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Covering all the latest information around SAP and Microsoft. We try to have a special guest every week who dives deeper in topics related to SAP and Microsoft Azure. Video available at: https://youtube.com/SAPonAzure Summary and links can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/hobru/SAPonAzure Homepage: https://www.SAPonAzurePodcast.de

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August 21, 202630 min

#301 - Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (Andrew Boyd, Ayberk Ozturk, Ronit Sharma) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 301 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we dive into Azure Failure Prediction and Detection and how Microsoft is proactively protecting mission-critical SAP workloads. We’re joined by Andrew, Ronit, and Ayberk from Microsoft to discuss how Azure uses machine learning and advanced telemetry to predict hardware issues and minimize downtime—even before customers notice. Whether your SAP systems demand always-on reliability or you’re curious about the latest in cloud infrastructure resilience, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode301Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #AzureInfrastructure #CloudReliability #HighAvailability #LiveMigration #EnterpriseCloud #AzureMonitor

August 14, 202626 min

#300 - SAP and Microsoft with Uli Homann | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

Episode 300! For this very special episode of the SAP on Azure Video Podcast, we wanted a very special guest — and we are extremely honored to welcome Uli Homann. Uli is Corporate Vice President and Distinguished Architect in Microsoft’s Cloud + AI organization, a member of Microsoft’s senior engineering leadership team, and someone who has spent more than 35 years helping customers navigate major technology shifts. What makes this especially exciting for us is that Uli’s connection to SAP goes back to the early days of his career in Redmond, where he worked directly with SAP and other leading enterprise software vendors to help shape Microsoft’s enterprise platform strategy. Many of you may also know Uli from Microsoft’s Armchair Architects series, where he discusses the intersection of business strategy, architecture, cloud, and AI. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode300Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Microsoft #CloudAI #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #OpenStandards #A2A #MicrosoftCloud

August 7, 202650 min

#299 - Updates on Business Process Solutions (Bartosz Jarkowski) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 299 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Business Process Solutions. We have spoken a lot about integrating SAP data with Microsoft Fabric. There is the technical part of the integration, but there is also the semantic aspect. With Business Process Solutions, we provide a set of prebiuld resources, like data models, transformations and business templates that customers can use to quickly get started. We already talked about this some time back, so today I am happy to welcome my colleauge Bartosz back with us on the show to give us an update. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode299 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #MSFabric #Data #BusinessProcessSolution #ETL #PowerBI

July 31, 202638 min

#298 - LogServ with Sentinel - Enhancing Support for RISE on AWS & GCP (Hemanth Kusampudi, Bastian Ulke, Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 298 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about LogServ with Sentinel and enhancing Support for RISE on AWS & GCP. In previous episodes we already talked about LogServ and how this can help collecting, storing and forwarding log information. The SAP LogServ integration with Microsoft Sentinel is already used by lots of SAP RISE customers. When your SAP on RISE system is running on Azure that is an obvious choice. But what if you selected AWS or GCP as the underlying infrastructure? I am glad to have Martin, Bastian and Hemanth from SAP with us today. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode298Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #RISE #Sentinel #LogServ

July 24, 202643 min

#297 - Fabric IQ access to SAP Business Data Graph (Mario De Felipe) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 297 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Fabric IQ access to SAP Graph. AI agents are becoming more and more powerful, and in the SAP world one of the big questions is still: how do we give these agents meaningful access to SAP business context without just copying data around? This is where things like SAP Graph, SAP ontologies, knowledge graphs, MCP servers and Fabric IQ become really interesting.Mario has been doing a lot of work in this space. The MCP Server for SAP Datasphere environments that he has developed has gained a lot of popularity and is used by several customers. So for today I am really happy to have Mario de Felipe joining us for the first time, to show us what he has built and to talk about how all of this can help bring SAP context into Microsoft Agents.Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode297Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #FabricIQ #Fabric #Copilot

