Unofficial SAP on Azure podcast
By Holger Bruchelt
Video available at: youtube.com/SAPonAzure
Summary and links can be found on GitHub: github.com/hobru/SAPonAzure
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Unofficial SAP on Azure podcastMay 26, 2022
#190 - The one with SAP & Microsoft Defender (Ankit Garg, Gopalakrishnan Krishnan & Cameron Gardiner) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 190 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about security. SAP states, that it is mandatory to have antivirus, host intrusion, secure DNS clients and other security related software installed on Windows Server OS these days. Microsoft Defender can be used to help protect your SAP system. In this episode we have Ankit Garg, Gopalakrishnan Krishnan & Cameron Gardiner joining us to all about protecting your SAP system on Windows and Linux with Microsoft Defender.
Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode190
Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Security
## Summary created by AI
* Introduction and overview of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for SAP on Azure: Cameron, Gopal, and Ankit explained the features and benefits of MDE, a modern endpoint security solution that can protect SAP systems from advanced threats using AI and XDR capabilities.
* Differences and recommendations for MDE on Windows and Linux: Cameron highlighted the documentation and best practices for deploying and configuring MDE on Windows and Linux servers running SAP, including exclusions, performance baselines, and scan schedules.
* Questions and feedback from Goran and SPEAKER: Goran and SPEAKER asked about the SAP support statement, the correlation of data across domains and tenants, the special considerations for cluster environments, and the possibility of a hands-on demo.
#189 - The one with Printing from SAP with Microsoft Universal Print (Devansh Jain & Martin Pankraz ) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
A lot of companies are moving their SAP systems to the cloud. SAP on Azure, RISE with SAP on Azure, or GROW with SAP on Azure are things that we see very often with our customers. But what do you actually do with your printer? If you need to print shipping lables, invoices, product descriptions you cannot put your printer in the cloud. You still have your printer sitting on-premise. So how do we connect our SAP systems in the cloud with our printers on-premises?
Martin Pankraz and Devansh Jain join us today to talk about printing from SAP with Microsoft Universal Print.
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode189
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure
#188 - The one with Azure DNS Service & Hybrid Networking for SAP (Konstantin Popov & Evren Buyruk) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 188 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about about DNS, Domain Name System. DNS acts like a phonebook to resolve IP addresses through their domain names. When something goes wrong, then often the whole network communication breaks down. It's always DNS! Who doesn't know this term whenever it comes to networking issues. In a lot of cases we see customers using Azure DNS Services in the context of hybrid networking with SAP scenarios -- both Azure native and RISE with SAP. Since this can become quite complicated, I am happy to have two experts with us today again: Evren and Konstantin.
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Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode188
Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #DNS #Networking #RISEwithSAP
#187 - The one with well-architected framework (Jitendra Singh & Hemanth Damecharla) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode187
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure
## Summary created by AI
* Azure well-architected framework for SAP:
Jitendra and Hemanth introduced the tool and its benefits for assessing and improving SAP workloads on Azure based on five pillars: cost, performance, reliability, security and operational excellence.
Tool overview: The tool is a self-service design framework that helps customers to improve the quality of their SAP workloads on Azure by following the best practices and recommendations from Microsoft and SAP.
Tool benefits: The tool helps customers to identify risks, priorities, and opportunities for improvement in their SAP workloads on Azure, as well as to align with the latest innovations and features available on the platform.
Tool usage: The tool is available on the assessment platform and allows customers to select their SAP workload and the pillars they want to focus on. It also remembers the previous selections and shows the progress and changes over time. The tool provides a bar chart with the scores for each pillar and a list of recommendations for improvement.
* Assessment platform and process:
The tool is available on the assessment platform and allows customers to select their SAP workload and the pillars they want to focus on. It also remembers the previous selections and shows the progress and changes over time.
Assessment platform: The assessment platform is a web-based portal that hosts various tools and frameworks for customers to evaluate and optimize their Azure workloads. Customers can log in to the platform and access the Azure well-architected framework for SAP tool.
Assessment process: The assessment process consists of answering a set of questions related to the five pillars of the framework: cost, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence. The questions are based on the latest best practices and recommendations from Microsoft and SAP. The tool provides a score for each pillar and a list of recommendations for improvement. Customers can also import their subscription data to get additional insights from the Azure advisor. Customers can create multiple assessments and compare the results over time.
* Best practices and recommendations:
The tool provides questions and explanations based on the latest best practices and recommendations from Microsoft and SAP. It also identifies risks and priorities for improvement and gives feedback and comments.
Engagement with CSU team:
The tool can be used as a self-service or with the help of the CSU team who can provide more detailed guidance and follow-up sessions. The tool also supports the value-based delivery approach of the CSU team.
#186 - The one with SAP Business One and Copilot Studio (Moshe Nachman, Richard Duffy) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In the past we had talked about Copilot and the Integration to SAP data. We showed how to retrieve flight data, we talked about Single sign-on and we also showed how to create a Copilot using Copilot Studio that allowed you to create a Sales Order in the SAP System. In all of these scenarios we were connecting to an SAP ECC or an SAP S/4HANA system. But obviously there are also other SAP backends being used by our customers -- a very popular one is SAP Business One. To show you how Copilot can work with B1, I am happy to have Moshe and Richard back with us on the podcast. Moshe has created some very impressive demos and I am really looking forward to seeing them!
