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 are 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. At the identical time, we’re enabling key Data and AI capabilities designed to create aggressive benefits for organizations by unifying information estates and unlocking quicker, extra actionable insights by means of the facility of agentic AI. Here’s what’s new:
- SAP Business Suite Cloud ERP packages and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) will likely be accessible on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
- SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Databricks will likely be accessible on Microsoft Azure in Q3 2025, and can leverage our 1P Azure Databricks service.
- The common availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot permits staff to get extra performed within the movement of their work by means of seamless entry to data from enterprise purposes in SAP in addition to Microsoft 365.
- SAP Business Network Material Traceability on Azure, a brand new resolution that permits efficient provide chain monitoring, is now accessible.
- Global Acceleration program for RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure is increasing with up to date steering and proposals from Microsoft and SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (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 information, and are additionally excited to share these vital 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 Business Suite, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), and Microsoft Cloud
SAP and Microsoft are working to carry SAP Business Suite Cloud ERP packages to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace within the United States. This will allow clients to undertake a contemporary, clever ERP system designed for agility, scalability, and innovation. This brings collectively one of the best of SAP Cloud ERP (by means of the GROW with SAP journey) and Microsoft Cloud with integrations between SAP Business Suite and Microsoft Teams, M365 Copilot, and Azure AI, unlocking better efficiencies for purchasers and new development alternatives for companions. Details concerning the packages will likely be accessible later this 12 months.
Together with SAP, we’re increasing regional availability of SAP Business Technology (BTP) on Azure to make sure our clients can use the newest BTP companies of their most well-liked Azure areas.
This week, SAP has introduced the intent to make SAP BTP accessible within the Azure market within the US in H2 2025, including a brand new method for purchasers to simply buy and unlock the complete potential of their AI, information, and purposes with the BTP platform.
SAP BTP is now accessible in 10 Azure areas, and the catalog affords 70 companies with extra coming. You can view all the present BTP companies and areas on Azure on the SAP Discovery Center. To study extra about the advantages of SAP BTP on Azure, evaluation our on-demand webinar.
Unleash transformative insights with SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Databricks on Microsoft Azure
We are thrilled to deepen our longstanding partnerships with SAP and Databricks, supporting SAP’s newest improvements with the launch of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP Databricks on Azure, accessible in Q3 2025. Furthermore, these trying to leverage the complete stack capabilities of each SAP BDC and Azure Databricks collectively for his or her SAP and non-SAP information can have the power to make use of a zero-copy sharing connector between each platforms.
Unlike different cloud suppliers, SAP Databricks on Azure, will make the most of Microsoft’s first occasion Azure Databricks service. This means clients profit from the strong safety, AI and analytic capabilities, and seamless integrations that clients count on from native Azure companies. This consists of:
- Azure Databricks natively integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, enabling managed entry management and authentication effortlessly.
- Unlike Databricks choices on different hyperscalers, Azure Databricks affords essentially the most optimized solution to combine with PowerBI, bringing efficiency benefits like no different platform does.
- Azure gives strong scalability and efficiency capabilities for Azure Databricks by means of a wide range of compute choices and worldwide regional availability.
- As a primary occasion 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 assist, and unified billing for purchasers.
“Databricks is proud to deepen our partnership with Microsoft and SAP to help organizations unlock the full value of their SAP and non-SAP data on Azure. By leveraging Azure Databricks, customers can seamlessly integrate their data, apply advanced analytics and AI, and take advantage of native security, governance, and performance available on Azure.”
—Michael Kiermaier, SVP of Business Strategy and Operations, Databricks
Accelerate enterprise productiveness with Microsoft 365 Copilot and SAP Joule
Today, we’re excited to announce the final availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This milestone is a results of the dear suggestions from clients through the restricted preview in addition to the wonderful collaboration between Microsoft and SAP.
Users can now work inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to mix enterprise information residing in SAP (through Joule) with contextual data from Teams, Outlook, Word, and extra, delivering richer insights for higher decision-making. The Joule customized engine agent is anticipated to be accessible within the Agent Store by the top of Q2 2025. The bi-directional integration will likely be accomplished later this 12 months with the deliberate availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot in SAP Joule—this functionality is at present in preview.
Microsoft’s new European digital commitments
In a time of geopolitical volatility, Microsoft is dedicated to serving to present digital stability. In 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 purchasers operating 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 growth of our cloud and AI infrastructure in Europe with a 40% enhance in our European datacenter capability over the subsequent two years and sovereign cloud initiatives in France (through a three way partnership named Bleu together with Capgemini, Orange) and in Germany by means of a partnership between Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato Systems (a Bertelsmann IT subsidiary), by means of SAP’s subsidiary, Delos Cloud BmBH. You can examine these and extra in our weblog: Microsoft broadcasts new European digital commitments—Microsoft On the Issues.
Secure your SAP and non-SAP panorama
Microsoft and SAP stay dedicated to offering strong and modern safety measures for SAP purposes on Microsoft Cloud.
Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP: Offers top-tier safety for SAP enterprise purposes. We have launched a brand new agentless information connector that simplifies onboarding by reusing clients’ SAP BTP property. Strategic third-party options from SAP SE like LogServ and different Independent Software Vendors 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 information 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, bettering risk detection and compliance. Learn 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 Custom Security Attributes as triggers and scope filters and consists of the power to robotically revoke entry tokens when staff transfer inside or depart the group. The product scope continues to evolve based mostly on final 12 months’s announcement and advice by SAP to maneuver from SAP IDM to Microsoft Entra ID Governance. In addition to SAP Identity Access Governance (IAG) and SAP Cloud Identity Services, SAP Access Control (AC) will likely be built-in to provoke entry requests and provisioning achievement for SAP apps from Entra ID Governance, and carry out real-time entry threat evaluation when provisioning customers to SAP AC.
Microsoft Entra Private Access: Now elevates safety and compliance for SAP GUI by enabling an identity-centric Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) technique with Continous Access Evaluation (CAE) and Multi-Factor-Authentication from Entra Conditional Access. Learn extra right here.
Learn extra about SAP on Microsoft Cloud
We have much more to share about at this time’s thrilling bulletins. Here are methods to study extra, both on-line or by becoming a member of us at SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Madrid: