Today SAP's susan.martin and SAP Mentor tom.cenens gave an update of SAP Certification. Save the Date: April 28 SAP Mentor Monday SAP Certification Update
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Figure 1 is the agenda
Certified community survey came from Jon Reed
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Credential manager came from the community, driven by the Mentors
SAP saw a need for more community benefits, more self-service scenarios, and registry capability
SAP community said it was difficult to verify someone’s qualification/certification
SAP tried 4 years ago to develop a tool; reinventing the wheel
SAP tried to get it integrated into SCN business card; delayed by Jive migration
SAP decided to go to an external platform – Pearson Credential Manager
SAP wants to ensure benefits that it is certified – “where’s my certificate, where’s my logo, can I put it on my business card, can I carry over?”
In the past this was very much driven by SAP education in their region
SAP wants to offer a more simplified way now for the certified individual
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Figure 3 shows that the Credential Manager launched in October and started with English-speaking countries for the sake of simplicity
Now have 6,000 members
A question was asked whether you can add to Linked In profile – you cannot at the moment, something they would like to do
In February they published the consultant registry
They can opt in separately to Credential Manager
SAP expects at end of 2014 40-70K credential manager members
SAP is expecting 5K people in the registry list
Reason for 70K is primarily data cleansing
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As an example, for HANA certification, you get an e-mail, receive a logon to credential manager. You get a personalized page, which certifications you have, you edit information, and at the bottom decide whether to show the data in public registry
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Request a support at the bottom – to ascertain what sort of issues people have
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For credential manager, see below:
https://training.sap.com/shop/content/Credential-Manager
You can search for those certified individuals who opted to be included in the registry:
https://i7lp.integral7.com/durango/do/pr/prSearch?ownername=sap&channel=sap
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Figure 7 shows updates regarding global partners
Wave 2 is to show global listing of certified resources by 5 markets
In the future they will create regional listings
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Figure 8 shows crowdsourcing certification questionnaire. Sue said they developed with CEIC
This started in July of last year, initially for HANA exams
SAP wants to increase the question pool
SAP looks at make sure questions do not get exposed
They want to keep refreshing exam questions and need huge question pools
SAP needs help in terms of getting exam questions
Some people have reached bronze, which gives you a free voucher. See Rewards Program: SAP Crowdsourced Certification Questions
See SAP Crowdsourced Certification Initiative: “Rules for Success” Video Series for video tutorials, rewards programs, different levels
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SAP is in the process of finalizing; going out in a few weeks
SAP wants to find out what did it do for your career, what should it give you for your career, compared to other certification programs
SAP will have results by mid-year
It will cover program quality, organizational culture – are you getting certified because your boss, does it help your self-esteem?
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SuccessFactors and Ariba are working with SAP Certification team
This is planned for the July-August-September timeframe
Looking at certification roles in Q3 for e-learning curricula
Question & Answer/Discussion
Q: When update professional level exams?
A: SAP is reviewing whether professional level should be on a stringent schedule of levels. It makes sense with associate level as it is tied to training content. Professional is more about broad picture, knowing your way around it. The CEIC may discuss.
When SAP updates an exam, from example 7.0 to 7.3, SAP tries to address important features/functions that are specific to the newest release, if it's applicable to an item that should be tested. We also review all 7.0 items for compliance to 7.3 release, for example
Tom Cenens gave a live demo of the Learning Hub demo. Next set of Learning Rooms opens mid-May
Our thanks to Tom, Sue for a great update today. Additionally thanks torobphillips sheri.schaaf for answering questions.
Pictured from the webcast: ali.samieivafa susan.martin mark.finnern tom.cenens
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