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode186
Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
- 0:00 Intro
- 1:30 Introducing Moshe and Richard
- 2:40 What is SAP Business One
- 9:40 Copilot Studio architecture
- 12:25 Mapping architecture to SAP Business One
- 14:40 Plugin Actions and Dynamic Chaining Topics
- 16:25 Looking at Copilot Studio
- 22:25 Looking at Process SAP Data Plugin
- 23:30 Leveraging Azure AI Studio
- 28:30 Calling Azure OpenAI from Power Automate Flow
- 33:05 Continue with the flow and create Sales Order
- 37:15 Displaying the bot in Teams
- 42:40 Security
- 45:55 Upcoming events
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure
## Summary created by AI
* SAP Business One and Copilot Studio: Holger introduces Moshe and Richard, who demonstrate how to use Copilot Studio to create a chatbot that can interact with SAP Business One via the service layer and Azure Open AI.
* Service layer and infrastructure: Richard explains the role of the service layer as a restful API that enables integration with SAP Business One, regardless of the database (HANA or SQL Server). He also highlights the benefits of cloud hosting and the prerequisites for using Copilot Studio.
* Dynamic chaining and plugging actions: Moshe shows how to use dynamic chaining and plugging actions to create a conversational flow that can handle user prompts, extract entities, call cloud flows, and create sales orders in SAP Business One.
* Deployment and future features: Moshe and Richard mention that the chatbot can be deployed to various channels, such as Teams or websites, and that there are some upcoming features in Copilot Studio, such as auto-generating adaptive cards and using events.
#185 - The one with SAP on Azure Technical Copilot (Amit Lal) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
#184 - The one with SAP API Management and Entra ID (Vinayak Adkoli) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
For a VERY long time when I was working at SAP, I was working alongside a very special colleague and friend, Vinayak Adkoli. He was my partner in crime for a lot of projects. In the last projects we worked together on SAP API Management and simplifying the way how customers could manage SAP APIs.
Then I moved to Microsoft, Vinayak moved from India to the US and today I have the pleasure of welcoming him in our podcast. Last week we already had an amazing episode with Martin Raepple from Microsoft and Christian Cohrs from SAP about Single Sign-On and Multifactor authentications in the context of SAP GUI and today we want to focus on API based authentications. Similar like with the SAP GUI this is one of the most talked about scenarios and I am glad that Vinayak can provide us with more insights on how this is working.
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode184
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #APIManagement #SSO
## Summary created by AI
* SAP API management and Azure AD integration: Vinayak Adkoli from SAP explained how to use different authentication flows to expose and consume SAP APIs with Azure AD as the identity provider.
* Single sign-on and multi-factor authentication: Holger Bruchelt from Microsoft highlighted the benefits of using the identity authentication service on BTP to federate with Azure AD and enable SSO and MFA for SAP GUI and other BTP services.
* API key and custom attributes: Holger and Vinayak discussed how to use API key and custom attributes in SAP API management to correlate the client credentials of BTP services and Azure AD applications.
* SAML assertion and token exchange: Vinayak demonstrated two approaches to generate and exchange SAML assertions for accessing on-premise SAP systems via cloud connector and BTP connectivity service: one using API management as a SAML issuer and one using Azure AD as a SAML issuer.
#183 - The one with SAP GUI MFA mit Entra ID (Martin Raepple & Christan Cohrs) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then we talk about Single Sign-On with SAP GUI.
Single Sign-On with SAP is always a super important topics. Luckily we have experts like Martin Raepple who knows the security world of SAP and Microsoft extremely well. Today Martin joins us again, this time with Christian Cohrs from SAP to talk about very new thing: SAP GUI multi factor authentication with Entra ID using the SAP Secure Login Service on BTP.
- 0:00 Intro
- 2:13 How to deploy Loftware in HA setup with SAP (ECC) in Azure
- 2:50 Encryption at host - End-to-end encryption for your VM data
- 3:20 Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions
- 3:50 SAP GUI MFA with SAP secure Login Service and Microsoft Entra ID
- 4:25 Introducing Christian Cohrs
- 5:05 Introducing Martin Raepple
- 6:00 SAP Secure Login Service for SAP GUI
- 7:25 Why do we need a dedicated solution for single sign-on in SAP GUI?
- 8:50 SSO technologies
- 9:50 What you want to achieve
- 10:55 How you achieve it
- 14:10 Secure Login Service on BTP
- 16:30 Entra ID as Corporate Identity Provider
- 18:35 End-to-end flow of user
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode183
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #SSO
## Summary created by AI
* SAP GUI authentication with Microsoft Entra ID and BTP: Christian and Martin explain how to use the new SAP Secure Login Service for SAP GUI to enable single sign-on and multi-factor authentication with Microsoft Entra ID and BTP.
* Latest updates on SAP on Azure: Goran shares a blog post on how to set up HA and DR for a third-party application integrated with SAP on Azure, and some new features on encryption and virtual network security.
* Demo of the SAP GUI authentication scenario: Martin shows the end-to-end flow of a user logging in to an SAP ABAP system with SAP GUI using the Secure Login Client, the Secure Login Service, the Identity Authentication Service, and the Microsoft Entra ID with conditional access and Authenticator app.
#182 - The one with SAP Inventory Checks (Jitendra Singh) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 182 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the SAP Inventory Check. Jitendra Singh provides an overview about the reasons for the SAP Inventory Check and walks us through the different features. - 0:00 Intro - 1:25 Introducing Jitendra - 2:45 Customer Experience initiative - 5:40 ACSS Tools & Framework - 6:55 Accessing Inventory Checks for SAP - 8:45 Azure Resources by List - 10:30 Overview of virtual machines - 13:25 Azure NetApp Files Information - 16:40 Virtual Instance for SAP - 22:30 VIS Compute - 26:30 Next enhancements Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode182 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure ## Summary created by AI *Tools and Frameworks for SAP on Azure*: Jitendra Singh introduced the initiative and the three assessments (landing zone, deployment checklist, and well-architected framework) that help customers with design and optimization of their SAP solutions on Azure. *Inventory Checks for SAP*: Jitendra Singh demonstrated the workbook that provides real-time visibility of the Azure resources and SAP systems deployed in a subscription or a resource group, and highlights some best practices and configuration checks. *ACSS integration and SAP view*: Jitendra Singh showed how the workbook can be enhanced with SAP context by registering the SAP systems to Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) and filtering by virtual instance for SAP (VIS). He also showed some SAP-specific information such as kernel, WAF, and ANF metrics. *Feedback and future updates*: Jitendra Singh invited customers and partners to provide feedback and suggestions through the tech community blog or Microsoft contacts. He also mentioned some upcoming features such as graphical view of ANF throughput, single page summary, and email reports.
#181 - The one with the Webshop of the City of Zurich (Holger Schäfer) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In previous episodes we often already talked about the BTP, the SAP Business Technology Platform. It is used with a lot of customers for integration and extensions scenarios -- but it can become even more powerful, if you combine it with other services -- like from Microsoft Azure.
Today we have Holger Schäfer with us who will talk about a customer project he is involved in. With the Webshop 2.0 of the City of Zurich they build a Multi Cloud Omnichannel E-Commerce solution, based on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Microsoft Azure.
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode181
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Integration #BTP
## Summary created by AI
*Web shop 2.0 project overview*: Holger Schaffer presented the multi cloud ecommerce solution for the city of Zurich based on SAP BTP and Azure, using various services and technologies for integration, extension and optimization.
*Identity federation and supplier integration*: The web shop supports multiple identity providers for different user groups and scenarios, and connects to various SAP systems of different departments and suppliers using system landscape transformation and link catalog.
*Image processing and optimization*: The web shop leverages Azure BLOB storage, event grid and functions to store, resize, convert and rotate images uploaded by the content creators, reducing the size and improving the quality of the images.
*UI-5 and web components*: The web shop uses UI-5 and Fiori elements for the front end, and integrates web components from the city of Zurich for the header and other controls, using a custom library to enable data binding and annotation driven design.
#180 - The one with ACSS and Quality Checks (Kalyani Namuduri & Sagar Keswani) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In this episode we have Kalyani Namuduri and Sagar Keswani with us from our engineering team in India who will recap what's available today and take a closer look at the Quality Check features and how they can help you operate your SAP system on Azure even better.
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode180
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #ACSS #Operation
## Summary created by AI
* Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) overview: Kalyani and Sagar introduced ACSS as an end-to-end solution for deploying and managing SAP systems on Azure, with a logical representation of SAP systems as virtual instances for SAP solutions (VIS) and integration with various Azure services.
* ACSS quality checks feature: Sagar demonstrated how ACSS runs quality checks on the infrastructure, OS, file system, pacemaker, and load balancer configurations of SAP systems and provides recommendations for best practices, alerts, and remediation actions.
* ACSS quality insights workbook: Sagar showed how customers can access a workbook that provides a summary of the quality checks results, as well as detailed information on the compute, disk, and extension configurations of their SAP systems.
* ACSS feedback and roadmap: Kalyani and Sagar invited customers to provide feedback and suggestions on ACSS, and mentioned that they are working on expanding the list of quality checks to cover more scenarios, such as Oracle, DB2, and Windows OS.
#179 - The one with Azure NetApp Files Backup (Ralf Klahr) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode179
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure
## Summary created by AI
* ANF backup for SAP on Azure: Ralf explained the benefits and features of ANF backup, especially for large databases and data protection against fraud. He also showed how to configure it with azacsnap, cloud sync and immutable BLOB.
* Immutable and indelible BLOB space: Ralf demonstrated how to set up a BLOB space that prevents deletion or modification of backups for a specified period of time. He also discussed the design and recovery options for different SAP databases using ANF backup.
* Cloud sync and blue XP tools: Ralf introduced two tools that can help with transferring data from ANF volumes to BLOB space. He mentioned that cloud sync is free of charge when used with Azure files and that blue XP can simplify the restore process from snapshots.
#178 - The one with DSAG Technologietage 2024 (Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode178
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #DSAGTT24 #DSAGTT #Copilot
## Summary created by AI
* DSAG Technology Days: Holger recapped the event and shared some of the impressions and feedback from the sessions that Microsoft delivered on topics such as security, AI, low code, DevOps, and identity.
* SAP and Microsoft collaboration: Goran highlighted the trust and power of the partnership between SAP and Microsoft, especially on identity management and AI integration.
* DSAG Tech Exchange: Holger presented some of the hands-on sessions that Microsoft offered on GitHub Copilot, ABAP Cloud, and Neptune and Power Automate integration, and reported positive responses from the participants.
* DSAG Partner Board: Holger participated in the partner board meeting where SAP presented their case for cloud and rise and grow initiatives, and discussed the challenges and opportunities for partners to change their business model.
#177 - The one with 7 years at Microsoft (Robert Boban) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
#176 - The one with Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI and SAP OData Connector (Michael Mergell) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
You might remember that we had Noopur, CJ and also Michael in previous episodes talking about Azure OpenAI and how this could be leveraged for example in a Teams bot. Today we have Michael back with us and he shows a nice integration of Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI and the new SAP OData Connector for Power Automate.
github.com/mimergel
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode176
Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #AOAI #PowerPlatform #Teams
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
*SAP on Azure Video Podcast*: Holger and Robert introduce Michael Beck as the guest speaker who will show some AI scenarios with SAP and Azure.
*AI scenarios with SAP and Azure*: Michael demonstrates six solutions that use Azure Open AI, Power Platform and SAP OData connector to enable chatbots, self-services, data analysis and app development for SAP data.
*SAP OData connector*: Michael explains that the SAP OData connector is a new preview feature that simplifies the access to SAP OData services from the Power Platform and shows how to use it with Copilot Studio and Power Apps.
*System prompts for Azure Open AI*: Michael shares some tips and best practices for creating system prompts that instruct Azure Open AI how to handle user queries and SAP data, such as using examples, feedback and context.
*GitHub repositories*: Michael provides the links to his GitHub repositories where he has uploaded the solutions, presentations and videos for the AI scenarios and encourages everyone to download and try them out.
#175 - The one with moving to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set (Goran Condric) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Goran talks about the new script that simplifies the migration of systems setup using proximity placement groups to moving to flexible Virtual Machines Scale Set.
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode175
Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #HighAvailability
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* AI in PowerPoint: Holger shared a blog post by Sonika on how to use AI to create talking avatars in PowerPoint and demonstrated the tool.
* Copilot Pro: Robert confirmed that Copilot Pro is now available for Microsoft 365 customers as a consumer edition and that Microsoft
is removing the 300 seats minimum requirement for Copilot
* Moving to flexible VM: Goran gave an update on how to move SAP VM systems to flexible VM mode using a PowerShell script and explained the benefits of using this mode over proximity placement groups. He also showed how to handle snapshots and NetApp volumes during the migration.
#174 - The one with Extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure (Martin Raepple, Bastian Ulke) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode174
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #DMC #AI
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* Introduction and overview of SAP digital manufacturing with edge integration: Holger, Martin and Bastian explain the idea and benefits of using Microsoft custom vision service to enhance the production process and quality control with SAP digital manufacturing solution
* Architecture and implementation details of the integration scenario: Martin and Bastian show the components and steps involved in the integration, such as API management, Azure functions, event hubs, blob storage, and custom vision service. They also demonstrate how to use Terraform to automate the infrastructure setup and how to customize the production operator dashboard
* Demo of the visual inspection process and results: Martin and Bastian run the production process and show how the camera picture is sent to the custom vision service for analysis and how the results are displayed on the SAP digital manufacturing dashboard. They also discuss the possibility of retraining the model based on the operator feedback and the option of deploying the extension on the edge
#173 - The one wrapping up 2023 (Jürgen Thomas) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 2023 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we look back at 2023. And like in the previous 3 years again have Jürgen Thomas with us to revisit some of the highlight from 2023 -- and it is not only all about AI. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode173 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #LookingBack #2023 ## Summary created by AI * SAP on Azure podcast: Holger, Robert, Goran and Juergen celebrated the success of the podcast and its 6000 subscribers. They also welcomed Juergen as a recurring guest. * Azure improvements in 2023: Juergen shared some of the highlights and challenges of Azure in 2023, such as the outages, the Mv3 series, the live migration, the premium storage v2, the automated test framework and the Azure Center for SAP Solutions. * SAP workload and integration: Juergen emphasized the importance of testing and optimizing the SAP workload on Azure, especially for S/4HANA and HANA. He also mentioned the need to support the integration of SAP with other Azure services and tools, such as AI, Teams, Sentinel and backup. * Outlook for 2024: Juergen expressed his excitement and optimism for the next year, where he expects more customer feedback, new scenarios, new technologies and new architectures. He also reminded the audience of the looming deadline for S/4HANA migration in 2027.
#172 - The one with Breaking silos (Robert Boban, Goran Condric, Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Back when I was at SAP, one of the biggest challenges that I saw with customers -- especially with bigger customers -- was that the SAP team is not talking to the non-SAP team.
In a lot of organizations there is a dedicated team in IT that looks after the SAP environment and an IT team that is looking after the rest. They often don't even sit on the same floor or build which leads to disconnected projects.
So today we talk about that and discuss how we can address this.
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode172
Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #CAF
## Summary created by AI
* The SAP team and the non-SAP team often have different perspectives, responsibilities, and knowledge, and they need to communicate and understand each other better.
* The cloud adoption framework provides a common language and a guide for the cloud journey, and it helps to establish cross-functional teams that can work together on strategy, governance, operation, and adoption.
* The well-architected framework provides a huge set of best practices and checklists that can help to optimize the cloud infrastructure and services, and to align them with the business goals and requirements.
* The DevOps mentality and tools can help to automate and standardize the cloud deployment and operation, and to enable faster and more flexible testing and innovation.
* The AI and extend-innovate scenarios require more data integration and preparation, and more collaboration between the infrastructure and the application layers.
#171 - The one with Azure Site Recovery for SAP (Evren Buyruk & Rohan Sahini) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
#170 - The one with DMOVE2S4H (Mathias Klein) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
We also briefly talked about potential next steps and how all the prerequisite checks could be included in an automated process.
Today we have Mathias back on our channel to provide us with the latest news on DMO to Azure.
Find all the links mentioned here: www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode170
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* Robert Boban: www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* DMO to Azure update: Matthias Klein from SAP presented the latest news on the DMO to Azure procedure, which is now generally available and allows customers to migrate and convert their ERP systems to S4 HANA on Azure in one step.
* Production ready deployment on Azure: Holger and Goran praised the work of the CAL team, which enables customers to deploy S4 HANA systems on Azure with high availability and best practices using the cloud appliance library.
* Benefits of DMOVE 2 S4: Matthias explained the advantages of using the DMOVE 2 S4 option, which reduces the downtime, simplifies the process, and leverages the standard DMO features of the software update manager.
* End-to-end demo: Matthias showed a video demo of how the DMOVE 2 S4 procedure works, starting from the maintenance planner, running the pre-checks, deploying the target system, installing the additional application server, and running the software update manager.
