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Even Foundation: The Future of the Decentralized Economy

2019-05-07T09:05:00.001-07:00

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Technical features

Crosschain transactions

Cross-Chain Interaction Protocol (CIP) is a protocol for secure cross-chain transactions, including transferring, exchanging, and storing digital assets.

Decentralized secure digital asset storage

Safe of Digital Assets (SoDA) is a distributed storage facility for the management, cross-chain exchange, and storage of digital assets.

Crosschain smart contracts

Create smart contracts, define their launch hierarchies and conditions of execution, and route them on multiple blockchain platforms.

Light technologies

Rated DAG algorithm allows running nodes on smartphone and conducting transactions at a high speed, while also allowing for easy network scalability.

Business Model

We build a decentralized ecosystem which provides digital and financial services to end users and new opportunities to businesses and developers. Also we develope the product for end users. EVEN dApp is a solution for the mass market based on the EVEN Network. It consist of dChat, dMultiWallet, and dMarket.

Comparative Advantages

EVEN is the only decentralized platform which combines three main components:

- light DLT technology which allows using a smartphone as a node

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- full set of decentralized application development instruments including Framework, dCloud, dStorage crosschain smart contracts.

FREE SAP IDES ACCESS: 4 EASY STEPS TO FOLLOW

2018-08-27T06:06:00.006-07:00

SAP IDES stands for SAP Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System.

3) Under the support menu we will find SAP IDES Access. Just follow the procedure there and you can set up your user account very easily. Once you get the access then you need to download SAP GUI (Graphical User Interface) and install it in your computer.

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"SAP IDES" are demo systems running all SAP modules and applications with sample data for demo.

SAP IDES systems can be used for training including online training, classroom training or self-study as well as presentations and customer demos.

German based Consolut company provides Free SAP IDES Access from its server. What you need is to follow the below 4 easy steps.

If you want to use free IDES then follow the below steps:

1) Create your user ID

http://www.idesuser1.consolut.com/user

2) Install GUI 7.3 in PC or Laptop (download from below)

https://forum.consolut.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10

and choose your language of preference.

4) You can get SAP GUI from SAP Download in SAP Market Place in www. sap.com. But you need a SAP OSS ID there. You can just simply google “SAP GUI Download” and there are many alternative sites that offer SAP GUI Download. This is one of the link that we can use to get SAP GUI Download.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5mQZCJnlt6NemRUcmZwa1lORnM &usp=sharing

You can even use the consolut SAP IDES System with your own SAPGUI as follows: Application Server: i62external

SAProuter-String: /H/ides.consolut.eu/W/consolut/H/

System-ID: I62

System Number: 09

You can simply download it in your PC and run the installer. Once it is installed then you can setup the connection to the consolut server.

Free Access to SAP IDES ERP 6.0 System

2018-08-27T05:45:00.002-07:00

Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System: IDES ERP 6.0

Dear SAPiens and Aspirant SAPiens,

A very good news for all of you!!

Consolut International AG, Switzerland provides FREE-OF-CHARGE access to IDES ERP 6.0. The system allows consultants, project managers and users to familiarise and practice the SAP system or to develop in-depth knowledge, without installing any software, simply via web interface.

How to access the IDES system:

1. Request for an username and password

2. Download

SAP GUI for Windows

SAPGUI installation instructions for MS-Windows

SAPGUI 7.30 Complete Installation package - Compilation 1
(ZIP archive: 840MB) News Patch (patch level 2, Hotfix 1) for SAPGUI 7.30 (self-extracting archive: 110MB)

SAPGUI 7.20
The installation package is no longer provided.
Please install version 7.30.

Latest Patch (patch level 14) for SAPGUI 7.20
(self-extracting archive: 144MB)

SAP support for version 7.20 will end on 9 April 2013.

_____________________________________________________________________

SAPGUI for Java (Linux, Mac OSX)

SAPGUI 7.30 Requirements for Release 7.30

Installation package, including documentation

> Download for Linux

> Download for Mac OSX

Use the consolut SAP IDES System with your own SAPGUI

_________________________________________________________

Application Server: i62external

SAProuter-String: /H/ides.consolut.eu/W/consolut/H/

System-ID: I62

System Number: 09

SAP Online Help PDFs

The various chapters of the SAP IDES Online PDFs provide a better understanding of IDES customizing. Potential clients can use these files to obtain an overview of a large number of international business proceses.

The SAP Online Help PDFs give a detailed explanation of the structure of the SAP ERP system and the way it can be adapted to customers' wishes. These PDFs with the complete SAP online help system (unfortunately only available in version 4.6C) can be printed chapter by chapter as the need arises.

Source: Consolut International AG, Switzerland

Big Data, Cloud, & The Future of SAP

2018-08-27T05:39:00.000-07:00

By Ed Hawes

Looking back on the performance and business novelties of the past year goes hand in hand with preparing for new challenges that lie ahead.

The SAP ecosystem continued to boom with launches, news and trends. In a nutshell, 2017 proved to be another strong year for SAP, fueled by revenues from its Cloud business – and the outlook for 2018 is even brighter. SAP Leonardo will push growth, the company’s digital innovation system which includes all things related to SAP’s Cloud platform, such as Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Analytics, Big Data, Design Thinking and blockchain. SAP committed €2 billion ($2.2 billion, £1.7billion) to IoT over the next five years which certainly shines a light on where talent can look to remain competitive and actively work to bridge any skillset gaps.

SAP is looking to not only help businesses innovate, but also scale their existing businesses. SAP is even investing in startups through their SAP.IO fund – focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and blockchain technologies, specifically. Under the initiative, it operates a foundry that runs accelerators in partnership with Techstars – the largest startup accelerator program in the world, while the fund independently invests in startups.

In fact, more and more companies are seeing the importance of adopting cloud services. Gartner predicts that by 2021, 28% of all IT spending will be for cloud-based infrastructure, middleware, application and business process services. See below, a breakdown of the Compound Annual Growth Rates (CAGRs) by category:

It’s no surprise then that tech skills, such as developers, systems analysts and data specialists, including those for HANA, will continue to be in demand during 2018 and beyond. The amount of information people have to process continues to increase and the ability to manage it effectively can be overwhelming. This is why big data and being able to automate the identification of data patterns and drawing conclusions from those patterns continues to be a skillset in high demand.

At RED, our entire focus is on matching the right talent with the right SAP career opportunity. We continually look to provide the foresight needed to keep our talent pool competitive and prepared to capitalize on the opportunities SAP is paving the way for – in both the near- and long-term.

Source: https://www.redsapsolutions.com/blog/2018/01/big-data-cloud-future-of-sap

Learn SAP in 1 day : Books for Beginners

2018-08-27T05:32:00.003-07:00

Learning is always fun and learning is more fun when you are learning technological skills that pay you back. Today I will focus on this article some useful books on SAP that help you to learn SAP quickly in just 1 day.

Real-time financial information helps the organization to take important decisions. SAP FICO is a complete financial management ERP solution that integrates the accounting side of business. Most SAP consultants find difficult how and what part of the business process they should bring under SAP FICO. This e-book can actually act as a demo for them, where they will learn to integrate the important business module into SAP FICO.

This e-book is intentionally prepared small to keep it simple and straight to the point. The book did not miss on any of the SAP FICO topics like Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables, Bank Accounting, General Ledger, Asset Accounting, and so on. The book has given a practical example and explained them step by step. The example teaches you each SAP FICO module in detail including how their transaction code works.

Not only SAP consultant but any beginners will be benefited with this book. Where company demands experienced SAP consultant to handle their finance, this book could be a first handon experience for SAP aspirant. This e-book has also given a referral to some basic accounting concept and terminologies to help beginners.

Where online training or courses charges you the hefty amount for teaching you the same, and no guaranteed returns. This book can help you to reduce that cost. This e-book is an ultimate guide to learn SAP FICO.

Available on amazon

SAP MM is one of the core modules of the logistic process in SAP.SAP MM covers a broad area of business functionalities. There is no surprise that SAPMM is a very broad subject, and it requires ample amount of time. In order to save users time and make subject matter easy, this book is designed. The book is small but covers all important aspects of SAP MM.

This book will help you to get end-to-end knowledge of SAP MM module in a short span of time. The book has segmented SAP MM modules into various section like Master data, purchasing, pricing and Inventory management in a concise way. This edition will also guide SAP MM aspirants for their certification course.

It can be used as a user manual by SAP readers. All technical terminology are well explained. By using this book SAP implementation becomes easy, you will learn how SAP MM can be configured step by step. The screenshot and examples clearly explain various t-codes for SAP MM process. For beginners, it will be their first hand on experience with SAP MM. Learning SAP MM becomes easy with this book.

Available on amazon

SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) is one of the most widely implemented modules of SAP. It covers business activities like Pre-sales, Inquiry, Quotation, Sales Order Processing, Shipping, Delivery, and Billing. SAP SD is used across industries.

