This paper provides a review and critical analysis of a university/industry global partnership that provides academics around the world with access to a leading enterprise software suite (SAP) to support coursework in university credit-bearing courses. In particular, we primarily address three objectives. First, we provide a brief historical perspective and review of the current state of the SAP University Alliance Program. We look at the challenges of developing an enterprise systems curriculum that effectively leverages the sophisticated SAP enterprise application suite in support of student learning objectives. The experiences reported in this section are primarily from North American faculty involved in the program. Second, we present examples of university curricula from various countries that leverage the SAP UA to support innovative methods of teaching and learning, and which leave students with valuable
enterprise systems knowledge, experience, and skills. Finally, we present an overview of learning assessment challenges from AACSB standards that are applicable to the SAP program. The SAP UA program, now 10 years old in the U.S., has focused in large part on curriculum integration adoption challenges and curriculum innovation. An important part of this process, which we hope to bring to light in this paper, is the need for well-defined learning assessment protocol. Future curriculum development efforts should be built on a learning objectives foundation and have a robust learning assessment process inherent to it.