To respond dynamically to changes in business demand, your company needs flexible and adjustable resources. Cloud service offerings from providers certified by SAP encompass on-demand infrastructure – hardware, storage, network – and on-demand software and services. These cloud services dynamically adapt on request to your business process requirements, including capabilities to serve and manage entire processes.

Cloud services – for your immediate and dynamic reaction to ever-changing demands on resources

Cloud Services from Certified SAP Partners Comply with Your IT Business Needs

Certification of cloud services provided by SAP partners will have a positive impact on driving the evolution of how enterprise applications are delivered and used.

To ensure ongoing, high standards for management of SAP solutions, certified providers undergo an extensive assessment by SAP to validate the operational integration of their cloud services with supported SAP applications. The audit also includes technical reviews of physical and logical security processes supporting those cloud services. This entire process undergoes a recertification process every two years. Currently, the certification is focused on providers offering private cloud services for managing SAP solutions.

This certification is available to all existing SAP partners that deliver cloud-based services for SAP solutions. Providers who do not have an official SAP partner status can apply for a combined hosting and cloud-services certification and obtain SAP hosting partner status.

SAP Outsourcing Partner Guide

Stay up to date with global and local SAP outsourcing partners, organized globally and regionally in this SAP partner guide. Look up SAP outsourcing partners.

SAP Cloud Services Certification Scope

Cloud services certification includes the following:

• Cloud service offerings and use cases
• Solution building blocks – solution type, release/support by SAP, and more
• Operations and charging models
• Data migration, security and protection
• Skills and certifications
• Training plans
• Certified project management skills
• Certified skills in the areas of the SAP NetWeaver platform
• Data centers
• Impact on risks
• Access control and security
• Network and connectivity
• Telecommunication provider setup
• Intrusion detection system
• Cloud specific network topics (data transfer, virtual firewalls, monitoring, self services, and access blocking)
• Managed backup and disaster recovery
• Maximum loss of productive data in the event of a disaster
• IT service management support and delivery processes
• Application hosting and cloud management