SAP on Azure Talk

We discuss use cases of ASR and details around it. Listen till the end for the Poem summing up what you should use ASR for! 

We discuss Qlik Data Integration with Azure Synapse to enable real-time insights on SAP data with our guests Matt Hayes and Kevin Pardue

Show Insight: Extend and Innovate is not an official Gartner Magic Quadrant item; the show refers to it as a collection of individual things such as EiPaaS, Cloud DBMS, Analytics, IoT, Low Code, PaaS, etc.

Reference Links

Gain real-time insights on SAP ERP data with Azure and Qlik Data Integration: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gain-realtime-insights-on-sap-erp-data-with-azure-and-qlik-data-integration/

Efficient SAP data replication to Azure (Case Study): https://www.qlik.com/us/-/media/files/resource-library/global-us/direct/case-studies/cs-greene-tweed-qdi-partner-case-study-en.pdf

Details about the SAP on Microsoft Azure book by SAP Press coming directly from the horse's mouth aka the author!

Here's 15% discount code for our listeners: MAAA15

Get your copy here: https://www.sap-press.com/sap-on-microsoft-azure_5174/ [or SAPonMicrosoftAzure.com]

We discuss the SAP with Data and Apps story on Azure in our Better Together series!

Reference Links:

Explore SAP on Microsoft Azure use cases: https://discover.sap.com/microsoft/en-us/azure.html#use-cases

Remove Barriers for Your Sales Teams with SAP and Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-IM94TN24

Hyperautomation special video series for SAP based integration and automation with Power Automate https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/hyperautomation-special-video-series-for-sap-based-integration-automation-with-power-automate/

Gain real-time insights on SAP ERP data with Azure and Qlik Data Integration: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gain-realtime-insights-on-sap-erp-data-with-azure-and-qlik-data-integration/

We discuss what SAP customers are looking for in Azure after migrating their SAP systems

We dig deeper into SAP use cases for Azure NetApp Files [ANF] such as Shared file system and storage for HANA

Reference Links:

ANF Service levels and throughput limits: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-service-levels

SAP on Azure solutions using ANF: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures#sap-on-azure-solutions

We discuss Azure's approach to infrastructure maintenance, patching for SAP landscape in Azure, and how to avoid downtime! 

We discuss cost optimizations and how it relates to optimizing resources in Azure. Also listen to how it was applied to customer scenarios from our guest Moaz Mirza

Reference links

Guest Speaker: Moaz Mirza (https://www.linkedin.com/in/moazmirza)

7 ways to optimize costs today: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/cost-optimization/#ways-to-optimize

SAP on Azure Start/Stop automation: https://github.com/Azure/SAP-on-Azure-Scripts-and-Utilities/tree/main/Start-Stop-Automation

We talk about Azure Virtual Machines and HANA Large Instances (HLI) (or Azure Large Instances) as compute choices for SAP environments 

We talk about importance of Automation in the Cloud First world, use cases for SAP on Azure, and tools around it; we also reveal an investment that has better payoff than Bitcoin! (not an investment advice)