Unlock AI innovation with new joint capabilities from Microsoft and SAP

Study extra in regards to the transformative synergy of the Microsoft Cloud and RISE with SAP for enterprise.

Microsoft and SAP have been companions and clients of one another for over 30 years, collaborating on progressive enterprise options and serving to 1000’s of joint clients speed up their enterprise transformation. Microsoft Cloud is the market chief for working SAP workloads within the cloud, together with RISE with SAP, and at present at SAP Sapphire 2024, we’re very excited to convey extra wonderful innovation to the marketplace for our joint clients. 

On this weblog, we discover the latest thrilling developments from the Microsoft and SAP partnership and the way they assist clients speed up their enterprise transformation. 

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Saying new joint AI integration between Microsoft 365 Copilot and SAP Joule

As we speak at SAP Sapphire, Microsoft and SAP are increasing our partnership by bringing Joule along with Microsoft Copilot right into a unified expertise, permitting staff to get extra achieved within the movement of their work by means of seamless entry to data from enterprise purposes in SAP in addition to Microsoft 365.  

Prospects need AI assistants to hold out requests no matter information location or the system that must be accessed. By integrating Joule and Copilot for Microsoft 365, the generative AI options will work together intuitively so customers can discover data sooner and execute duties with out leaving the platform they’re already in. 

A person in Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be capable to leverage SAP Joule to entry data saved in SAP—for instance S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, or SAP Concur. Equally, somebody utilizing SAP Joule in a SAP utility will be capable to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 capabilities with out context switching.

To see this in motion, tune into the “Innovation: The important thing to bringing out your greatest” keynote at SAP Sapphire which can even be accessible on-demand and learn the announcement weblog. 

Unlock enterprise transformation with Microsoft AI and RISE with SAP

SAP methods host mission-critical information powering core enterprise processes and might significantly profit from the insights, automation, and efficiencies unlocked by AI. Microsoft Cloud—probably the most trusted, complete and built-in cloud—is greatest positioned that can assist you obtain these advantages. You may lengthen RISE with SAP through the use of a broad set of Microsoft AI companies to maximise enterprise outcomes, catered to your small business wants: 

1: Unlocking joint AI innovation with SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform (BTP) and Microsoft Azure: SAP BTP is a platform providing from SAP that maximizes the worth of the RISE with SAP providing. We not too long ago partnered with SAP to announce the supply of SAP AI Core, an integral a part of BTP, together with Generative AI Hub and Joule on Microsoft Azure in West Europe, US East, and Sydney. Prospects that use BTP and wish to embed extra intelligence into their finance, provide chain, and order to money enterprise processes can now achieve this simply, on Azure. SAP clients may also make the most of the most well-liked massive language fashions like GPT-4o accessible in SAP Generative AI Hub provided solely on Azure by means of the Azure OpenAI Service.

2: Unlocking end-user productiveness with Microsoft Copilot: SAP clients can use Copilot for Microsoft 365, accessible in Microsoft Phrase, PowerPoint, Excel, and PowerBI in order that end-users can unlock insights, and carry out duties sooner. You may go one step additional by tailoring Copilot to work the best way you want, together with your information, processes and insurance policies utilizing the SAP plugin in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Now you can customise Copilot to connect with your SAP methods and retrieve the data you want equivalent to expense data, stock, and so forth. That is made potential with new Copilot connectors and new agent capabilities that we introduced at Microsoft Construct final week. 

3: Enabling AI transformation utilizing Azure AI companies: SAP clients working their workloads on Azure can construct their very own AI capabilities utilizing the Azure OpenAI Service with their SAP information to shortly develop generative AI purposes. We provide over 1,600 frontier and open fashions in Azure AI, together with the most recent from OpenAI, Meta, and others—offering you with the selection and suppleness to decide on the mannequin suited to your use case. Greater than 50,000 clients use Azure AI at present, signaling the wonderful momentum on this house. 

A robust productiveness enhancement use case right here is the mixture of OpenAI, together with enterprise course of automation instruments just like the Microsoft Energy Platform which has SAP connectors accessible to assist a person work together with SAP information simply and full duties sooner. 

For instance, a gross sales assistant can entry SAP information to position product orders, straight from Microsoft Groups, leveraging the ability of Azure OpenAI. Watch this video to see this state of affairs in motion. 

RISE with SAP clients may also devour OpenAI companies by means of Cloud Utility programming mannequin (CAP) and SAP BTP, AI Core. 

4: Computerized assault disruption for SAP, powered by AI: Microsoft Safety Copilot empowers all safety and IT roles to detect and deal with cyberthreats at machine velocity, together with these arising from SAP methods. For patrons utilizing Microsoft Sentinel for SAP, which is licensed for RISE with SAP, assault disruption will robotically detect monetary fraud methods and disable the native SAP and related Microsoft Entra account to stop the cyberattacker from transferring any funds–with no further intervention. See this video to be taught extra and skim extra about automated assault disruption for SAP. 

Extra alternative and suppleness with expanded availability of SAP BTP on Azure 

Along with SAP, we not too long ago introduced the expanded availability of SAP BTP to 6 new Azure areas (Brazil, Canada, India, the UK, Germany, and one to be introduced) in addition to further BTP companies within the current seven public Microsoft Azure areas (Australia, Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, the US East-VA, and the US West-WA.) Upon completion, SAP Enterprise Know-how Platform will run in 13 Microsoft Azure areas, and all the important thing BTP companies that the majority clients are asking for, will probably be accessible on Azure.

The expanded service availability, primarily based on buyer demand, unlocks AI innovation and enterprise transformation for purchasers extra simply, as now you can combine SAP Cloud enterprise useful resource planning (ERP) and SAP BTP companies with Microsoft Azure companies, together with AI companies from each corporations, inside the identical information middle area.  

New and highly effective infrastructure choices for working SAP HANA on Azure

Final 12 months we introduced the Azure M-Sequence Mv3 household—the following technology of reminiscence optimized digital machines, giving clients sooner insights, extra uptime, a decrease whole value of possession, and improved price-performance for working SAP HANA workloads with Azure IaaS deployments and SAP RISE on Azure. These VMs, supporting as much as 32 TB of reminiscence, are powered by the 4th technology Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Azure Enhance, one among Azure’s newest infrastructure improvements.  

As we speak, we’re happy to construct on this funding and share that the Mv3 Very Excessive Reminiscence (as much as 32TB of reminiscence) providing is mostly accessible for purchasers and the Mv3 Excessive Reminiscence providing (upto 16TB) is in preview.

Microsoft and SAP Signavio: Teaming as much as speed up transformation

Microsoft and SAP proceed to collaborate to assist clients of their journey to S/4HANA and RISE on Azure. SAP Signavio Course of Insights is an integral a part of SAP’s cloud-based course of transformation suite and offers corporations the flexibility to quickly uncover areas for enchancment and automation inside your SAP enterprise processes. SAP Signavio Course of Insights is now accessible on Microsoft Azure and offers ECC clients an accelerated path to S/4HANA, permitting clients to unlock the worth of innovation by means of the Microsoft platform. 

Simplifying enterprise collaboration with new integrations in Microsoft Groups 

Microsoft and SAP have been working collectively for a number of years enabling organizations and their staff enhance productiveness by means of collaborative experiences that mix mission crucial information from SAP with Microsoft Groups and Microsoft 365.

As we speak, we’re excited to construct on this and announce new joint capabilities with thrilling updates to Microsoft Groups apps for SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors and, SAP Concur:

Upcoming options in S/4HANA app for Microsoft Groups

• S/4HANA Copilot plugin: Customers can entry S/4HANA gross sales particulars, order standing, gross sales quotes, and extra utilizing pure language with Copilot for Microsoft 365. See a pattern question under: 

• Adaptive Card Loop parts: Share clever playing cards in Groups and Outlook (accessible for pre-release customers solely). 

