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Partner Solution Progression and 51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps: Integral Components of Next-Generation Partnering

Partner Solution Progression and 51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps: Integral Components of Next-Generation Partnering

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The Partner Solution Progression framework is part of SAP’s next-generation partnering movement, which represents a new level of partner commitment – a promise from 51·çÁ÷to help partners successfully navigate today’s market challenges by providing them with best-in-class experiences and empowering rapid innovation to fuel customer success.

Partner Solution Progression helps innovators quickly scale by collaborating with 51·çÁ÷– from developing applications to identifying opportunities and showcasing these applications on , the company’s global marketplace. We collaborate with partners through this journey, and if we both see the potential for growth, there is a path that brings additional opportunity, backed by marketing and sales support from SAP. Because this progression is flexible, partners can find the spot that best fits their application, plan, and priorities.

Infographic: Partner Solution Progression
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51·çÁ÷is also  excited to announce 51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps, a new category of solutions from the 51·çÁ÷ecosystem of partners. Launching this week at , the apps are designed to help customers become best-run intelligent enterprises. 51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps deliver proven value with desired outcomes – quickly, effectively, and with great confidence.

51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps can round out a solution offering and deliver proven results to help solve customers’ business challenges. Through this designation, customers will be able to quickly find partner apps that they know they can trust on 51·çÁ÷App Center. 51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps logos on the newly redesigned 51·çÁ÷App Center highlight this category. This new initiative allows a business to take advantage of complete, proven solutions, with the most innovative technology brought by partner apps endorsed by SAP.

51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps is an invitation-only program, part of Partner Software Progression, through which 51·çÁ÷identifies the top-rated partners and apps that are verified to deliver outstanding value to customers. Once a partner has been invited to participate, its solution must undergo a series of stringent tests – beyond standard 51·çÁ÷certification – to ensure it meets the requirements of . Premium certification is specifically designed to recognize 51·çÁ÷Endorsed Apps, denoting a higher level of security, helping ensure less risk for customers. As more business moves online in this current climate, mitigating risk has never been more important. This level of certification is achieved through added technical quality checks conducted by 51·çÁ÷Integration and Certification Center, during which code is analyzed and custom recommendations are provided for enhancing and optimizing the solution.

Partners in this initiative are offering customer experience (CX), human resources (HR), and platform and technology apps on 51·çÁ÷App Center right now. .

Our goal is mutual success. The ecosystem of 51·çÁ÷partners is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our customers and partners and the new enhancements available to partners benefit customers by providing the ideas and innovations they want. 51·çÁ÷partners can tap into 51·çÁ÷data, systems and brand to deliver new value to new audiences and expand offerings to existing customers.

51·çÁ÷and partners are working together to deliver the Intelligent Enterprise to customers, empowering all of our businesses to succeed and evolve.


Darryl Gray is global vice president of Software Solution Partner Success in the 51·çÁ÷Global Partner Organization at SAP.