S/4HANA Cloud public edition Add-on for Microsoft Sentinel for SAP (preview): Enables deep, native integration of SAP telemetry with Sentinel, bringing advanced threat detection, investigation, and response to SAP workloads running in the cloud. Microsoft Sentinel for SAP Agentless Data Connector: Now generally available, the agentless connector significantly simplifies deployment while delivering secure, high-fidelity ingestion of SAP audit and application logs into Sentinel. Expanded Security Guidance: Enhanced guidance for Microsoft Defender, Ransomware Protection, and Cyber Defense for SAP, helping customers implement best practices for hardening SAP environments and responding to evolving threats. Cost-Efficient Long-Term Log Storage: Organizations can now take advantage of Sentinel Data Lake to retain SAP logs for 12 years at scale for compliance (NIS2, DORA) and forensic use cases - at a fraction of traditional storage costs. Purview shipping most requested features updates for our existing SAP connectors (SNC mode support in preview, CDS view support, and scoped metadata scanning) and a new connector for BW/4HANA. SAP has reiterated end of maintenance for SAP Identity Management (SAP IDM) by end of 2027 and is collaborating with Microsoft so customers can migrate identity scenarios to Microsoft Entra ID as the recommended successor approach. Provisioning backbone in place: Microsoft Entra released new features for the built‑in connector for SAP Cloud Identity Services (CIS) to support authentication with OAuth 2.0, and provisioning of groups to streamline authorization management in downstream SAP targets like SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP, enabling HR‑driven, end‑to‑end identity lifecycles. Private Preview: Microsoft Entra Integration with SAP IAG: The private preview for Microsoft Entra integration with SAP Identity Access Governance (IAG) is now underway. Selected customers are testing Entra ID Governance access packages that include SAP IAG roles as resources, routing of access approvals through SAP IAG, and provisioning of roles across both systems. Sign-Up here. Enhanced Integration Scope with SAP Access Control (AC): Driven by direct customer feedback, Microsoft and SAP are expanding the migration and integration scope to include SAP Access Control (AC). This enhancement will enable comprehensive access management, risk analysis, and policy enforcement on-premises, leveraging Microsoft Entra’s governance capabilities for improved security and compliance. Together, these innovations give customers end-to-end visibility and protection across SAP landscapes—spanning public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments. SAP on Azure Software Products and Services Azure Backup for SAP We are committed to expanding backup support for additional SAP workloads. Following the general availability of ASE backup, we have further enhanced its capabilities with the introduction of high availability configuration support. This enhancement delivers automatic backup support for SAP systems setup with Replication Server, ensuring seamless protection after failover or failback events without the need for manual intervention. As a result, users benefit from immediate and continuous data protection, along with a simplified restore process using a single backup chain. We have expanded our Snapshot backup capability for SAP HANA by adding Recovery Services Vault support. This will help customers store their snapshot backups with long term retention, while gaining protection from Ransomware attacks. Vault support brings in capabilities like immutability, soft-delete enablement, multi-user-authorization to further safeguard the data. We have also launched the preview for “Scale-out” support configurations for SAP HANA streaming backup, expanding our overall topology support. SAP Deployment Automation Framework We are releasing updates to the SAP Deployment Automation Framework (SDAF) and SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF) that expand testing coverage, improve reliability, and provide additional deployment flexibility for SAP environments on Azure. SAP Deployment Automation Framework (SDAF) SDAF deployment and configuration scenarios now include scale-out architectures with HANA System Replication (HSR). This enhancement addresses resiliency requirements for large-scale deployments requiring multi-node scale-out configurations with built-in replication capabilities. SDAF now supports GitHub Actions in addition to existing deployment methods including Azure DevOps pipelines, CLI scripts, and the WebApp interface. Organizations using GitHub for source control and infrastructure management can now deploy and manage SAP environments using their existing workflows and tooling preferences. SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF) STAF now supports offline validation for SAP Pacemaker clusters. This capability enables testing of resource agent failover mechanisms without executing live cluster operations, reducing risk during validation cycles and allowing for pre-deployment verification of high availability configurations. The high availability testing suite has been updated to include SAPHanaSr-ANGI tests, ensuring compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 and SAP HANA 2.0 SP5 environments. This update addresses the requirements of organizations running current SAP HANA releases on modern SUSE distributions. Configuration checks in preview, represents a rewrite of the open-source Quality Checks tool, now integrated as a native capability within STAF. This tool validates SAP on Azure installations against Microsoft reference architecture and configuration guidance. Azure Center and Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions We are pleased to share that Azure Center for SAP solutions (ACSS) is now available in Italy North, providing end-to-end SAP workload management to more customers across Europe. Additionally, Azure Monitor for SAP solutions (AMS) is now available in Italy North. AMS continues to help SAP customers reliably monitor their mission-critical workloads on Azure with comprehensive insights. Get started: Azure Center for SAP solutions | Microsoft Learn What is Azure Monitor for SAP solutions? | Microsoft Learn Azure Portal Azure Center for SAP solutions Tools and Frameworks We have refreshed our SAP on Azure Well-Architected Framework and the accompanying SAP on Azure Assessment to reflect the latest platform guidance. The update aligns with recent Azure innovations—including VMSS Flex, Premium SSD v2, Capacity Reservation Groups, Mv3-series, and NVMe-based SKUs—so architects and admins can plan and deploy with current best practices. The