We recently sat down with Mike Alpert, VP of Alliances at Redwood Software, to talk about the growing urgency for enterprises moving to the cloud with RISE with SAP and S/4HANA to maximize the value of their investment. In our conversation, Mike explained how SAP’s Endorsed App program serves as a critical guidepost in a crowded partner ecosystem, spotlighting solutions that are not only compatible with SAP but deeply strategic and future-ready. He shared why RunMyJobs by Redwood, now an SAP Endorsed App, represents more than just certified integration; it’s a rigorously tested, fully optimized workload automation solution designed to support clean core strategies, reduce risk, accelerate time-to-value, and align seamlessly with SAP’s evolving roadmap for an intelligent, AI-driven enterprise.
VP of Alliances at Redwood Software
As enterprises accelerate their move to the cloud with RISE with SAP and S/4HANA, the pressure on IT leaders to maximize the return on their investment has never been greater. The SAP partner ecosystem is vast, and navigating it to find solutions that are not just compatible but truly strategic can be a challenge.
To cut through the noise, SAP has created a special designation for its most trusted partners. Learn what SAP Endorsed App status is and why it’s a critical factor to consider for your enterprise automation strategy.
SAP recently named RunMyJobs by Redwood an SAP Endorsed App. What exactly is an SAP Endorsed App?
An SAP Endorsed App isn’t just another partner certification. It’s an invitation-only, premium certification program where SAP identifies top solutions that fill strategic gaps and provide exceptional value to customers.
To become an SAP Endorsed App, a solution undergoes SAP’s most rigorous evaluation process. It’s tested to meet SAP’s highest standards for security, performance and integration. Only a small number of partner solutions receive this level of trust and validation.
It’s essentially SAP saying, “We don’t just approve this solution; we stand behind it.”
How is this different from SAP Certified Integration with RISE with SAP?
While attaining the SAP Certified Integration designation is an important first step, it mainly confirms that a solution can technically connect to a specific SAP product or solution and perform certain tasks.
SAP Endorsed App status, on the other hand, goes much further. It validates that a partner solution is not just compatible, but optimized for SAP environments, widely used by SAP customers and future-aligned with SAP’s roadmap. This status requires the solution to pass SAP’s most demanding Premium certification tests, covering every angle, from security and performance to clean core support and integration depth.
Certification proves you can operate; endorsement proves you can thrive in real-world, high-stakes scenarios without compromising safety or performance.
Why is this so important for workload automation?
Workload automation isn’t just an IT task running in the background. It’s the engine that powers your mission-critical business processes. As SAP CEO Christian Klein highlighted at SAP Sapphire Orlando 2025, SAP’s future is about ERP, data, AI and automation all working together, a truly intelligent enterprise.
If your workload automation solution isn’t deeply integrated and aligned with SAP’s vision, you risk creating bottlenecks that can slow down digital transformation and keep you from fully realizing the potential of your SAP applications and technologies.
This is especially important when you think about real-time processes, AI-driven analytics and the need to adapt quickly to business changes. With RunMyJobs being an SAP Endorsed App, you’re not just buying a connector or a certified, published API that any solution can leverage. You’re building a future-proof foundation that’s ready to support SAP’s evolution, including optimized and efficient Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Business Data Cloud (BDC) usage — you’re maximizing the value of your SAP investment.
What does it mean when you say RunMyJobs is “optimized,” not just “certified”?
Many job scheduling solutions are certified to work with SAP, but this is basic table stakes for any partner product to even be considered as a viable option. But “certified” often only means they can technically connect and perform basic job scheduling tasks. It doesn’t tell you anything about how deeply they integrate, how much extra infrastructure or manual customization you might need or whether they support a clean core approach without fragile workarounds.
RunMyJobs is the only workload automation solution that is an SAP Endorsed App, Premium certified. This means it’s fully optimized to run in complex SAP landscapes, including RISE with SAP, BTP and BDC.
It’s the most highly tested solution for integration, security and efficiency among SAP partner solutions on the market, with hundreds of pre-built templates, certified APIs and native connectors for both modern and mature SAP environments. You don’t have to worry about hidden risks or unexpected complications. Instead, you get a frictionless, secure and scalable automation backbone that evolves with your enterprise.
You mentioned supporting a “clean core” strategy. Can you explain what that means and why it’s critical for SAP customers?
A “clean core” is a best-practice strategy advocated by SAP where you keep your core S/4HANA system as close to standard as possible, free from custom code and modifications. For years, businesses have had to write custom ABAP code directly into their SAP core just to handle complex scheduling and automation tasks. This creates enormous technical debt, making every upgrade a risky, expensive and time-consuming project. It essentially anchors you to the past.
RunMyJobs helps enforce a clean core by providing a vast library of certified, pre-built integrations and APIs. This externalizes the automation logic, so you never have to modify the SAP core for scheduling. It means you can upgrade your SAP systems smoothly, adopt new innovations faster and maintain a more agile, secure and future-ready enterprise architecture.
How does this help SAP customers reduce risk and accelerate value?
With RunMyJobs as an SAP Endorsed App, customers gain several key benefits:
- Less risk: SAP’s highest level of validation means security, performance and integration standards are all proven — no guesswork.
- Faster time-to-value: You can deploy and scale more quickly because there’s no need for manual patching, excessive customization or rework.
- Long-term reliability: Your automation is future-proofed, continuously aligned with SAP’s product roadmap and ready to support new innovations like AI-powered processes and predictive analytics.
At the end of the day, it means you can focus on delivering business value instead of worrying about whether your automation will hold up under pressure.
What makes RunMyJobs stand out beyond SAP Endorsed App status?
RunMyJobs isn’t just a “pass-through” scheduling tool, it’s a true automation fabric solution. It provides best-in-class full-stack orchestration across SAP and non-SAP systems, and it was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP), positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision.
It’s also available as SaaS, which means no additional infrastructure headaches, easier scaling and simplified updates. RunMyJobs is included in the RISE with SAP reference architecture and is the only workload automation solution for which SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) offers managed services for advanced job management.
When it comes to mission-critical automation, you don’t want to settle for “good enough.” With RunMyJobs as an SAP Endorsed App, you’re choosing a partner solution that’s not only trusted today, but built for where your business, and SAP, are headed next.
How can those interested in advancing their automation learn more?
Get a demo of RunMyJobs today.
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