This book is designed for beginners with little or no prior SAP SD experience.

Available on amazon

You do not require much effort to be proficient in SAP ABAP language if you have access to right learning resource. With this book, you can begin with your first SAP ABAP program in minutes. The book makes ABAP program as simple as reading the specification doc, analyze the requirements and start coding. This book will give you a quick tour on basic concepts like an internal table, structures & field symbols, data dictionary, and so on.

Whether you're writing programs for HR, SD, FI, or one of the many other modules within SAP the guidelines in this book will help across all your SAP modules. To save users efforts, the abstract of SAP ABAP is put together in an understandable format. Images, examples, and code will teach you how to create database tables and lists, work with fields and calculations, and debug your code for errors in no time.

For Beginners this book can be a gateway to learn SAP ABAP. They can use this edition as a personal guide. They can learn various control command and practice them in real ABAP environment. All high level and fundamental topics of SAP ABAP required for development of SAP application are covered.

Available on amazon

SAP Hana is popular due to its large main memories and massive parallel job processing capabilities. It makes SAP Hana real fast. The motive of this book is to develop a good understanding of how SAP Hana is used. The book doesn't need any experience with SAP HANA or software development. It’s a self-learning guide that even beginners can use. Everything about SAP HANA is explained like architecture, modeling, reporting, SQL script, and so on.

This book is full of information, hands-on and real life project experience learning. In this edition, you will identify various components of SAP HANA and its working process. Though the book size is small, it tried to justify almost all important topics of SAP HANA with examples and images. These includes SLT, the connection between SAP system and HANA, Data services, etc. You will also learn how to use SQL script in HANA.

By the end of this book, you will be able to integrate SAP HANA pretty much with any platform. Over a time you can use this edition as a handbook and harness your SAP Hana skills. So all and above this edition will save a lot of your expenses spend behind other courses and learning resources.

Available on amazon

SAP Business Intelligence (BI) is a tool to analyze raw data and derive meaning inferences. SAP BI gives single point access to data from various sources. Robust reports and visualization are available to analyze the data. SAP BI can analyze multidimensional data, easily integrates with other applications and has a mobile app.

Available on amazon

SAP Basis is a set of useful programs and tools in the SAP landscape. It helps in integration and administration of the Database, Operating system, Communication protocols and business applications (such as HR, PP, SD,etc)

This book is designed for beginners with little or no prior SAP Basis experience.

Available on amazon

What are best SAP books for beginners?

2018-08-26T23:15:00.001-07:00

We often ask ourselves what are the best books and how can I grasp the best in a very less time, i.e., getting the best with little effort. That's really a good thinking indeed, but we need to put some efforts to get the best guidance we can to reach in our desired paths. Well, allow me to present some best books:

Do you need to learn SAP for your day-to-day work? Get the detailed steps and screenshots that walk you through the processes you need to do your job. Get comfortable with logging on to and navigating the system, maintaining your data, creating reports, printing, and so much more. Whether you’re entering data, automating tasks, or building your foundational knowledge of the SAP system, this book has your back.

Learn to easily navigate the SAP system
Work with SAP components step by step
Includes many examples and detailed SAP screenshots
3rd updated edition

More details on SAP Press Website

Do you want to understand the basic fundamentals of SAP software without having to work through 400 pages or more? Yes? Then this book is for you! The authors concentrate on the essentials and spare you all the details you do not need as a beginner. Using simple, step-by-step examples, walk through the fundamentals of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system including navigation, transactions, organizational units, and master data. Instructional videos help you experience the look-and-feel of SAP software without requiring access to an SAP system.
Available on amazon

Explaining FI, CO Modules & Concepts to guide Consultants, Users, End Users gain confidence, get comfortable with and improve productivity using SAP FICO. Beginners who are in their First & Second year of career with SAP FICO will find this book beneficial the most.
Available on Amazon

Learn to code in ABAP, SAP’s programming language! This book explains ABAP in simple terms, and provides the guidance you need to jump-start your ABAP career. Once you understand the basics, you’ll write your first application, and then get a preview of more advanced language concepts. Step-by-step instructions, sample code, and hands-on exercises help ensure that you can apply the skills you learn to real-life scenarios. Become an ABAP developer in no time!

