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SAP S4HANA Cookbook - What is SAP S4HANA

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 Created by Ruxandra Zamfir, last modified by Yannick Peterschmitt on Nov 29, 2017

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UPDATE: consolidation of the SAP S/4HANA Cookbook with SAP Roadmap Viewer

To further simplify the experience around implementation content for SAP S/4HANA, we are
merging the SAP S/4HANA Cookbook with the SAP Roadmap Viewer.

You can access the SAP Roadmap Viewer here and discover the different roadmaps to SAP
S/4HANA: https://roadmapviewer-supportportal.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com/

Please make sure you add it to your bookmarks now! This page will not be updated after
August 2018 and removed end of 2018.

Thank you! Yannick Peterschmitt for the SAP S/4HANA Product Management and Co-
Innovation Team.

Cookbook: What is SAP S/4HANA?

The SAP S/4HANA Cookbook covers the most important aspects of implementing SAP Business Suite
4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA).

The Cookbook consists of three main pages: ''What is SAP S/4HANA'' (this page), 'SAP S/4HANA
Finance, 1605' and 'Implement with SAP Activate'.

Each main page includes a small set of subcategories that provide abstracts for specific topics, along
with links for further deep-dive information.
You can easily click on the navigation menu below and, within the page you are on, jump directly to
the topic that interests you.

Please use the SAP S/4HANA Community to raise questions about SAP S/4HANA.

For comments regarding the cookbook itself, please use this blog.

The SAP S/4HANA Cookbook is a 'living' resource and is & will continue to be updated regularly!

Table of Contents:

*click on the grey titles to get to those pages

Implement with SAP

What is SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA Finance 1605 Activate

SAP S/4HANA: Overview

SAP S/4HANA Finance 1605:
What is available now:
Overview
 SAP S/4HANA
Technical implementation
1610 (on-premise)
SAP Activate Overview
Functional implementation:
 SAP S/4HANA
End-to-end customer
Finance 1605  Accounting
experience
 SAP S/4HANA  Cash Management
Discover
1702 (cloud)
 Integrated Business
Prepare
Further capabilities Planning
Explore
Transition options  SAP Fiori and
Analytics Realize
Extensibility and Adaptation
 Central Finance Deploy
Best Practices and
enablement by SAP Learning resources Run

Note: For access to SAP Notes and roadmap information, an 'S-user' is required (see here).

SAP S/4HANA Overview

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 SAP S/4HANA on
SAP.com

 Overview
Presentation

 Product Roadmap

 Frequently Asked
Getting Started with SAP S/4HANA Questions

SAP S/4HANA, the next generation business suite designed to  Collection FAQ's
help you run simple in the digital economy. blog

This new suite is built on our advanced in-memory platform, SAP  Flipbook:
HANA, and offers a personalized user experience with SAP Fiori. Choosing your
path to SAP
Deployable in the cloud or on-premise, SAP S/4HANA is built to
S/4HANA
drive instant value across lines of business and industries with
the ultimate in sophistication: simplicity.

Explore SAP S/4HANA along selected use cases

 openSAP course
This series of blogs explains the possibilities of SAP S/4HANA on SAP S/4HANA
along 'typical' use cases - tackled from both a business and a use cases
technical angle.

 Next Generation Logistics (biz / tech )

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 Next Generation Inventory Management (biz / tech )  Flipbook: Use

Cases with SAP
 Marketing to a Segment of One (biz / tech )
S/4HANA
 Increase Financial Business Performance (biz / tech )
 Experience
 Engage Talent Across the Organization (biz / tech ) Transformation
with SAP Fiori UX
- SAP S/4HANA
End-to-End
Inventory
Management

 Experience
Transformation
with SAP Fiori UX
– SAP S/4HANA
Sales Order
Fulfillment

SAP S/4HANA - What is available now?

SAP S/4HANA 1610 Overview

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The latest on-premise release, SAP S/4HANA Scope, Innovations, What's new
1610 is now available. Read the Press
 SAP S/4HANA 1610 on SAP.com
Release for the launch communication.
 Product scope guide for SAP S/4HANA
The SAP S/4HANA 1610 represents the latest
1610
and greatest landmark step in our mission:
 SAP S/4HANA 1610 Innovations - Key
To establish SAP S/4HANA as the digital
Use Cases
core and the foundation for your company’s
digital transformation journey.  Release Highlights Brochure
The modern digital core that SAP S/4HANA  SAP S/4HANA Feature Scope
represents is the nerve center of the Description 1610
enterprise, making your ERP processes ready
for the digital era.  What's new in SAP S/4HANA 1610?

