This week at SAP Sapphire 2025 we’re excited to share a number of new bulletins and key strategic updates from Microsoft and SAP for our joint clients.
This week at SAP Sapphire 2025 we’re excited to share a number of new bulletins and key strategic updates from Microsoft and SAP for our joint clients, constructed on the inspiration of our 30 years of partnership to assist 1000’s of joint clients speed up their enterprise transformation.
We’re dedicated to accelerating the journey to the Cloud so clients of all sizes can meet their distinctive enterprise necessities whereas gaining a platform for future innovation. On the identical time, we’re enabling key Information and AI capabilities designed to create aggressive benefits for organizations by unifying knowledge estates and unlocking quicker, extra actionable insights via the facility of agentic AI. Right here’s what’s new:
- SAP Enterprise Suite Acceleration Program with the Microsoft Cloud which supplies clients with a clean path to subsequent era SAP Cloud ERP options on Microsoft Cloud delivered via our world companion ecosystem.
- Microsoft Azure is the primary cloud supplier to allow SAP’s 99.95% SLA possibility for SAP Cloud ERP Personal (provided as a part of the RISE with SAP journey).
- SAP Enterprise Suite Cloud ERP packages and SAP Enterprise Expertise Platform (BTP) can be out there on Microsoft Azure Market
- SAP Enterprise Information Cloud and SAP Databricks can be out there on Microsoft Azure in Q3 2025 and can leverage our 1P Azure Databricks service.
- The final availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot permits staff to get extra completed within the circulate of their work via seamless entry to data from enterprise purposes in SAP in addition to Microsoft 365.
- SAP Enterprise Community Materials Traceability on Azure, a brand new answer that permits efficient provide chain monitoring, is now out there.
- World Acceleration program for RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure is increasing with up to date steerage and suggestions from Microsoft and SAP Enterprise Cloud Providers (ECS), geared toward accelerating and complementing the adoption of RISE with SAP.
As we strengthen our strategic partnership and broaden joint innovation, we proceed to prioritize delivering a cloud platform you’ll be able to belief to run your most mission-critical SAP purposes and knowledge, and are additionally excited to share these necessary updates:
- New European digital commitments from Microsoft that underscore our respect for sovereignty, whereas selling financial alternatives, and strengthening cybersecurity on either side of the Atlantic.
- New capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for SAP clients.
Let’s take a deeper have a look at every of those bulletins.
Unlocking distinctive enterprise worth with SAP Enterprise Suite and Microsoft Cloud
Immediately, SAP is worked up to introduce the SAP Enterprise Suite Acceleration Program with Microsoft Cloud, an end-to-end program constructed particularly for digitally bold, cloud-forward firms to assist them obtain quicker time-to-value via companion experience, AI improvements and collaborative integrations delivered by SAP and Microsoft.
For patrons, this collaboration allows quicker time-to-value from related processes and seamless integrations throughout SAP and Microsoft, experience of our joint companion ecosystem and innovation powered by built-in AI.
For our companions, this program brings super development alternatives by enabling a unified go-to-market technique that aligns SAP, Microsoft, and SI companions round a shared imaginative and prescient and aims. As well as, companions can anticipate joint advertising help from Microsoft and SAP in addition to incentives to ship progressive enterprise options. In case you are a companion and need to be taught extra about these advantages, go to the Microsoft group for SAP companions.
SAP Enterprise Suite will combine seamlessly with Microsoft Groups, M365 Copilot and Azure AI, unlocking better efficiencies for patrons and new development alternatives for companions.
The SAP Enterprise Suite Acceleration Program with Microsoft Cloud is accessible in america, with Europe and international locations in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand coming later this 12 months. SAP and Microsoft are working to deliver choose SAP Cloud ERP packages to the Microsoft Azure Market in america later this 12 months. To be taught extra, learn the announcement weblog.
99.95% SLA possibility for SAP Cloud ERP Personal—first on Microsoft Azure
1000’s of shoppers have chosen RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure to run their mission-critical enterprise purposes. To empower clients of their digital transformation journey, we’re thrilled that SAP, in partnership with Microsoft, is providing a 99.95% SLA possibility for SAP Cloud ERP Personal solely on Microsoft Azure.
