Whether you want to build, sell, service or run SAP – there's a place for all levels of expertise within our partner ecosystem.

Lead the Way – Partner with the market leader in ERP software to help organizations reduce
complexity, innovate and stay ahead of the competition.
Partner With the Best – Join an award-winning partner program that gives you everything you need to build and grow a successful SAP business.
Transform Your Future – Access SAP's powerful solutions: applications, analytics, database, mobile, cloud, and platform technology.
Empower Customers – Extend software across on-premise installations, on-demand deployments, and mobile devices.
Win Big – Maximize your opportunity, driving more business through more customers to create additional revenue and profits.

Learn more about all the easy, flexible ways to join SAP, whether you're ready to fully commit or prefer to explore and test-drive one of our partnering opportunities first. If you want to Build, Sell, Service or Run SAP solutions, we have the ways to work that fit your business objectives and expertise.

SAP PartnerEdge Program

Whether you want to Build, Sell, Service or Run SAP solutions – the award-winning SAP PartnerEdge program is built and designed to ensure maximum success and returns for your business. For partners who meet minimum entry requirements, it's easy to join: simply sign a membership contract, pay an annual fee and start realizing the benefits that far exceed the initial investment.

One Holistic Program – Unlike many vendor programs, SAP PartnerEdge offers interoperable engagement models that fit the way you work and engage with customers. Choose one or more of our engagement models and you'll get standardized fees, harmonized benefits and discounts, simplified contracts and reduced administration.
Points Make Prizes – Earn Value Points for your business performance, competency, and acceleration points for strategic alignment on key topics or solutions. Get recognized for your total business contribution across all the engagement models you've joined. The points you earn will determine your level in the program. It's simple: the higher the level, the bigger the benefits.
Help is at Hand – You'll have access to the SAP experts you need: SAP Partner Account Managers, dedicated SAP Partner Service Advisors, local SAP Marketing Directors or a member of one of our many partner communities. Whether you have technical questions, marketing matters, support issues, or need advice on taking your business to the next level, we've got it covered. We'll connect you with the right people to make you more successful.
Dedicated Partner Website – SAPPartnerEdge.com is your go-to destination for everything to run, manage, grow and empower your business. This dedicated partner website delivers all the turnkey tools, online training, resources, best practices and personalized role-based information you need. Get in, get what you need, then get back to business –that's SAPPartnerEdge.com!
Stand Out in the Crowd – Market your expertise with specific SAP partner logos, depending on your level in the program. Demonstrate your alignment with and endorsement by one of the world's most powerful brands. Those with additional specializations will be granted use of SAP Recognized Expertise logos to further differentiate themselves in the marketplace.

SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem

Want to evaluate one of our partnering opportunities and take a test-drive before you buy? SAP has removed many of the barriers and decreased the financial commitment often associated with starting a new vendor relationship. Developing a partnership in the SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem provides an ideal launchpad to build and grow an SAP partnership.

Free, Fast, and Easy – There are no program fees and very minimal entry requirements to join one of the SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem engagement models. Simple e-contracts with 24-hour turnaround means you'll get started fast.
Explore Your Options – SAP Open Ecosystem Basic grants you limited access to the dedicated and secure SAP PartnerEdge website where you can explore the options available to you and decide whether you want to partner with SAP.
Choose from Four Engagement Models* – Whether you want to Build, Sell, Service or Run SAP solutions, we have the engagement model specialization to fit your business objectives and expertise.
Access the Tools & Resources – You will gain access to key resources and training relevant to your chosen SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem engagement model, allowing you to evaluate and explore the opportunity.
Training that Counts – Because the SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem engagement models mirror the Build, Sell, Service and Run models of the full SAP PartnerEdge program, any training you complete during this exploratory phase will count towards entry requirements once you decide to fully commit.
Invest Once You're Ready – After taking the time to evaluate an SAP PartnerEdge open ecosystem engagement model – it's easy and quick to fully commit. Sign the new contract, meet the entry requirements and pay any necessary fees to gain access to the full power and benefits of the SAP PartnerEdge program.