 SAP S/4HANA 1610 Simplification List

SAP S/4HANA 1610 is a system of
intelligence, making use of advance
capabilities like pattern recognition and
embedded analytics to name just a few,
which support users in their decision making
needs.
 SAP S/4HANA 1610 Innovation -
Procurement Overview Page
 SAP S/4HANA 1610 Innovation -
Release for Delivery

The system is immediate. Based on SAP

HANA, operational reporting becomes real-  Getting started with SAP S/4HANA
time. This means you can focus on making 1610
today’s decisions instead of correcting  SAP S/4HANA 1610 Transition
yesterday’s problems. This key release brings scenarios
significant simplifications and innovations
across all lines of businesses, together with a
consistent user experience.
Roadmap & Solution Explorer
SAP S/4HANA 1610 offers seamless
 Roadmap SAP S/4HANA 1610 on-
integration between not only the different
premise
departments of your company but also to
your suppliers and customers, connecting to  help.sap.com for SAP S/4HANA on-
the global workforce and to all assets. premise 1610

Also available will be enriched content  SAP S/4HANA On-premise in the

delivered through SAP Best Practices for SAP Solution Explorer
S/4HANA (on premise) and new localizations
(14 countries in total), everything tailored
specifically to accelerate and simplify the FAQ's
adoption of SAP S/4HANA for faster time to
 FAQ's SAP S/4HANA on-premise 1610
value.
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A key innovation in release 1610 is SAP

S/4HANA’s consistent use of the SAP Fiori
2.0 visual theme across the board, allowing
users to access applications from one entry
point, via tiles, links, or by using the search,
providing a fast overview of the tasks that
require their attention.

SAP S/4HANA 1610 is also enhancing the key

innovations from the previous SAP S/4HANA
1511 release such as Inventory Management
and Accelerated Material Requirements
Planning, as well as includes industry-specific
solutions for Retail and Oil industries.

With release 1610, we further deliver on our

simplification roadmap with key innovations
such as the entirety of SAP S/4HANA Finance
scope and Embedded Extended Warehouse
Management now included in the core.

Additional focus topics of this release are:

 Integrated Quality Management

 Embedded Software in Product

Development

 Optimized Portfolio and Project

Management

 Oil&Gas and Retail Industry

Solutions in the SAP S/4HANA Core

 Advanced Availability to Promise

Access the assets on the right side to find

out more about how SAP S/4HANA 1610 can
help your company simplify and make the
most of your digital transformation journey.

SAP S/4HANA Release 1610 Use Cases and Introducing S/4HANA 1610:
Innovations
 SAP S/4HANA 1610 Release Highlights
Highlighting some of the best of the best in
 Introducing SAP S/4HANA 1610
S/4HANA 1610.
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 SAP S/4HANA 1610 Release &

Innovation Summary

S4HANA 1610 Use Case series:

 Advanced Availability to Promise (biz

view)
(tech view)

 Industry to Core – Retail (biz view)

(tech view)

 Procurement (biz view) (tech view)

SAP S/4HANA Release 1610 Innovations:

 Industry to Core – Retail

 Accelerated ATP and efficient

Procurement

 Extended Warehouse Management

and Quality Management

SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA On-  Overview: SAP Best Practices for SAP
Premise S/4HANA On-premise

You can now find all the best practices in the  Reference guide: how to implement
SAP Best Practices Explorer SAP S/4HANA On-Premise with SAP
Activate and SAP Solution Manager
7.2

 SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA

(on-premise), Scope and Accelerators
on the BPX

 SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA

Installation & Configuration of S/4HANA  New Installation: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

1610
 SAP S/4HANA On-premise
Configuration

 SAP S/4HANA On-premise User

Management

Introducing the User Experience for SAP  Great UX for SAP S/4HANA 1610 with
S/4HANA 1610 SAP Fiori 2.0
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 What’s New in the SAP Fiori 2.0

Launchpad in SAP S/4HANA 1610

 SAP Screen Personas enhances the

S/4HANA 1610 user experience

Leading S/4HANA UX  Critical UX Activities in S/4HANA

Projects
A collection of guides, tips, and tricks for your
User Experience Lead in making the most of  Toto… we’re not in Kansas anymore
the Red-Dot award-winning Fiori 2.0 User
 Getting the Good Guides
Experience in S/4HANA.
 Role-Based for App Discovery and
Activation

