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 muse 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 similar time, we’re enabling key Knowledge and AI capabilities designed to create aggressive benefits for organizations by unifying knowledge estates and unlocking sooner, extra actionable insights by means of the facility of agentic AI. Right here’s what’s new:
- SAP Enterprise Suite Cloud ERP packages and SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform (BTP) will likely be accessible on Microsoft Azure Market
- SAP Enterprise Knowledge Cloud and SAP Databricks will likely be accessible on Microsoft Azure in Q3 2025, and can leverage our 1P Azure Databricks service.
- The overall availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot permits staff to get extra accomplished within the circulate of their work by means of seamless entry to info from enterprise purposes in SAP in addition to Microsoft 365.
- SAP Enterprise Community Materials Traceability on Azure, a brand new resolution that permits efficient provide chain monitoring, is now accessible.
- 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), aimed toward accelerating and complementing the adoption of RISE with SAP.
As we strengthen our strategic partnership and develop joint innovation, we proceed to prioritize delivering a cloud platform you may 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, SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform (BTP), and Microsoft Cloud
SAP and Microsoft are working to convey SAP Enterprise Suite Cloud ERP packages to the Microsoft Azure Market in the US. This can 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 (by means of the GROW with SAP journey) and Microsoft Cloud with integrations between SAP Enterprise Suite and Microsoft Groups, M365 Copilot, and Azure AI, unlocking higher efficiencies for purchasers and new progress alternatives for companions. Particulars concerning the packages will likely be accessible later this yr.
Along with SAP, we’re increasing regional availability of SAP Enterprise Know-how (BTP) on Azure to make sure our clients can use the most recent BTP companies of their most popular 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 means for purchasers to simply buy and unlock the total potential of their AI, knowledge, and purposes with the BTP platform.
SAP BTP is now accessible in 10 Azure areas, and the catalog gives 70 companies with extra coming. You possibly can view all the prevailing BTP companies and areas on Azure on the SAP Discovery Heart. To study extra about the advantages of SAP BTP on Azure, assessment our on-demand webinar.
Unleash transformative insights with SAP Enterprise Knowledge 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 Knowledge Cloud (BDC) and SAP Databricks on Azure, accessible in Q3 2025. Moreover, these trying to leverage the total stack capabilities of each SAP BDC and Azure Databricks collectively for his or her SAP and non-SAP knowledge could have the flexibility to make use of a zero-copy sharing connector between each platforms.
Not like different cloud suppliers, SAP Databricks on Azure, will make the most of Microsoft’s first get together Azure Databricks service. This implies clients profit from the sturdy safety, AI and analytic capabilities, and seamless integrations that clients anticipate from native Azure companies. This contains:
- Azure Databricks natively integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, enabling managed entry management and authentication effortlessly.
- Not like Databricks choices on different hyperscalers, Azure Databricks gives probably the most optimized approach to combine with PowerBI, bringing efficiency benefits like no different platform does.
- Azure supplies sturdy scalability and efficiency capabilities for Azure Databricks by means of quite a lot of compute choices and worldwide regional availability.
- As a primary get together 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 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 benefit from native safety, governance, and efficiency accessible on Azure.”
—Michael Kiermaier, SVP of Enterprise Technique and Operations, Databricks
Speed up enterprise productiveness with Microsoft 365 Copilot and SAP Joule
In the present day, we’re excited to announce the final availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This milestone is a results of the precious suggestions from clients in the course of 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 accessible within the Agent Retailer by the top of Q2 2025. The bi-directional integration will likely be accomplished later this yr with the deliberate availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot in SAP Joule—this functionality is presently 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 aimed toward enabling each nation and authorities to totally use Microsoft Cloud to strengthen their financial competitiveness. These new investments are particularly related for purchasers operating SAP on Azure, given lots 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 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 Programs (a Bertelsmann IT subsidiary), by means of SAP’s subsidiary, Delos Cloud BmBH. You possibly can examine these and extra in our weblog: Microsoft pronounces new European digital commitments—Microsoft On the Points.
Safe your SAP and non-SAP panorama
Microsoft and SAP stay dedicated to offering sturdy and revolutionary safety measures for SAP purposes on Microsoft Cloud.
Microsoft Sentinel Answer for SAP: Provides 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 information, 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 menace detection and compliance. Be taught extra right here.
Microsoft Entra ID Governance for SAP: Has launched a number of new options aimed toward enhancing productiveness and safety. The Lifecycle Workflows characteristic now helps Customized Safety Attributes as triggers and scope filters and contains the flexibility to mechanically revoke entry tokens when staff transfer inside or depart the group. The product scope continues to evolve primarily based on final yr’s announcement and advice by SAP to maneuver from SAP IDM to Microsoft Entra ID Governance. Along with SAP Identification Entry Governance (IAG) and SAP Cloud Identification Providers, SAP Entry Management (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 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 immediately’s thrilling bulletins. Listed below are methods to study extra, both on-line or by becoming a member of us at SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Madrid:
