SAP Training

[upyourstreet]

Does anyone have any info on the most cost/time effective way to learn SAP?

Any advice gratefully received.

Regards,

Mark.

[DimPrawn]

I'm no expert

I believe SAP is a hard market to break into.

People on this board have talked about very indepth SAP training leading to accreditation that will cost you tens of thousands of pounds in this country.

The secret is to take the training abroad, places like south africa where the costs are a fraction of those here.

[Cojak]

You want to learn SAP eh? Good luck…. SAP is one of the tricky products to break into. Companies won’t employ you as a contractor unless you’re experienced and certification (costing £000’s) won’t guarantee you a job. You really need to begin as a permie with a company installing SAP, they’ll pay for your training and give you the experience.

But if you’re keen and prepared to pay for the certification, it’s the only way to get your foot in the door if you’re a new SAP contractor – forget the consultant title, only 5+ years in SAP will give you that…

What do you do at the moment? SAP is a HUGE product and you’re going to need to specialise: Finance, HR, Distribution, whatever.

SAP training methodology is based on three principles: Awareness, Readiness and Proficiency.

Level 1 training introduces you to SAP concepts, Level 2 focuses on core business processes and level 3 gives mastery in a particular area.

Then you have to find a company prepared to be your first client, that’s the difficult bit…

(From a previous ID and in the Business section...)

[Cojak]

SAP Basis (the guts of SAP) is even more difficult to crack and most of the ABAP coding is winging its way to the Indian sub-continent....

Still, if you're determined the place to ask is probably the www.saptopsites.com/ They'll probably have an faq area that covers this kind of question.

HTH

[Mark Snowdon]

sap

your best bet is to get involved in a project where sap is replacing something you are skilled in. It is very tight and unlike some things it is difficult toi get hold of software.

Are you tech or business and what specialism ?

If you are not already quite skilled and have just decided that sap pays well so you might as we;ll learn it, you are making a big mistake. It is a huge complicated product and your chance of getting in without experience is low.

[Vetran]

What about Oracle? I may have an inroad into that, will that keep me in my old age?

[AtW]

too many people got into Oracle hoping to make a quick buck

[DimPrawn]

Funny having spent a lot of time at Microsoft Thames Valley Park, the site of many large Oracle buildings, how many faces of an Indian sub-continent variety you see at the bus stops outside Oracle.

I would hazard a guess that Oracle have 1000's of FTV's working at their sites. Hundreds queue at the bus stops every evening in TVP.

Theses guys and girls would be your competition if you want to enter the Oracle market.

They are cheap as chips, Masters degree educated and fully trained and certified by Oracle.

Not a market I'd want to compete with.

[AtW]

> Not a market I'd want to compete with.

Dim leant it from the best - Microsoft only wants to compete in market that it completely controls (aka monopolistic) :lol

[MilanB]

.Net mate, that's what's upyourstreet,

get some .Net under your belt and like DimPrawn who posted above you'll be able to get 500 quid a day.


.Net is the future of integration.


Milan.