The SAP Early Adopter Care programs connect customers with products and innovations to help them simplify, innovate, and digitize fast. The programs give our customers a direct channel to SAP with the support of the Early Adopter project coach, enabling two-way communication, improving transparency, and allowing stakeholders to react to and minimize project risk. At the same time, early adoption programs can help improve SAP products.
Get Involved Early
SAP offers innovation adopter services to help you jump start your projects with SAP’s latest products and solutions
Beta Programs
Beta programs provide you with early access to SAP software to test and see how it fits your business requirements. Beta shipments are provided under a Test and Evaluation Agreement (TEA) and can be used for testing purposes only. Productive usage is not allowed and is not supported under the maintenance and support agreement.
Your benefits:
- Ability to test new product versions with your own processes, data and landscape before official release.
- Opportunity to provide feedback on product functionality, usability and quality of new products before official release.
Beta programs will be listed on the SAP Customer Influence site as they become available. Thus you get a complete picture of SAP’s influencing opportunities for your areas of interest.
Contact Us
For any questions or feedback contact us directly at beta@sap.com
Early Adopter Care Services
Feedback
Our goal is to continuously improve our solutions to meet your needs. We invite you to share your experience with us in a 1:1 feedback session or electronic survey.
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Plan: Product Availability Matrix (PAM)
Please review technical and release planning information including SAP software product versions, maintenance dates and upgrade in the Product Availability Matrix (PAM).
Access: Software Download Center
Download your newest innovations using the Software Download Center.
Learn: Early Knowledge Transfer
Early Knowledge Transfer, through the SAP Learning Hub, provides role-specific learning content as well as opportunities to collaborate and practice.
Early Knowledge Transfer
Early Knowledge Transfer (EKT) is SAP's enablement offering for innovations. Available already with Release To Customer, it provides you with a head start to adopting new products.
Early Knowledge Transfer builds on and succeeds the Ramp-Up Knowledge Transfer (RKT) approach and is delivered using the SAP SuccessFactors cloud-based SAP Learning Hub, which provides:
- Simple access to learning content through SAP SuccessFactors Learning programs and state-of-the-art online courses
- Collaboration with other learners and SAP experts through Learning Rooms leveraging SAP Jam
- Opportunities to practice and experience new SAP products hands-on
Simple and scalable access via SAP Learning Hub, supporting Early Adopter Care services
Early Knowledge Transfer now offers the same support and knowledge access for Early Adopter Care projects. Customers and partners have access via our cloud-based, SAP Learning Hub platform. This puts full access to Early Knowledge Transfer at the fingertips of all SAP Learning Hub subscribers. Moreover, those of you who participate in Early Adopter Care projects can request a time-limited free access to SAP Learning Hub.
Free Access to SAP Learning Hub (Time-Limited)
Early Adopter Care customers and partners are eligible for a 3-month free access period to all learning assets on SAP Learning Hub, restricted to 5 of their employees.
Customers can extend their employees' access for an additional 6-month period, which will be limited to their project-specific content only, unless they subscribe to the SAP Learning Hub.
Beyond the time-limited free access to SAP Learning Hub, customers and partners have the opportunity to purchase the full SAP Learning Hub Customer Edition, or register for the free SAP Learning Hub Discovery Edition in the SAP Training and Certification shop.