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Welcome to 2024! In episode 174 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about extending SAP Digital Manufacturing with Azure. Martin Raepple and Bastian Ulke join us to demo a visual inspection use-case that enhances the standard SAP Digital Manufacturing scenarios.

Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode174

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/



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## Summary created by AI
Key Topics:
* Introduction and overview of SAP digital manufacturing with edge integration: Holger, Martin and Bastian explain the idea and benefits of using Microsoft custom vision service to enhance the production process and quality control with SAP digital manufacturing solution
* Architecture and implementation details of the integration scenario: Martin and Bastian show the components and steps involved in the integration, such as API management, Azure functions, event hubs, blob storage, and custom vision service. They also demonstrate how to use Terraform to automate the infrastructure setup and how to customize the production operator dashboard
* Demo of the visual inspection process and results: Martin and Bastian run the production process and show how the camera picture is sent to the custom vision service for analysis and how the results are displayed on the SAP digital manufacturing dashboard. They also discuss the possibility of retraining the model based on the operator feedback and the option of deploying the extension on the edge

In episode 2023 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we look back at 2023. And like in the previous 3 years again have Jürgen Thomas with us to revisit some of the highlight from 2023 -- and it is not only all about AI.

Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode173

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/


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## Summary created by AI
* SAP on Azure podcast: Holger, Robert, Goran and Juergen celebrated the success of the podcast and its 6000 subscribers. They also welcomed Juergen as a recurring guest.
* Azure improvements in 2023: Juergen shared some of the highlights and challenges of Azure in 2023, such as the outages, the Mv3 series, the live migration, the premium storage v2, the automated test framework and the Azure Center for SAP Solutions.
* SAP workload and integration: Juergen emphasized the importance of testing and optimizing the SAP workload on Azure, especially for S/4HANA and HANA. He also mentioned the need to support the integration of SAP with other Azure services and tools, such as AI, Teams, Sentinel and backup.
* Outlook for 2024: Juergen expressed his excitement and optimism for the next year, where he expects more customer feedback, new scenarios, new technologies and new architectures. He also reminded the audience of the looming deadline for S/4HANA migration in 2027.

In episode 172 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we don't talk too much about technology, but more about something that often prevents technology to be applied.
Back when I was at SAP, one of the biggest challenges that I saw with customers -- especially with bigger customers -- was that the SAP team is not talking to the non-SAP team.
In a lot of organizations there is a dedicated team in IT that looks after the SAP environment and an IT team that is looking after the rest. They often don't even sit on the same floor or build which leads to disconnected projects.
So today we talk about that and discuss how we can address this.

Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode172

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/



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## Summary created by AI
* The SAP team and the non-SAP team often have different perspectives, responsibilities, and knowledge, and they need to communicate and understand each other better.
* The cloud adoption framework provides a common language and a guide for the cloud journey, and it helps to establish cross-functional teams that can work together on strategy, governance, operation, and adoption.
* The well-architected framework provides a huge set of best practices and checklists that can help to optimize the cloud infrastructure and services, and to align them with the business goals and requirements.
* The DevOps mentality and tools can help to automate and standardize the cloud deployment and operation, and to enable faster and more flexible testing and innovation.
* The AI and extend-innovate scenarios require more data integration and preparation, and more collaboration between the infrastructure and the application layers.

In episode 171 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about Azure Disaster Recovery leveraging Azure Site Recovery with Evren Buyruk and Rohan Sahini.
We take a look at the architecture and underlying platform, concepts for SAP on Azure. Then we look how Azure Site recovery can help protect your SAP systems and look at best best practices for replication, RTO & PRO and capacity.

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Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode1XX

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/



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## Summary created by AI
* Evren gives some background information on the differences between high availability and disaster recovery, and the concepts of Microsoft managed failover and customer managed failover. He also explains the importance of having a disaster recovery plan and the considerations for storage account failover.
* Evren talks about the Azure deployment options for SAP systems across availability zones, and the best practices for using Azure file shares, NFS, and pacemaker clusters. He also shows how to use Azure site recovery for app servers and HANA system replication or database replication for data tier.
* Rohan introduces Azure site recovery as a disaster recovery product and its value proposition. He also shows some statistics on the types and costs of outages, and the best practices for RTO and RPO considerations, capacity planning, and security.
* Rohan demonstrates how to create a virtual machine and activate Azure site recovery in a few steps. He also announces a new feature of Azure site recovery for shared disks, which is currently in private preview and will support high availability configurations with ZRS or LRS shared disks across regions.

In episode 170 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about new capacity pools with Azure NetApp Files. Then we continue a discussion that we stared over a year ago -- the DMO for SAP. At that time we had a very cool session with Mathias Klein from SAP and Taka Hoshino from Microsoft on the new Database Migration Option for Azure. At that time we presented a whitepaper, that outlined the steps to simplify the conversion and make DMO to Azure happen.
We also briefly talked about potential next steps and how all the prerequisite checks could be included in an automated process.
Today we have Mathias back on our channel to provide us with the latest news on DMO to Azure.


Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode170

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/



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## Summary created by AI


Key Topics:
* DMO to Azure update: Matthias Klein from SAP presented the latest news on the DMO to Azure procedure, which is now generally available and allows customers to migrate and convert their ERP systems to S4 HANA on Azure in one step.
* Production ready deployment on Azure: Holger and Goran praised the work of the CAL team, which enables customers to deploy S4 HANA systems on Azure with high availability and best practices using the cloud appliance library.
* Benefits of DMOVE 2 S4: Matthias explained the advantages of using the DMOVE 2 S4 option, which reduces the downtime, simplifies the process, and leverages the standard DMO features of the software update manager.
* End-to-end demo: Matthias showed a video demo of how the DMOVE 2 S4 procedure works, starting from the maintenance planner, running the pre-checks, deploying the target system, installing the additional application server, and running the software update manager.
* Next steps and resources: Matthias announced that he will publish a blog post with more details and links to the technical white paper, the production ready deployment guide, and the SAP help portal. He also invited customers to try out the procedure and provide feedback.

In episode 169 of our SAP on Azure video podcast we talk about updates in October from SAP and Microsoft, the latest M-Series VMs with almost 32 TB of memory, a session at Ignite on how Microsoft IT runs SAP on Azure, how to use Azure Blog storage with ABAP Steampunk and a SAP-on-Azure Technical Copilot on OpenAI.

Then we go deep with Gopal Nair with enterprise controls of the AI SDK for SAP. The Enterprise control features allow customers to manage and control the usage of the AI SDK for SAP in your SAP System.


Find all the links mentioned here: https://www.saponazurepodcast.de/episode169

Reach out to us for any feedback / questions:
* Robert Boban: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rboban/
* Goran Condric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gorancondric/
* Holger Bruchelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-bruchelt/



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