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 muse 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 Information and AI capabilities designed to create aggressive benefits for organizations by unifying knowledge estates and unlocking quicker, extra actionable insights via the facility of agentic AI. Right here’s what’s new:
- SAP Enterprise Suite Cloud ERP packages and SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform (BTP) can be obtainable on Microsoft Azure Market
- SAP Enterprise Information Cloud and SAP Databricks can be obtainable 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 finished within the stream of their work via 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 obtainable.
- 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 broaden joint innovation, we proceed to prioritize delivering a cloud platform you possibly can belief to run your most mission-critical SAP functions and knowledge, 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 each side of the Atlantic.
- New capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for SAP prospects.
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 carry SAP Enterprise Suite Cloud ERP packages to the Microsoft Azure Market in america. This may allow prospects to undertake a contemporary, clever ERP system designed for agility, scalability, and innovation. This brings collectively the most effective of SAP Cloud ERP (via the GROW with SAP journey) and Microsoft Cloud with integrations between SAP Enterprise Suite and Microsoft Groups, M365 Copilot, and Azure AI, unlocking better efficiencies for purchasers and new progress alternatives for companions. Particulars concerning the packages can be obtainable later this yr.
Along with SAP, we’re increasing regional availability of SAP Enterprise Know-how (BTP) on Azure to make sure our prospects can use the most recent BTP providers of their most popular Azure areas.
This week, SAP has introduced the intent to make SAP BTP obtainable within the Azure market within the US in H2 2025, including a brand new method for purchasers to simply buy and unlock the total potential of their AI, knowledge, and functions with the BTP platform.
SAP BTP is now obtainable in 10 Azure areas, and the catalog provides 70 providers with extra coming. You’ll be able to view all the prevailing BTP providers and areas on Azure on the SAP Discovery Middle. To be taught extra about the advantages of SAP BTP on Azure, evaluate our on-demand webinar.
Unleash transformative insights with SAP Enterprise Information Cloud and SAP Databricks on Microsoft Azure
We’re thrilled to deepen our longstanding partnerships with SAP and Databricks, supporting SAP’s newest improvements with the launch of SAP Enterprise Information Cloud (BDC) and SAP Databricks on Azure, obtainable 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 may have the power 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 occasion Azure Databricks service. This implies prospects profit from the sturdy safety, AI and analytic capabilities, and seamless integrations that prospects anticipate from native Azure providers. This consists of:
- Azure Databricks natively integrates with Microsoft Entra ID, enabling managed entry management and authentication effortlessly.
- Not like Databricks choices on different hyperscalers, Azure Databricks provides essentially the most optimized method to combine with PowerBI, bringing efficiency benefits like no different platform does.
- Azure supplies sturdy scalability and efficiency capabilities for Azure Databricks via 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 help, 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 reap the benefits of native safety, governance, and efficiency obtainable on Azure.”
—Michael Kiermaier, SVP of Enterprise Technique and Operations, Databricks
Speed up enterprise productiveness with Microsoft 365 Copilot and SAP Joule
Immediately, we’re excited to announce the overall availability of Joule in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This milestone is a results of the dear suggestions from 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 anticipated to be obtainable within the Agent Retailer by the tip of Q2 2025. The bi-directional integration can be accomplished later this yr with the deliberate availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot in SAP Joule—this functionality is at the moment in preview.
Microsoft’s new European digital commitments
In a time of geopolitical volatility, Microsoft is dedicated to serving to present digital stability. On this context, we just lately introduced new commitments geared toward enabling each nation and authorities to totally use Microsoft Cloud to strengthen their financial competitiveness. These new investments are particularly related for purchasers working SAP on Azure, given lots of them have operations in Europe in addition to SAP’s distinguished presence within the area.
The bulletins embrace an enlargement of our cloud and AI infrastructure in Europe with a 40% improve in our European datacenter capability over the subsequent two years and sovereign cloud initiatives in France (by way of a three way partnership named Bleu together with Capgemini, Orange) and in Germany via a partnership between Microsoft, SAP, and Arvato Methods (a Bertelsmann IT subsidiary), via SAP’s subsidiary, Delos Cloud BmBH. You’ll be able to examine these and extra in our weblog: Microsoft broadcasts new European digital commitments—Microsoft On the Points.
Safe your SAP and non-SAP panorama
Microsoft and SAP stay dedicated to offering sturdy and modern safety measures for SAP functions on Microsoft Cloud.
Microsoft Sentinel Resolution for SAP: Presents 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 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 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 characteristic now helps Customized Safety Attributes as triggers and scope filters and consists of the power to mechanically revoke entry tokens when staff transfer inside or go away the group. The product scope continues to evolve primarily based on final yr’s announcement and suggestion by SAP to maneuver from SAP IDM to Microsoft Entra ID Governance. Along with SAP Identification Entry Governance (IAG) and SAP Cloud Identification Companies, SAP Entry Management (AC) can be built-in to provoke entry requests and provisioning success for SAP apps from Entra ID Governance, and carry out real-time entry threat 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 the moment’s thrilling bulletins. Listed here are methods to be taught extra, both on-line or by becoming a member of us at SAP Sapphire in Orlando and Madrid:
