When BPX Certification Stars Align
A Community’s Wish Realized
What we all have envisioned, worked for and announced over 2 years ago on the BPX website is finally here and it will be ready for TechEd Las Vegas 2008.
A BPX certification curriculum that will service the BPX community is launching. It will include the SAP Certified Business Process Associate and SAP Certified Business Process Professional designations.
The certification will be made available for partners and customers and is the complement to Marco ten Vaanholt’s book vision and Mario Herger’s BPX skills work.
The certification bridges various organizations of our ecosystem.
By creating alignment with SAP consulting, education, product strategy and our community it harmonizes the BPX goals bridging IT and Business. It is the first certification of its kind and the answer to the constant demand of our community for training around BPX skills.
Michael Schwandt introduced us to the SAP Process Office two years ago and with it http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/251754001 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] and Thilo Bischoff. Thilo and Mark are active contributors to BPX and help supply the course’s methodology and strategy together with the course owner and co-creator, Ann Rosenberg. Ann is from SAP Consulting and she together with cohort Marc Dietrich, are working BPX consultants as well as course/content owners. Ann coordinated with SAP Global Education (Molly Bazemore and Susan Martin), BPM product management (Thomas Volmering), SAP Process Governance (Mark Scavillo, Thilo Bischoff, and Vesela Polihronova), the ARIS folks (Niki Jacobson) to produce the course and Ann welcomes partnership with our BPX Community.
Ann is coordinating with our content and collaboration team and is working with Audrey Weinland and myself to provide the following deliverables immediately:
- Course and book excerpts for the BPX website and community
- SAP TechEd BPX Community Day Sessions that integrate into the full BPX day’s content and curriculum (in all 3 locations)
- SAP TechEd Clubhouse sessions for “meet the BPX-perts (in all 3 locations)
In addition there will be some conversation and more around the to-be-released book “Roadmap to Business Process Management“. The publication already has generated much interest in the ASUG ranks as Mark Scavillo introduced it in ourThe BPM Transformation: SAP’s Journey to Process Orientation- ASUG Webcast a few weeks ago.
As a community taking an acitve interest in this curriculum, role and skill set the BPX is uniquely positioned to supply feedback, responses and yes, critique. There are many who put this offering high on their . I, for one, have a feeling they won’t be disappointed.
Please guide me to prepare for the same and also guide me regarding the certification fees.
Warm Regards,
Rajesh Banka
BPX Certification is available in TecED Bangalore. Our SAP Education team is also organizing training in India after the TechEd. Please get in touch with me for details.
anita.dawanchya@sap.com
Regards,
Anita
Business Process Management spans both SAP and non SAP enabled processes and within SAP its fair to say that the majority of business process are still enabled on ABAP stacks. That’s the challenge for organizations today, how to successfully combine old and new approaches under the overall BPX banner..
Now we will have endorsed SAP BPX Experts.
Looking forward to be a part of the Dream Team.
Regards,
Rakesh
This is a first step into a grand BPX certification effort. This is definitely not the end
We have identified several vectors a BPX needs to be " certified at" to be called a true BPXer. The Business Process Associate and Profesional certification will not cover all the vectors, but will cover the vectors that SAP values and influences.
I also want to refer back to my blog
BPX Education and certification
Please read the section around SAP certification. With the announcement we will make at Sapphire we are making big strides in the right direction, but I want to caution that we are at the start of the journey.
Last but not least I want to mention that I do not know how many times I got the question: how can I certify myself... this should be a good solid first answer.
More to come during TechEd and BPX community day... please join us
But, getting some certifications in place is huge, especially as Paul Taylor commented, that the BPX certification should help to legitimize the discussion of new BPX roles with HR departments on SAP customer sites.
I recently did a podcast with Sue Martin of SAP Education on SAP certification on JonERP.com, and we returned to that question of the value of SAP certification in the minds of customers and partners. One thing we didn't get to in that podcast is my own belief that SAP certification is especially helpful for moving into new areas of SAP, as opposed to validating your exposure in areas where you are already an expert.
So, for those with a craving for more exposure and work on the BPX side, being part of the earlier wave of BPX certifications should be a great thing.
Look forward to talking more about this at BPX Community Day at TechEd.
- Jon -
So I guess my real question is whether or not there are going to be affordable sources of eduction (online, books, etc.) for those of us who are way behind the curve but want to be involved and move forward with this. I realize that SAP is in business to make money, and that training centers are a big part of that. However, if my only source of education in this area is an SAP training center at $2,500 USD a week then it's not going to happen. Does anybody have any thoughts on that?
The BPX wiki space should have plenty of freely available content to get you going, including free tutorials about BPMN, scenarios, methodologies, community scripts based on process improvement interations...
As a member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA...www.theiiba.org) who have defined Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) (similar to the Project Management Institutes PMBOK), and a certification (the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certification) (again similar to the PMI certification) wondering if SAP BPX has looked at and leveraged any of the IIBA's great work.
Thanks
Antony
What I can do is forward your comments to those folks directly engaged in the certification contents and they in turn can engage with you and your organization. I see you have created full details in your business card. Thanks for that.
Marilyn