Using Azure Logic Apps as the integration service is a smart way to connect your organization with the external trading partners. You don’t have to buy hardware or software licenses so there are no...

The topic of extensions especially side-by-side extensions is quite hot in the SAP ecosystem. The options available for such extensions are growing at SAP e.g. via the extension factory or ABAP Ste...

There are many Hadoop distributions available, like the HortonWorks or Cloudera. But you can also provision the cluster in the Cloud. Microsoft Azure offers service called HDInsights that can be us...

Azure EventHubs is a fully managed service that allows exchanging messages between systems in real-time. It’s capable of receiving and processing millions of events per second. SAP Data Hub doesn’t...

When you deploy the SAP Data Hub to Azure you need to consider how to access it. Of course, you can always enter a node URL and the port in the browser, but that’s not the recommended scenario. Aft...

The use cases for the Hadoop and SAP HANA are different, but in some cases, it is recommended or even required or to connect both worlds. The Hadoop clusters operate on very large datasets that con...

I like IT puzzles. Especially when they relate to SAP. When I find an interesting topic, I won’t leave my desk until I find the solution. So when my colleague Roman Broich wrote me a short message ...

As soon as I finished my earlier post about the integration of the SAP Vora with the Azure HDInsight I started to wonder if it would be possible to reuse the Spark Extension with the Azure Databric...

I always enjoy attending community events because that’s a good chance to learn something new. A few days ago I joined the first Azure Midlands Community meetup and when Microsoft MVP Marco De Sanc...

Today I would like to present a sample use case – extract the SAP ERP data to Azure Data Lake Storage and use Microsoft PowerBI to visualize them.