July 3, 202619 min

#296 - TOW Update on Joule & Copilot (Angel Zhu, Chris Shannon) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 296 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Joule and Copilot.A little over 6 months ago the integration of SAP Joule and Copilot went generally available. Since then hundreds of customers have started their journey of getting more value out of integration between SAPs AI assistent Joule and Microsoft Copilot. Today we want to take another look at this integration, and I am really glad to have Chris Shannon from SAP and my colleauge Angel Zhu with us. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode296Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Copilot #Joule

June 26, 202617 min

#295 - TOW Copilot Studio with SAP Hackathon (Antje Rosendahl, Sinan Ioannidis) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 295 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Copilot Studio and SAPOver the last few months we saw a big increase of customers asking how they can connect Copilot Studio with SAP. Of course we have the official Joule & Copilot integration and as you might know we are activley working with SAP on the next steps. However, in parallel customers are looking for way to connect today. Luckily Copilot Studio comes with lots of different tools, and we are working with multiple customers and SAP and such integrations. Obviously, one way to scale is working with partners, and a few weeks we had a really cool customer workshop together with the partner Syntax to talk about Copilot Studio and SAP. This workshop was so successful, that we are already planning the next iteration. So in order to talk about this in more detail, I am glad to have Antje Rosendahl and Sinan Ioannidis from Syntax. Sign-up here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FoihR0Mg0EyL9ODJQtjC1i_crxN6AHZErYdYZbOwqedUQUdDREQwUlJYUEQ2MUI3U0lCV0lZVDhNNS4uFind all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode295Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Copilot #CopilotStudio #Workshop

June 19, 20261 hr 3 min

#294 - TOW AI powered Software Development Life Cycle at Microsoft (Barbara McElnea, Ryan McDonald, Tom Fanelli, Joseph Hindo) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 294 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Software Development Life Cycle at Microsoft with AI. I have always been pretty impressed by the way how Microsoft pushes the way how to develop forward. Especially when we look at the SAP world Microsoft is actually quite a big customer with hundreds of internal ABAP developers. In the past we already talked about how we do Software Development Life Cycle at Microsoft, but obviously AI is also becoming more and more important. So for today I am really happy to have Barb, Ryan, Tom and Joseph joining us today to tell us more how we do AI Powered SDLC at Microsoft!Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode294Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Copilot #ABAP #SDLC

June 12, 202643 min

#293 - TOW SAP integration to Microsoft Fabric with asapio (Jakob Vogelsang ) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 293 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about data integration with our partner ASAPIO.As we had discussed in the past, connecting Fabric with SAP data is something that is used by lots of our joint customers. We have talked about the different options from SAP, from Microsoft and also from partners. Today we do another deep dive with our partner ASAPIO. Last year we had them already on our show and a lot of things have changed since then. Asapio was very busiy and they have been doing several integration projects with customers and today Jakob Vogelsang is here with us to share more. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode293Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Data #MSFabric #asapio #SAPBDC

June 5, 202648 min

#292 - TOW ABAP development with Arc-1 (Marian Zeis) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

In episode 292 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Arc-1!Just last week SAP releaed the ABAP Development Tools for VS Code which means that ABAP developers can now officially use VS Code for their development. While this is really great and I am also starting to test it, I have to admit that for me the way how ABAP development works has moved on and away from Eclipse. My colleauge Alice had released VSP - Vibecoding for Steampunk - and what happend afterwards was truly amazing. The community picked up a lot of things and enhanced it with MCP Servers, new ways to integrate in GitHub Copilot and Claude Desktop appeared -- and then someone published an MCP Server that uses the SAP ABAP Development Tools (ADT) to connect to your SAP system. It gets even better: it can run on the SAP Business Technology Platform which means that in a lot of cases you can use your existing infrastructure including the SAP Cloud Connector to get started. I am really glad to have Marian Zeis, the developer behind Arc-1, back with us, to talk about it. Check out the Repo for Arc-1 here: https://github.com/marianfoo/arc-1Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode292Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #VPS #SAPADT #Eclipse #VSCode #CopilotStudio #ABAP