assessment is also now surfaced on the main Assessments hub for easier access and can be used as a repeatable checkpoint throughout your SAP deployment lifecycle. Quality Checks (PowerShell) for windows: We have published a lightweight, read-only script for customers running SAP on Windows and SQL Server on Microsoft Azure. It performs post-provisioning health checks and outputs a color-coded HTML report plus JSON. Use it as a baseline template—customize the thresholds to your environment, and feel free to contribute enhancements to cover your configuration requirements. Observability Dashboard: Based on customer feedback, we have expanded the dashboard to surface design-impacting signals for running specialized workloads on Azure. It now offers Overview, Security, Networking, and Inventory views, plus extended reports for managers and hands-on engineers. Updates make it easier to review VM redundancy, spot orphaned resources, see Capacity Reservation Groups with their associated VMs in the primary region, and count Public IPs on the Basic SKU—helping you stay on top of infrastructure hygiene and avoid unsupported configurations. SAP + Microsoft Co-Innovations Microsoft and SAP are always working on new solutions to help our customers adapt and grow their businesses in several areas including AI, Business Suite, Data, Cloud ERP, Security, SAP BTP, among others. Recently, we started a new era of Agentic AIOps collaboration between SAP and Microsoft with fully orchestrated multi-agent ecosystem for mission critical workload. Please check out this blog to learn more.Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - November 2025
In this issue: Ace Aviator of the Month News from our product group News from our community Ace Aviator of the Month Novembers’s Ace Aviator: Al Ghoniem What's your role and title? What are your responsibilities? As a Senior Integration Consultant, I design and deliver enterprise-grade integration on Microsoft Azure, primarily using Logic Apps Standard, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid and Azure Functions. My remit covers reference architectures, “golden” templates, governance and FinOps guardrails, CI/CD automation (Bicep and YAML), and production-ready patterns for reliability, observability and cost efficiency. Alongside my technical work, I lead teams of consultants and engineers, helping them adopt standardised delivery models, mentor through code reviews and architectural walkthroughs, and ensure we deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes across projects. I also help teams apply decisioning patterns (embedded versus external rules) and integrate AI responsibly within enterprise workflows. Can you give us some insights into your day-to-day activities and what a typical day in your role looks like? Architecture and patterns: refining solution designs, sequence diagrams and rules models for new and existing integrations. Build and automation: evolving reusable Logic App Standard templates, Bicep modules and pipelines, embedding monitoring, alerts and identity-first security. Problem-solving: addressing performance tuning, transient fault handling, poison/DLQ flows and “design for reprocessing.” Leadership and enablement: mentoring consultants, facilitating technical discussions, and ensuring knowledge is shared across teams. Community and writing: publishing articles and examples to demystify real-world integration trade-offs. What motivates and inspires you to be an active member of the Aviators/Microsoft community? The community continuously turns hard-won lessons into reusable practices. Sharing patterns (and anti-patterns) saves others time and incidents, while learning from peers strengthens my own work. Microsoft’s product teams also listen closely, and seeing customer feedback directly shape the platform is genuinely rewarding. Looking back, what advice do you wish you had been given earlier that you'd now share with those looking to get into STEM/technology? Optimise for learning speed, not titles. Choose problems that stretch you and deliver in small, measurable increments. Master the fundamentals. Naming, idempotency, retries and observability are not glamorous but make systems dependable. Document everything. Diagrams, runbooks and ADRs multiply your impact. Understand trade-offs. Every decision buys something and costs something; acknowledge both sides clearly. Value collaboration over heroics. Ask questions, share knowledge and give credit freely. What has helped you grow professionally? Reusable scaffolding: creating golden templates and reference repositories that capture best practice once and reuse it everywhere. Feedback loops: leveraging telemetry, post-incident reviews and peer critique to improve. Teaching and mentoring: explaining concepts to others brings clarity and strengthens leadership. Cross-disciplinary curiosity: combining architecture, DevOps, FinOps and AI to address problems holistically. If you had a magic wand that could create a feature in Logic Apps, what would it be and why? "Stateful Sessions and Decisions” as a first-class capability: Built-in session state across multiple workflows, durable correlation and resumable orchestrations without external storage. A native decisioning activity with versioned decision tables and rule auditing (“why this rule fired”). A local-first developer experience with fast testing and contract validation for confident iteration. This would simplify complex, human-in-the-loop and event-driven scenarios, reduce custom plumbing, and make advanced orchestration patterns accessible to a wider audience. News from our product group Logic Apps Community Day 2025 Did you miss or want to catch up again on your favorite Logic Apps Community Day videos – jump back into action on this four hours long learning session, with 10 sessions from our Community Experts. And stay tuned for individual sessions being shared throughout the week. Announcing Parse & Chunk with Metadata in Logic Apps: Build Context-Aware RAG Agents New Parse & Chunk actions add metadata like page numbers and sentence completeness—perfect for context-aware document Q&A using Azure AI Search and Agent Loop. Introducing the RabbitMQ Connector (Public Preview) The new connector (Public Preview) lets you send and receive messages with RabbitMQ in Logic Apps Standard and Hybrid—ideal for scalable, reliable messaging across industries. News from our community EventGrid And Entra Auth In Logic Apps Standard Post by Riccardo Viglianisi Learn how to use Entra Auth for webhook authentication, ditch SAS tokens, and configure private endpoints with public access rules—perfect for secure, scalable integrations. Debugging XSLT Made Easy in VS Code: .NET-Based Debugging