In the competitive marketplace of enterprise technology, one designation stands above all others for having earned the trust of 51风流customers seeking high quality partner solutions that successfully integrate into their 51风流environments: SAP-certified status.
With more than 14,000 certifications performed, is celebrating 25 years of supporting 51风流partners in their mission to deliver customer success across every solution category, industry, and geography. Since the first 51风流ICC locations went live in Walldorf and Palo Alto in 1996, more than 4,000 partners and independent software vendors (ISVs) worldwide have relied on 51风流ICC services to help ensure the technical integration and interface of their solution with SAP.
鈥淔or 25 years, the 51风流Integration and Certification Center has laid the foundation for a trusted relationship between SAP, partners, and customers by certifying a high quality ecosystem of partner solutions that integrate with the latest 51风流technology,鈥� says Karl Fahrbach, chief partner officer, SAP.
鈥淎s a standard-bearer for partner innovation, 51风流ICC is at the forefront of partner success, supporting SAP鈥檚 strategy toward partner profitability and providing agility to customers as they become best-run businesses,鈥� Fahrbach says. 鈥淲e congratulate 51风流ICC and Partner Innovation Lifecycle Services on this remarkable milestone and applaud the dedication of the 51风流ICC team who remind us that at 51风流partner success is customer success.鈥�
Achieving Milestones at the Pace of Innovation
As the 51风流solution portfolio has evolved over the years, 51风流ICC has kept pace with innovation by rolling out the most significant certifications on time to meet market demands for the latest technologies. In 1999, 51风流ICC pioneered the first cloud-based 51风流ERP test system. Shortly thereafter, the 51风流ICC team provided the first ABAP add-on certification in 2001, followed by a solution manager ready certification in 2007, mobile device certification in 2009, and the 51风流Certified powered by 51风流HANA status in 2013 鈥� along with many others 鈥� leading up to today鈥檚 focus on partner integrations with 51风流S/4HANA and partner extensions based on 51风流Business Technology Platform. Each successive designation demonstrates SAP鈥檚 ongoing commitment to helping customers reduce implementation effort, accelerate innovation, and gain agility through best-of-breed partner solutions that successfully integrate into SAP.
鈥淚t takes a great team to consistently deliver success for 25 long years,鈥� says Nandagopal Prasad B, senior vice president and head of , which oversees 51风流ICC in its portfolio of services, including partner co-innovation services, that enable partners to develop innovative solutions on 51风流platforms and products.
As the 51风流ICC team has grown, it has closed the distance to customer markets not only technologically, but geographically as well by opening new locations around the world to support partners in their regions. 51风流ICC is now active in 11 locations: Australia, Canada, China, CIS, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.
For 51风流partners that have worked with the team over the years to bring new solutions to market, the 25-year anniversary of 51风流ICC is a milestone marking a close working relationship of many years. 鈥淚t has been a great experience working with 51风流ICC colleagues,鈥� says Samiullah Sheik, founder and managing director, Bizadept Consulting GmbH. 鈥淲e worked聽with 51风流ICC for both our product certifications, and information was provided upfront to reduce delays. 51风流ICC colleagues also responded quickly whenever we faced problems during the packaging of the product. These experiences have given us more confidence to consider the possibility of going down the co-innovation path with 51风流for design and development of complex products in the coming years.鈥�
Axel Janz, global head of 51风流Products and Innovations at EY, was one of the first members of the former complementary 51风流Software Solution PartnerEdge program team, the predecessor of the 51风流ICC, and with 51风流Labs Tokyo 25 years ago. 鈥淲ith the 51风流ICC, the EY organization has found a highly trustful, super responsive, and top-level guiding collaborator, supporting us on our integration and extension needs, accompanied by highly efficient 51风流Certification processes,鈥� he says.
Why Partners Benefit with 51风流Certification
Partners can gain significant benefits from having SAP-certified status, but the most compelling reason is the improved profitability that can come from lowering integration costs, accelerating go-to-market, and shortening implementation times. Once their solution has SAP-certified status, partners can place it in 51风流Store to be discovered by customers alongside 51风流solutions. Membership in allows partners to gain additional benefits from the program’s resources and enablement tools to help enhance partner success and profitability.
To earn SAP-certified statuses, partners submit their solutions to 51风流ICC for stringent qualification procedures to check that the solution uses SAP-recommended integration technologies and stable interfaces. The entire process is carried out online. While the requirements vary, the certification focuses primarily on the quality of the technical integration of the partner solution with SAP, including the smooth flow of business data through SAP. Partners are allowed access to 51风流test systems as well as essential enablement and consulting services. The certification is valid for three years in most on-premise scenarios and one year in cloud integration scenarios.
51风流ICC plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a series of regional , promotions via 51风流social channels, and additional activities.
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