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Your central place to start your Microsoft+SAP integration journey and keep up to date with the latest community efforts, betas and announcements.

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How to get started with SAP and Microsoft integration scenarios

This repository contains everything you need to learn about Microsoft + SAP joint scenarios and complements the SAP community posts, SAP+Microsoft YouTube Channel, webcasts and open-source contributions on GitHub made by an amazing group of contributors!

Furthermore, you will learn about the latest community efforts, BETAs and announcements.

To get a first impression about the limitless opportunities of extending SAP applications with Microsoft and Azure services, this Azure Friday episode is a perfect starting point:

Watch the video

The partnership between both companies dates back many decades

The Azure Friday session above gave you a glimpse into the world of combining SAP and Microsoft. We are looking back at 25+ years of partnership between both companies which is the foundation to support common goals long term. See below what is current top of mind in that area.

Description Source
Press release which covers the joint commitment by the companies to simplify and streamline customers’ journeys to the cloud SAP and Microsoft Partnership Expands - SAP News Center
Overview about Microsoft and SAP partnering to meet the needs of every business Come Explore the Future (sap.com)
How SAP and Microsoft are working together to accelerate customer innovation and transformation Collaborating for Success: How SAP and Microsoft are working together to accelerate customer innovation and transformation

Overview of the technical foundation

Azure globe

Azure Global Infrastructure (microsoft.com) and SAP solutions on Azure | Microsoft Azure

Azure services Azure Services Overview (azurecharts.com)

BTP on Azure services SAP Discovery Center – BTP Services on Azure (cloud.sap)

BTP on Azure services Explore SAP’s library of joint use cases (discover.sap.com)

Get started for free with developer accounts

Good news, you can dive-in headfirst without worrying about cost and hit the ground running with awesome open-source projects. All required components offer a free tier. Credit card details are only required to prohibit trial misuse. They won’t be charged till you actively switch or convert your subscription to a paid one.

Description Account
Azure Free Trial, useful in the context of configuring Azure AD for development purposes Azure Free Trial
SAP BTP on Azure Trial Account, select Singapore for Azure BTP (🚀 on Azure 🚀) Trial Account
M365 Developer Program [Developer Program
Public GitHub account to host your projects GitHub account

Enablement and SAP Discovery Center Missions

Now you are all set to get your hands dirty.

Description Source
The perfect start and a must-see [Building Applications on SAP BTP with Microsoft Services
SAP Discovery Center Missions providing use-cases for combing BTP and Microsoft Azure services Integrate Azure Data Explorer and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

Establish security workflow between SAP and Microsoft apps (cloud.sap)

Extend your business workflow with Microsoft Teams & Outlook (cloud.sap)

OpenSAP courses guide you through the journey with lectures and assignments to foster learning whereas Discovery Center Missions focus more on the correct deployment of a solution.

Meet the community

We contribute to the tech communities through actionable prototypes, blogs, Q&A marathons, and controversial discussions. Find below some of our influential voices and user groups out there. We featured their latest trending blogs, webcasts and feeds.

Famous unofficial SAP + Microsoft YouTube Channel hosted by Holger Bruchelt.

Equally interesting webcast called “myNewsWrap” on SAP + Microsoft from a developer perspective hosted by Christian Lechner.

Insightful LinkedIn group “SAP Architects on Azure” owned by Denys van Kempen.

From left to right and top to bottom

Martin Raepple, Bartosz Jarkowski, Harutyun Ter-Minasyan, Maximilian Streifeneder, Holger Bruchelt, Roman Broich, Christian Lechner and Martin Pankraz

Find our blog post rooster grouped by topic here.

Customer Engagement Initiatives and public BETAs

Inviting you: Register soon to explore your event-driven pathway between SAP and Microsoft Azure | SAP Blogs

SAP Private Link Service (BETA) is Available | SAP Blogs

Contributing

We are always looking for passionate SAP + Microsoft advocates. Just reach out via GitHub, create pull-requests, post issues, meet us at the SAP community, LinkedIn or Twitter.

Yours

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