SAP understands that the lines between partner types continue to blur, so we have designed the SAP PartnerEdge program to work and grow with you – with four simple engagement models:

Build Solutions – For partners that design, develop, and build applications, software, hardware, and integrated solutions based on SAP platforms and technology. If you're an ISV, developer, or even looking to bundle or embed SAP technologies with your own via an OEM relationship – Build is probably for you.
Sell Solutions – For partners that resell SAP solutions whether on-premise or in the cloud. It's likely your company manages the entire customer lifecycle, including demand, sales, and implementation. You are entitled to provide maintenance and support services after successfully completing the appropriate requirements. This model includes, but is not limited to, partners such as VARs and resellers.
Service Solutions – Intended for partners that provide consulting and implementation services to customers through the design, development, implementation, and integration of SAP solutions.
Run Solutions – Many customers are moving away from on-premise solutions for their IT infrastructure and towards hosted solutions managed and run by third parties. This model is ideal if you want to manage and run SAP software and services on behalf of your customer whether deployed in a public or your own private cloud.

The power comes when you pair any of these engagement models with simplified contracts, standardized program fees that offer discounts (with more engagements models), a Value Points system that rewards you based on your total company contribution, and harmonized and deepening benefits the higher your level in the SAP PartnerEdge program.

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About the SAP partner ecosystem

SAP PartnerEdge Program

Sit back and let us explain some of the latest enhancements to our award-winning SAP PartnerEdge program. You decide how to join SAP; whether you start out in our free SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem program, or fully commit to gain access to the full array of benefits that SAP PartnerEdge affords.

Leading-Edge Innovation + SAP Partners

Companies today are taking advantage of technical advance and building entirely new business models around it. SAP works with its partner ecosystem to provide new business models and easy ways to do business with SAP. The result? Customers benefit from flexibility, industry-specific expertise, market reach and so much more.

The Power of Partners

When our CEO Bill McDermott says “The idea of expanding from an ecosystem of 2 million people to 5 million in the next 5 years is one of the biggest ideas we’ve ever come up with – let’s just do that” you should have no doubt about the huge opportunity this represents for you, our partners.

Serve Your Customer Needs in the Cloud

The cloud is here to stay, as customers increasingly demand end-to-end business solutions provided as a service so they can focus on growing and managing their business – not their IT. Watch as Roger Quinlan, SAP Global Head and SVP of Partner Managed Cloud explains the benefits of partner managed cloud, and how our partners can accelerate their growth today.

Unlocking the SME Market Using Cloud

SAP Partners explain how the cloud is helping them penetrate the rapidly growing SME market. The cloud puts the power of SAP within reach of more customers of all sizes, while the fast implementation, rapid time to value, and the agility of cloud deployments gives business what they need to grow and thrive.

Realize the power of partnership – design, innovate and market your software solutions with SAP at your side. One simple partner program for application providers and independent software vendors (ISVs) – from startups to Fortune 100 companies – to build and integrate solutions based on SAP technology and platforms.

Get started quickly with the planning, development and go-to-market support that fits today, and evolve your engagement with SAP to a more tailored relationship with a custom agreement, if required.

Plan and design – Define solution scenarios for business opportunities that blend your industry or line of business expertise with SAP technologies. SAP has already partnered with over 5,000 software providers helping them bring breakthrough ideas to fruition.
Innovate and build – Develop innovative applications based on market-leading SAP platforms and differentiate your position in the market. Create stand-alone solutions or join your innovations with SAP enterprise and line of business software.
Go-to-market – Take advantage of a broad spectrum of commercialization options and services supporting your market success and the delivery of next generation digitally connected solutions.
SAP App Center – Take advantage of the SAP App Center to reach over 370,000 SAP customers and beyond. Today, over 1500 applications reside on the SAP App Center – the primary location prospects visit to learn about SAP partner solutions.

