To help partners improve how they differentiate their expertise and experience in driving customer success in the marketplace, SAP’s flagship partner program introduces the debut of the new Competency Framework,
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competency framework from SAP PartnerEdge, is a major initiative with a two-fold mission:
- To help customers select the partner that best fits their digital transformation journey towards becoming an intelligent enterprise.
- The framework evolves SAP’s recognition of its partner ecosystem expertise by categorizing partners by the competency and specialization they offer the market, giving customers transparency on the skills, expertise, and maturity of a partner’s SAP practice in delivering customer success.
Today’s annoucement of the framework is designed to boost SAP partners’ focus on customer lifetime value and customer outcomes, while also serving as the key engine for partner recognition around their expertise and contributions.
The program notification, which was sent to partners today:
- Announced the debut the framework, introducing new competency and specialization designations that partners can use to differentiate their value, capabilities, and experience in delivering customer success.
- Informed partners that, starting August 1, they will be able to see any earned designations in their SAP for Me dashboard specifically in the new Competency and Specialization card.
- As part of this launch, partners were notified partners that customers will be able to see earned partner competency and specialization designations in the SAP Partner Finder tool on sap.com in September.
- It also announced the upcoming retirement of the silver and gold partnership logos and SAP Recognized Expertise
Competency Framework in Brief
The new framework provides partners with the competency and specialization designations to help prospective customers find the best-fit partner who understands their business and industry to be their trusted technology and business advisor.
Competency and specialization designations are two independent and interlocking capability components granted to partners based on performance and achievement.
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competency designation demonstrates partner breadth and depth at the solution level and line of business proficiency, including developed intellectual property. Seven competency designations are available.
Competencies are tiered designations with a visual progression of the three tiers:
Essential,
Advanced,
Expert –that will appear on SAP Partner Finder starting September 2022, making it easier for customers to choose a best-fit local or global partner.
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specialization designation demonstrates partner expertise and skill at the product/process level. It’s an integral building block towards attaining a competency designation. There are 21 specialization designations available, they are not tiered and the name of an attained designation will appear on SAP Partner Finder.
Learn more by visiting the new
Competency and Specialization landing page on SAP Partner Portal.
