SAP Integration and Certification Center Newsletter

SAP INTEGRATION AND CERTIFICATION CENTER NEWSLETTER

Partner Innovation Lifecycle Services

Dear Partner,

As we close out the year and move into 2026, our commitment to your success continues to be at the forefront. The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) remains dedicated to empowering our partner ecosystem with the expertise, tools, and certifications needed to deliver innovations that are market-ready, future-proof, and aligned with SAP’s strategic direction.

This Q4 edition of our newsletter brings you the latest ICC updates, with a continued focus on key strategic priorities including Clean Core, SAP Business AI, and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). You’ll also find new resources and insights designed to help you accelerate innovation and strengthen your go-to-market efforts as we head into the new year.

We’re pleased to showcase a set of partner success stories that demonstrate how ICC services are helping partners build differentiated solutions, drive tangible business outcomes, and create meaningful impact for customers across the global SAP ecosystem.

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AI-driven invoice automation built on SAP BTP

TheValueChain’s partner success story demonstrates how its SAP-certified, AI-driven supplier invoice management solution delivers measurable value across the procure-to-pay value chain. Built and running on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and SAP Business AI, the solution drives innovation by streamlining supplier invoice management and improving efficiency and accuracy.

Certification has helped in many ways:

Giving customers confidence that it is secure, reliable, and future-proof.
Certification improved go-to-market impact by increasing visibility in the SAP ecosystem (including the SAP Store), supporting sales conversations, and accelerating customer decisions.

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Customer (Allinox) success story

The New Clean Core Extensibility Model & Certification Opportunities

The clean core approach is central to SAP’s mission, supporting customers in their transformation journey by streamlining processes, driving innovation-readiness, and ensuring seamless future upgrades. To bring this vision closer to reality, we have enhanced our extensibility framework with clearer guidance and simplified qualification criteria for customers.

This is highly relevant for ABAP add-on partners, as it introduces key changes that directly impact partner-built extensions and certification requirements.

Explore the updated model: Clean Core Extensibility white paper

Explore new certification options: Certification of Partner Solutions following Clean Core

Certify Your Applications Built with SAP BTP Utilizing Generative AI Hub Capabilities (BTP-EXT-GenAI)

SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) facilitates the seamless embedding of AI features and process innovations across SAP and partner applications. Partners can develop innovative AI applications on SAP BTP utilizing the generative AI capabilities. SAP Integration certification program is a service offering specifically designed to ensure that partner AI apps running on SAP BTP meet the highest standards of reliability, responsibility, and relevance.

Visit Partner Benefits Catalogue to learn more or sign up!

Certify Your Skills Integration with SAP SuccessFactors

With the business landscape transforming at an unprecedented pace, skills now serve as the new currency for organizations focused on attracting, growing, and retaining their best talent. To help partners deliver seamless skill integration and create trusted experiences for customers, SAP SuccessFactors now offers a partner certification program for solutions connecting to Talent Intelligence Hub (TIH) and Job Profile Builder (JPB).

SAP ICC Technical Resources

SAP BTP ABAP Environment – New software delivery option “Add-On Product”

SAP BTP ABAP Environment (aka Steampunk) supports now two options for partners to deliver products to their customers.

Partners build side-by-side extensions and deliver them as multitenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. This option is considered as a service offering. The partner is fully responsible for the development and production including the operations of the multitenant SaaS solution. The customers can adapt the mutlitenant SaaS solution to their business using key-user extensibility.

There are also use cases where customers want to operate the partner solution in their own environment or have the need for more comprehensive enhancement of the partner solution using developer extensibility in addition to key user extensibility to meet the customer business needs. The right way for partners to deliver such products is the newly available software delivery option, called “Add-On Product” (first announced as "Installable Product"). It allows partners to provide their solution to customers as a software offering ("Add-On Product") and not as a service.

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How to get documents out from the SAP Print Queue and how to pass them on to an external Output Management System (OMS)

This blog focuses on how to get documents out from the SAP Print Queue and how to pass them on to an external Output Management System (OMS) for processing and printing using the SAP provided API.

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