for Logic Apps Post by Daniel Jonathan A new .NET-based extension brings real debugging to XSLT for Logic Apps. Set breakpoints, step through transformations, and inspect variables—making XSLT development clear and productive. This is the 3 rd post in a 5 part series, so worth checking out the other posts too. Modifying the Logic App Azure Workbook: Custom Views for Multi Workflow Monitoring Post by Jeff Wessling Learn how to tailor dashboards with KQL, multi-workflow views, and context panes—boosting visibility, troubleshooting speed, and operational efficiency across your integrations. Azure AI Agents in Logic Apps: A Guide to Automate Decisions Post by Imashi Kinigama Discover how GPT-powered agents, created using Logic Apps Agent Loop, automate decisions, extract data, and adapt in real time. Build intelligent workflows with minimal effort—no hardcoding, just instructions and tools. How to Turn Logic App Connectors into MCP Servers (Step-by-Step Guide) Post by Stephen W. Thomas Learn how to expose connectors like Google Drive or Salesforce as MCP endpoints using Azure API Center—giving AI agents secure, real-time access to 1,400+ services directly from VS Code. Custom SAP MCP Server with Logic Apps Post by Sebastian Meyer Learn how to turn Logic Apps into AI-accessible tools using MCP. From workflow descriptions to Easy Auth setup and VS Code integration—this guide unlocks SAP automation with Copilot. How Azure Logic Apps as MCP Servers Accelerate AI Agent Development Post by Monisha S Turn 1,400+ connectors into AI tools with Logic Apps Standard. Build agents fast, integrate with legacy systems, and scale intelligent workflows across your organization. Designing Business Rules in Azure Logic Apps: When to Go Embedded vs External Post by Al Ghoniem Learn when to use Logic Apps' native Rules Engine or offload to Azure Functions with NRules or JSON RulesEngine. Discover hybrid patterns for scalable, testable decision automation. Syncing SharePoint with Azure Blob Storage using Logic Apps & Azure Functions for Azure AI Search Post by Daniel Jonathan Solve folder delete issues by tagging blobs with SharePoint metadata. Use Logic Apps and a custom Azure Function to clean up orphaned files and keep Azure AI Search in sync. Step-by-Step Guide: Building a Conversational Agent in Azure Logic Apps Post by Stephen W. Thomas Use Azure AI Foundry and Logic Apps Standard to create chatbots that shuffle cards, answer questions, and embed into websites—no code required, just smart workflows and EasyAuth. You can hide sensitive data from the Logic App run history Post by Francisco Leal Learn how to protect sensitive data like authentication tokens, credentials, and personal information in Logic App, so this data don’t appear in the run history, which could pose security and privacy risks.SAP Business Data Cloud Now Available on Microsoft Azure
We’re thrilled to announce that SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) including SAP Databricks is now available on Microsoft Azure marking a major milestone in our strategic partnership with SAP and Databricks and our commitment to empowering customers with cutting-edge Data & AI capabilities. SAP BDC is a fully managed SaaS solution designed to unify, govern, and activate SAP and third-party data for advanced analytics and AI-driven decision-making. Customers can now deploy SAP BDC on Azure in US East, US West and Europe West, with additional regions coming soon, and unlock transformative insights from their enterprise data with the scale, security, and performance of Microsoft’s trusted cloud platform. Why SAP BDC on Azure Is a Game-Changer for Data & AI Deploying SAP BDC on Azure enables organizations to accelerate their Data & AI initiatives by modernizing their SAP Business Warehouse systems and leveraging a modern data architecture that includes SAP HANA Cloud, data lake files and connectivity to Microsoft technology. Whether it’s building AI-powered intelligent applications, enabling semantically rich data products, or driving predictive analytics, SAP BDC on Azure provides the foundation for scalable, secure, and context-rich decision-making. Running SAP BDC workloads on Microsoft Azure unlocks the full potential of enterprise data by integrating SAP systems with non-SAP data using Microsoft’s powerful Data & AI services - enabling customers to build intelligent applications grounded in critical business context. Why Azure is an Ideal Platform for Running SAP BDC Microsoft Azure stands out as a leading cloud platform for hosting SAP solutions, including SAP BDC. Azure’s global infrastructure, high-performance networking, and powerful Data & AI capabilities make it an ideal foundation for large-scale SAP workloads. When organizations face complex data environments and need seamless interoperability across tools, Azure’s resilient backbone and enterprise-grade services provide the scalability and reliability essential for building a robust SAP data architecture. Under the Hood: SAP Databricks in SAP BDC is Powered by Azure Databricks A key differentiator of SAP BDC on Azure is that SAP Databricks, a core component of BDC, runs on Azure Databricks—Microsoft’s first-party service. Azure Databricks is a fully managed first party service making Microsoft Azure the optimal cloud for running Databricks workloads. It uniquely offers: Native integration with Microsoft Entra ID for seamless access control. Optimized performance with Power BI, delivering unmatched analytics speed. Enterprise-grade security and compliance, inherent to Azure’s first-party services. Joint engineering and unified support from Microsoft and Databricks. Zero-copy data sharing between SAP BDC and Azure Databricks, enabling frictionless collaboration across platforms. This deep integration ensures that customers benefit from the full power of Azure’s AI, analytics, and governance capabilities while running SAP workloads. Expanding Global Reach: What’s Next While SAP BDC is now live in three Azure regions US East, US West and Europe - we’re just getting started. Over the next few months, availability will expand to additional Azure regions such as Brazil and Canada. For the remaining regions, a continuously updated roadmap can be found on the SAP Roadmap Explorer website Final Thoughts This launch reinforces Microsoft Azure’s longstanding partnership with SAP, backed by over 30 years of trusted partnership and co-innovation. With SAP BDC now available on Azure, customers can confidently modernize their data estate, unlock AI-driven insights, and drive business transformation at scale. Stay tuned as we continue to expand availability and bring even more Data & AI innovations to our joint customers over the next few months.
