The SAP Co-Innovation Lab exemplifies the tremendous power of the SAP ecosystem and is a physical manifestation of how SAP is truly engaging partners and customers in joint collaboration.

Zia Yusuf Executive Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group SAP

The SAP Co-Innovation Lab offers a hands-on environment for SAP, our customers, and partners to collaboratively innovate, accelerate, and showcase new business solutions and technologies.

SAP's customers and partners work together in the Co-Innovation Lab to leverage benefits of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and SAP solutions to serve as customers' business process platforms to support their business processes. Customers and partners can visit the Co-Innovation Lab to evaluate the latest SAP and partner solutions in a simulated, real-world infrastructure – taking advantage of the efficient working environment to execute new projects.

Results focus on opportunities to increase business value and lower the total cost of ownership of SAP solutions.

The lab features a simulated, heterogeneous data center, incorporating hardware and infrastructure software from various vendors. This environment accurately simulates real-world performance, with the security required for internally or externally accessible business applications.

The SAP Co-Innovation Lab offers:

• A hands-on lab for projects leveraging the latest SAP and partner enterprise SOA solutions
• SAP subject-matter expertise and guidance
• A simulated real-world, heterogeneous enterprise SOA data center
• Onsite project and training rooms and briefing center
• Prototypes, proof-of-concepts, whitepapers, and recommended solution blueprints co-innovated with ecosystem partners and customers

Contact the SAP Co-Innovation Lab for more information or to submit a project proposal.