Key advantages embrace:
- Enhanced excessive availability SLA for SAP Cloud ERP, constructed on a newly redefined most availability structure co-engineered by Microsoft and SAP.
- 3-way collaboration between the client, SAP and Microsoft offering important partnership to onboard and function Mission Crucial SAP methods.
- Excessive availability structure with high-performance assets and fast failover.
- White-glove service from Microsoft together with enhanced monitoring, prioritized infrastructure restoration in case of failures and buyer co-ordination throughout deliberate upkeep occasions.
SAP is dedicated to offering clients with the most effective assured financially dedicated SLAs for his or her Mission essential SAP methods. We’re thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft to deliver our new very excessive SLA providing to our SAP Cloud ERP Personal to clients on Microsoft Azure—a transformative answer that may mix our agile world class working mannequin for RISE with a really excessive availability, as nicely our SAP safety and compliance posture.
—Peter Pluim, President, SAP Enterprise Cloud Providers at SAP
The Excessive SLA providing for SAP Cloud ERP Personal is at the moment in preview, please communicate to your SAP consultant to be taught extra.
Unlocking distinctive enterprise worth with SAP Enterprise Suite, SAP Enterprise Expertise Platform (BTP), and Microsoft Cloud
SAP and Microsoft are working to deliver SAP Enterprise Suite Cloud ERP packages to the Microsoft Azure Market in america. This may allow clients to undertake a contemporary, clever ERP system designed for agility, scalability, and innovation. This brings collectively the most effective of SAP Cloud ERP (via the GROW with SAP journey) and Microsoft Cloud with integrations between SAP Enterprise Suite and Microsoft Groups, M365 Copilot, and Azure AI, unlocking better efficiencies for patrons and new development alternatives for companions. Particulars concerning the packages can be out there later this 12 months.
Along with SAP, we’re increasing regional availability of SAP Enterprise Expertise (BTP) on Azure to make sure our clients can use the most recent BTP providers of their most well-liked Azure areas.
This week, SAP has introduced the intent to make SAP BTP out there within the Azure market within the US in H2 2025, including a brand new method for patrons to simply buy and unlock the total potential of their AI, knowledge, and purposes with the BTP platform.
SAP BTP is now out there in 10 Azure areas, and the catalog presents 70 providers with extra coming. You possibly can view all the prevailing BTP providers and areas on Azure on the SAP Discovery Middle. To be taught extra about the advantages of SAP BTP on Azure, evaluate our on-demand webinar.
Unleash transformative insights with SAP Enterprise Information Cloud and SAP Databricks on Microsoft Azure
We’re thrilled to deepen our longstanding partnerships with SAP and Databricks, supporting SAP’s newest improvements with the launch of SAP Enterprise Information Cloud (BDC) and SAP Databricks on Azure, out there in Q3 2025. Moreover, these seeking to leverage the total stack capabilities of each SAP BDC and Azure Databricks collectively for his or her SAP and non-SAP knowledge may have the flexibility to make use of a zero-copy sharing connector between each platforms.
In contrast to different cloud suppliers, SAP Databricks on Azure, will make the most of Microsoft’s first social gathering Azure Databricks service. This implies clients profit from the strong safety, AI and analytic capabilities, and seamless integrations that clients anticipate from native Azure providers. This consists of:
- Azure Databricks natively integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, enabling managed entry management and authentication effortlessly.
- In contrast to Databricks choices on different hyperscalers, Azure Databricks presents essentially the most optimized option to combine with PowerBI, bringing efficiency benefits like no different platform does.
- Azure supplies strong scalability and efficiency capabilities for Azure Databricks via quite a lot of compute choices and worldwide regional availability.
- As a primary social gathering service, Microsoft ensures all of the enterprise grade safety and compliance measures of Azure apply to Azure Databricks.
- Lastly, one of many standout attributes of Azure Databricks is the distinctive partnership between Databricks and Microsoft which unlocks joint engineering, Microsoft help, and unified billing for patrons.