Microsoft Teams Adapter for SAP Integration Suite
SAP recently introduced the Microsoft Teams adapter as part of its SAP Integration Suite offering. This solution enables seamless integration between Microsoft Teams and SAP Integration Suite, improving communication and automating workflows. Organizations can efficiently connect data from various sources to the Microsoft Teams platform, streamlining operations and significantly reducing the effort required to design and implement integration workflows. Key Benefits of using the Microsoft Teams Adapter The Microsoft Teams Adapter provides the following key features: Supports standard operations on various Microsoft Teams resources like Channel, Team, Member, Message, and Chat. Supports authentication methods like OAuth2 Authorization Code and OAuth2 Client Credentials. Supports querying on resources to retrieve the desired output as per your requirements. Supports pagination using the Get Next Results Page operation. You can perform operations at the user level (Delegated Permission) and organization/admin level (Application Permission). How to use the Microsoft Teams Adapter? The Microsoft Teams adapter is available as part of your SAP Integration Suite license. To use the adapter, you must first add it to your Integration Flow, add the required Connection parameters, and configure it as per your Processing requirements. Once you have configured the Microsoft Teams adapter, the SAP CI tenant enables data exchange at runtime by sending a request to the Microsoft Teams receiver system. Finally, after processing this request, Microsoft Teams sends back the required data to SAP. The Microsoft Teams adapter can help you exchange the data between Microsoft Teams and other systems. Let us look at a simple operation: adding members to a team in bulk in Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft Teams Adapter for SAP Integration Suite. Adding members in bulk to a team Our example illustrates how the Microsoft Teams Adapter allows you to add the team member in bulk. The integration flow begins with a client initiating a request to an endpoint to send the member information to Microsoft Teams. Request Payload Setup using Content Modifier We use a Content Modifier to include the request payload that provides the information about the users to be added as members to the team. The request body shown above demonstrates how two users can be added to the team. Users can be specified in the body by either their User IDs or their principal names. A combination of both methods is used in the body above. This approach allows for adding up to 200 members to a team, all of which can be specified in the request body. How to Connect to Microsoft Teams? The connection tab contains the following fields: Parameter Description Address Specify the address for the Microsoft Teams service. Default: https://graph.microsoft.com/ Authentication Select the authentication method and permission type: 'Delegated' for user-level access, 'Application' for app-level access. OAuth2 Client Credentials(Application Permissions) OAuth2 Authorization Code(Delegated Permissions) Credential Name Specify the security artifact for the selected authentication type to connect to the Microsoft Teams account. Reuse Connection Enable this property to reuse the connection. Connection Timeout (in ms) Specify the maximum waiting time (in milliseconds) for the connection to be established. Response Timeout (in ms) Specify the maximum waiting time (in milliseconds) for a response message to be received. Execute Operation using the Microsoft Teams Adapter We begin by configuring the adapter within the processing tab, selecting Member as the resource and choosing the Add Team Members in Bulk operation. This operation allows us to add up to 200 members to a team in a single request, with all the details of the members to be added specified in the request body. After configuring the adapter, we provide the Team ID of the team where the members will be added. If any additions fail, the response provides detailed information, specifying which memberships were successfully added and which ones encountered issues. It is important to note that the addition of members may take some time to reflect within the team. To track any membership changes, we can subscribe to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/change-notifications-api-overview?view=graph-rest-1.0, which will alert us to updates regarding membership changes in the specific team. Quick Links For detailed information about Microsoft Teams adapter configuration, see https://help.sap.com/docs/integration-suite/sap-integration-suite/microsoft-teams-receiver-adapter and https://api.sap.com/odata/1.0/catalog.svc/Files('684a79b439a0408a816aeaffb339f0e6')/$value. Note: The Microsoft Teams adapter is available as part of your SAP Integration Suite license.SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP Sapphire 2025
Introduction Today at Sapphire, we made an array of exciting announcements that strengthen the Microsoft-SAP partnership. I'd like to share additional details that complement these announcements as well as give updates on further product innovation. With over three decades of close collaboration and co-innovation with SAP, we continue to deliver RISE with SAP on Azure and integrations with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, allowing customers to innovate with services from both SAP BTP and Microsoft. Our new integrations enhance security through multi-layer cloud protection for SAP and non-SAP workloads, while our AI and Copilot platform provides unified analytics to improve decision-making for customers. Samsung C&T's Engineering & Construction Group is a leader in both the domestic and international construction industries. It recently embarked on the ERP Cloud transformation with RISE with SAP on Azure to enhance its existing ERP System, which is optimized for local environment, to support the global business expansion by transitioning to RISE with SAP on Azure. “Samsung C&T’s successful transition to RISE with SAP on Azure serves as a best practice for other Samsung Group affiliates considering cloud-based ERP adoption. It also demonstrates that even highly localized operations can be integrated into a cloud-based environment that supports global standards.” Aidan Nam, Former Vice President, Corporate System Team, Samsung C&T