Unlock AI innovation and business transformation with expanded availability of SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP AI services on Microsoft Azure
Following up on the BTP global expansion announcement I shared on April 26th, we are excited to announce that SAP and Microsoft are extending the regional availability of SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP AI Services on Microsoft Azure.
As part of SAP’s ongoing initiative to serve SAP Business Technology Platform customers globally, SAP will expand its footprint on Microsoft Azure to six new regions and will extend the availability of SAP Business Technology Platform services in the existing seven public Microsoft Azure regions.in West Europe, US East, US West 2, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, and Switzerland North. Upon completion of the service extension, SAP Business Technology Platform will run in 13 Microsoft Azure regions.
In addition, SAP will continue to deliver SAP Business AI to customers at scale by bringing SAP AI services to three Microsoft Azure regions. This multi-year effort represents a deep commitment to the SAP and Microsoft partnership and a major milestone for serving SAP customers on Microsoft Azure globally.
Benefits
The expanded service availability complements our RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure offering as it allows customers to run their SAP Cloud ERP and SAP Business Technology services in the same Microsoft Azure data center. SAP customers on Microsoft Azure will receive simplified access to numerous joint SAP and Microsoft innovations.
With the deployment of SAP AI services in Microsoft Azure data centers, customers can easily combine SAP and Microsoft services to run joint AI use cases.
Scope & Regions
SAP and Microsoft are targeting to deploy SAP Business Technology Platform in the following six public Azure regions:
- Brazil targeted in late 2024
- Canada targeted in early 2025
- India targeted in late 2025
- UK targeted in late 2025 and
- Germany targeted in 2026
- China targeted in late 2025
Additionally, the two parties plan to expand the availability of SAP Business Technology services in existing public Azure regions to address regional demand throughout 2024, 2025 and early 2026. The key services, among others, in scope are:
- SAP HANA Cloud
- SAP Datasphere
- SAP Analytics Cloud
- SAP Integration Suite
- SAP Build Code
- SAP Build Process Automation
- SAP Build Workzone and
- SAP BTP, ABAP Environment
In addition to the expansion of SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP will also offer SAP AI Core, including Generative AI Hub and Joule, on Microsoft Azure enabling customers to unlock AI innovations for their SAP stack on Azure. The SAP AI services will be offered in the following regions targeted throughout Q2-Q3 2024:
- West Europe
- US East
- Sydney
References
Please see the SAP Roadmap Explorer for the latest updates on planned timelines for new deployments.