 Adapting Analytical Tiles and

Overview Pages

 Modify Currencies in Standard KPI

tiles

 Fiori My Inbox - Part 1 - Activation

 Fiori My Inbox - Part 2 - Task-specific

Options

 Notification Center – Part 1 –

Activation

 Notification Center – Part 2 –

Providing Notifications

 Not every Fiori App is a Tile

 Adapting the Launchpad to the

Business Role

 Launchpad-driven Authorizations –
Part 1 – Configuring the Launchpad
Role

 Launchpad-driven Authorizations –
Part 2 – Configuring the
Authorizations

 How to Create and Generate Backend

Security Authorizations for SAP Fiori
2.0
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 Adding Transactions to Fiori

Launchpad

Try it out for yourself

There is a 30-day trial hosted on Amazon

Web Services (AWS) that lets you create a
 SAP S/4HANA, on-premise: 30-day
dedicated on-premise instance of SAP
trial
S/4HANA, on-premise 1511 (Feature Package
Stack 01) and explore the trial system with  Getting Access to an SAP S/4HANA
administrator rights at your own Trial System
convenience. The SAP license is waived for
this period, AWS hosting fees apply.

Note: This is the successor of the former SAP

Simple Finance 1503 30-day trial. The Simple
Finance scope is still included but the
Materials Management & Operations
capabilities have been added.

SAP S/4HANA Finance, On-Premise 1605

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Focusing on financial scenarios

SAP S/4HANA Finance, on-premise marked the first step in the

SAP S/4HANA on-premise roadmap for customers. It solely
 SAP S/4HANA
focuses on financial scenarios such as SAP Accounting, SAP Cash
Finance, On-
Management, SAP Integrated Business Planning for Finance and
Premise 1605:
SAP Central Finance.
Implementation
The initial version was released in March 2015 (1503) followed Information
by support package stacks in May (1505), August (1508),
November (1511) and the latest version released in 2016 (1605)

On the right-hand side, you will find a separate page with

detailed implementation information around it and a substantial
list of assets.

SAP S/4HANA Finance, on-premise 1605 and SAP S/4HANA, on-

premise 1610 are delivered as two different products. Customers
who are interested in financial innovations can either start with
SAP S/4HANA Finance and transition to SAP S/4HANA 1610 at a
later point in time, or they can start with SAP S/4HANA 1610
directly.

SAP S/4HANA 1702 Overview

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The 1702 release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud brings innovations

across different lines of business that enable customers to
Scope, Innovations,
accelerate their digital transformation and increase the
What's new
efficiency of their business processes with increased
transparency, automation, and quality.  SAP S/4HANA
Enterprise
With highlights including integration to SAP SuccessFactors,
Management
Concur, and SAP Fieldglass solutions and machine learning-
Cloud Product
enabled automated invoice matching process, SAP has reached
Scope
another important milestone in our journey to help customers
run simple in the cloud. In particular, the new integration  SAP S/4HANA
capabilities further strengthen our ability to support customers’ Finance Cloud
two-tier ERP strategies. Product Scope

The SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1702 includes more than 120 functional
scope items, as well as 18 country and 10 language versions. Of
 SAP S/4HANA
the multiple innovative enhancements across all the editions,
Professional
here are a few highlights:
Services Cloud
Product Scope

SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management Cloud  SAP S/4HANA

Cloud on the Help
This latest release of our cloud ERP solution includes highlights
Portal
such as:

 Digitalized invoice processing for external staff –

Increasing productivity and reducing the risk of
 SAP S/4HANA
outstanding payments by electronically sending
Cloud 1702
documents from SAP Fieldglass solutions to SAP
Feature Scope
S/4HANA Cloud
Description
 Customer consignment capabilities in sales – Improving
 What's New in
visibility into customer consignment stock while reducing
SAP S/4HANA
costs and saving time
Cloud 1702
 Batch management – Helping customers manage
 Two-tier ERP
batches with full traceability from supplier receipt
through distribution, identify differences in use and
monitoring of materials planning for sales and
distribution as well as production, and trace defects to  Highlights SAP
initiate follow-up actions S/4HANA 1702
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Roadmap & Solution

Explorer
SAP S/4HANA Finance Cloud
 SAP S/4HANA
The most recent addition to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud family, SAP
Cloud Roadmap
S/4HANA Finance Cloud provides:

 Machine learning integration – Solution with SAP Clea

for Cash Application to automate the process of clearing  SAP S/4HANA
incoming bank payments with corresponding receivables Cloud Roadmap:
leveraging matching prediction results more
transparency with
 Intercompany processes for cost allocation in the
a 4 quarter
general ledger – Helping accountants reduce the effort
communication
to add cross-company journal entries and allocate
intercompany costs with this new functionality  SAP S/4HANA
Enterprise
 Intercompany sales order processing – Simplifying the
Management
handling of domestic and international intercompany
Cloud
sales orders for trading goods
 SAP S/4HANA
Professional
Services Cloud

