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 prospects.
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 prospects, constructed on the inspiration of our 30 years of partnership to assist 1000’s of joint prospects speed up their enterprise transformation.
We’re dedicated to accelerating the journey to the Cloud so prospects of all sizes can meet their distinctive enterprise necessities whereas gaining a platform for future innovation. On the identical time, we’re enabling key Knowledge and AI capabilities designed to create aggressive benefits for organizations by unifying knowledge estates and unlocking quicker, extra actionable insights by way of the facility of agentic AI. Right here’s what’s new:
- SAP Enterprise Suite Cloud ERP packages and SAP Enterprise Expertise Platform (BTP) will probably be accessible on Microsoft Azure Market
- SAP Enterprise Knowledge Cloud and SAP Databricks will probably be accessible on Microsoft Azure in Q3 2025, and can leverage our 1P Azure Databricks service.
- The final availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot permits workers to get extra completed within the circulation of their work by way of seamless entry to data from enterprise functions 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 accessible.
- International Acceleration program for RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure is increasing with up to date steering and proposals from Microsoft and SAP Enterprise Cloud Companies (ECS), geared toward accelerating and complementing the adoption of RISE with SAP.
As we strengthen our strategic partnership and increase joint innovation, we proceed to prioritize delivering a cloud platform you may belief to run your most mission-critical SAP functions 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 prospects.
Let’s take a deeper take a look at every of those bulletins.
Unlocking distinctive enterprise worth with SAP Enterprise Suite, SAP Enterprise Expertise 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 USA. This can allow prospects 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 way of 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 purchasers and new progress alternatives for companions. Particulars in regards to the packages will probably be accessible later this yr.
Along with SAP, we’re increasing regional availability of SAP Enterprise Expertise (BTP) on Azure to make sure our prospects 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 approach for purchasers to simply buy and unlock the total potential of their AI, knowledge, and functions with the BTP platform.
SAP BTP is now accessible in 10 Azure areas, and the catalog provides 70 companies with extra coming. You possibly can view all the present BTP companies and areas on Azure on the SAP Discovery Middle. To be taught 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 power 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 prospects profit from the strong safety, AI and analytic capabilities, and seamless integrations that prospects count on from native Azure companies. 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 provides essentially the most optimized strategy to combine with PowerBI, bringing efficiency benefits like no different platform does.
- Azure supplies strong scalability and efficiency capabilities for Azure Databricks by way of a wide range 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 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, prospects can seamlessly combine their knowledge, apply superior analytics and AI, and make the most of 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
At present, we’re excited to announce the final availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This milestone is a results of the precious suggestions from prospects in the course of the restricted preview in addition to the wonderful collaboration between Microsoft and SAP.
Customers can now work inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to mix enterprise knowledge residing in SAP (by way of Joule) with contextual information from Groups, Outlook, Phrase, and extra, delivering richer insights for higher decision-making. The Joule customized engine agent is predicted to be accessible within the Agent Retailer by the top of Q2 2025. The bi-directional integration will probably 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 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 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 (by way of a three way partnership named Bleu together with Capgemini, Orange) and in Germany by way of a partnership between Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato Programs (a Bertelsmann IT subsidiary), by way 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 strong and modern safety measures for SAP functions on Microsoft Cloud.
Microsoft Sentinel Resolution for SAP: Provides top-tier safety for SAP enterprise functions. We now have launched a brand new agentless knowledge connector that simplifies onboarding by reusing prospects’ 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. Study 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 function now helps Customized Safety Attributes as triggers and scope filters and consists of the power to mechanically revoke entry tokens when workers transfer inside or depart the group. The product scope continues to evolve based mostly on final yr’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 Companies, SAP Entry Management (AC) will probably be built-in to provoke entry requests and provisioning success 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. Study extra right here.
Study extra about SAP on Microsoft Cloud
We now have much more to share about at this time’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:
