How long does it take to finish a certification?
An ideal certification based on an SAP pre-defined scenario could be finished within roughly two months. This estimates assumes the following: • one week for feasibility study by SAP after formal registration, • one week for service offer processing by SAP, • one week formal sign-off for service offer by provider’s authorized signatories, • two weeks for payment transfers for service fees, • three weeks for test preparations including test system set-up and final testing, • one week for final sign-off on test results and publication as well as benefits package handover by SAP. However, experience has shown that not all projects follow the ideal path. Referring to the service offer definition a provider has up to nine months to finish a certification starting with the date when the service offer was acknowledged. Possible bottlenecks on SAP side are: • analyzing custom-defined integration scenario instead of pre-defined ones • sheer volume of registrations right before major events (CeB
