IMPORTANT: SAP Solution Manager 7.1 required for PCOE
If you are preparing for the PCOE certification or re-certification and you are supporting SAP Business All-In-One and/or SAP HANA, SAP Solution Manager is the mandatory platform for service delivery to your customers. This system must always be on the current or immediately preceding support package, which means only version 7.1 SP 8 and 9 will be accepted for any certification or re-certification requests starting July 1st 2013.