Learn More. Visit sap.com/buildbetter

Apply Now. SAP PartnerEdge: Build

Joining the SAP PartnerEdge: Build program grants you access to a comprehensive set of benefits including services, tools and resources designed to help you create new business opportunities, innovate rapidly and expose your solutions to over 370,000 SAP customers and the market effectively. You’ll gain access to:

The development tools to succeed – Access to a broad range of resources and services, including: onboarding support, product roadmaps, online tutorials and app certification to help you accelerate time to market-ready innovation.
Marketing and sales support – A broad set of GTM services, including marketing and sales academies, e-commerce best practices, promotional resources and business and technology conferences, as well as flexible commercialization options, including listing and transacting on SAP’s digital properties, to help you accelerate time to value and to grow your business.
Your own SAP Partner Service Advisor – There to help you get started and get the most from technical resources and SAP’s services for building and rapidly delivering solutions to market.

Provide fully self-contained solutions and create new revenue streams by embedding or bundling SAP solutions, like analytics, databases, mobile, cloud, and in-memory technology:

Flexibility that fits – Leverage attractive deployment options, and royalty models that fit your business.
Design Thinking engagement – Work in close partnership with SAP's product management team to explore co-innovation opportunities.
Get on the guest list – Receive additional access to beta testing, ramp-up programs, and future roadmap insights (by invitation).

Learn More. Visit sap.com/buildbetter

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SAP PartnerEdge: Build

Join the SAP PartnerEdge program’s build engagement model and receive all the benefits, tools, resources and services that help you to build high-value applications on SAP platforms and successfully market and sell them. The program costs €2,000 to join, plus the low cost of your development licenses and resources (many development licenses are provided free of charge!).

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Sell SAP Solutions

This engagement model is designed for partners that resell SAP solutions. Your organization may manage the entire customer lifecycle, including demand, sales, and implementation. You are entitled to provide maintenance and support services after successfully completing the appropriate requirements. This model includes, but is not limited to, partners such as value-added resellers (VARs) and resellers.

Gain access to our industry-leading solution portfolio – and offer customers the benefits of working with a local partner who is familiar with their specific business needs. At SAP we offer two ways to join our partner ecosystem as a sales partner:

SAP PartnerEdge: Sell – This model is the ideal fit for value-added resellers (VARs). VARs do more than just sell alone; they build, sell, service, and implement our solutions across all industries that meet the needs of customers in the SME market and beyond. This option gives you access to SAP's full portfolio of solutions, a tiered program with deepening benefits and a value points system that recognizes and rewards you for more than just business performance but also competency, and strategic alignment. There are annual program fees and you'll need to meet the minimum entry and ongoing requirements to become and remain authorized to sell.
SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Sell – An ideal way to begin your reselling relationship with SAP. Once you join you will be able to sell, service, and market SAP-approved products available through our distributor channel. It's free to join but some of your sales and presales staff will need to complete our free training to become authorized to begin selling.

Before you apply for partnership, please click on the 'Requirements & Benefits' tab above to learn more about the differences between SAP PartnerEdge: Sell and SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Sell opportunities.

Entry Requirements

There are two ways you can join SAP as a sales partner – work directly with SAP to gain access to the full array of benefits and solutions a fully-fledged SAP PartnerEdge Sell partner. Or join the SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Sell model and work with one of our distributors to resell a sub-set of the solutions portfolio. Entry and ongoing requirements into the SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem are less than the SAP PartnerEdge agreement, however this is reflected in the level of benefits and the potential revenue and growth opportunities.

Requirements	SAP PartnerEdge: Sell	SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Sell
Base Program Fee	Yes (approx. €2,000 p.a.)	No
Sell Engagement Model Fee	Yes (approx. €1,700 p.a.)	No
Business Plan	Yes	No
Sales/Presales Trained Employees	Yes*	Yes*
Marketing Trained Employees	Yes	No
Support Trained Employees	Yes (not required if reselling SAP-delivered support)	No

* Not all solutions require training but it is highly recommended.

Benefit Highlights

The following list only provides a snapshot of available benefits, but demonstrates a comparison between the full SAP PartnerEdge Sell agreement compared to the SAP Open Ecosystem: Sell alternative.

