Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast

In episode 221 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about a huge customer migration project. 200 TB data of Oracle were migrated to SAP on Azure. How was the migration was done? How was the migration minized? To tell us more about this project we have Anbu Govindasamy, Sathish Thirunethiram and Denny Koovakattu joining us! Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/ep...

In episode 220 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Storage. Azure offers multiple storage options to run SAP systems. Premium SSD v2 offers a cheap, flexible and certified way to run your SAP workload on Azure. Robert Biro joins walks us through the benefits of running SAP on Azure with Premium SSD v2. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode220 Reach...

In episode 219 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about about SSO to the SAP GUI using Global Secure Access. In a previous episode we already talked about using MFA with SAP GUI leveraging the SAP Secure Login Service. Today we look again at providing a seucre access from your SAP GUI to your SAP system, but this time using Microsoft Global Secure Access. For this we have Martin Raepple joi...

In episode 218 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Backup for SAP. Pradeep Saran talks about the recent price reductions, and the public preview of Azure Backup for SAP for ASE. Join Pradeep to learn more what you can do today!   Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode218 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Robert Boban: https://www....

In episode 217 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the SAP on Azure Landing Zone Accelerator. Over two years ago we had already talked about the SAP Landing Zone Accelerator. The idea is to help customers get started with their SAP systems on Azure. In the meantime a lot of things have happened. The documentation is constantly evolving and a lot of new things have been added. We not on...

In episode 216 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Virtual Machines. There is always a lot of innovation on Azure and we add new VM SKUs all the time. This also means that if you as a customer want to leverage the latest and greatest, you might want to switch from one VM to another. For this we have created some scripts that help you get started and we have Robert Biro and our own Gora...

In episode 215 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure NetApp Files. WIth the new Extension 1, ANF supports availability zone volume placement as the new default method for placement. This upgrade mitigates the need for AVset pinning and eliminates the need for proximity placement groups. Using availability zone volume placement aligns with the Microsoft recommendation on how to depl...

In episode 214 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk live from the DSAG Jahreskongress 2024. This time with Martin Fischer from Neptune Software we look back at the first two days of the DSAG Jaheskongress, the yearly event from the German Speaking SAP Usergroup. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode214 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Robert...

In episode 213 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP TechEd 2024 and look at SAP BTP on Azure. Last week we just wraped up SAP TechEd 2024. It was an online events with lots of announcements. One of the first things that Michael Ameling showed was the latest number of the SAP Business Technology Platform with now over 27.000 live customers clearly outlying the importance of BTP for S...

In episode 212 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Copilot for Finance. We have talked a lot in the past about Power Platform, Copilot Studio and integrating all of this with SAP. Especially with Copilot Studio it is quite amazing what customers and partners can do to build Copilots connecting to SAP. But a lot of customers have similar requirements. A lot of customers -- like also Mic...

In episode 211 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Single Sign-On with SAP API Management and Power Platform. A few months ago we had Vinayak from SAP on the show to talk about SAP API Management on the SAP Business Technology Platform. We talked about several Single Sign-On scenarios with Entra ID (or Azure Active Directory as it was called before). Then we also had Martin with us a f...

In episode 210 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about 32 TB Virtual machines on Azure! Recently we talked about the release of virtual machines with 32 TB of memory on Azure. This allows you to run the most high demanding SAP workload on Azure. With some innovations it takes some time to be adopoted, but apparently with the 32 TB system, that was not the case. I am really happy to have a...

In episode 209 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we have Robert Boban back on the show. Robert joined SAP some time ago and he gives us some insights on his work in the RISE with SAP team. Not all the customers are the same and sometimes figuring out how to do the network integration can become quite challenging. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode209 Reach...

In episode 208 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about security! Sentinel for SAP has been around for quite some time now. It is even certified for RISE with SAP and we see a lot of interest by customers in the additional protection that Sentinel can provide for their SAP system. Speaking of SAP Systems - a lot of customers are using the SAP Business Technology Platform, to leverage Integr...

In episode 207 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about talk with the CEO of ASUG, Geoff Scott. As you might know I am a product manager for SAP integration here at Microsoft. In this role, I always try to connect with customers, listen to them, learn from their feedback and then obviously get this back into our products. Obviously, I do this a lot with individual customers, but SAP user gr...

In episode 206 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we take a look behind the configuration for principal propagation with Power Automate, Azure API Management and SAP. In previous episodes we talked about the new Single Sign-On capabilities of the SAP ERP Connector and the SAP OData Connector. We talked about the benefits and also showed how this can be used in Power Automate, Copilot Studio and oth...

In episode 205 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we take a look behind the scene of the Copilot Studio and SAP integration we showed in previous episodes. This session is special for me on multiple fronts: for one our guest, Noopur Vaishnav has been on the show the first time about a year ago. At that time she was a new intern at Microsoft. In the meantime, quite a few things have changed. Noopur...

In episode 204 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Single Sign-On with Power Platform and SAP. Those of you following us, know that I am a huge fan of the Power Platform and SAP integration. We talked several times about the SAP ERP Connector, the SAP OData Connector, Copilot Studio and also had customers and partners joining us to talk about their solutions with Power Platform and SAP...

In episode 203 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about  SAP IDM and Entra ID. A few months ago SAP had announced the End-of-Maintenance of the SAP Identity Management (SAP IDM) solution in 2027 or 2030 with Extended maintenance. This announcement resulted in a lot of feedback from customer and Michael Friedrich from SAP stated in a blogpost that Microsoft and SAP are actively collaborating...

In 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....

In 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 wor...

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...

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 alre...

In 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 ha...

In 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 Ha...