SAP on Azure also offers AI, Data, and Security solutions that enhance customers' investments and help unlock valuable information stored within ERP systems. When Danfoss, a global leader in energy-efficient solutions, began searching for new security tools for business-critical SAP infrastructure, it quickly leveraged Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications, to find potential malicious activity and deploy multilayered protection around its expanding core infrastructure thereby achieving scalable security visibility. “With Microsoft Sentinel and the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications, we’ve centralized our security logs and gained a single pane of glass with which we can monitor our SAP systems,” Kevin Cai, IT Specialist in the Security Operations Center at Danfoss We are pleased to announce additional SAP on Azure product updates and details to further help customers innovate on the most trusted cloud for SAP. Simplified onboarding of SAP BTP estate with the new agentless data connector for Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for SAP applications is now fully SAP HANA aware offering unparalleled protection for SAP S/4HANA environments. Public Preview of SAP OData as a knowledge source making it easy to add content from SAP systems to Copilot Studio. The new storage and memory optimized Medium Memory Mbv3 VM Series (Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3) is now SAP certified, delivering compute capabilities with IOPs performance of up to 650K. The Mv3 Very High Memory series now features an expanded range of SAP-certified VM sizes, spanning from 24TB to 32TB of memory and scaling up to 1,792 vCPUs. General Availability of SAP ASE (Sybase) database backup support on Azure Backup. SAP Deployment Automation Framework now supports validation of SAP deployments on Azure with public preview of SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF), automating high availability testing process to ensure SAP systems reliability and availability. The Inventory Checks for SAP Workbook in Azure Center for SAP Tools now comes with New Dashboards for Enhanced Visibility. Let's dive into the summary of product updates and services. Extend and Innovate Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP Business applications pose a unique security challenge with highly sensitive information that can make them prime targets for attacks. Attackers can compromise newly discovered unprotected SAP systems within three hours. Microsoft offers best in class security solutions support for SAP business applications with Microsoft Sentinel. The new agentless data connector is our first party solution that re-uses customers’ SAP BTP estate for drastically simplified onboarding. In addition, new strategic third-party solutions have been added to the Microsoft Sentinel content hub by SAP SE and other ISVs making Sentinel the most effective SIEM for SAP workloads: SAP LogServ: RISE, addon for SAP ECS internal logs -infra, database, etc. (Generally Available) SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (Preview) SecurityBridge (Generally Available) Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for SAP applications We are thrilled to announce a major milestone made possible through the deep collaboration between SAP and Microsoft: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is now the first NextGen antivirus solution that is SAP HANA aware. This joint innovation allows organizations like COFCO International to protect their SAP landscapes seamlessly and securely, without disruption. This groundbreaking capability sets MDE apart in the cybersecurity landscape, offering unparalleled protection for SAP S/4HANA environments — all without interfering with mission-critical operations. Thanks to close engineering collaboration, MDE has been carefully trained to recognize SAP HANA binaries and data files. Specialized detection training ensures MDE accurately identifies these critical components and treats them as known, trusted entities — combining world-class cybersecurity with SAP-native awareness. API Management SAP Principal Propagation (for simplicity often also referred to as SSO) is the gold standard for app integration – especially when it comes to 3rd party apps such as Microsoft Power Platform. We proudly announce that SSO is now password-less with Azure. Microsoft Entra ID Managed Identity works seamlessly with SAP workloads such as RISE, SuccessFactors and more. Cut your maintenance efforts for SAP SSO in half and become more secure in doing so. Find more details on this blog. Teams Integration In addition to the availability of the SAP Joule agent in Teams and Copilot, the “classic” integration of Teams with products like SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is available as well. What started as “Share links to the business context (apps) in chats” has now evolved to Adaptive Card-based Loop components, Chat, Voice and Video calls integrations in contact cards and To Dos in Teams. Users of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud can stay in their flow of work and access their business-critical data from with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud or connected Teams applications. Copilot Studio – SAP OData Support in Knowledge Sources Knowledge Sources in Copilot Studio enhance generative answers by using data from Power Platform, Dynamics 365, websites, and external systems. This enables agents to offer relevant information and insights to customers. Today, we announce the Public Preview of SAP OData as a new knowledge source. Customers and partners can now add content from SAP systems to Copilot Studio. Users can query the latest status of Sales Orders in SAP S/4HANA, view pending Invoices from ECC, or query information about employees from SAP SuccessFactors. All you need to do is connect to the relevant SAP OData services as a knowledge source in Copilot Studio. Copilot Studio will not duplicate the data but analyze the data structure and create the relevant queries on demand whenever a user asks a related question. The user context is always kept ensuring roles and permissions in the SAP system are taken into account. Head over to product documentation to read more and get started. New SAP Certified Compute and Storage Thousands of organizations today trust the Azure M-series virtual machines