* Next steps and resources: Matthias announced that he will publish a blog post with more details and links to the technical white paper, the production ready deployment guide, and the SAP help portal. He also invited customers to try out the procedure and provide feedback.
#169 - The one with Enterprise controls in AI SDK (Gopal Nair) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then we go deep with Gopal Nair with enterprise controls of the AI SDK for SAP. The Enterprise control features allow customers to manage and control the usage of the AI SDK for SAP in your SAP System.
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #AI #SDK
#168 - The one with the November Events (Goran Condric & Holger Bruchelt) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #SAPTeched #MSIgnite #asug #TechConnect
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* SAP Teched: Holger shared his experience of attending SAP Teched in Bangalore and highlighted some of the key announcements from SAP, such as Jewel, generative AI hub, build process automation, edge integration cell, and HANA cloud vector capabilities. He also emphasized the strong collaboration between SAP and Microsoft on AI, integration, and data management.
* ASUG Tech Connect: Goran and Holger discussed the ASUG Tech Connect event, where Scott Guthrie from Microsoft joined the keynote and showed the commitment to SAP customers. They also mentioned some of the research findings from ASUG on BTP adoption and usage, and some of the sessions on AI, UX, and skills.
* Open AI Dev Day: Holger and Goran briefly talked about the Open AI Dev Day, where Satya Nadella also participated and showcased the partnership between Microsoft and Open AI. They mentioned some of the new features and demos from Open AI, such as GPT-4 Turbo, text-to-speech, and custom models.
* Microsoft Ignite: Holger and Goran reviewed some of the news and announcements from Microsoft Ignite, where copilot was a dominant theme. They talked about how copilot can help with various scenarios, such as search, sales, security, and development. They also highlighted the integration of copilot with SAP, such as in Viva Learning, Azure Center for SAP Solutions, and Sentinel.
#167 - The one with Gen AI with SAP CAP (David Kunz) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
I was lucky to attend SAP Teched in Bangalore and it was a really cool show. One of the key highlights from SAP, was SAP Build Code. SAP Build Code helps developers to create code for the Cloud Application Programming model -- similar like GitHub Copilot. Already during Sapphire earlier this year, Jürgen Müller had already shown a cool sneak preview of CAP-GPT. Today we have David Kunz, the brain behind CAP-GPT to talk about it!
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #GPT #CAP #AI
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* SAP Bild Code: David Kunz shows a demo of the new tool that simplifies the development of cloud applications with CAP and GPT
* SAP TechEd and GitHub Universe: Holger mentions some of the highlights and news from the recent events, such as SAP Business Technology Platform, Edge Integration, and GitHub Copilot
* SAP and Microsoft collaboration: Holger refers to a blog post that summarizes the integration scenarios between SAP and Microsoft products and services.
#166 - The one with updates on Premium v2 storage (Peter Kalan, Anbu Govindasamy) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure
## Summary created by AI
* Features and benefits of premium SSD V2: Premium SSD V2 is a new version of Azure storage that offers sub-millisecond latency, customizable size and performance, and lower cost than premium SSD V1. It can support large database workloads such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and DB2.
* How to use premium SSD V2 for SAP HANA: Premium SSD V2 does not require write accelerator for SAP HANA log, and can use different VM sizes than M series. It also allows changing the IOPS and throughput of the disks on the fly without downtime. It is certified by SAP and has best practice guidelines for optimal configuration.
* Demo of premium SSD V2: The document shows a demo of how to create and configure premium SSD V2 disks, how to check the sector size and latency, how to increase the throughput dynamically, and how to take snapshots and create new disks from them.
* Comparison of premium SSD V2 and V1: The document compares the price and performance of premium SSD V2 and V1, and shows that V2 is cheaper and faster than V1. It also explains how to optimize the disk size and number to get the best performance for the same price.
#165 - The one with Configuration Editor with SAP Deployment Automation Framework (Kimmo Forss & Hemanth Damecharla) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 165 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances will be retired by 30 June 2025 and the transition to Virtual Machines, Configuring Azure NetApp Files (ANF) Application Volume Group (AVG) for zonal SAP HANA deployment, Changes to the Azure reservation exchange policy, a look back at the ABAP Story, A Cool use of Open AI in Eclipse, Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event introduces wave of new AI-powered capabilities for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform and Azure OpenAI powered SAP Self-Services. Then we take a closer look at SDAF, or the SAP Deployment Automation Framework, which started as nice tool to simplify the deployment of SAP systems in a consistent and repeatable way. In the meantime SDAF has grown into a huge project, is leveraged by the Azure Center for SAP Solution and actually by lots of partners and customers. Kimmo Forss and Hemanth Damecharla show us the latest features, like the Configuration Editor and the integration in Azure DevOps Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode165 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #SDAF #Infrastructure ## Summary created by AI Key Topics: * News from the weekend: The team shared some news about Azure VMs, reserved instances, exchange policy, and SAP on Azure video podcast. * Introduction of Kimmo and Hemanth: Kimmo and Hemanth are part of the SAP on Azure development team based in Helsinki, Finland, working on the SAP Deployment Automation Framework. * Overview of SAP Deployment Automation Framework: The framework is an open source tool that helps customers deploy and configure SAP systems on Azure using Terraform and Ansible, with a modular and extensible design. * New features and demos of the framework: The team showed some new features and demos of the framework, such as the configuration editor, the application service, the private DNS, the application manifest, and the software download. * Questions and feedback: The team answered some questions and feedback from the audience, such as the support for different SAP versions and platforms, the open source contribution model, the validation and testing process, and the deployment time and complexity.
