The student experience and certification opportunities

• Class interest and stimulation - SAP is a powerful resource for stimulating learning and aiding in retention of taught concepts, problem solving and strategic thinking
• Employability - SAP is a globally recognised solution and SAP skills are highly valued by both SAP partners and customers
• Real-world skills - SAP skills are valuable immediately upon graduation regardless of the point of entry into a company
• Classroom relevance – taught subjects are shown to have immediate relevance, reinforcing the importance of the topic being studied
• Greater depth in learning - The depth of the system enables students to take studies to a greater level of granularity and make more sophisticated, informed investigations
• SAP, partner and guest lectures – partners and customers within the SAP ecosystem have frequently contributed to lectures by giving real world examples of enterprise systems deployment and the issues around them

Certification

Certification programmes are highly in depth sophisticated courses that lead to a full certification. For many years students undertaking SAP courses asked if they could take a Certification whilst they were still at university. Students studying at a member university of the SAP UK and Ireland University Alliances Programme can study for the same Business Process Integration Certification that is made available to faculty. This is a highly valued course but it is restricted to a set number of student places that we make available each year. This is because for this limited number of students course fees are heavily subsidised by SAP and include a free place at an exam at our HQ in Feltham.

The course itself teaches a wide range of concepts and shows how modern enterprise systems are integrated at the strategic, operational and functional levels. Concepts covered include strategic enterprise management, balanced scorecard, operations management, product lifecycle management, sales and distribution, human resources, management accounting and finance, SAP system architecture and ERP basics. A core theme of the course is showing how each component is integrated into a seamless system that crosses functional and operational boundaries.

Upon graduation you will be a Solution Architect in Business Process Integration which is a globally recognised SAP Certification.