Benefit	SAP PartnerEdge: Sell	SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Sell
Primary relationship with SAP	Yes	No
Primary relationship with SAP distributor	No	Yes
Access to role-based tools and resources on www.SAPPartnerEdge.com	Yes	Yes
Free online role-based training	Yes	Yes
Dedicated SAP Partner Service Advisor	Yes	No
Value Points	Yes	No
Program levels with deepening benefits	Yes	No
Market Development Funds (MDF)	Yes (Gold partners only)	No
Qualified Leads from SAP	Yes	No
Differentiate yourself with the SAP Recognized Expertise program	Yes	No
Use of SAP Partner logo	Yes	No
Use of SAP Partner Silver or Gold logo	Yes (depending on level)	No
Listing on SAP digital properties	Yes	No
Opportunities at SAP exhibitions and events	Yes	No

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Apply Now. SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Sell

A good fit for Value Added Resellers (VARs) looking to sell, implement and support solutions across all industries that serve customers in the SME market and beyond. Enter as a silver level partner and climb to higher levels and deeper benefits as you grow. Program fees, minimum entry and ongoing requirements apply.

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SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Sell

Be paired with one of SAP's distributors to resell some of SAP's most powerful products. This is a great way to begin your reselling relationship with SAP and a perfect launch pad to become a full-fledged SAP PartnerEdge sales partner when you're ready. It's free and easy to join, with only a small amount of required training to complete before you begin.

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This engagement model is intended for partners that provide consulting and implementation services to customers through the design, development, implementation, and integration of SAP solutions.

Services are a critical component of every SAP engagement. SAP partners play a vital role in helping our customers’ design, implement, and integrate our solutions. It is partners like yourselves that help customers adopt SAP solutions to help them run simple. Once you’ve integrated the solution and process into their business, you keep the solution running and growing as their business does.

SAP PartnerEdge: Service – This is the ideal fit for established and proven service consultancies and systems integrators (SI’s). Our tiered program has deepening benefits and a Value Points system that rewards you for more than just business performance, such as competency and strategic alignment. You also have the option to differentiate your business in the market place by achieving one or more of our SAP Recognized Expertise nominations. Annual program fees, minimum entry and ongoing requirements must be met to become and remain authorized to service SAP solutions.
SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Service – An ideal fit for smaller consultancies or companies who want to begin their service relationship with SAP without the fees and commitment required to join as a silver partner in the all-encompassing SAP PartnerEdge: Service program. You will still gain access to the wealth of relevant information, training and tools to help you to explore the service partnership with SAP, ramp up and position yourself as a niche SAP service provider. It’s free to join and after some of your solution consultants complete the required training your company will quickly become service-authorized and ready to begin engaging with customers.

Before you apply for a service partnership, please click on the ‘Requirements & Benefits’ tab above to learn more about the differences between SAP PartnerEdge: service and SAP PartnerEdge open ecosystem: service opportunities.

Entry Requirements

There are two ways you can join SAP as a Service partner – One, pay the program fees and meet the entry and ongoing requirements to gain access to the full array of benefits as a member of the fully-fledged SAP PartnerEdge: Service engagement model. Or two, join the free SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Service model and start ramping up to provide niche consulting and implementation services to SAP customers. Below is a side-by-side comparison of the requirements and benefits of the two engagement models:

Requirements	SAP PartnerEdge: Service	SAP Open Ecosystem: Service
An Ideal Fit For	Established service consultancies and systems integrators (SI’s)	Smaller consultancies looking to ramp-up and grow their SAP service relationship
Base Program Fee	Yes (approx. €2,000 p.a.)	No
Service Engagement Model Fee	Yes (approx. €1,700 p.a.)	No
Business Plan	Yes	No
Solution Consultant Trained Employees	Yes	Yes
Maintain Your Profile in Our Online System	Yes	No

Benefit Highlights

The following list only provides a snapshot of available benefits, but demonstrates a comparison between the full SAP PartnerEdge: Service model compared to the SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Service alternative.