#164 - The one with Updates to Master Data from Teams @ Mars (Steve Curtis) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 164 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Master Data updates from Teams. In previous episodes we had talked about Teams, leveraging AI services for a better chatbot experience and talked about how this could be connected to an SAP system. We even showed some demos -- but it was just that: proof of concepts! Today we have a very special guest: Steve Curtis from Mars. He has build an MDM Chatbot in Teams that allows mass updates to Master Data in SAP MDG using MS Teams -- which is actually live and running for some time now at Mars. Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode164 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Teams #AI #MDM #MasterData #MDG #Excel ## Summary created by AI * Introduction of Steve Curtis and his MDM chatbot in Teams: Steve Curtis is an MDM lead at Mars who built a chatbot in Teams that allows users to update master data in SAP MDG using Excel templates and AI services. * Demo of the chatbot functionality and benefits: The chatbot can handle different scenarios such as creating new customers, updating existing customers, and validating data. It can also provide feedback, email notifications, and error handling. The chatbot reduces the need for tickets, training, and manual intervention, and improves the user experience and data quality. * Technical details and challenges of the chatbot development: The chatbot uses Azure Bot Framework, QnA Maker, LUIS, and Cognitive Services to interact with users and SAP systems. The chatbot faced some challenges such as security, compliance, and data mapping, which were solved by using onedrive, encryption, and lookup tables. * Future plans and enhancements for the chatbot: The chatbot is currently in production for one region and one data domain, but it will be extended to other regions and domains soon. The chatbot will also be improved by adding more intelligence, creativity, and humor to the conversations.
#163 - The one with the UI5 Spreadsheet Importer (Marian Zeis) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 163 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Excel. When Christian Klein did the keynote on the DSAG Jahreskongress two weeks back, he put up a slide on the evolution of customers running their business. And one of the starting points was Excel! I would argue that even today there are probably very few customers that are not using Excel -- in addition to their SAP system. So integration is key. There are thousands of ways how Excel can work with SAP -- there is even a joke that every month a blog post is published that shows a new way. There is however one community project, the "UI5 Spreadsheet Importer" that is basically a component for UI5 which allows enables the bulk upload of data. For this we have Marian Zeis joining us today who will talk and show us more.
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Excel #UI5
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* Introduction: Holger welcomes Robert back to the show and introduces Marian, an independent SAP developer who created a UI5 spreadsheet importer component.
* UI5 spreadsheet importer component: Marian explains the use case, features, and implementation of his open source component that allows users to upload and download Excel files to and from SAP Fiori apps using OData services and UI5 controls.
* Demo: Marian shows a live demo of his component in action, using a sample app based on the SAP Fiori elements list report and object page templates, and also shows how to customize and configure the component for different scenarios and data types.
* Questions and answers: Holger, Robert, and Goran ask Marian some questions about the component, such as how to integrate it with standard SAP Fiori apps, how to handle complex data structures, and how to get started with the project.
* Conclusion: Holger thanks Marian for his presentation and invites the listeners to check out the links and documentation for the component on GitHub and his blog posts.
#162 - The one with Building with the AI SDK for SAP (Gopal Nair) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then we go back to the AI SDK for SAP. A few weeks ago we already had Gopal joining us where he introduced us to the AI SDK for ABAP. As promised we wanted to take a deep dive on this topic. Gopal has brought some cool examples on how you can use Azure OpenAI as an ABAP developer.
microsoft.github.io/aisdkforsapabap/
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #AzureAI #OpenAI #AI #ABAP
## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* Introduction: Holger and Gopal introduce themselves and the topic of the SDK for ABAP.
* News: Holger shares three news items about SAP events, products, and chatbot scenarios.
* SDK for ABAP demo: Gopal shows how to install, configure, and use the SDK for ABAP to create a simple program that interacts with OpenAI and generates text based on prompts.
* SDK for ABAP features: Gopal explains some of the enterprise-ready capabilities of the SDK for ABAP, such as data policies, profile settings, and granular control.
#161 - The one with Even more Teams, SAP and AI (Chan Jin Park) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
5 months ago we had a very interesting episode where CJ from our Team in Asia had developed a simple, but amazing scenario on how to leverage Azure OpenAI, Teams and generating SQL queries to access data from SAP. After his session we had Michael Mergell and our intern Noopur Vaishnav joining as well to talk about similar scenarios.
Today CJ joins us again to provide an update on the latest integrations of Teams, SAP and AI.
github.com/cjpark-sapcsa/chatgpt-sap-aoai
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #AzureOpenAI
#160 - The one with Ontologies for manufacturing with SAP & Microsoft (Erich Barnstedt) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
The Digital Twin Consortium has created an open-source Manufacturing Ontologies reference architecture, where until recently one of the most requested features was the integration of on-premises SAP systems. I say "until recently", because our guest today, Erich Barnstedt just recently published exactly that.
github.com/digitaltwinconsortium/ManufacturingOntologies
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Manufacturing #AzureDigitalTwins
#159 - The one with Fusing SAP and Microsoft (James Wood & Paul Modderman) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 159 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Netweaver 7.5 with MaxDB 7.9 on Azure using Azure NetApp Files (ANF), Microsoft Defender Endpoint (MDE) for SAP Applications on Windows Server, HackTogether - Microsoft Power Platform AI Hack and Microsoft announcing new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers. Then we hear from James Wood, CEO at Bowdark and Paul Modderman, Chief Nerd at Bowdark about their Fuse integration platform. We have talked already quite often about Power Platform and the integration to SAP. Microsoft provides several out of the box connectors that make the integration quite easy. However, we also highlighted that you can get even more out of the Power Platform if you combine it with other Azure services. You can create your own connectors, build your own configuration screens and also connect directly with Dataverse. James and Paul have taken all these components to make this integration possible.