to run some of their largest mission-critical SAP workloads, including SAP HANA. Very High Memory Mv3 VM Series We are excited to unveil updates to our Mv3 Very High Memory (VHM) series with the addition of a 24TB VM, a testament to our ongoing commitment to innovation. Building on our past successes, this series integrates customer insights and industry advancements to deliver unmatched performance and efficiency. It features advanced capabilities for diverse workloads, powered by the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8490H processors, which offer faster processing speeds and better price-performance. You can learn more about our new Mv3 VHM here link. Below is the summary of the recently released Mv3 VHM SKUs. (New) Standard_M896ixds_24_v3: Designed for S/4HANA workloads, with 896 cores and SMT disabled for optimal SAP performance. It is SAP certified for OLTP (S/4HANA) Scale-Up/4-node Scale-Out, and OLAP (BW4H) Scale-Up operations. Standard_M896ixds_32_v3: Designed for S/4HANA workloads, with 896 cores and SMT disabled for optimal SAP performance. It is SAP certified for OLTP (S/4HANA) Scale-Up/4-node Scale-Out, and OLAP (BW4H) Scale-Up operations. Standard_M1792ixds_32_v3: Designed for S/4HANA workloads, with 1792 cores. It is SAP certified for OLTP (S/4HANA) Scale-Up/2-node Scale-Out, and OLAP (BW4H) Scale-Up operations. The new VM Size provides robust memory and CPU power, ensuring exceptional handling of large-scale in-memory databases. With 200 Gbps bandwidth and adaptable storage options such as Premium Disk and Azure NetApp Files (ANF), these VMs deliver speed and flexibility for SAP HANA configurations. Medium Memory Mbv3 VM Series The new Mbv3 series (Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3), released in September 2024, featuring both storage-optimized and memory-optimized are now certified as SAP certified compute VM as of March 2025. The new Mbv3 VMs are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, scale for workloads up to 4TB, and deliver with NVMe interface for higher remote disk storage performance. It offers up to 650,000 IOPS providing a 5x improvement in network throughput over the previous M-series families and up to 10GBps of remote disk storage bandwidth, providing a 2.5x improvement in remote storage bandwidth over the previous M-series families. Details of SAP Certified Compute Mbv3 VMs are here link. SAP on Azure Software Products and Services Azure Backup for SAP We are pleased to announce the general availability of backup support for SAP ASE database running on Azure virtual machines using Azure Backup. SAP ASE databases are mission critical workloads that require a low recovery point objective (RPO) and a fast recovery time objective (RTO). This backup service offers zero-infrastructure backup and restore of SAP ASE databases with Azure Backup enterprise management capabilities. Key benefits of SAP ASE database backup 15-minute RPO with point-in-time recovery capability. Striping to increase the backup throughput between ASE Virtual Machine (VM) and Recovery services vault Support for cost-effective backup policies and ASE Native compression to lower backup storage costs. Multiple databases restore options including Alternate Location Restore (System refresh), Original Location Restore and Restore as Files. Recovery Services Vault that provides security capabilities like Immutability, Soft Delete and Multiuser Authentication. SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF) While deployment automation frameworks like SAP Deployment Automation Framework (SDAF) have streamlined system implementation, the critical testing phase has largely remained a manual bottleneck – until now. We are introducing the SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF), a new framework (currently in public preview) that automates high-availability (HA) testing for SAP deployments on Azure. STAF currently focuses on testing HA configurations for SAP HANA and SAP Central Services. Importantly, STAF is a cross-distribution solution supporting both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), reflecting our commitment to serve the diverse SAP on Azure customer base.. STAF uses modular architecture with Ansible for orchestration and custom modules for validation. It ensures business continuity by validating configurations and recovery mechanisms before systems go live, reducing risks, boosting efficiency, and ensuring compliance with standards. You can start leveraging its capabilities today by visiting the project on GitHub at https://github.com/azure/sap-automation-qa. To know more about the framework please visit our blog: Introducing SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF) Azure Center for SAP solutions Tools and Frameworks We are pleased to introduce three new dashboards for Azure Inventory Checks for SAP, enhancing visibility into Azure infrastructure and security. These dashboards offer a more structured, visual approach to monitoring health and compliance. Here are the new dashboards at a glance Summary Dashboard: Offers a snapshot of your Azure landscape with results from 21 key infrastructure checks critical for SAP workloads. It highlights your environment’s readiness and identifies areas needing attention. Extended Report Dashboard: This view presents the Inventory Checks for SAP in a user-friendly dashboard layout, with enhanced navigation and filtering. AzSecurity Dashboard: This dashboard presents 10 key Azure security checks to provide insights into configurations and identify vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance and safety. These dashboards transform raw data into actionable insights, allowing customers to quickly assess SAP infrastructure on Azure, identify misconfigurations, track improvements, and prepare confidently for audits and reviews. SAP + Microsoft Co-Innovations Microsoft and SAP are continually innovating to facilitate business transformation for our customers. This year, we are strengthening our partnership in several areas including Business Suite, AI, Data, Cloud ERP, Security, SAP BTP, among others. Please ensure that you check out our blog to learn more about the significant announcements we are making this year at SAP Sapphire.Introducing the SAP Testing Automation Framework: Elevating SAP System Testing on Azure
