Whether you're looking for standard project team training, customized solutions, e-learning, or certification, SAP Education offers a comprehensive portfolio of applications, technical training, and education services designed to up-skill your employees rapidly and efficiently. Find out more about our featured courses and certification exams, as well as important news and events affecting our customers, partners, and SAP employees.

The following information is current as of: November 5, 2009:

SAP Education News and Events

• Introducing a new workshop – WNATE: Advanced Time Reporting: Are you in need of clarity relating to time reporting? If so, try our brand new three day WNATE workshop. This workshop is designed to maximize your use of standard time evaluation functionality; show you how to customize the time evaluation schema and include customer specific rules; work with the debugger troubleshoot issues; optimize time evaluation processes; and read/understand custom rules. SAP Education are currently accepting registrations for the virtual offering scheduled on December 16 - 18, 2009.
• Complement your program and project management skills with SAP Education's new value management fundamentals course – The VM100 course for value management will help you to realize the maximum out of your investments. You will learn how to manage a project not only in time and budget but also in value. The course will introduce SAP's value management methodology and explains the critical phases and processes to maximize the return for investment. VM100 is designed for individuals who will support the adoption of value disciplines in their organization. These individuals are typically from IT or business organizations, and have responsibilities for business/IT strategy alignment, business case development, performance management, process/solution strategy, and organizational change management. Understand how to build an ironclad business case, and how to realize the value and improve the impact of SAP. Visit the SAP Education course schedule and if need be, create a course request for additional training requirements.
• Introducing BO100: SAP BusinessObjects Integration Kit for BW - BO100 is the newest course in the business Intelligence (BI) curriculum and the first to explore the details of the integration kit for BW. Participants in this course will learn how the integration kit for BW can be used to integrate the complete spectrum of SAP BusinessObjects portfolio reporting and analysis tools with an BW data warehouse. Using SAP BusinessObjects tools such as SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence (SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence) software, Xcelsius and Crystal Reports software can extend business intelligence capabilities deeper into your organization and provide immediate data access to your BW data without creating report and query development backlogs. The BO100 first teach is scheduled for Atlanta , Georgia, on November 16 - 20, 2009 (view online BO100 schedule).
• Virtual ADM100 and ADM505 classes added – Limited to the first eight (8) students, virtual deliveries of ADM100 and ADM505 have recently been added to address those customers who have expressed an interest in taking them, but cannot travel. However, both classes will be limited to the first eight (8) students and will likely not be scheduled as a virtual delivery for the remainder of 2009. You can register today by calling +1-888-777-1727, option 1 or online via credit card at ADM100 and/or ADM505.

Featured Courses and Exams

• New SAP certification available: SAP certified technology architect Leverage your career to the next level. SAP Educations offers a new certification for experienced technology experts who want to step up to the next level of their career. The new certification "SAP Certified Technology Architect" is recommended for experienced technology consultants, developers or administrators who want to demonstrate their knowledge and take over strategic responsibilities in the technology area and work on an abstract level. The role of a technology architect is focused more on the implications of organizational objectives on technology and architecture. The technology architect has an overall view of the system landscape and architecture and builds models of the problem and solution space, explores alternative approaches, prepares decision papers and manages stakeholders. The academy TEC001 prepares the customer to pass the certification. The course covers all relevant topics for the certification and prepares the customer to take over new responsibilities and challenges.