SCP on Azure – Embrace Architecture

Holger Bruchelt - Cloud Solution Architectur for SAP

A strategic alliance between SAP and Microsoft, to simplify and Take a
accelerate a customer’s journey to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Comprehensive
Azure. Approach

Access Leverage
Continuous Best Practices
The Embrace Initiative Innovation
SAP S/4HANA
& Experience
Simplify
Move with confidence, reducing On Microsoft Azure
complexity and mitigating risk SAP will lead with Azure for
Market Approved Reference SAP S/4HANA Migration
Journeys Architecture Accelerate
Become an agile, efficient, digital
enterprise on Microsoft Azure, with
a cloud platform optimized for SAP Create a Align
➔ solutions Catalyst and Specialist
Action Plan Expertise
Foundations, Innovate
Investments, & Transform and evolve your business
Embrace Services with continuous innovation to
Optimized
Engagement and Platform create new opportunities and drive
Services growth

Microsoft & SAP Shared – Customer Facing

MARKET APPROVED REFERENCE
JOURNEYS ARCHITECTURE
Jointly created roadmap for SAP S/4HANA Jointly developed
and other SAP solutions, technical blueprint
by industry
Incorporates the required SAP
Leveraging specialist expertise and best and Microsoft Azure
practices technologies to run the
customer’s applications

The Embrace
Initiative

EMBRACE ENGAGEMENT OPTIMIZED PLATFORM

AND SERVICES
A Catalyst and Actionable Plan
Assessment and discovery bringing together the
customer, SAP, Microsoft Azure, and System
Integrators, along with a Services Plan for a
successful lift and shift to the Intelligent Enterprise
Foundational services delivering continuous
innovation on SAP Cloud Platform
Integration and extension of SAP solutions
and third-party applications, running on
Microsoft Azure cloud
SAP Cloud Platform
Integrate, Extend and Innovate

SAP Cloud Platform

Innovate

Data Business Intelligent

Management Services Technologies
Extend Integrate
Cloud & On-Prem Apps Apps & Processes

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SAP S/4HANA integration and extension Fully Maintained by SAP

scenarios with SAP Cloud Platform 1400+ 32 10x 5x

Integration Packs Prebuilt Events Savings Faster Execution

Lead mgmt Issue detection to

Segmentation and campaign Lead Issue problem identification
mgmt to Cash to Resolution Develop solution to resolution
Omni-channel order mgmt Return to replace
Trial to subscription Closed loop feedback

Create or maintain suppliers External payments

Source Payment
Prepare purchase order system integration
to Pay Integration
Receive goods from supplier Treasury workstation
Enable payment payment integration

Payroll integration eDocuments

Benefits & compensation Hire to eVAT/Invoice
Digital
Recruiting & onboarding Retire Compliance, Payroll
Time management Business to
Travel to expense Business (B2B)

Plan to
Production

Third-party warehouse integration

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 SaaS Applications
On-Premise Applications Applications
SAP Integrated
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP C/4HANA
Business Planning
Microsoft Office
LinkedIn
SAP Digital SAP S/4HANA SAP BW/4HANA SAP HANA 365
SAP SuccessFactors SAP Fieldglass
Manufacturing Cloud

Qualtrics SAP Ariba SAP Concur GitHub OneDrive

Business Technology Platform Platform Services

Database & Data
Analytics Integration Suite Intelligent BPM Enterprise Extensions Digital Experience
Management Azure Database for
SAP Analytics Cloud* Web IDE PostgreSQL
HANA DB SAP CP Integration Workflow Portal
Azure IoT Hub
Enterprise Messaging

Open Service Broker / API

SAP Data Warehouse HANA Data Lake API Management Business Rules Mobile Services
Cloud*
Azure IoT Edge
SAP HANA Cloud OData Provisioning Process Visibility Enterprise Factory Fiori Cloud
Web Analytics Azure Blockchain
Open Connectors Inbox ABAP Environment UI5
Data Intelligence
… Leonardo IoT & Edge SAP Graph
Azure ML Service
Intelligent RPA Conversational AI
Services
…
… … … … Azure Data Lake

Logging | Authentication | Authorization | Destination | Custom Domain | Scheduler | … Visual Studio

SAP Cloud Platform Foundation

Azure VM, Azure Storage, Azure Virtual Network, Azure Active Directory

* SaaS offerings
Links to thes five use cases as examples of integration
between SAP‘s Intelligent Enterprise Suite and Microsoft
Technology Stack via SCP:
• https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-platform/use-
cases/consume-azure-services.html
• https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-platform/use-
cases/extend-s4hana.html
• https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-platform/use-
cases/integrate-processes.html
• https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-platform/use-
cases/user-management.html
• https://www.sap.com/products/cloud-platform/use-
cases/optimize-processes.html
 Accessing Azure Accessing SAP Systems Accessing SCP services in
Services in SCP running in Azure from SCP Customers’ Azure Subscription

Customer A Customer A
Cloud Platform Cloud Platform Cloud Platform
Cloud Connector
Private IP Private IP Private IP
• PostgreSQL
SAP Analytics
Private Link Cloud
Application

Private Link
Private Link
Private Link

Runtime
SAP HANA Cloud
Customer B Customer B Customer B
Portal
• Redis / FLP Private IP
Serverless Private Link Logic Apps
Runtime

* Currently under evaluation

 Private Peering

Cloud Platform On-Premise

1
SAP Your Application Smart Data Integration (SDI)
End User Desktop Mobile
Fiori

Applications Read TCP Database

API Management SAP HANA Cloud Data Provisioning Agent

2
Write

HTTP/RFC
Platform Services
Enterprise Messaging
Open Connectors Cloud Integration Cloud
Connector or Business
App Service Suite
SQL Server Pub/Sub Pub/Sub

3 Pub/Sub

Access SAP data/process from custom apps built by

Functions 1 customers running on Azure via SAP Cloud Platform
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP SuccessFactors SAP C/4HANA Integration Suite. Integration with Azure Active
Directory
SAP Digital SAP Integrated Bi-directional access between SAP data/processes and
SAP Fieldglass
Manufacturing Cloud Business Planning 2 Microsoft apps via Microsoft Graph using SAP Cloud
Platform Integration Suite and Microsoft Logic Apps
Qualtrics SAP Ariba SAP Concur
Pub/Sub based Eventing between SAP CP Enterprise
Event Grid Service Bus 3 Messaging and Azure Service Bus and Event Grid for
reactive programming
 End User

Applications Cloud Platform Customer-Owned Azure Account

HTTP

OData HTTP/RFC

SAPUI5 Destination Cloud

Application Connector

trust
trust

trust

Azure Active Directory Identity & Authentication Product List

Microsoft Azure Azure VM, Azure Managed Disks, Azure Blob Storage, DNS, ExpressRoute, Azure VNet
 Cloud Applications Cloud Platform for Process Microsoft
Management Applications

for Citizen Integration &

SAP SuccessFactors Portal Digital Mobile
Personal Productivity
/ FLP Workplace Services
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
S/4
& On Premises Intelligent BPM
ANY SPI

Workflow
C/4 SAP C/4HANA incl. Forms
Cloud Process One Open
Integration Visibility Inbox Connectors
REST
SAP Fieldglass in-place task completion

bi-directional access
SAP Concur REST

Power Automate
Conversational Intelligent Business document persistence
SAP Ariba AI RPA Rules
Live Process Content

Logging | Authentication | Authorization | Destination | Custom Domain | Scheduler | …

SAP Cloud Platform Foundation

Microsoft Azure Azure VM, Azure Managed Disks, Azure Blob Storage, DNS, ExpressRoute, Azure VNet, Firewall, Azure AD …
 Cloud Platform
Dev Tools

Cockpit Business App Studio Mobile SDKs Fiori Cards

Desktop Mobile Runtime

HTTP Deploy
Application ABAP Serverless
End User SAP Fiori API Management Runtime Environment Runtime

Applications
HTTP Pub/Sub HTTP

HTTP

Open Connectors
Platform Services Pub/Sub

Cloud Integration Enterprise Messaging Connectivity

Cognitive Services

SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP SuccessFactors SAP C/4HANA

SAP Digital SAP Integrated

SAP Fieldglass
Manufacturing Cloud Business Planning Cloud Connector
Power Automate
Azure Search Qualtrics SAP Ariba SAP Concur SAP S/4HANA

Other Clouds Azure / On Premise

Use Case 1 : IoT (Initial Proposal)

Reference Architecture
Reference Architecture

Azure Service
Holger Bruchelt
Cloud Solution Architect, SAP
Holger.Bruchelt@Microsoft.com
@hobru
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