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring that enterprise systems perform flawlessly is non-negotiable. As businesses increasingly rely on SAP systems to run their critical operations, testing becomes an essential pillar of operational excellence. Traditionally, SAP system testing has been manual, time-consuming, and prone to gaps. Addressing these critical aspects, Microsoft has introduced the SAP Testing Automation Framework (STAF), an open-source orchestration tool developed to validate SAP deployments on Microsoft Azure. It enables you to assess system configurations against SAP on Azure best practices and to automate various testing scenarios, with an initial focus on high availability (HA) testing. What is the SAP Testing Automation Framework? The SAP Testing Automation Framework is an open-source orchestration tool engineered to validate SAP deployments on the Microsoft Azure platform. Its core purpose is to help customers ensure their SAP systems run smoothly by proactively identifying potential issues. It achieves this by simulating system failures, verifying that configurations adhere to best practices, and automating the entire testing process to save time and improve accuracy. The framework is built on a modular, configuration‑as‑code model using standard tools. The tests are defined in version‑controlled Ansible playbooks, and custom Python modules handle in‑depth checks of both your SAP systems and Azure resources. Key Features: Configuration Validation: It checks whether the configurations of SAP HANA scale-up or SAP Central Services align with established SAP on Azure best practices and guidelines. High Availability Functional Testing: It simulates multiple test cases to ensure that the failover mechanisms are effective. With SAP HANA databases and SAP Central Services as prime examples, this testing validates that when a component fails, the system can gracefully recover without disruption. This helps identify potential issues during new system deployments. Detailed Reporting: The framework collects detailed telemetry from SAP components and test execution where it captures event sequences, detection timings, failover durations, and system responses. It compiles this data into a comprehensive HTML report with clear pass/fail outcomes and timestamps. Optionally, you can stream logs to Azure Log Analytics or Data Explorer. Extensible and Pipeline-ready: All framework operations, Ansible playbooks, and custom python modules are defined as code, making them ideal for integration with CI/CD pipelines. You can invoke STAF immediately after your deployment and installation step via SAP Deployment Automation Framework, running comprehensive HA tests before promoting changes. SAP System High Availability Functional Testing The initial and most prominent capability of the SAP Testing Automation Framework is its comprehensive High Availability (HA) functional testing for critical SAP components hosted on Microsoft Azure. The framework targets scenarios involving SAP HANA scale-up database and SAP Central Services (ASCS/SCS) deployed in a two-node cluster on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), providing a cross-distribution solution for our diverse SAP on Azure customer base. For supported configuration, see support matrix. The SAP Testing Automation Framework employs a systematic approach to validate the robustness of SAP system HA setup. It verifies the configuration and captures the entire sequence of events in an HA scenario: from initial failure detection, through isolation of the faulty component (including fencing), to resource migration, service recovery on the standby node, and implicitly, the consistency of data upon successful recovery. Upon completion of the tests run, STAF compiles results into a clear, HTML‑based report that details configuration compliance checks and functional test outcomes, complete with timestamps and pass/fail statuses. The report also includes logs from /var/log/messages to provide context. This comprehensive validation of the HA process flow is fundamental to building confidence in the resilience of the SAP system on Azure. Getting Started with the SAP Testing Automation Framework The SAP Testing Automation Framework is available as an open-source project on GitHub for the community to use and contribute. You can find the code and documentation in the official repository: Azure/sap-automation-qa: This is the repository supporting the quality assurance for SAP systems running on Azure.. The project is currently in a public preview stage. So, feedback and contributions are welcome to help improve its capabilities. To start using the framework, you have a couple of options depending on your environment: SAP system manually deployed (not using SDAF): If you want to validate manually configured high availability of SAP system, you can run the framework in a standalone mode. This involves deploying the management server (for example, an Ubuntu VM that will orchestrate the tests), configuring it with details of your SAP landscape (cluster nodes, IPs, etc.), and then executing the provided playbooks or scripts to run the HA tests. The repository provides guidance on how to configure the necessary variables and run the test scenarios for a Pacemaker cluster environment. Integration with Deployment Pipelines: For those who already use automated deployment tools like the SAP Deployment Automation Framework (SDAF) for Azure, the testing framework can integrate directly into those pipelines. The framework is designed as a natural extension to SDAF, so it can leverage the same configuration context and Azure resources defined during deployment. This allows you to embed HA testing into your continuous delivery process, every time you deploy or update an SAP environment, the pipeline can automatically run the HA tests and surface any issues before you even hand the system over to end-users or application teams. Call to Action & Community Engagement The SAP Testing Automation Framework, in public preview stage, is a significant step forward in reducing misconfigurations and manual effort in high availability deployment of SAP system on Azure. We encourage you to explore the framework, share your feedback, or contribute. During this public preview, we recommend using framework for new greenfield production high availability deployments that are not yet live, or on non-production environments. Appendix and References Set up Pacemaker on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) in Azure | Microsoft Learn Set up Pacemaker on RHEL in Azure | Microsoft Learn Azure Virtual Machines HA for SAP NW on RHEL | Microsoft Learn Azure VMs high availability for SAP NetWeaver on SLES | Microsoft Learn Azure/sap-automation-qa: This is the repository supporting the quality assurance for SAP systems running on Azure. Azure/sap-automation: This is the repository supporting the SAP deployment automation framework on AzureJoin Microsoft at SAP Sapphire 2025
