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Holger Bruchelt

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Product manager for SAP integration at Microsoft. youtube.com/@saponazure

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In episode 308 we join forces with the CoffeeCornerRadio podcast! We recorded live from DSAG Congress 2026 with Martin Fischer to discuss S/4HANA, ECC reality, SAP AI, Joule, API policy, licensing, product readiness, and the transformation journey ahead. youtu.be/krsW0g5qGH8 #SAPonAzure #DSAG

#308 - DSAG Jahreskongress 2026 (Martin Fischer) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In episode 307 of the SAP on Azure video podcast, we talk with Martin Raepple about Microsoft Entra ID Governance, SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance, access packages, SAP business roles, approvals, and provisioning access into SAP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuup...

#307 - Integration with Cloud IAG (Martin Raepple) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New video: Power Automate + SAP OData connector with Generic OAuth. A deterministic flow, OAuth-based sign-in, SAP IAS, BTP routing app, Cloud Connector, and principal propagation - calling SAP OData in the signed-in user’s context. Watch: youtu.be/x46VFKTUu_4?...

Power Automate & SAP: Single Sign-On with SAP OData Connector & Generic OAuth

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First post in a very long time on SAP Community, community.sap.com/t5/technolog... Updating SAP data from Copilot in SAP using MCP Gateway on SAP Integration Suite #SAP #Microsoft #SAPonAzure

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Connecting MCP Gateway on Integration Suite with Copilot Studio - Updating business partners

Over the last weeks I have been working on a tutorial series that shows how to connect Microsoft Copilot Studio with SAP through the MCP Gateway on SAP Integration Suite. For an SAP-focused scenario, ...

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Marian Zeis @marian.zeis.de · 31/07/2026

ARC-1 released Version 1.0.0 with a big changelog, main feature in the is the support of multi system/client in BTP CF github.com/arc-mcp/arc-...

Release v1.0.0 · arc-mcp/arc-1

1.0.0 (2026-07-31) Features add experimental destination-discovered multi-target endpoints (#579) (5ec27fc) add procedural unit source surgery (#571) (b712616) advertise configurable MCP server na...

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂! 𝗢𝘂𝗿 #𝗦𝗔𝗣 𝗼𝗻 #𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀! If you haven't already done so: watch, like, and subscribe! youtube.com/SAPonAzure Also explore videos on SSO, 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼, 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗜, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝗵, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝟯𝟲𝟱 - always in the context of SAP & Microsoft.

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Love the smell of fresh bread? 🍞 At SAP SAPPHIRE, help “Save the bakery” with SAP Joule and Microsoft Copilot. Live AI. Real apps. Real code. No slides.

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Most SAP systems can send emails, and many rely on Microsoft Exchange. Moving to Exchange Online introduces changes - especially with deprecation of Basic Authentication. In this week’s episode, Martin Raepple and Oliver Beck from SAP walk through the setup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQ3...

#286 - ToW Exchange Online Integration (Martin Raepple, Oliver Beck) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Attending the #Syntax Xperience Day today. Some great sessions, but the first highlight for me: Hands-on SAP Digital Manufacturing with Lego! #SyntaxXperienceDay #GrowTogetherWithSyntax

Hands-on workshop Digital Manufactoring

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Assembly stations

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Joule in Copilot. Philip Herzig kicks of the second keynote at #DSAG Technology days. See it live in action in my session on Wednesday 10:30, session V101

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Two months ago @scott.hanselman.com open sourced Zork, opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11.... Today you can play Zork also on your SAP system -- thanks to the amazing Alice Vinogradova 🙏. Best thing! She Vibe Coded all in ABAP! Check out the latest #SAPonAzure episode youtu.be/cB9dzbKIQ3k

#277 - ToW Vibe Coding Zork into SAP (Alice Vinogradova) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Wrapping up 2025 with Jürgen Thomas! For the past five years, we’ve had the tradition of closing the year with Jürgen, Partner Architect at Microsoft - and this year was no exception! 🎄 Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a fantastic New Year! See you in 2026! youtu.be/vjqsyqzyCvs

#272 - ToW Wrapping up 2025 (Jürgen Thomas) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Not everyone is running SAP in RISE. Some cutomers prefer to operate SAP on Azure on their own. Abbas Ali Mir and Momin Qureshi talk about their SAP S/4HANA Journey on Azure with a customer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYgw... #SAPonAzure

#271 - ToW SAP S/4HANA Journey on Azure (Abbas Ali Mir, Momin Qureshi) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

With MCP you can create amazing natural language integrations with your SAP system. You can also leverage the benefits of BTP for this integration. Join Tom Cenens, Wouter Lemaire and @marian.zeis.de in our latest episode youtu.be/mvwoWKpv59I?...

#269 - ToW MCP with BTP - AI Data Enabler (Wouter Lemaire, Tom Cenens, Marian Zeis) | SAP on Azure

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Last action before #SAP #Teched: 🎥 New video about #Azure API Management, MCP and SAP OData with Copilot Studio 👋 See you in Berlin next week! youtu.be/eCvq_l7Igjw #SAPonAzure #SAP #Microsoft #CopilotStudio #PowerPlatform #AzureAPIM #APIM

Copilot + SAP: Azure API Management, MCP and SAP OData with Copilot Studio

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Marian Zeis @marian.zeis.de · 17/10/2025

there you go youtu.be/vTZCeaxsOwU?...

sitMUC 2025: Open Source Joule for Consultants SAP Docs and CAP Data Unified with MCP - Marian Zeis

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Just looked through the slides. Now really excited to watch the recording!!!

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

😩I really wanted to join, but I was too late! Please Let me know where I can find the recording.

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

🗣️Heading to Berlin for SAP TechEd next month? On the afternoon of Monday, November 3rd, join us for a Microsoft-hosted hackathon. 🧙‍♂️Build your first MCP-based Copilot connecting to SAP data via Azure API Management, to ask Copilot for SAP insights. 👉 Register now, forms.microsoft.com/r/qgeW7ry6E7 !

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Microsoft is a huge SAP customer - our journey started over 30 years ago! In this week’s episode, we talk with Frédéric Huet about the latest migrations to RISE with SAP on Azure - and what that means for the future of SAP at Microsoft. youtu.be/gGYN1ydiwfM #SAPonAzure #Microsoft #SAP #RISE

258 - ToW SAP RISE on Azure at Microsoft (Frederic Huet) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

With all the (justified) excitement around MCP servers, I thought it’d be great to show another approach -- without MCP -- using Copilot Studio and OData Services. Just let LLM select the right API and generate the query that fits your needs. 🎥 Give it a try: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt62...

Copilot Studio + SAP: Dynamic SAP OData calls

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Are you using SAP HCM? Do you want to know how to use Entra ID Governance with different provisioning scenarios? Check out the latest video in our SAP on Azure podcast with special guest Chetan Desai. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISpx... #Microsoft #SAP #Azure #SAPonAzure #HCM #EntraID

#253 - TOW Integrating SAP HCM with Microsoft Entra ID Governance (Chetan Desai) | SAP on Azure

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

We had a short “detour” with OData MCP Servers and grounding the generated ABAP code with your SAP system. But no major public updates on the ABAP GitHub Copilot piece youtu.be/3ULSvfYAmq0?...

#248 - TOW From OData to MCP Server - The MCP Bridge (Alice Vinogradova) | SAP on Azure Video

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

We continue our discussions with Alice Vinogradova. Is vibe coding with ABAP possible? What can you do if you leverage the OData MCP Bridge and zLLM for grounding? Check out our last session with Alice www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qAh... #SAPonAzure

#250 - TOW ABAP Copilot Grounding and MCP Bridge (Alice Vinogradova) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Alice Vinogradova has released some amazing content: The OData MCP Bridge, the zLLM and much more. Now I was lucky to have her in our #SAPonAzure podcast. We talk about MCP, the MCP Bridge, integration in Claude and GitHub Copilot and more! Check out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ULS...

#248 - TOW From OData to MCP Server - The MCP Bridge (Alice Vinogradova) | SAP on Azure Video

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Are you playing around with MCP servers and wondered how to connect to your (SAP) OData services? Check out this post from Alice Vinogradova, www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-buil...

I Built the Universal OData ↔ MCP Bridge (And It Actually Works™)

Or: How I Accidentally Made 15,000 Enterprise Services Talk to AI In March 2025 I realised the "hard part" of enterprise AI integration was already solved by metadata we've had for years. Two hundred ...

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🤔Want to learn how #Microsoft is doing #DevOps in the #SAP ABAP context? 🥳We just released a first blog post outlining our evolution to optimize SAP Change Management with Azure DevOps: Transforming Enterprise Operations, community.sap.com/t5/technolog...

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SAP Change Management with Azure DevOps: Transforming Enterprise Operations

This blog post was jointly created by and Introduction At Microsoft, we’re one of the largest SAP customers in the world. For years, we've combined SAP's robust capabilities with a wide array of no...

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Thank you so much @timojohn.bsky.social for your feedback. As mentioned we are learning right now and need to know where to improve and put our investments. We are far from being perfect here. 😛

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I guess you already saw docs.github.com/en/copilot/m... I think it is as you said: 2,000 code completions per month and 50 total chat requests. It is not a huge number, but still… please share your feedback and let us know where / how to improve

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About individual Copilot plans and benefits - GitHub Docs

GitHub offers several Copilot plans for individual developers, each with different features, model access, and usage limits to support a wide range of coding needs.

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

#ABAPisNotDead 🚀 "ABAP Support in GitHub Copilot for Eclipse" is here! Or is it? Curious about this integration? Join Hang Wang & Sandra Ahlgrimm on #SAPonAzure podcast to learn how it started & how to contribute! Watch: youtu.be/7CHFnD4YnPA #SAP #GitHub #ABAP #Microsoft #GitHubCopilot

#236 - The one with GitHub Copilot for Eclipse - with ABAP (?) (Sandra Ahlgrimm & Hang Wang) |

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🚀 #DSAG TechXChange was a blast! Our sessions showed a nice end-to-end story, all of them documented on GitHub and in this episode of our #SAPonAzure podcast we walk through the repo. Thanks, Martin Pankraz 🥷😼, Martin Raepple, Michael Schmitt and 🪄 Robin Rosengrün www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqna...

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

All SAP 🙂

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Martin Pankraz showing the SAP security integration in Microsoft Sentinel

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Now Martin Raepple is talking about it

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

„Gülle in die Gummistiefel“ Generation TikTok Super Vortrag von Silke Müller #DSAG #DSAGTT25

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

“Customers should switch to EntraID” Join our hands-on session on Friday to learn how 🙂 #DSAG #DSATT25 #TechXChange #SAPonMicrosoft #SAP #Microsoft

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

AI First and Suite First #DSAG #DSAGTT25

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Philipp Herzig just talked about the importance of Identity Management. Make sure to join the session from Martin Pankraz and Martin Raepple later today to learn what we are doing together with SAP #DSAG #DSAGTT25 #SAPonAzure #SAP #Microsoft

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Toller Raum für unsere Arbeitsgruppe #SAP mit #Microsoft auf den #Dsag Technologietagen. Um 13:00 Uhr geht’s los!

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

You should be able to use it with the free monthly credits for GH Copilot. Would be great to hear your feedback. We want to make sure to improve the code quality for ABAB

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

GitHub Copilot with ABAP in Eclipse? Check out devblogs.microsoft.com/java/introdu... and provide your feedback. #ABAP #GitHubCopilot #SAP #Microsoft

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Introducing ABAP Support in GitHub Copilot for Eclipse - Microsoft for Java Developers

GitHub Copilot now supports ABAP, offering real-time code suggestions that improve efficiency and empower developers.

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Happy to collaborate on such an article!

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Some of you know that I am a tour guide in #Speyer. If you want to get an idea why this city is so great, check out the video and let me know if you are around for a tour youtu.be/yVbUoq1ZhXA?...

Speyer - das Zentrum einer attraktiven Region

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

All connections to your SAP system should be secure. For RFC communications we have SNC, the Secure Network Communications. Although it has been around for quite some time it can be complicated to setup. Martin Pankraz walks us through the setup process, www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Rq... #SAPonAzure

#227 - The one with SAP SNC (Martin Pankraz) | SAP on Azure Video Podcast

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SAP @sap.com · 07/02/2025

But our friends just call us SAP for short. 😉 Here's a little about us: We're the OG pioneers of ERP, and today we're leaders in enterprise apps and business AI. From finance to HR, we've got your back (office). We’re here to share insights, connect, and grow with this amazing community 🦋

A photo of a "Hello My Name Is" nametag with SAP written in German

Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It might look complicated, but setting up a hybrid identity setup that requires managing the user lifecycle across Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, SAP BTP, SAP CIS, and an SAP system on-premise is actually easy. Join Martin Raepple to see it in action, www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJWv...

#226 - The one with User Provisioning in a hybrid environment (Martin Raepple) | SAP on Azure Video

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

One of the most asked topics is Data & SAP. How can you connect your SAP sysems with Microsoft Fabric to get the best of boths worlds? Ulrich Christ is back to talk about the new database mirroring features with SAP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzJD... #SAP #Microsoft #SAPonAzure #Fabric #Data

#224 - The one with Fabric database mirroring and SAP sources (Ulrich Christ) | SAP on Azure Video

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🔒 You want to secure your SAP system as best as possible. This also means encryption. 🔐 But what's the impact of that to performance? 📉 🎧 Check out the new podcast with Cameron Gardiner & Evren Buyruk! 🎙️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BQ2... #SAPonAzure #SAP #Microsoft #Encryption

#223 - The one with Performance Impact of Encryption & Security (Cameron Gardiner & Evren Buyruk)

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Do you want to set up Principal Propagation / SSO from your Power Platform to SAP? 🌟 Check out this quick 20-minute video that shows the end-to-end flow! 🎥 Watch Now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSE-... Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! #SAP #Microsoft #PowerPlatform #SSO

Power Platform + SAP OData - Single Sign-On - Happy path

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Holger Bruchelt @hobru.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

„So ein Filzgleiter ist ja im Prinzip nix anderes als ein komprimiertes Schaf“. #FurnitureFeltPadProtector #ElFieltroResbalar #Tatortreiniger #Warentrennerthermometer