SAP Technology Consultant Professional Certificate

SAP Professional Fundamentals is the first course in the SAP Technology Consultant Professional Certificate program. The course introduces you to the world of consulting and the range of skills that you need to succeed in this competitive field.

You’ll explore SAP professional consulting roles and discover what technical consultants, functional consultants, and other professionals do. You’ll investigate the wide range of skills consultants need to have, for example strategic thinking, business process analysis, systems and design thinking, and understanding data, as well as effective soft skills, communication and relationship management. You’ll explore various planning and project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, and Cloud. Plus, you’ll start to get a feel for the whole SAP journey, from engaging with the customer to deploying a solution. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Explain what is meant by the SAP ecosystem and the value it brings to customers. Describe what different SAP professionals do and how they engage with customers. Understand the core and soft consulting skills that are both in highest demand, and frequently not taught in classroom environments. Describe a typical SAP engagement and how key professional skills are used at each stage of the SAP Implementation Lifecycle. Describe key roles with whom an SAP professional typically collaborates.

Understanding the Enterprise Systems Environment is the second course in the SAP Technology Consultant Professional Certificate program. The course builds your understanding of the digital landscape.

You’ll explore business processes and organizational alignment. You’ll get an overview of how systems are designed and developed, and consider architecture, infrastructure, application development, data science, cloud, privacy, and security. You’ll build your understanding of the SAP platform and consider key development and deployment models covering Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP), Java, SAP API, and SAP Fiori. Plus, you’ll explore gap analysis using SAP RISE and Activate and become familiar with SAP cloud strategy, architecture, and tools. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Describe how digital transformation can impact a customer’s organization, business processes and tools (people/process/tools). Identify the key elements of system design and development and how they relate to specific IT requirements. Identify different computing models (e.g. Compute Network Storage, OnPrem, Cloud etc) and architectures (e.g. Native, Hybrid, Multi-Cloud). Explain the key elements of the SAP platform and environment. Describe key Application, Development and Programming models. Explain the key elements of the SAP Cloud Strategy. Understand the key questions to keep in mind when faced with a specific request from a prospective client.

SAP Customer Engagement and Discovery is the third course in the SAP Technology Consultant Professional Certificate program. The course introduces you to SAP Activate methodology and teaches you how to engage with customers and work with them in exploring how to achieve their transformation goals.

You’ll learn how to gather information and insights about a customer’s business, technology, and data. You’ll investigate SAP’s fit-to-standard analysis approach. You’ll consider how to accurately understand and assess a client’s needs. And you’ll look at SAP’s Customer Journey Roadmap, which includes how to identify and communicate the value of a solution to stakeholders and get signoff. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Describe the key elements of the SAP Activate methodology and Customer Engagement Model. Explain the program planning and set up activities for a typical SAP customer project. Explain what a technology consultant does in the Customer Engagement and Discovery phase of SAP projects. Explain how to gather relevant information and insights about customer strategy, objectives, processes, technology, and data. Describe how to conduct discovery workshops and interviews. Explain SAP's fit-to-standard approach and key preparation activities and develop a Customer Journey Roadmap. Identify and communicate the business value of a proposed SAP solution.

Designing an SAP Solution is the fourth course in the SAP Technology Consultant Professional Certificate program. The course dives into the SAP Implementation lifecycle so you can immerse yourself in the key phases, including design, pitch, and re-design.

You’ll work with SAP Activate methodology and look at how to identify business requirements to determine system and data requirements. You’ll learn how to interrogate the gaps between SAP technical capabilities within Business Technology Platform and the customer’s existing environment. You’ll explore the SAP iterative approach, understand how the predefined content available for the most common SAP solutions can provide you a baseline to build your demos and showcase the solution capabilities. You’ll learn how to incorporate customer feedback so any gaps will be addressed and how to reach consensus regarding what should be developed, when it should be developed and how it should be developed. By the end of this course, you will be able to: Explain what a technology consultant does in the Design, Pitch and Re-Design phases of the SAP Implementation lifecycle. Explain how to review a solution proposal and business requirements to determine SAP application technical requirements for customers. Describe how to interrogate gaps between SAP technical capabilities and the customer’s existing environment. Explain how to design an SAP technical solution that fulfills the business requirements documented in the customer interview, analysis, and communication phases. Develop a Technical Design Outline in accordance with provided parameters.