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SAP Training and Certification Shop

The SAP Training and Certification Shop provides all your training and certification needs in one central location. You will find courses and curricula for different solutions delivered in different methods (traditional instructor led classroom training, eLearning, Virtual Live Classroom) to suite your needs. You will also find detailed information on the different SAP certifications that you can pursue and what path to follow to achieve your personal professional goals.

Education Thought Leader Interview with Dr. Thilo Buchholz - Click here to view.

What's new in SAP Education Offerings?

SAP Expands Education Portfolio by Acquiring datango AG

SAP has announced its intention to acquire software and relevant assets from datango AG, a leading provider of workforce performance support software. The transaction, scheduled to close during the first quarter of 2012, will broaden the SAP software portfolio in the education space, providing customers with powerful, easy-to-use software tools to help address their end-to-end user training, knowledge management and performance support challenges.  One of the goals is to reduce the customer's total cost of ownership of deploying SAP software.  The datango software has been successfully deployed in the user help system of the SAP BusinessByDesign solution.  The acquired performance suite software will be branded as SAP Workforce Performance Builder and will be integrated with the rest of the SAP tools landscape.  For additional details, read the press release. 

** New Offering** SAP HANA Implementation and Modeling course released on SAP HANA 1.0, SP03 (TZH300)

This new course offering covers the following topics: Trigger-based replication with SAP Landscape Transformation (SLT), approaching SAP HANA Modeling, connecting tables, advanced modeling features, introduction to SQL script and script based calculation views, processing information models, managing modeling content and SAP HANA user management and privileges.  Click here for more details.

 ** New Offering** SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation E-Academy

We are pleased to announce availability of the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (7.5) e-Academy TBPC5e.  With e-Academies, you benefit from a flexible learning program, allowing you to learn whenever and wherever you want.  The learner gets flexible access to e-learning content, training systems, and help desk support over a three-month period.  E-Academies help you get ready for job-related tasks and prepare for SAP's certification exams.  In this case, TBPC5e helps you to prepare for C_EPMBPC_75 (SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5).  For detailed information about TBPC5e and the courses it contains, please visit the training and certification shop at this page.  For more information on certification C_EPMBPC_75, please visit this page.

SAP HANA Certification Program - SAP Education is proud to announce the launch of a certification program for SAP HANA.  The certification SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HANA 1.0 provides successful examinees a globally recognized mark of excellence by validating their experience with SAP HANA 1.0 from a technical and application perspective.    Click here for more details.

 Accelerated Learning Packages (ALPs) are now available for customers to purchase via the SAP Education Web Shop. ALPs are "bundled" combinations of training offerings (e.g. eLearnings, Online Knowledge Products, Recorded Classroom Trainings etc) on a particular role-based topic. They are designed to get customers started in a particular topic, to provide ease-of-selection and to facilitate consumption. More than 20 Accelerated Learning Packages are now available with more arriving regularly.

 SAP Virtual Live Classroom: Unlocking User Excitement, Engagement and Success 

SAP VLC is a cost effective learning option that offers an interactive, collaborative, fun and easy-to-use way to learn. View this video to learn more about the benefits of VLC and see a short classroom demonstration from a customer's perspective.

New from SAP Education: KnowledgeBursts

KnowledgeBurst is a new concept for online learning that includes training videos, exercises and assessments - all from within a single course title.  Click here to access the FREE KnowledgeBurst on BRFplus.  You will learn how to build applications, functions, rulesets, rules etc. in the BRFplus workbench (NetWeaver 7.0 EP 2).

If you like what you see, access the following online learning titles for HANA and BI 4.0 that use the same KnowledgeBurst platform:

 Overview of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 - AUR4KB

 Overview of the SAP HANA platform - HANAKB

Getting to know HANA

A flexible, multipurpose, data-source agnostic in-memory appliance, SAP In-Memory Appliance (SAP HANA) combines SAP software components optimized on hardware provided and delivered by SAP leading hardware partners. With SAP HANA, organizations can analyze business operations based on large volumes of detailed information as it develops. Organizations can instantly explore and analyze all of their transactional and analytical data from virtually any data source in real time. Operational data is captured in memory as business happens, and flexible views expose analytic information at the speed of thought. External data can be added to analytic models to expand analysis across the entire organization.  Click here to learn more.

Full overview of SAP HANA 1.0            Education offerings on SAP HANA

SAP Certifications - Where do I start?

Certification ensures quality and competence.  It communicates an externally verified and industry-standard mark of excellence.  View "The Case for Certification" video. 

Organizations need certification because certified individuals mitigate business risks by ensuring that your project is completed accurately and on time.  Investment in certification and training yields a a strong ROI on software investment and expotential increase in productivity.  Certification provides a clear measurement of your organization's current skill set and allows you to better plan and act on future training initiatives. 

Certification from SAP delivers:

• Real and measurable improvement in productivity
• Education and experience-based levels of assessment
• Competitive differentiation in the bidding process
• Recruitment and retention benefits

SAP Certification Game           Certification Offerings