https://www.bowdark.com/products Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode159 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #PowerPlatform #AI #ABAP #OData ## AI Generated Summary: * **SAP and Microsoft Power Platform integration:** James and Paul from Bowdark Consulting demonstrated how they use Azure services and custom connectors to enable seamless data access and transactions between SAP and Power Platform apps. * **Use cases and benefits of Power Platform integration:** James and Paul shared some examples of how Power Platform integration can improve user experience, process efficiency, and data quality for SAP customers, such as field service, serial number tracking, and document recognition. * **Challenges and best practices of Power Platform integration:** James and Paul discussed some of the technical and security aspects of Power Platform integration, such as hybrid connection, single sign-on, caching, and auditing, and how to overcome them with proper configuration and design. * **Future outlook and opportunities of Power Platform integration:** James and Paul expressed their enthusiasm for the potential of Power Platform integration, especially with the upcoming features and services from Microsoft, such as AI Builder, Teams, and Power Automate Desktop.
#158 - The one with updates from ASUG (Geoff Scott) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 158 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk with Geoff Scott from ASUG about Microsoft and SAP. In previous episodes we often mentioned DSAG, the German Speaking SAP User Group. This is probably not only because Goran and I are both located in Germany, but am also hosting the "SAP on Microsoft Azure" working group within DSAG. However, did you know that ASUG was founded over 30 years ago and has more than 100.000 members across thousands of organizations? It is actually the biggest SAP user group in the world. So for todays episode I am really happy to have the opportunity to talk with Geoff Scott the CEO of ASUG! Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode158 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #ASUG #AI #RISEwithSAP #LowCode
#157 - The one with SAP, Teams, Power and AI - Internship @ Microsoft (Noopur Vaishnav) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 157 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Interns at Microsoft. Noopur Vaishnav joins us to talk about her Summer internship at Microsoft focusing on SAP, Power Virtual Agent, Power Automate and Teams -- all together leveraging AI. The resulting demo allows anyone to chat with data from your SAP system, find the right products and then create a Sales order in the SAP system. Make sure to checkout the blog post from Noopur: Building GPT-4 powered bots for SAP enterprise data on Microsoft Teams: A Low-Code Approach Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode157 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #Intern #AI #PowerPlatform #AzureOpenAI #fresher
#156 - The one with the AI SDK for ABAP (Gopal Nair) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 156 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP on Azure NetApp Files Sizing Best Practices, SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations, NFS v4.1 volumes on Azure NetApp Files for SAP HANA, Announcing public preview of new Mv3 Medium Memory Virtual Machines, the SAP CDC Connector on Azure and Part 2 of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud ABAP Environment integration journey with Microsoft blog post, this time about Azure OpenAI & AI SDK for ABAP. Then we take a closer look at the Microsoft AI SDK for ABAP. A few months ago, we talked about a revolutionary new SDK in our news of the week section: the AI SDK for ABAP. This SDK empowers ABAP developers to consume Azure OpenAI services without leaving their ABAP code or having to know the intricate details of Azure OpenAI. I had the opportunity to present and demo the SDK with the German Speaking SAP User Group a few months back, which led to some exciting discussions with customers and actual follow-up projects. Today, we are thrilled to have the brain behind the AI SDK for ABAP with us: Gopal Nair, a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft. We're really looking forward to Gopal introducing the topic and sharing some examples with us. In fact, he has so many examples that we're planning to do a few follow-up sessions with him, so stay tuned! (this intro was written by Azure OpenAI) Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode156 Reach out to us for any feedback / questions: * Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/ * Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/ * Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/ #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #AzureOpenAI #OpenAI #ABAP #abapGit
#155 - The one with VMSS Flex for SAP (Ralitza Deltcheva & Dennis Padia) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then we talk with Dennis and Ralitza about using Virtual Machine Scale Sets flex with SAP workload.
Typically VMs can be deployed regionally using Availability sets or zonal using Availability zones. VMSS Flex for SAP can now combine these two deployments by logically grouping platform managed virtual machines.
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #HA
#154 - The one with Oracle multi-volume performance with Azure NetApp Files (Geert van Teylingen) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then we take a look at Azure NetApp Files. We mainly talk about this in the context of SAP HANA on Azure. But as we briefly touched early as well, ANF also plays a huge role with Oracle workload. So today we want to take another look at updates on Azure NetApp Files, what's new with "ANF and SAP HANA" and then look at large scale deployments with Oracle on Azure. For this I am happy to have Geert with us again on the show.
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #ANF #Oracle
#153 - The one with Private Link and Azure OpenAI (Harutyun Ter-Minasyan, Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then we go deep with Harutyun Ter-Minasyan from SAP and Martin Pankraz on the latest news with SAP Private Link Services. Azure OpenAI is now also available and the connection via SAP Private Link offer some unique integration options. Harut and Martin show a nice scenario evaluting BTP Audit-Log files using Azure OpenAI.
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #BTP #CAP #AzureOpenAI
#152 - The one with Steampunk on Azure (Frank Jentsch & Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then Frank Jentsch and Martin Pankraz join us to talk about Steampunk, or the SAP Business Technology Platform ABAP Environment. About 4 years ago Harald Kuck, Head of ABAP Platform, published a blog post on Steampunk and since then it is used by lots of customers to build extensions using the ABAP Cloud model either via Embedded Steampunk directly on the S/4HANA system or via the Business Technology Platform.
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#151 - The one with SAP CAP and Azure Cosmos DB (Volker Buzek & Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Volker Buzek and Martin Pankraz join us to talk about how the event was planned and the results.