“Databricks is proud to deepen our partnership with Microsoft and SAP to assist organizations unlock the total worth of their SAP and non-SAP knowledge on Azure. By leveraging Azure Databricks, clients can seamlessly combine their knowledge, apply superior analytics and AI, and reap the benefits of native safety, governance, and efficiency out there on Azure.”
—Michael Kiermaier, SVP of Enterprise Technique and Operations, Databricks
Speed up enterprise productiveness with Microsoft 365 Copilot and SAP Joule
Immediately, we’re excited to announce the overall availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This milestone is a results of the dear suggestions from clients throughout the restricted preview in addition to the superb collaboration between Microsoft and SAP.
Customers can now work inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to mix enterprise knowledge residing in SAP (through Joule) with contextual data from Groups, Outlook, Phrase, and extra, delivering richer insights for higher decision-making. The Joule customized engine agent is anticipated to be out there within the Agent Retailer by the top of Q2 2025. The bi-directional integration can be accomplished later this 12 months with the deliberate availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot in SAP Joule—this functionality is at the moment in preview.
Microsoft’s new European digital commitments
In a time of geopolitical volatility, Microsoft is dedicated to serving to present digital stability. On this context, we not too long ago introduced new commitments geared toward enabling each nation and authorities to completely use Microsoft Cloud to strengthen their financial competitiveness. These new investments are particularly related for patrons working SAP on Azure, given a lot of them have operations in Europe in addition to SAP’s outstanding presence within the area.
The bulletins embrace an enlargement of our cloud and AI infrastructure in Europe with a 40% enhance in our European datacenter capability over the following two years and sovereign cloud initiatives in France (through a three way partnership named Bleu together with Capgemini, Orange) and in Germany via a partnership between Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato Methods (a Bertelsmann IT subsidiary), via SAP’s subsidiary, Delos Cloud BmBH. You possibly can examine these and extra in our weblog: Microsoft publicizes new European digital commitments—Microsoft On the Points.
Safe your SAP and non-SAP panorama
Microsoft and SAP stay dedicated to offering strong and progressive safety measures for SAP purposes on Microsoft Cloud.
Microsoft Sentinel Resolution for SAP: Presents top-tier safety for SAP enterprise purposes. We’ve got launched a brand new agentless knowledge connector that simplifies onboarding by reusing clients’ SAP BTP property. Strategic third-party options from SAP SE like LogServ and different Impartial Software program Distributors like SecurityBridge improve Sentinel’s effectiveness as a SIEM for SAP workloads.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for SAP (MDE): Is now SAP HANA conscious, offering seamless and safe safety for SAP landscapes. MDE precisely identifies SAP HANA binaries and knowledge recordsdata, treating them as trusted entities.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Integrates with SAP LeanIX. This integration enhances IT safety and enterprise structure. LeanIX makes use of Microsoft Entra ID to find enterprise apps and SSO setups, enhancing risk detection and compliance. Be taught extra right here.
Microsoft Entra ID Governance for SAP: Has launched a number of new options geared toward enhancing productiveness and safety. The Lifecycle Workflows characteristic now helps Customized Safety Attributes as triggers and scope filters and consists of the flexibility to routinely revoke entry tokens when staff transfer inside or go away the group. The product scope continues to evolve based mostly on final 12 months’s announcement and suggestion by SAP to maneuver from SAP IDM to Microsoft Entra ID Governance. Along with SAP Id Entry Governance (IAG) and SAP Cloud Id Providers, SAP Entry Management (AC) can be built-in to provoke entry requests and provisioning achievement for SAP apps from Entra ID Governance, and carry out real-time entry danger evaluation when provisioning customers to SAP AC.
Microsoft Entra Personal Entry: Now elevates safety and compliance for SAP GUI by enabling an identity-centric Zero Belief Community Entry (ZTNA) technique with Continous Entry Analysis (CAE) and Multi-Issue-Authentication from Entra Conditional Entry. Be taught extra right here.
Be taught extra about SAP on Microsoft Cloud
We’ve got much more to share about at the moment’s thrilling bulletins. Listed here are methods to be taught extra, both on-line or by becoming a member of us at SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Madrid:
