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Accelerated cloud migration is not merely a technical shift; it is a vital response to broader societal and economic changes. To support businesses in their digital transformations, SAP and its partners have announced a commitment to validated skills, ensuring that companies can innovate swiftly to remain agile and successful.
As businesses increasingly adopt cloud-first strategies, their approach to IT infrastructure and enterprise applications is significantly evolving. Recent studies show that artificial intelligence (AI) adoption has more than tripled since 2017, with over 70% of companies now integrating AI into their operations.* For SAP customers, this transition presents opportunities to leverage innovative technologies and enhance business agility. However, success relies heavily on careful planning, strong partnerships, and future-ready skills.
To help customers remain agile, respond quickly to innovations, and continuously evolve their operations, SAP and its partners are committed to maintaining certified skills. New requirements, including annual certification renewals, ensure that experts stay current. By July of this year, all partner resources in key roles—such as enterprise architects, developers, business transformation management consultants, and project managers involved in RISE with SAP projects—must hold a valid SAP Certification. Furthermore, by the end of 2025, 50% of relevant partner practitioners are expected to possess at least one valid certification across the SAP solution portfolio.
Since its launch in 2021, SAP partners have been integral to RISE with SAP transformation projects, leveraging their expertise to tailor solutions to customer needs. From designing cloud transition road maps to implementing process automation and optimizing costs, partners can enable businesses to maximize the value of SAP solutions. They help ensure organizations adopt intelligent enterprise practices efficiently while addressing unique challenges and goals.
“This mutual commitment underscores SAP and its partners’ dedication to delivering exceptional value, staying ahead of evolving industry standards, and driving customer success in an ever-evolving landscape,” says Karl Fahrbach, chief partner officer at SAP. “Working with certified innovators skilled in the latest SAP technologies enables customers to achieve significant benefits—from reducing errors and risks to fostering innovation and accelerating deployment times.”
By collaborating with certified partner experts, customers can expect to adapt more readily to change and maintain competitiveness in a dynamic market. SAP and its partners’ commitment to innovative SAP skills highlights the importance of continuous learning and upskilling, working to ensure exceptional value delivery. With the latest competencies in high-demand SAP solutions, SAP’s ecosystem of partners strives to achieve our shared goal: delivering innovation excellence to customers.
*McKinsey, The state of AI in early 2024: Gen AI adoption spikes and starts to generate value, 2024
Andre Bechtold is SVP and head of Solution & Innovation Experience at SAP.
Learn about the feature highlights in January 2025 with SAP Datasphere! We delivered two great releases this month, so let’s check out my top features:
1. Transformation Flows
– Enable generation of PlanViz & run simulations
– Python Operator with Spark runtime for file spaces
2. Replication Flow
– Skip target columns that don’t exist in the source
– Import and Export
3. SAP Business AI
– SAP Business AI Activation Screen & User Authorizations
– Use SAP Business AI features to Enrich Catalog Assets
Key Moments:
00:22 Transformation Flows – enable generation of PlanViz & run simulations
01:23 Transformation Flows- Python operator with Spark runtime for file spaces
01:53 Replication Flow – skip target columns that don’t exist in the source
02:22 Replication Flow – import and export
02:40 SAP Business AI Activation Screen & User Authorizations
03:17 SAP Business AI features to Enrich Catalog Assets
To learn more about SAP Datasphere, visit: https://sap.to/6052xNLQ0
Join our SAP Datasphere community to always stay up to date: https://sap.to/6053xNLQF
Check out our product roadmap for SAP Datasphere: https://sap.to/6054xNLQ2
An event-driven architecture is a software architecture using events as the core means for interaction between its software components, including capture, communication, processing, and persistence of events.
SAP is a decade into the lifecycle of its current enterprise resource planning solution, SAP S/4HANA, but many SAP customers have yet to make the move from their legacy system.
For the seventh consecutive year, Gartner has named SAP a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price, and Quote Application Suites.
SAP CPQ enables organizations — however complex, across however many channels, and regardless of which CRM they run — to produce quick and accurate quotes, accommodating the most advanced configuration and pricing requirements, resulting in a better sales experience and faster sales cycles.
Gartner evaluated 15 vendors and named SAP a Leader based on our “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision.” This recognition serves as an acknowledgment of SAP’s ongoing commitment to providing our customers with a CPQ solution that can meet and exceed their needs.
SAP CPQ is an essential component of SAP’s portfolio of products that help automate the quote-to-cash process, which enables organizations to convert sales opportunities into profitable repeat customers. SAP’s customers can transform to “everything-as-a-service” with innovative revenue models, can quickly adapt to market changes, support multiple sales channels and ensure regulatory compliance with end-to-end automation.
Our customers are the reason we do this, and they participated in the Gartner Peer Insights process by providing reviews that included:
Customer case studies provide descriptions of specific value.
In under 15 minutes, the sales team at Cleaver-Brooks is creating sales quotes for its complex boiler systems. The company has been using SAP CPQ since 2005 to help automate and scale its legacy quoting process, empowering more than 700 salespeople creating many thousands of quotes per year.
“You basically give the salesperson one to two days of their week back by using SAP CPQ,” Dominic Kasten, director of Sales Technologies at Cleaver-Brooks, shared. “When you give time back to salespeople, you are encouraging them to sell solutions to customers instead of just reacting to specifications.”
EXFO Inc., has created a quote system with a 360-degree view of customers to slash response times, improve quote accuracy, and enhance customer experiences. It has also created a new revenue stream by combining products and services in a single quote while increasing the number of quotes created per month by 70 percent.
“SAP CPQ underpins an intuitive system that helps sales teams produce speedy, accurate quotes, letting them concentrate on what matters most to customers,” said Sheila Thibodeua, CRM Solutions and Digital Sales manager at EXFO.
To learn more about how SAP helps to automate quote-to-cash, visit the SAP CPQ, SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management, SAP Subscription Billing, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud areas of sap.com.
Jonathan Rhodes is head of Product Marketing for SaaS ERP at SAP.
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SAP released its financial results for Q4 and full fiscal year 2024, marking a strong finish to the year. For the fourth quarter of 2024, SAP’s cloud strategy continued to show positive momentum. SAP’s current cloud backlog reached €18.08 billion, reflecting a 32% year-over-year growth, with cloud revenue rising by 27% to €4.71 billion. The […]
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Unlock the power of AI with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 with Sang Dao from Cloud ERP Product Success Enablement! Featuring Joule, your AI copilot, this release enhances decision-making with instant insights. Finance teams can use AI-powered tools like the Financial Business Insights for Group Financial Statement Review Booklet, while AI-assisted enterprise search makes data retrieval easier with natural language queries. Plus, Situation Handling offers tailored, context-driven recommendations for streamlined decision-making.
The key highlights shared in this video are:
00:28 Joule, the AI Copilot
01:06 Change the Document Currency in Preliminary Billing Documents for Professional Services
01:49 AI-Assisted Easy Enterprise Search
02:29 AI-powered Situation Handling
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