Assurance PLUS™ provides SAP® customers with a holistic and comprehensive implementation assurance approach, which combines the best of the SAP® Activate methodology and Global Digital Assurance best practice Agile Assurance™ and Gateway Assurance™ methods, tools and models.

Assurance PLUS™ enables organisations to apply assurance to the implementation and delivery of their SAP® cloud, business suite and on-premise solutions, as well as the enabling business transformation projects, and programs of change, by:

• strengthening the oversight and governance of SAP® Activate implementation methods
• improving accuracy in planning
• improving allocation of skills and resources
• improving procurement and contract management processes
• improving risk management
• reducing time and cost overruns
• increasing confidence in the SAP® Partner or SI
• enabling confidence that the implementation can progress to the next phase of the development or implementation lifecycle
• cultivating the best use of delivery methodologies, irrespective of whether they be agile, conventional or a hybrid

Assurance PLUS™ provides customers with additional value adding layer of assurance, focusing on supporting both the customer implementation projects and the customers organisation.

Assurance PLUS™ builds upon (and incorporates) the best practice SAP Activate methodology, while incorporating best practice assurance elements that ensure that organisations, projects, and people, are in readiness for each phase of delivery and change activities, which enables greater SAP solution implementation success.

The Assurance PLUS™ Professional accreditation certifies that successful individuals are certified by Global Digital Assurance (licensed Assurance PLUS™ training and accreditation supplier) as meeting rigorous, and best practice standards for the assurance of SAP solutions implementations, programs and projects.

The Assurance PLUS™ Professional accreditation program incorporates the world’s best practices for SAP project management, agile project assurance and Gateway program and project assurance.

Successfully undertaking the Assurance PLUS™ Professional accreditation program, provides industry professionals with a combined accreditations, via a secure digital badge, in the following best practices:

• SAP® Activate Project Manager
• Agile Assurance™ Professional
• Gateway Assurance™ Review Team Leader