In episode 124 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we are wrapping up the year 2022 and are really happy to have Jürgen Thomas back with us. Looking back at our episodes in this year and we had lots of things to cover:

From an infrastructure perspective with (almost) 24 TB VMs, amazingly many RISE on Azure projects, updates with Azure Monitor for SAP, improvements with Azure Backup for SAP, the Quality Checktool, Sentinel for SAP, Azure Center for SAP Solutions, SAP Private Link between BTP and Azure, Teams integration and of course Power Platform and SAP.

There is so much innovation happening and it is probably a really good time to look back.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode124

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In episode 123 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Cross Zonal Restore of Azure Virtual Machines from Azure Backup, Azure NetApp Files cross-zone replication, Optimize HANA deployments with Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA and Coca-Cola United automating over 50,000 orders in complex SAP invoicing process with Microsoft Power Platform.

"Partners make more possible". From the very beginning partners were and are a central pillar for Microsofts success.

If we look at SAP and Microsoft, this is even more important. We have now a lot of pure SAP partners that acquired the required Microsoft knowledge to help customers.

Robert Boban talks about the mentoring and continuous coaching concept that enable our partners to work with SAP and Microsoft.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode123

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In episode 122 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP Private Link with Web Application Firewall, Automatic renewal of certificates using Azure Key Vault and Logic Apps and Solution Diagrams and icons for SAP Business Technology Platform.

Then Martin Steiner and Sebastian Ullrich join us to talk about security. If you do a Google search or just look at the news, then unfortunately we hear more and more often that customers are impacted by security related incidents. So it is not a matter of if, but *when* you will be attacked. With this in mind, the question is how can you best prepare for such an "event" and what can you do to get "back to business".

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode122

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In episode 121 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Munich Re benefits of running SAP on Azure, insights on Disaster recovery for SAP workload and sizing reports for SAP BWonHANA.

Then we have Frederic Huet from Microsoft IT with us to talk about our own usage and implementation of SAP at Microsoft, focusing on the landscape, our own digital transformation jounrey and the vision for an open & agile platform.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode121

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In episode 120 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about SAP on Oracle, SAP Enable Now and syncing with Azure Active Directory and Microsoft using SAP SuccessFactors.

Then we have an update on Azure Backup for SAP. Kartik Pullabhotla joins us and shows the latest features like Snapshot- and stream-based backup, cost optimization and ransomware protections.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode120

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In episode 119 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about  SAP TechEd 2022, Microsoft sessions during SAP TechEd, a look back from Azure on latest releases, SAP and Microsoft Office integration, Azure Automation, the new PowerShell 7.3 and Process Mining with Power Automate.

Then we welcome Ulrich Christ back on the show. The SAP CDC Connector which allows customers to blend data from SAP into Azure is now general available. Ulrich shows us a demo and provides us with an overview on the latest enhancements.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode119

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In episode 118 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about GitHub Universe, migrating your SAP PI/PO flows to Cloud Native, news on SAP HANA Large Instances, Creating SAP HANA cluster resources, kickstarting your SAP Deployment with Azure Center for SAP Solutions and a look back at the SAP Business Connector. Then we welcome Jon Gilman to our call this week.

About a year ago Microsoft acquired ClearSoft and by this added a lot of SAP experience to the Power Platform team. The results of this acquisition can already been seen: during the Power Platform conference and Ignite Jon and the team already released a new SAP Connector which addresses a lot of limitations that we heard from customers from the previous connector.

But it gets even better: we are in the process of delivering 25 apps and much much more Power Automate flows for typical SAP scenario. Jon is here to talk  about these news developments!

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode118

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In episode 117 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about latest improvements to efficiency in Microsoft datacenters, sustainability guidance for Azure Kubernetes Services, using availability zones for HA in Azure NetApp Files, Premium SSD v2 storage configurations for SAP HANA, SAP events on Azure Event Grid, GA of Power Apps Ideas and Calling the Microsoft Graph on behalf of the SAP-authenticated user.

Then we have Domnic Benedict from SAP and Bartosz Jarkowski joining us to talk about integrating the SAP Digital Supply Chain with Microsoft services.

The integration with Microsoft Teams via Adaptive Cards notifies suppliers and also enables collaboration on key information from IBP in Teams.

The usage of Azure Machine Learning for SAP Digital Supply Chains allows customers to use individual ML models to do forecasting with IBP.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode117

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In episode 116 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about sustainability.

Two weeks ago the German Speaking SAP user Group had its annual conference in Leipzig, Germany. Christian Braukmüller and Marcel Scherer had hosted a session about "Auf der Suche nach Nachhaltigkeit - Vorsicht bei Greenwashing" (e.g. "On the search for sustainability - lookout for greenwashing"). In their presentation they talked alot about sustainability, Carbon footprint, and raised the question how companies are dealing with sustainability topics in general.

Paul Edlund provides a fascinating look into the efficiency of Azure datacenters, circular datacenters and different research projects to improve the overall efficiency of running your workload on Azure.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode116

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In episode 115 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we look back at the GA of the SAP CDC Connector for Azure Data Factory, discuss a new blog post by Martin on SAP Private Link with Azure Kubernetes Services and then take a closer look on updates with Azure NetApp Files with Geert van Teylingen.

After that we go deep on Oracle with THE expert on this: Kellyn Gorman. We take a closer look on the AWR Report which allows us to really get a good understanding on what is happening in your Oracle system.

https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode115

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* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/

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