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.
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.
Certification scenarios for SAP Business Suite
Before awarding SAP integration certification, we test for correct implementation of SAP-endorsed technologies and stability in an SAP software environment.
SAP Business Technology Platform
With SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), you have access to advanced technologies and services that help integrate business processes across partner, third-party, and SAP applications. You can build or extend SAP solutions by keeping the core clean, creating integrations, and delivering content.
Clean Core and ABAP Cloud extensions
Following SAP’s Clean Core Extensibility strategy, the certification option for classic ABAP add-ons will be phased out. New clean core–compatible options to certify extensions are available.
SAP-certified built with SAP Business AI
Certify your apps and extensions. Partners can build AI-powered extensions, add-ons, and apps to fulfill specific customer needs and team up with general-purpose AI platforms and LLM providers.
Grow with SAP
Certify your developments that are extended in an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
Frequently asked questions
SAP ICC helps secure SAP certification that verifies that an application or solution developed by you integrates smoothly with an SAP software environment. With access to resources, test systems, and SAP consulting experts, you are guided through each step of the certification process.
How much does it cost?
Certification fees depend on the technology used and scope of testing. Costs typically start from €3,000 for solutions based on SAP BTP. The certification fee includes all necessary consulting and testing services carried out by a consultant from SAP ICC. Most certifications are conducted remotely. These fees do not take into consideration your own development resources or test system access costs.
How long does it take?
The certification test itself takes one day or less. However, the time it takes to get your solution ready for certification can vary. A typical certification based on a predefined scenario can be finished within roughly two months. Please contact us early in the development process to consult with us.
What can I expect?
Once we have signed a contract to certify the integration, you will be assigned a dedicated consultant by SAP ICC. Your engineers will prepare the testing under the guidance of this consultant and schedule a certification date. We provide you with a test plan ahead of time, so you can prepare your solution.
During any certification test, the SAP consultant monitors and logs the test results, while your engineers drive the actual testing, including the integration setup and data exchange. Your software remains under your control at all times.
Once the testing is concluded successfully, you will receive a detailed and confidential test report, a certificate, and the appropriate certification logo that you can use to promote the successful certification to your customers. In addition, your fully certified solution will be listed in our online directory within a few days. This gives your company exposure to the thousands of customers that visit SAP.com each day.
Where should I carry out testing?
If you need remote access to an SAP-maintained system during testing, you can use the SAP Remote Access and Connectivity service. This professionally hosted and maintained landscape of fully configured SAP software systems, including sample data, can simplify the integration testing of your interface to SAP solutions. You can choose between exclusive-use or low-cost shared systems. The cost varies depending on the number of users who need access, the period of time during which access is needed, and whether you choose the exclusive-use or shared system.
Complete our application form
Begin a new certification: After your application is submitted, you can begin the certification process, involving preparation, certification testing, and post-certification promotion.
Recertify an existing solution: When you sign up for recertification, a consultant from SAP ICC discusses the latest technologies with you and provides input and recommendations.
Software integration certifications are valid for three years for most integration scenarios. Certification scenarios for integrations for cloud and SAP HANA are valid for only one year, due to a high frequency of updates.
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.