Co-Innovation and Certification
Co-Innovation and Certification
Outsourcing Partner Certification
Certification helps SAP customers identify best-in-class service providers, while certified partners increase market visibility and drive new revenue.
- Formal application for certification
- Preparation for an on-site audit by the partner and an auditor
- On-site audit at the partner location, followed by an SAP audit report
Outsourcing Operations Services
Our certified partners offer a full portfolio of outsourcing operations services across a wide range of SAP products.
Cloud and infrastructure operations
Offering an infrastructure and cloud services portfolio tailored to SAP customers. Cloud service offerings from providers certified by SAP encompass on-demand infrastructure and on-demand services for SAP products. No SAP operations services are included in the infrastructure services.
Hosting operations
Operating and maintaining SAP applications, and offering complete hosting packages tailored to the customer’s SAP product portfolio. Extensive technical SAP administration skills and experience are mandatory.
Application operations
Offering maintenance, daily operation, and ongoing functional support for SAP business applications. These services can currently be certified for SAP Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
SAP HANA operations
Delivering operations services for solutions powered by the SAP HANA business data platform, with high-quality operational standards.
Business process outsourcing (BPO) operations
Partners offer the full stack of business process outsourcing services based on SAP business applications.
DevOps
Working according to the DevOps principles of flow, feedback and continuous learning with focus on cloud solutions and cloud extensions.
To help ensure ongoing high standards for the management of SAP solutions, certified providers undergo a rigorous assessment of their delivery and support capabilities every two years, conducted by SAP's outsourcing partner certification group. You can become certified either at a local (country) or regional or global level.
Apply for Outsourcing Operations Partner Certification
Give customers the confidence to trust you to help them run, manage, and maintain their IT infrastructure – so they can focus on running their business.