The Academy offers a curriculum of building blocks that provide participants with unique paths to various certification levels. Each certification level brings additional capabilities to manage
configuration solutions over the lifecycle.
The purpose of Configit Academy is to enable participants to turn new insights into actions. Courses are taught using a combination of lectures and hands-on training to ensure quickly-applied learning. All instructors are highly skilled and experienced implementation consultants with deep product knowledge and vast best practice experiences from client implementation projects.
- Jumpstart the design and implementation of configuration solutions
- Secure implementation effort and quality through shared best practice experiences
- Avoid common configuration project pitfalls
- Manage the configuration solution through the entire lifecycle
- Create more technologically advanced solutions
- Execute more project activities
- Enhance skills and competencies
- Administer complete, integrated, and value-added solutions
- Execute more project activities
- Provide technologically advanced solutions
- Create more business opportunities and revenue growth
- Enhance competitive advantages as a professional, committed supplier
- Invest in the ‘in-demand’ skills and competencies of the fast growing CPQ and CLM market
Three Certification Levels
The purpose of Configit Academy is to provide necessary skills and competencies to successfully design, implement, and support various Configit solutions. Configit Academy certification can be achieved for each Configit product and is divided into three levels:
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Principal Fundamental product skills to implement basic solutions
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Expert Advanced product skills to design and implement solutions
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Master Superior product skills and hands-on project implementation success.
Principal Certification: Fundamental Product Knowledge
The Principal Certification is the first level of the Configit certification program. To achieve Principal Certification, participants must complete a minimum of two (2) mandatory Configit Academy courses, as well as proving their knowledge of fundamental product skills of implementing basic CLM solutions.
Configit Academy Principal Certification Course Example (Configit Model):
“Product Modeling Competence” (Configit Model)
Expert Certification: Advanced Product Knowledge
The Expert Certification is the second level of the Configit Academy Certification program. To achieve Expert Certification, participants must complete of a minimum of four (4) courses which must include all courses within the desired Configit product of certification, with the remaining courses consisting of any other Configit product. Students must be able to both design and implement CLM solutions.
Configit Academy Expert Certification Course Example (Configit Model):
- “Product Modeling Competence” (Configit Model)
- “Application Development Competence” (Configit Model)
- Additional competence course in Configit Academy course catalog (any Configit Product)
Master Certification: Superior and Experienced Product Knowledge
The Master Certification is the highest level of certification. Participants must have superior product skills as well as hands-on project implementation success to master the design, implementation and support activities of managing CLM solutions. This includes completion of a minimum of five (5) courses which must include all courses within the desired Configit product of certification, and up to four (4) remaining courses in any other Configit product.
Configit Academy Master Certification Course Example (Configit Model):
- “Product Modeling Competence” (Configit Model)
- “Application Development Competence” (Configit Model)
- Additional competence course in the Configit Academy course catalog (any Configit Product)
In addition to the Configit Academy courses, Master Certification requires a one-on-one interview with a Configit Academy instructor.
Courses
A1
A1 : Ace
Course Description
This course gives the participant the ability to analyze and structure business data in order to develop and maintain logical models of configurable products and services in Configit Ace.
C1
C1 - CLM
Course Description
This course enables participants to make informed decisions about the management of configurable products by understanding the causes of product complexity and how product changes affects the organization. The course combines lecture and non-technical assignments giving the participants practical experience with challenges of managing configurable products in a cross functional organization.
M1
M1 : Model
Course Description
This course gives the participant the fundamental skills to analyze and structure business data in order to develop and maintain logical models of configurable products and services.
M2
M2: Model
Course Description
Expand the ability to design, build, and implement runtime applications that contain or embed model components based on the Virtual Tabulation (VT) technology from Configit Model.
Q1
Q1: Quote
Course Description
Establish the ability to customize and configure Configit Quote including extracted data from SAP, understanding the Quote Package and how materials, prices, partners, and quoting interact, adding properties, setting up a product catalog, and uploading to SAP.
Q2
Q2: Quote
Course Description
Develop the ability to implement advanced customizations and extend the Configit Quote Portal to develop a CPQ solution tailored to the user’s needs. Case exercises will take the participants through extensions frequently implemented by our Solutions Developers, such as guided selling and integration with 3rd party sys
B1
B1 : Build
Course Description
The course gives the participant the ability to implement advanced customizations and extend the Configit Quote Portal in order to develop a CPQ solution tailored to the user’s needs. Case exercises will take the participants through extensions frequently implemented by our Solutions Developers, such as guided selling.
B2
B1 : Build
Course Description
This course gives the participant the ability to develop and maintain advanced product models of configurable products and services with parameterized visualization in the Configurator. This course combines lectures and hands-on experience through a number of exercises in selected topics.
Schedule
| Date | Product | Course Code | Location | |
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| January 7 - 10 | Configit Ace | Product Modeling Competence | A1-018 | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| January 14 -17 | Configit Model | Product Modeling Competence | M1-041 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| January 28 - 31 | Configit Quote | Data Foundation Competence | Q1-020 | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| February 5 - 6 | CLM | Configuration Lifecycle Management | C1-005 | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| March 18 - 22 | Configit Build | Product Modeling Competence | B1-027 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| April 8 - 11 | Configit Build | Portal Extension Competence | B2-001 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| April 23 - 24 | CLM | Configuration Lifecycle Management | C1-007 | Solihull, UK |
| May 7 - 8 | CLM | Configuration Lifecycle Management | C1-008 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| June 3 - 6 | Configit Quote | Portal Extension Competence | Q2-017 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| June 10 - 13 | Configit Model | Application Development | M2-017 | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| July 1 - 4 | Configit Ace | Product Modeling Competence | A1-019 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| July 15 - 18 | Configit Model | Product Modeling Competence | M1-042 | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| July 29 - August 2 | Configit Build | Product Modeling Competence | B1-028 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| August 13 - 14 | CLM | Configuration Lifecycle Management | C1-010 | Detroit, MI, United States |
| September 17 - 19 | Configit Quote | Data Foundation Competence | Q1-021 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| October 8 - 9 | CLM | Configuration Lifecycle Management | C1-011 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| October 14 - 17 | Configit Build | Data Foundation Competence | B2-002 | Langenfeld, Germany |
| October 22 - 23 | CLM | Configuration Lifecycle Management | C1-012 | Solihull, UK |
| November 4 - 7 | Configit Quote | Portal Extension Competence | Q2-018 | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| December 2 - 5 | Configit Model | Application Development Competence | M2-018 | Langenfeld, Germany |