Customer Center of Expertise
Customer Center of Expertise (Customer COE)
The Trusted Partner for SAP Operations and Support Processes
Customer Centers of Expertise (Customer COEs) act as collaboration hubs across IT and Lines of Business in their companies. Their mission is to provide transparency and efficiency of implementation, innovation, operation, and quality of business processes and systems related to the SAP software solutions and services. They have the knowledge, the capabilities, and the network to centrally drive continuous improvement and continuous innovation.
Getting Started
Roadmap and Certifications
The Customer Center of Expertise program entails two maturity levels with an Advanced IT Operations Self-Assessment interposed.
Starting with a Primary Customer COE Certification, customers establish the foundation for their Customer COEs to then continuously prove their maturity and become certified Advanced Customer COEs that facilitate support and drive innovation in their organizations. Advanced Customer COEs therefore act as both service providers and business innovation enablers.
Running a certified Primary Customer COE is a contractual element and demonstrates proficiency in important basic functions. The SAP Primary Customer COE Certification provides a solid foundation for interacting with SAP. This certification consists of self-service by filling out an online-questionnaire. A follow-up call in case of ambiguities is optional.
As a Center of Expertise, please consider the Incident Quality Report Application within the SAP ONE Support Launchpad
The Advanced Self-Assessment identifies areas of improvement for Primary Customer COE(s) on their journey towards Advanced maturity. After completion, SAP will provide a rough estimation of the maturity of your processes including maturity indicators and recommendations in each area. This Assessment cannot replace the SAP Operations Planning Workshop, where SAP interacts directly with your experts and comes up with a sophisticated and precise evaluation, including a tailored action plan.
The Advanced Customer COE Certification confirms as optional basis an excellent integrated end-to-end solution orchestration and a KPIs driven continuous improvement process through an effective Quality Management System. This shall be renewed on an annual basis. This Certification is performed remotely and onsite.
Knowledge Transfer
This section will provide you relevant information needed for a Customer COE certification as well as assets that help you with your daily business.
Additional learning content is available in the the SAP Enterprise Support Academy.
Get started with your primary certification and proceed in your journey to become an Advanced Customer COE. The knowledge materials provided in this section are continuously updated and set up according to the four different pillars of the Customer COE.
Access live Customer COE Webinars, Roadmap Sessions, Customer Best Practices and check Customer COE events and infodays.
Browse documents such as whitepapers and guides that help CIOs and Customer Centers of Expertise (Customer COEs) with daily and strategic challenges they are facing in today's digital economy, and guide their path towards the Intelligent Enterprise.
Access the Customer COE Single Source of Truth for general information, Customer COE service portfolio, certification relevant information and support standards.
Communities
SAP Enterprise Support Value Maps
An SAP social media-based empowerment and support program, that simplifies and accelerates learning and utilization of support offerings. They provide guided access to the knowledge, skills and services needed to tackle business challenges and drive goals. Value Maps empower you to build up digital proficiency and prepare your IT landscape for innovation.
You can connect with SAP customers, industry and technology experts from SAP and our partners. Supported by the Global User Groups organization, these independent, not-for-profit groups educate members, facilitate customer involvement, and influence SAP strategy. Discover the knowledge offering provided to User Groups.
SAP JAM Customer COE Community
The Customer COE Community Suite provides real added values for certified Customer COE(s) only. On this SAP Jam-based platform, you can network, stay up-to-date with the Customer COE of the year, and ask questions to the entire community. Please contact the Customer COE Program COE.Program@sap.com and request to be invited for the Community.