I’m thrilled to be back at SAP Sapphire this year alongside my colleagues from Microsoft! Sapphire is an event I always look forward to as it provides a great opportunity to celebrate the successes of our customers and partners as well as share big announcements and product updates. Whether you’re joining us for pre-day events, engaging in sessions during Sapphire, or enjoying the networking opportunities, there’s something for everyone. Read on to learn more about what’s in store: Previewing exciting innovation for SAP on the Microsoft Cloud Data & AI: At Sapphire, we will be sharing key updates on SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) on Azure and how you can use Azure Databricks with SAP BDC. We will also be sharing the progress on the joint integration between Microsoft Copilot and SAP Joule, helping accelerate business outcomes and increase end-user productivity. SAP BTP on Azure: Together with SAP, we are ensuring our customers can use the latest SAP Business Technology (BTP) services on Microsoft Azure in their preferred regions. We are excited to share the launch of two new datacenter regions for SAP BTP on Azure – Canada (Toronto) and China (Hebei). With this announcement, SAP BTP is now available in 10 Azure datacenter regions, including Brazil, launched late last year. Thanks to incredible demand from our joint customers, SAP has also added several additional BTP services on Azure. New services include SAP Build Apps, SAP Build Code, SAP AI Core and Joule. You can view all the existing BTP services and regions on Azure on the SAP Discovery Center. To stay up-to-date on future plans for service and region roll-out, visit the SAP roadmap explorer. RISE with SAP Customer Spotlight – Nestlé: This multinational organization with over 2,000 brands in 188 countries has operations that are as large as they are complex. Nestlé executed one of the largest RISE with SAP migrations in the world on Azure where they could build a future-ready enterprise, leveraging AI-driven solutions. Their need for a platform that could deliver innovation and reliability at scale along with a robust infrastructure made Azure the clear choice. To hear more about their transformation story, make sure to attend the session at Sapphire: Nestlé’s journey from SAP on-premises to RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure. Join us at SAP Sapphire 2025 Sessions you don’t want to miss We’re bringing a dynamic lineup of 10 in-person sessions across both Orlando and Madrid, featuring insights from Microsoft and SAP experts. Don’t miss the chance to dive into the latest on RISE with SAP, SAP Business Suite, SAP BTP, and Data and AI on the Microsoft Cloud—plus hear real-world stories from customers who are already driving results through the Microsoft and SAP partnership. Register now using the links below. Session Number Date and Time Nestlé’s journey from SAP on-premises to RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure PAR1165 Wednesday, May 21 2:30pm-2:50pm EDT Microsoft Federal’s cloud landscape transformation with SAP NS2 SER2695 Tuesday, May 20 4:30pm-4:50pm EDT Unlock innovation for SAP ERP with AI, SAP BTP, and more on Microsoft Azure PAR1166 Wednesday, May 21 2:00pm-2:20pm EDT Accelerating procurement transformation with SAP Ariba solutions SPM2624 Wednesday, May 21 2:00pm-2:20pm EDT Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI-enabled productivity in action BAI2594 Tuesday, May 20 11:30am-11:50am EDT (Madrid) - Modernizing the SAP Software Landscape at ANDRITZ PAR1307 Wednesday, May 28 11:30am - 11:50am CEST ASUG Pre-Day Sessions Harnessing SAP's AI Innovations: Joule, Generative AI, and Business AI ASUG104 Location: S320GH Monday, May 19 1:00pm-5:00pm EDT ASUG Power Peer Group Unlock the value of SAP BTP: Lessons learned from ASUG members BTP3093 Location: ASUG Booth Theater Tuesday, May 20 2:00pm-2:40pm EDT Celebration night! We are excited to be the exclusive sponsor of the celebration night concert, which is always a highlight at Sapphire. The evening will feature two special performances by the Zac Brown Band at the American Garden Theatre at Epcot®, scheduled for 8:15 PM and 9:45 PM. Come celebrate with us! Come find us at our booth! Microsoft and SAP are at the forefront of AI transformation and are excited to showcase the interoperability of our AI agents at Sapphire. The video below shows a sneak peek of what’s possible but if you’d like to learn more, come talk to our subject matter experts from Microsoft on-site to help address any questions and foster connections. Find us at Booth #409 in Orlando and Booth #9.333 in Madrid Networking Events Beyond the sessions and booth experiences, our partners are hosting special social and networking events you can join: Home - PwC at SAP Sapphire 2025 RSVP: Lemongrass Invites You for Cocktails and Apps! Syntax Annual Sapphire Party IBM Sapphire Client Appreciation reception We are looking forward to a great Sapphire and I hope to see you there!SAP on Azure Product Announcements Summary – SAP TechEd 2024
We are excited to be part of SAP TechEd Virtual 2024 as a diamond sponsor. Microsoft Azure continues to play a leading role in expanding SAP RISE deployments, enabling clients to seamlessly integrate their SAP assets on Azure with those in RISE.SAP System Refresh and Cloning operations on Azure NetApp Files with SnapCenter
Discover the power of SAP HANA on Azure NetApp Files with seamless system refresh and cloning operations using SnapCenter. This innovative solution leverages Azure NetApp Files snapshot and volume cloning capabilities to provide end-to-end workflows for data protection and SAP system refresh operations. Whether you need to create system copies for testing, address logical corruption, or perform disaster recovery failover tests, SnapCenter ensures quick and efficient processes, saving you time and resources.
