Certifications for SAP Business Suite
Together, we can take your go-to-market strategy to the next level
Our certifications and related services help increase customer confidence in the services and applications you offer.

Our experts are ready to deliver the right services at the right time, across our services portfolio, through one or more of the following teams and programs:
SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC): Boost customer confidence in your SAP partner products by participating in our open certification program.
SAP Certification for Operations Partners: Help ensure your customers experience high-quality, sustainable, and cost-effective operations of SAP solutions and environments through our open certification program.
Partner qualification: Receive premium validation of SAP Solution Extensions that meet our product standards.
Gaining customer trust with SAP-certified partner offerings
Working with the Partner Innovation Lifecycle Services team, you can get a seal of approval from SAP that enables a high level of market penetration.
Rapid expansion
Grow your customer base faster and reduce the duration of your sales cycle.
Competitive edge
Stand out from the crowd by using SAP certification logos on your marketing materials, Web site, and promotional activities.
Exposure on SAP.com
Get noticed by visitors to our Web site by directing your prospects to online listings on sap.com.
Accelerated innovation cycle
Get your innovations market-ready faster with help and guidance from SAP experts.
Opportunities at SAP events
Use SAP events such as the SAP Sapphire and SAP TechEd conferences to showcase your SAP-certified products and services.
Explore all the benefits of partnership
Our award-winning partner program can help you win more customers and revenue.
Service portfolio
We provide what you need to build, certify, test, operate, and deliver innovative solutions that help companies become best-run businesses.
Software certification
Validate the integration of your solutions with SAP technologies. We help partners get their integrated solution certified.
Hardware certification
Certify your hardware to work with SAP solutions. We provide guidance to manufacturers on how to navigate the hardware certification process.
SAP Certification for Operations Partners
Give customers the confidence to run their business, not their IT. We can help certify your SAP operations services to underline your experience and expertise.
SAP Remote Access Connectivity
Our tailored technical services help you fast-track your SAP projects and accelerate time to market.
Certify your software
We help partners support our customers by testing and certifying the integration of solutions with SAP technologies.
Why certification matters
SAP Certification is proof that your technology integrates smoothly with SAP solutions, giving customers confidence in their investment decision. Certified-solution providers must pass a stringent set of qualification procedures based on SAP-endorsed integration technologies before receiving SAP-certified status.
Benefits for customers
Through SAP Certification, SAP customers gain access to additional functionalities and services, reducing implementation effort and accelerating innovation.
Benefits for partners
You can showcase products at SAP events, use our logo, feature in our online directory, and take advantage of go-to-market opportunities through SAP PartnerEdge.
Certify your hardware
With our hardware certification services, customers gain the confidence that your hardware works effectively with SAP solutions.
Hardware and IaaS Certification for SAP HANA
Hardware certifications for SAP HANA help SAP customers cut hardware and operation costs, mitigate risk, optimize time to value, and gain additional flexibility.
Certification scenarios: Each scenario uses a unique testing procedure to determine whether the hardware meets the performance criteria required to run SAP HANA in production.
After certification: Once testing concludes successfully, we confirm certification and send you a certification logo. We also list your product in an online hardware directory.
SAP Certification for Operations Partners
Certification helps SAP customers identify high-quality service providers, while certified partners increase market visibility and drive new revenue.
Certification for partners that manage customer environments helps SAP customers find service providers that meet their needs for quality, scope, and geography.
Solution operations
Offer maintenance, daily operations, and ongoing support for SAP applications enabled for RISE with SAP.
Operations for SAP HANA
Deliver operations services for solutions powered by SAP HANA, with high-quality standards.
Operations for SAP BTP
Provide development and operations for extensions, applications, or integrations on SAP BTP and offer services like data-to-value, consulting, or training.
SAP Business AI solutions operations
Deliver functional application operations for SAP Business Al or develop custom Al extensions or solutions based on SAP BTP.
BPO operations
Facilitate the full stack of business process outsourcing (BPO) services based on SAP business applications.
DevOps
Follow the DevOps principles of flow, feedback, and continuous learning with a focus on cloud solutions and extensions.
Security operations
Validate your capabilities and expertise in security operations for SAP Cloud solutions in both cloud and hybrid landscapes.
SAP Remote Access Connectivity
Our tailored technical services help you fast-track your SAP projects and accelerate time to market.
SAP Remote Access and Connectivity
This service offers quick and intuitive access to highly flexible, low-cost, and no-maintenance SAP system landscapes and ready-to-use SAP business solutions.
Explore other engagement programs
Build solutions
This program is ideal for OEMs, independent software vendors, and application developers that build solutions on top of, or integrate with, SAP technology.
Service solutions
SAP service partners provide strategic business consulting, system design, solution integration, and project implementation of SAP solutions.
Run solutions
As an outsourcing or hosting partner, you can offer SAP solutions through a private or public cloud while adding your own intellectual property or enhancing with your industry or line-of-business expertise.
Sell solutions
Resell, implement, and support customers, owning the entire customer lifecycle or collaborating with other partners or SAP.