SAP S/4HANA Professional Services Cloud  SAP S/4HANA

Cloud on
Highlights of this latest release include: SAP.com
 Concur Integration – Increasing automation with
financial integration of accrued expenses into the project
billing process SAP Best Practices

 Detailed project revenue planning – More detailed  SAP Best

revenue analysis and comparison possibilities enabling Practices for SAP
improved tracking and decision making in projects S/4HANA Cloud

 SAP Best
Practices for SAP
S/4HANA Finance
Cloud

 SAP Best
Practices for SAP
S/4HANA
Professional
Services Cloud
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 SAP Best
Practices for SAP
S/4HANA
Enterprise
Management
Cloud

 SAP Best
Practices for SAP
S/4HANA
Marketing Cloud

FAQ

 SAP S/4HANA
FAQ (Cloud starts
at page 11)

Installation &
Configuration of
S/4HANA

 SAP S/4HANA
Cloud
Configuration

 SAP S/4HANA
Cloud User
Management

BLOGS

 Product
Management
Update SAP
S/4HANA Cloud
1702 release

 Product
Management
Update: SAP
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S/4HANA Finance
Cloud 1702

 Product
Management
Update SAP
S/4HANA Cloud
1702 release and
Two-Tier ERP

 #S4HANA Cloud
use case series: 2
– The new value
lever:
Effectiveness

 #S4HANA Cloud
use case series: 3
– The new value
lever: Agility

 Summary of SAP
#S4HANA Cloud
1702 Release

 #S4HANA Cloud
use case series: 4
– Machine
Learning with SAP
S/4HANA Cloud

 #S4HANA Cloud
use case series –
The Collection

 #S4HANA Cloud
use case series: 5
– 2-Tier ERP with
SAP S/4HANA
Cloud

Try it out for yourself

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In the free trial of SAP S/4HANA, cloud, you can experience SAP  SAP S/4HANA,
S/4HANA in a guided tour at your own pace. It covers both line- cloud: Free Trial
of-business and generic enterprise scenarios.

Further capabilities in context of SAP S/4HANA

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Finance and logistics are the first major areas that are
addressed within SAP S/4HANA.
 SAP S/4HANA and
Other products areas of the SAP portfolio will move into SAP solutions of the
S/4HANA going forward or can be closely integrated with it. The SAP Suite:
linked blog gives an overview and further information on strategy and
roadmap and strategy for the products mentioned in the roadmap
headline at the current point in time (this might be changed in
the future without prior notice).

Hybrid scenarios and SaaS integration capabilities

Both the on-premise and cloud offerings of SAP S/4HANA offer

integration capabilities with other cloud-based SaaS products.
 Cloud integration
This can be SAP solutions such as Ariba, SuccessFactors,
capabilities by
Fieldglass, Concur, Hybris, SAP Cloud for Customer, SAP Financial
line-of-business
Services Network, or other third-party solutions depending on the
detailed interfaces to those.

The read-on documents list the cloud integration capabilities by  Technical

line-of-business (integration into SAP S/4HANA for Ariba, FSN, information on
SuccessFactors (latter on-premise) are available, other products cloud integration
to follow) and provide some generic information on integration (White Paper )
scenarios.

SAP S/4HANA Transition Options

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Your transition options in a nutshell

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SAP S/4HANA can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud,

offering customers a choice what fits best for them.
System Conversion to
Besides the decision what target infrastructure fits best, also the SAP S/4HANA on-
starting point of a project may vary. premise:

There are basically three different implementation scenarios  SAP S/4HANA

how a customer can move to SAP S/4HANA (you might even find System
combinations of those within the same customer): Conversion – At a
glance
1. System Conversion: Existing SAP customers who want to
move a complete SAP Business Suite system to SAP  Conversion
S/4HANA Guide for SAP
S/4HANA 1610
2. Landscape Transformation: Existing SAP customers who
want to optimize their system landscape and move to  SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Custom Code
Migration
3. New Implementation: Customers who want to move
Worklist
from non-SAP legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA (new and
existing SAP customers)  SAP S/4HANA
1610 – Business
The linked documents explain the possible roads to SAP
Functions
S/4HANA along typical customer scenarios and give an overview
how to technically deploy SAP S/4HANA and move data into the  System
new infrastructure. Conversion to
SAP S/4HANA:
The blog focuses on the on-premise offering of SAP S/4HANA for
SUM tool
existing customers (i.e. 1. in the list above).
 Simplified
The white paper takes a more comprehensive look at all three
Download for
scenarios above for both on-premise and cloud deployments.
SUM Procedure