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#150 - The one with Azure DDoS Protection for SAP workloads (Evren Buyruk & Amir Dahan) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
#149 - The one with SAP, Azure Open AI and Power Virtual Agent (Michael Mergell) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then Michael Mergell joins us to talk about Chatbots in Teams. This time not focusing on business processes (like approving Sales orders), but on scenarios for the SAP Basis admin: how to check user permissions in the SAP system, how to check Job status in the SAP system or even how to post maintenance messages in your SAP system. All from within a Chat in Teams.
Then he shows us the power of AI prompt engineering. Using Azure Open AI, Power Virtual Agent, Power Automate and Teams he enables the interaction with your SAP S-Flight data via natural language. Out of plain text, Azure Open AI generates the complex SQL Query and returns the results live from the SAP system.
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#Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #OpenAI #Teams #PowerPlatform
#148 - The one with Visual Studio and Power Platform (Robert Boban) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
Then Robert Boban walks us through a code-first scenario and how Visual Studio can be used to publish and connect to Power Platform, leverage Azure API Management create connectors directly from the pro-code environment.
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#147 - The one with HANA scale-out N+N Architectures (Abbas Ali Mir & Momin Qureshi) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 147 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about BTP ABAP Environment / Steampunk on Azure, additional tutorials about leveraging Steampunk on Azure with other Microsoft services, Integration 2023, new BTP Private Link services for Azure OpenAI, SAP AI Built for Business and Microsoft Copilot.
Then Abbas and Momin join us to talk about HANA scale-out system and different configuration scenarios. They walk us through the configuration and show us the results live in Azure.
In case you want to tase a delicious chicken, check out this recipe from Momin:
Easy Tandoori chicken
Purchase Tandoori mix from your local Indian Grocery store.
Mix the Tandoori mix, with chicken thighs and legs, have some good background music to inspire you 😊
Add ginger, garlic, onion powder to liking.
Grill on indirect heat 300 degrees for 45 minutes and then flip the chicken, and grill for another 45 minutes.
Can be served with Naan, Rice and yogurt to lessen the heat.
Be a hero in front of your friends and family 😊!
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#146 - The one with MaxDB HA on Windows Cluster (Steffen Müller) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 146 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Optimizing Microsoft’s SAP environment with Microsoft Azure, Virtual Machine Scale Sets for SAP workload, How to easily migrate an existing SAP system VMs to Flexible Virtual Machine Scale Set and SAP on Azure High Availability Setup of Content Server 7.53 with MaxDB database in Linux Environment.
Then Steffen Müller joins us to talk about his recent blog posts on Installation of an SAP NetWeaver ERP based on WSFC with clustered ASCS and SAP MaxDB.
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#145 - The one with GA and Updates of Azure Center for SAP Solutions (Kalyani Namuduri & Aron Stern) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 145 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Microsoft Build and SAP Sapphire:SAP Sapphire and Microsoft Build just finished this week.
From SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, SAP Business AI, Green ledger, Copilot plugins, Copilot for Windows, Edge, ... so much new topics were presented.
However, in this episode we focus on Azure Center for SAP solutions, which went just GA. Aron Stern and Kalyani Namuduri join us to talk about the "Controltower" for your SAP solution and demo how it works.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode145
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* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
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#144 - The one with GA of Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (Sujay Jain & Akarsh Prabhu) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 144 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we recap SAP Sapphire 2023 in Orlando with lots of announcements around Azure Center for SAP Solutions and other topics.
Then we have Sujay Jain and Akarsh Prabhu joining us talk about the general availability of Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions, or AMS. Sujya and Akarsh walk us through the motivation and main features and then show us how it looks like in the Azure portal.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode144
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* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
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* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/
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#143 - The one with Low-Code with Neptune Software and M365 (Martin Fischer & Abesh Bhattacharjee) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 143 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Advanced Settings with the SAP CDC Connector and SLT and the upcoming Sapphire. Then we welcome Martin Fischer and Abesh Bhattacharjee from Neptune Software.
In previous episodes we have often talked about low-code and SAP. In most cases that meant Power Platform and SAP. However, there are obviously lots of other solutions out there. SAP has their own low-code solution with SAP Build -- and there are some great ways to integrate. But there are also other partners: like Neptune Software. They also offer a very interesting suite that enables customers to build low-code solutions -- and integrate and connect with Microsoft 365 and Azure.
Martin and Abesh show us what the Neptune platform is and how it can be used to integrate with Microsoft 365, Azure service and Power Platform.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode143
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* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
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#142 - The one with Power Platform and Single Sign-On (Martin Raepple) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 142 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about the DSAG Investment Report 2023, Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks, Power your business with AI, Microsoft AI SDK for SAP and Power Platform being more than just a toy.
Then we focus on Power Platform and SAP. One of my recommendation to customers is always to use Single Sign-On when using Power Platform and SAP. With the new SAP ERP Connector the configuration for using Kerberos has been simplified quite a bit! Martin Raepple walks us through and end-to-end process and some key configuration steps.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode142
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* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
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#141 - The one with updates on HA with SAP on Azure (Ralitza Deltcheva) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast
In episode 141 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Enabling SAP CAP with Azure services without OData APIs using SAP Private Link, SAP on Azure DNS Integration whitepaper, UIcon & re>≡CAP, Microsoft and SAP quarterly numbers and focus on AI / OpenAI, Sapphire and finally the new Microsoft AI SDK for SAP.
Then we look at single point of failures. Running an SAP system still means you have to care of SPOF like ACSC or fileshares. Ralitza Deltcheva joins us to talk about the lastest for high availability with SAP on Azure, like file share options, pacemaker cluster configurations and more.
https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode141
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* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
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