Benefit	SAP PartnerEdge: Service	SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Service
Primary relationship with SAP	Yes	No
Access to role-based tools and resources on www.SAPPartnerEdge.com	Yes	Yes
Free online role-based training	Yes	Yes
Dedicated SAP Partner Service Advisor	Yes	No
Value Points	Yes	No
Program levels with deepening benefits	Yes	No
Differentiate yourself with the SAP Recognized Expertise program	Yes	No
Use of SAP Partner logo	No	Yes
Use of SAP Partner Silver or Gold logo	Yes (depending on level)	No
Hosted SAP Test Systems	Yes (subject to separate agreement)	No
Listing on SAP digital properties	Yes	No
Opportunities at SAP exhibitions and events	Yes	No

An ideal fit for proven and established service consultancies and systems integrators (SI’s) who want to design, implement, and integrate SAP solutions. Begin your partnership with us as a silver level partner and climb to higher levels and deeper benefits as we help you grow and succeed. Program fees, minimum entry and ongoing requirements apply. (Below there is a unique link if your practice specifically provides Language and Translation services).

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SAP PartnerEdge Open Ecosystem: Service

For smaller consultancies or companies who want to begin a service relationship with SAP this type of engagement provides a perfect launch-pad to become a full-fledged SAP PartnerEdge service partner down the road. You will still gain access to the wealth of relevant information, training and tools to help you to explore the service partnership with SAP, ramp up and position yourself as a niche SAP service provider. It’s free and easy to join, with only a small amount of required training to be completed before you can start engaging with customers.

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This engagement model is intended for partners that offer private or public cloud deployed services to their customers based on SAP solutions. The opportunity represented by the cloud and outsourcing models is rapidly growing as customers of all sizes, and in all industries, are increasingly demanding hosted and outsourced solutions that allow them to focus on growing their business and not running their IT.

Offer clients more value with comprehensive services that will help them save money and run their businesses better. Join the SAP partners who are unlocking lucrative revenue opportunities by providing managed cloud, outsourcing, and other hosting services to the largest customer bases in the business software world.

SAP PartnerEdge: Run

Joining the SAP PartnerEdge: Run engagement model means more than just creating and building your own public or private cloud business to deliver SAP solutions – it also means gaining access to our fully-fledged and award-winning program. This model is designed to enable and reward partners who want to provide an integrated customer offering that contains a specific service, is based on SAP solutions, enhanced with your own IP, and deployed in a public or private cloud. You'll gain access to benefits like a dedicated Partner Service Advisor who will help optimize your SAP operation, a points system that rewards you based on your overall performance and commitment, deepening benefits as you rise to higher program levels, and free training and tools that are built and designed to ensure maximum success. Once you've joined you can also add any of our additional licensing options depending on how you want to go to market:

Partner Managed Cloud Licensing*– Rapid growth in the private cloud market means unprecedented opportunities for SAP partners who offer this model. Help your customers benefit from the flexibility, rapid time to value, and pay-as-you-go economics of partner managed cloud – together with fully managed, enterprise-class SAP solutions. The Partner Managed Cloud route-to-market gives you everything you need to build, deploy and grow a successful private cloud operation.
Business Process Outsourcing* – Help your customers meet their challenges with new and innovative functionality based on SAP software delivered via a public cloud infrastructure hosted by SAP. Get the very best of both worlds: unparalleled SAP software functionality backed by your local knowledge and industry expertise.

Whether you choose to create your own private or public cloud business to deliver SAP solutions with the SAP PartnerEdge: Run engagement, Partner Managed Cloud, or decide to certify your outsourcing and operation services – the opportunity for companies like yours is huge. At SAP we understand we can't touch and meet the business needs of every customer without the skills, reach, expertise and unparalleled value that you bring to the table.

* Partner Managed Cloud licensing and Business Process Outsourcing partners are encouraged to join the SAP PartnerEdge: Run engagement model to gain access to the full array of benefits and tools that will help you build, run and grow a successful SAP partnership.

