Below are the 2025 winners and finalists of the SAP Pinnacle Awards. Working with these SAP partners means working with the best.
For more on what it takes to be considered, check out the performance criteria.
RISE with SAP | Sales Success
Recognizing outstanding transformations of our joint customers' businesses across key functions such as finance, human capital management, procurement, and supply chain. This award honors partners who build business cases and secure commitments to migrate on-premises landscapes to the cloud.
Finalists: Deloitte, PwC
Sustainability
Honoring partners who make sustainability an integral part of their services and lead go-lives of SAP Sustainability solutions. The award also recognizes partners who prepare the market for SAP Green Ledger, SAP Green Token, and SAP Sustainability Data Exchange.
Finalists: Deloitte, msg global solutions
Sales Success | Midmarket
Recognizing understanding and fulfillment of customer needs with SAP solutions. This partner shares the unique value proposition and concrete business outcomes of SAP solutions to help solve customer problems and empower them to tackle challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
Finalists: Horsa Run S.r.l, NTT DATA Business Solutions AG
SAP Business AI | Partner Innovation – Customer AI Use Case
Recognizing leaders in innovative, partner-developed AI customer use cases who complement cloud solutions from SAP—built on the AI foundation of SAP BTP.
Finalists: Deloitte, NTT DATA Business Solutions
SAP Business AI | Partner Innovation – AI Cloud Application
Honoring leaders in innovative, partner-developed AI cloud applications who complement cloud solutions from SAP—built on the AI foundation on SAP BTP.
Finalists: Pricefx, Sodales Solutions
Customer Success Management
Recognizing consistent delivery of customer value throughout their entire lifecycle. This helps ensure customers continue to draw value from SAP solutions and have a positive experience with the product, SAP, and partner company.
Finalists: Accenture, All for One Group
Delivery Quality
Recognizing successful delivery of projects with cloud solutions from SAP that enable customers to quickly draw value from their investment in SAP software and the partner.
Finalists: Accenture, PwC
RISE with SAP Methodology
Honoring demonstrated expertise and experience helping customers enhance agility and prepare for innovation by following SAP’s clean core principles. Specifically, it recognizes a partner’s dedication to consistently applying best practices from the RISE with SAP Methodology.
Finalists: Accenture, IBM
Partner Learning and Skills Growth
Recognizing building robust teams of skilled and certified SAP practitioners through solution enablement programs and coaching services relevant to the SAP innovation portfolio and cloud strategy.
Finalists: NTT DATA Business Solutions, TATA Consultancy Services
SAP Business Technology Platform | Extensibility and Clean Core
Honoring commitment to a clean core strategy using SAP BTP along the journey to RISE with SAP. Recognizes demonstrated thought leadership, strategic alignment, and proven customer success.
Finalists: Accenture, Deloitte
Sales Success | Large Enterprise
Recognizing understanding and fulfillment of customer needs while implementing SAP cloud solutions. This partner shares the unique value proposition and benefits of cloud solutions from SAP to help customers address challenges and empower them to realize innovation and growth strategies of tomorrow.
Finalists: EY, Deloitte
SAP Store
Recognizing successful showcases of one or more innovative solutions on SAP Store while deploying and delivering value at scale to customers throughout their lifecycle.
Finalists: Pricefx, Vertex, Inc.
Sales Success | Partner-Led Territories
Recognizing active investment and created value in the partner-led territories segment. This partner successfully drives lifetime value across the entire customer value journey.
Finalists: Deloitte, OptiSoft Systems
GROW with SAP
Honoring successful wins of new enterprise customers using GROW with SAP as their cloud ERP foundation. Eligible partners contribute to the entire value journey—including discovery, selection, adoption, value realization, consumption, and SAP solution expansion.
Finalists: PwC, SEIDOR
SAP Business AI | Customer Adoption
Recognizing leaders in the SAP partner ecosystem who activate and drive consumption of embedded AI features (such as Joule, the SAP copilot) by their customer base.
Finalists: Accenture, PwC
Business Transformation Management
Recognizing partners who greatly advance market development, solution innovation, and customer success with SAP Signavio solutions.
Finalists: Accenture, McKinsey & Company
Cross-Portfolio Success
Honoring SAP Business Suite readiness and an ability to cover integrated business processes—including recruit to retire, source to pay, lead to cash, or design to operate. This partner has a proven record of selling and delivering across multiple solution areas to customers.
Finalists: Accenture, Deloitte
Partner Solution Success
Recognizing a partner solution that successfully delivers ongoing customer value and extends SAP's portfolio of solutions, as evidenced by customer demand and solution sales.
Finalists: Blackline, Tricentis
SAP Business Technology Platform | Data and AI Growth
Recognizing success in driving accelerated growth of strategic data and AI growth pillars for SAP BTP along the customer value journey.
Finalists: Accenture, Capgemini
New Partner Application
Honoring innovative, economically relevant business solutions for our customers, which have been available on SAP Store for less than two years.
Finalists: Docusign, Phenom
Sales Success | Small Enterprise
Recognizing understanding and fulfillment of customer needs with SAP solutions. This partner shares the unique value proposition and concrete business outcomes of SAP solutions to help solve customer problems and empower them to tackle the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
Finalists: H&CO, Vision33
Rising Star
Honoring a new partner in the SAP ecosystem who generates significant value by identifying and fulfilling customer needs with SAP solutions.
Finalists: Emergys Software Private Limited, KaarTech
Partner Application | Industries
Recognizing a partner-developed, innovative industry solution with strategic importance for joint customers that complements SAP's industry portfolio. Includes the innovative use of SAP BTP and SAP Business AI.
Finalists: DataXstream, Wipro
Partner Industry Innovation
Recognizing the highest-impact delivery of partner-owned industry solutions and innovations that complement SAP's industry portfolio. This award honors thought leadership, go-to-market success, customer references, published partner use cases, or other innovations on SAP BTP and SAP Business AI.
Finalists: Accenture, Delaware Consulting
Additional award programs for partners
SAP partners are key to turning the Intelligent Enterprise into reality. We look to recognize those in our ecosystem who demonstrate innovation, dedication, and excellence that help our customers thrive and succeed with SAP solutions, to unlock new ways of running their businesses.
SAP Global LoB Partner Excellence Awards
The SAP Global LoB Partner Excellence Awards are a partner recognition program focusing on our strategic business priorities for the following Lines of Business: SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Customer Experience, and Intelligent Spend Management, and Business Network.
SAP Regional Partner Excellence Awards
These SAP Regional Partner Excellence Awards recognize top-performing partners regionally, for their excellence in overall sales, innovation, technology, and services, as well as in solution-specific areas.