• Groups search-based message extension: Customers can shortly seek for and insert data from S/4HANA with out leaving the Groups atmosphere.  
• SAP Neighborhood search: Search SAP Neighborhood and share content material with co-workers in Microsoft Groups—with out having to go away the app. Whereas chatting with a colleague or a bunch, click on on the three dots under the textual content discipline, open the SAP S/4HANA app, and enter your search time period within the popup window. From the outcomes checklist, choose the subject you wish to share and straight ship it to your colleagues. 
• Share to Microsoft Groups as Card: Talk higher together with your co-workers utilizing Microsoft Groups by offering a collaborative view that reveals utility content material in a brand new window and lets you have a significant dialog. 
• Entry S/4HANA inside Microsoft 365 Dwelling and Outlook too:

New launch: SuccessFactors for Microsoft Groups

• HR Activity Reminders by means of Groups Chatbot: Obtain a non-public message from the SuccessFactors Groups chatbot, which will help you full HR duties straight in Groups or information you to SuccessFactors on-line for extra complicated workloads. 
• Set off Fast Actions by means of Instructions: Request and supply suggestions to your colleagues, handle time entries, view studying assignments and approvals, entry worker and supervisor self-services, and way more!  

• Coming quickly: New SuccessFactors Dashboard in Groups tab. 

Coming quickly: Concur Journey and Expense

Customers will probably be to in a position to share journey itineraries and expense reviews with colleagues in Microsoft Groups. This app will probably be launched later this summer time. 

Microsoft and SAP collaborate to modernize id for SAP clients 

Earlier this 12 months, we introduced that we’re collaborating with SAP to develop an answer that allows clients emigrate their id administration eventualities from SAP Id Administration (IDM) to Microsoft Entra ID. We’re excited to announce that steering for this migration will probably be accessible quickly.

Driving joint buyer success 

It’s tremendous thrilling to see all of the product innovation that may in the end drive success and enterprise outcomes for purchasers. Microsoft was one of many early adopters of RISE with SAP internally, and is proud to have helped 1000’s of shoppers speed up their enterprise transformation to RISE with SAP with the ability of the Microsoft Cloud. 

Building business provider Hilti Group migrated its huge SAP panorama to RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure, accelerating their steady innovation roadmap. In parallel, it upgraded from a 12-terabyte to a 24-terabyte SAP S/4HANA ERP utility and is about to close down its on-premises datacenter to make Azure its sole platform. Hilti wished to be one of many first adopters of the RISE with SAP providing, which brings challenge administration, technical migration, and premium engagement companies collectively in a single contract. The accelerated, on-demand enterprise transformation answer was the right match to assist evolve the corporate’s huge SAP panorama, which serves because the spine of the corporate’s transactional enterprise.

“RISE with SAP on Azure helped us transfer our specialists and assets into areas the place they will add probably the most worth, which was a game-changer.” 

Dr. Christoph Baeck, Head of IT Platforms, Hilti Group

Tokyo-based metal producer, JFE Metal Company wished to improve it’s on-premises SAP methods to a hybrid cloud technique to pursue higher digital experiences. The corporate selected S/4 HANA Cloud personal version—which offers the SAP SaaS answer, RISE, in a non-public cloud atmosphere, and Microsoft Azure was chosen as the muse for this. They achieved the migration of their SAP system to the cloud in simply seven months and are additionally driving additional innovation with the Microsoft Energy Platform. 

“We thought of on-premises and varied cloud companies primarily based on the three axes of high quality, value, and turnaround time. Azure was the primary alternative as a result of we had confidence in its high quality, and we had amassed know-how within the firm. We additionally actively use Microsoft Energy Platform and different merchandise, and we appreciated the excessive diploma of affinity and integration between the merchandise.” 

Mr. Etsuo Kasuya, JFE Methods, Inc. Tokyo Workplace Enterprise Administration System Growth Division Accounting Group

Australian mining and metals firm South32 set its purpose of transitioning its greater than 100 terabyte information panorama right into a fit-for-purpose ERP system. South32 seamlessly accomplished part one among its SAP migration to Azure, attaining consolidation and simplification of its property and constructing a scalable, straightforward to handle system atmosphere utilizing SAP S/4HANA with RISE on Azure by working with SAP, Microsoft and key accomplice TCS. 

“Now that we’ve moved our SAP panorama to Azure, now we have extra breadth of protection. Our environments are standardized, which offers our infrastructure workforce with a lot better instruments to handle consumption and provides us transparency round prices.” 

Stuart Munday, Group Supervisor, ERP, South32