SAP PartnerEdge: Run

If you want capitalize on the huge cloud opportunity by managing and running SAP's industry-leading solutions on behalf of your customer in either a public or private cloud AND gain access to the full array of program benefits SAP has to offer – then the SAP PartnerEdge: Run engagement model is for you. Your dedicated Partner Service Advisor will help you extract maximum value from your SAP partnership, free training and tools are designed to elevate your expertise and drive results, utilize accrued Market Development Funds (MDF) to build pipeline and revenue, earn value points for your performance and commitment, and access deeper benefits as you climb the program levels.

Entry Requirements

To gain access to the full array of benefits SAP PartnerEdge: Run has to offer, there are a few entry requirements you'll have to meet first. Once you meet these minimum requirements, it's easy to join: simply sign a membership contract, pay an annual fee and start realizing the benefits that far exceed the initial investment.

Requirements	SAP PartnerEdge: Run
Base Program Fee	Yes (approx. €2,000 p.a.)
Run Engagement Model Fee	Yes (approx. €1,700 p.a.)
Business Plan	Yes
Support Trained Employees	Yes
Support Authorization + PCOE-Certification	Yes

Benefit Highlights

The following list provides a snapshot of just some of the benefits available to partners who join the SAP PartnerEdge: Run engagement model.

Benefit	SAP PartnerEdge: Run
Primary relationship with SAP	Yes
Access to role-based tools and resources on www.SAPPartnerEdge.com website	Yes
Free online role-based training	Yes
Dedicated SAP Partner Service Advisor	Yes
Value Points	Yes
Program levels with deepening Benefits	Yes
Market Development Funds (MDF)	Yes
Differentiate yourself with the SAP Recognized Expertise program	Yes
Use of SAP Partner Silver or Gold Logo	Yes (depending on level)
Listing on SAP digital properties	Yes
Opportunities at SAP exhibitions and events	Yes

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Partner Managed Cloud

Build a Successful Private Cloud Business

The cloud is here to stay, as customers demand end-to-end business solutions provided as a service so they can focus on growing and managing their business – not their IT. Watch as Roger Quinlan, SAP Global Head and SVP of partner managed cloud explains the benefits of partner managed cloud, and how our partners can accelerate their growth today.

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The partner managed cloud licensing opportunity lets you provide customers with fully integrated, proven SAP software solutions to manage critical business processes in your own cloud-based offering or
via one of the SAP cloud based solutions such as SAP SuccessFactors or SAP Hybris

Remove cost as a barrier – Customers pay a single monthly or quarterly per-user subscription fee that includes software, hardware, service, and support – all provided by you to more customers than you ever imagined possible.
Deliver an end-to-end experience – From deployment, application and infrastructure management services, ongoing maintenance and support, and software updates that enable customers to take advantage of the latest and greatest technologies with minimal expense and resources.
Build long-term customer relationships – Become a trusted advisor by helping customers adapt their software and services as their needs grow and change to drive future business innovation and growth. Collaborate with other SAP partners who build add-on solutions that extend solutions capabilities to fulfill industry-specific and other unique needs.

For partners who want to sign up for partner managed cloud licensing, it is recommended that partners also join SAP PartnerEdge: Run to gain access to all the benefits and tools designed to fuel your success.

IDC Infobrief: Partner Managed Cloud: Opportunities and Best Practices for SAP Partners

IDC Infographic: Growth Opportunities for SAP Partners with Partner Managed Cloud

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Solutions Built for Industry

Overview

Whether you deliver solutions that meet the needs of a specific industry, or offer cross-industry services – your customers will all have one thing in common – they want to spend less time building and maintaining IT systems and more time creating superior products and services for their own end users. With partner managed cloud, you can help your customer focus on running their business – not managing IT systems.

All industries are experiencing the shift from analog to digital and need a way to manage the dynamics of rapidly changing business models, customer demands and consumption behaviors. These shifting industry economics means your customers can no longer justify large IT spend or extended time to value. To maintain margins and competiveness, a flexible IT infrastructure that supports industry best practices is essential.

That’s why forward-thinking organizations are taking advantage of partner managed cloud; subscription-based solutions that run in the cloud hosted by certified, trusted SAP partners. With this model, your customers can leverage powerful, proven SAP industry solutions – with the speed, agility, security, and favorable economics of cloud deployment.

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Benefits

When you combine the power of SAP solutions with industry best-practices built-in, all run in the cloud and hosted by certified SAP partners – you get unparalleled customer benefits:

Faster time to value, with prepackaged services for industry-specific solutions
Ability to preserve cash with a pay-as-you-go model
Increased capacity for businesses to innovate and respond quickly to new market opportunities, with a flexible, cloud based IT infrastructure
Reduced IT costs, leveraging the expertise and scale from experienced SAP partners

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Industries

Automotive	Chemicals	High-Tech
Professional Services	Telecom	Aerospace and Defense
Banking	Utilities	Wholesale
Public Sector	Retail	Higher Education and Research
Industrial Machinery and Components	Insurance	Life Sciences
Manufacturing 360	Media	Mill Products
Mining	Transportation	Travel and Leisure
Oil and Gas	Consumer Products	Engineering, Construction and Operations
Heathcare

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IT outsourcing operations services are increasingly important to SAP customers that want to ensure high-quality, sustainable, and cost-effective operation of their SAP solutions and SAP environments. As an SAP Outsourcing Operations Services partner you can offer services across a wide range of SAP products, including:

Hosting – Partners operate and maintain SAP applications and offer complete hosting packages tailored to the customer’s SAP product portfolio. Extensive technical SAP administration skills and experience are mandatory.
SAP HANA operations – Partners have received certification from SAP for their ability to deliver operations services for solutions powered by the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform with high quality operational standards.
Business process outsourcing (BPO) – Partners offer the full stack of business process outsourcing services based on SAP business applications.
Infrastructure operations – Partners offer an infrastructure services portfolio tailored to SAP customers. No SAP operations services are included in the infrastructure services.
Application management services (AMS) – Partners offer maintenance, daily operation, and ongoing functional support for SAP business applications. This can currently be applied for SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA.
Cloud operations – Cloud service offerings from providers certified by SAP encompass on-demand infrastructure and on-demand services for SAP products.

Providing one or more of the above services lets you to tap into the global trend of customers using outsourcing services for SAP products. This is large and growing opportunity for your business.

Services Certifications Can Elevate Your Business

SAP Outsourcing Operations Service partners can be recognized as the credible provider of outsourcing operations services for SAP solutions and environments.

The recognition you need – These certifications help SAP customers identify best-in-class service providers to meet their quality, scope, and geography requirements.
Increase your exposure – Benefit from SAP support for increasing market visibility and driving new revenue opportunities.
Certifications that match your business – SAP offers several certifications to cover various business needs. SAP experts will recommend one or more certifications based on your service portfolio.
Differentiate your business – After a successful audit session, SAP issues a certificate to the partner and awards permission to use the appropriate certification logo for two years.

To 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 by SAP's outsourcing partner certification group. You can become certified either locally or globally.

Read the guide for certifying your services

Apply Now: Email us to become an SAP Outsourcing Operations partner

Build a public or private cloud business to deliver SAP solutions – one that provides an integrated offering that contains specific services and enhanced with your own IP – while taking advantage of our award-winning SAP PartnerEdge program and benefits that are designed to ensure maximum success and returns for your business. Enter as a silver partner and climb to higher levels with deeper benefits as you grow. Program fees, minimum entry and ongoing requirements apply.

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Partner Managed Cloud

Rapid growth in the private cloud market means unprecedented opportunities for SAP partners who offer this model. Help your customers benefit from the flexibility, rapid time to value, and pay-as-you-go economics of partner managed cloud – together with fully managed, enterprise-class SAP solutions. The Partner Managed Cloud route-to-market will give you everything you need to build, deploy and grow a successful private cloud operation.

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SAP Outsourcing Operations Partner

Become a trusted SAP-certified partner and tap into a growing market where customers demand high quality, sustainable, and cost-effective outsourcing operations services and support. As an SAP Outsourcing Operations Partner you can acquire either local or global certification of your delivery and support capabilities.

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