SAP PartnerEdge for channel partners offers benefits that other partner programs don't have:

• Powerful sales and collaboration tools
• Education and training
• An unsaturated marketplace with many opportunities
• Extra flexibility
• Market development funds to help you cultivate business

SAP goes beyond rewarding sales volume and revenue to recognizing solution development, customer satisfaction, education, and training. We reward partners based on a value points system. With SAP PartnerEdge for channel partners, that system isn't just based on selling. The program recognizes and rewards partnership based on merit, not on your company's size or type. You can access a portfolio of best-of-breed technical and program support services, as well as your own service advisor.

SAP PartnerEdge for channel partners has three tiers of partnership: Associate, Silver, and Gold. Partners advance from one level to the next by earning value points in two categories:

• Business performance and transactions – Accumulating SAP license sales to new or current customers and the sales of add-ons or new certified or qualified solutions
• Capability building – Submitting success stories or technology white papers, providing customer references, taking part in the SAP PartnerEdge P2P Network for business collaboration, adding trained and certified employees, taking higher-level sales or technical exams, and more

Access Included

SAP Channel Partner Portal contains information, tools, training, and systems that help you stay informed, manage your SAP partnership, and grow your business. It's easy to find what you need, and you can customize the contents of your portal as you see fit. You can assess to SAP Channel Partner Portal to:

• Manage your business using an online console available 24 hours a day
• Order software and request license keys online
• Manage sales opportunities
• Submit and read customer references
• Take advantage of e-learning and other education opportunities
• Utilize sales tools
• Collaborate with other partners

Funding Included

You can earn market development funds and business development funds for selling SAP software licenses or developing add-ons to a qualified or certified solution, as well as for participating in special programs and initiatives. Our claims process is simple and offers liberal deadlines.

Knowledge Included

The SAP PartnerEdge program enables you to leverage SAP's 35-plus years of experience – and our worldwide network of partners. Additionally, through the SAP PartnerEdge P2P Network, you learn from and do business with highly trained and authorized partners around the world. SAP Channel Partner Portal offers the information you need, when you need it – including core product and development information, product releases, marketing tools, technical support, and promotion assistance. Online educational courses help you build your expertise and capabilities.