Using the Maintenance

The simplification list describes in detail on a functional level Planner for a System
what happens on individual transactions and solution capabilities Conversion Check
when transitioning from SAP ERP 6.x to SAP S/4HANA, on-
premise 1610 Simplification list:

The list is available in PDF and Excel format. In addition, select  Simplification List
simplification items are covered in more detail in dedicated SCN SAP S/4HANA
blogs (the TOP list of simplification items). 1610

SAP S/4HANA Roadmap Viewer

The SAP S/4HANA implementation and specific methodology are  SAP S/4HANA,
extensively covered in the SAP S/4HANA roadmaps available in on-premise -
the Roadmap Viewer. Transition Paths
White Paper: The
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Available you will find Roadmaps for On-premise and for all the Road to SAP
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Solutions, to guide the implementation S/4HANA
team through the S/4HANA implementation.

The Roadmaps are comprised of Phases, Deliverable and Tasks in

accordance with the SAP Activate methodology (read more in
the SAP Activate Cookbook page).

In addition, accelerators are linked to the relevant deliverables  SAP S/4HANA

and tasks making them easy to consume when they are needed. Roadmap Viewer

 BLOG: Access SAP

Activate
Methodology
Roadmaps in SAP
Roadmap Viewer

SAP S/4HANA Extensibility & Custom Code Adaptation

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Extending SAP S/4HANA (side-by-side or in-app)

Extensibility covers a broad spectrum of topics that allows  The new SAP
customers and partners to adopt standard business software to S/4HANA
their business needs. It ranges from business configuration; Extensibility
layout adaptation of user interface (UI), forms, and reports; White paper
custom fields and logic; integration; and custom terminology and
 White Paper:
translation to customer-specific applications.
Extensibility for
Extensibility in the SAP S/4HANA can be categorized into two Customers and
main parts: side-by-side extensibility through SAP HANA Cloud Partners
Platform, and in-app extensibility through built-in capabilities.
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 S/4HANA
Extensibility. Use
Case Overview

Custom Code Assessment & Adaptation

As an existing SAP customer, you may have developed ABAP

custom code in your source system.
 Converting an
When converting your system to SAP S/4HANA, you need to existing SAP
assess and possibly adopt this custom code. This activity is mainly system to SAP
valid for on-premise transitions since the custom code can not be S/4HANA: What
carried over that way into a cloud infrastructure. you need to
consider for your
Many of the steps for custom code assessment and adaptation
custom code
are similar compared to moving to SAP HANA in general. Specific
steps for SAP S/4HANA will be detailed out as SAP S/4HANA
evolves.

Best Practices & Enablement by SAP

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SAP Activate

SAP Activate expedites SAP S/4HANA implementations

throughout the customer lifecycle. It offers ready-to-run best
practice content, guided configuration, and an implementation
methodology.

SAP Best Practices packages provide ready-to-run digitized  SAP Activate

business and technical processes optimized for SAP S/4HANA. (dedicated page
They allow you to leverage SAP’s expertise and experience for in cookbook)
standard processes and spend more time focused on innovation.
 SAP Best
Guided configuration allows to choose and activate SAP Best Practices Explorer
Practices that are delivered with the SAP S/4HANA product. In
cloud deployments, guided configuration additionally serves as
content lifecycle management tool to support the adoption of
future innovations.

SAP Activate methodology offers a consistent approach for any

SAP S/4HANA deployment type – cloud, on-premise, hybrid, or
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mobile. It supports SAP customers on their journey, whether

they chose the new implementation, system conversion or
landscape transformation.

SAP Education Offerings  openSAP course:

SAP S/4HANA in a
openSAP is SAP’s learning platform for Enterprise MOOCs
Nutshell
(Massive Open Online Courses). Register for free and get access
to learning materials about SAP S/4HANA and other SAP  openSAP course:
software. SAP S/4HANA -
Deep Dive

 openSAP course:
SAP S/4HANA use
cases

 openSAP course:
Implementation
of SAP S/4HANA

 Getting Started
Introduction: Key-
and End User
Onboarding for
SAP S/4HANA

SAP Learning Hub provides immediate, cloud-based access to a  SAP Learning Hub
vast selection of SAP learning content – and to our interactive (Search for
learning rooms (subscription fee applies). S/4HANA)

 SAP S/4HANA
Implementation
Scenarios
Training

Classroom training for SAP S/4HANA from SAP Education (training  SAP S/4HANA
fee applies) Training &
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Certification
Curriculum

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