Learn the basics of ABAP and write your first program
Set up an ABAP trial system and master the integrated development environment (IDE)
Develop an example application using strings and text, dates and times, and more

More details on SAP Press Website

The Ultimate SAP ® User Guide is the essential handbook for all aspiring SAP professionals. SAP master and experienced author Rehan Zaidi has put out an easy-to-follow, illustrated guide that will help you take your SAP skills to the next level. At a time when SAP jobs are competitive, it's important to exceed expectations. This book will help you to do just that - with up-to-date content on the latest ERP 6.0 screens across modules. Whether you need help getting started on SAP, personalizing your SAP system, or creating your own reports, this book will guide you. Polished by a review panel of SAP experts, The Ultimate SAP User Guide is an affordable alternative to costly training. You can use the book as step-by-step training, or simply use it as a reference when your job calls for a new task or SAP skills. With The Ultimate SAP User Guide, you are on the way to SAP mastery.
Available on Amazon

In this book you will learn the basics of the purchasing process in SAP ERP. A step-by-step example with detailed SAP screenshots will take you from the vendor master data on the purchase requisition to the purchase order. Building on this, the goods receipt and invoice verification will follow.

•Introduction to the SAP Module Materials Management (MM)
•The primary process in SAP MM
- Creating a vendor master record
- Creating a purchase requisition
- Converting a purchase requisition to a purchase order
•Goods receipt posting
•Incoming invoice verification
•Excursus
- Creating favorites
- Helpful evaluation functions

Claudia Jost has been involved in process design for 12 years. Her focuses include designing processes with external business partners (concentrating on procurement processes) and mapping these processes in the SAP system.
Available on amazon

Discover SAP ERP HCM: SAP HR for Beginners by Greg Newman (2008-11-28) Paperback – 1822

Available on amazon

This book will help configure SAP SD without anybody's help after installing the SAP software. The pictorial view of the enterprise assignments shown in page 39 of the book will help remember easily the basic enterprise assignments of SAP SD. This book can be used as a course material for SAP SD training institutes. Also this book will be very useful for ABAP/MM / PP / CRM, etc. consultants to make their SD related fundamentals very clear. SAP SD screen shots in this book are sequenced in such a way that even without SAP software, you can understand how Sales and Distribution module of SAP works. Also you will get a clear picture about how an ERP works. This book explains all important fields of SAP SD sessions so that a new comer to this field can easily understand the fundamentals of SAP SD. In this book only what is required to understand fundamentals of SAP SD are explained. Care is taken not to drag the matters and waste the time of fast track readers and lose their patience.

Available on amazon

Whether you are • a SAP project team member seconded from the business, unsure where to start with documenting business requirements • a support analyst dealing with change requests and new requirements • an offshore analyst/consultant wanting to up your game, get recognition for top quality work, and stand out from the crowd • anyone fresh out of a SAP academy or training course, wanting to transition smoothly into a valuable project team member • a graduate with one of the big management consulting firms wanting focussed reliable advice to help build your consulting career • a junior consultant wanting to make a name for yourself as a professional productive "good" SAP resource • an experienced consultant wanting to refresh your knowledge and maybe kick some bad habits • a business analyst looking to move into the SAP arena • a manager or team lead tasked with reviewing and signing off functional specs • a project manager wanting to bring in best practices • a technical analyst wanting to understand the functional side of SAP requirements
SAP: How to Write an Interface Functional Specification is a comprehensive guide, including a free downloadable functional specification template that will have you producing polished, high-caliber, valuable interface specifications in no time!
Available on amazon

For manufacturing companies, effective and efficient production planning processes are crucial to success.
In this book, you will learn the basics of production planning in SAP ERP. Review the details surrounding Material Requirements Planning (MRP II) and the principles of Engineer-to-Order, Make-to-Order, Assemble-to-Order, and Make-to-Stock scenarios. The book is illustrated with numerous SAP screenshots and provides a detailed example of an effective make-to-stock strategy. Identify which master data is involved in the planning processes and how it is structured. Trace material requirements planning and its process flow using detailed examples from the field. Gain an understanding of the importance of production orders for lot-related production and which functions they perform. Finally, learn how to implement capacity sequencing using capacity leveling in SAP ERP.

- Compact handbook for discrete production in SAP
- Processes in SAP PP explained clearly and understandably
- Comprehensive example with numerous screenshots
- Master data, resource planning and production orders in context

The author Björn Weber is a production planner at RÖHM GmbH, the leading global chucking tool manufacturer. He is responsible for planning organization and control, process development, and continuous optimization of production activities. As a graduate mechanical engineer, Björn has sound theoretical and practical knowledge of the PP module, in addition to related MM, SD, and APO modules. He has expert knowledge of process analysis, capacity requirements planning and capacity evaluation, user training, and lean and change management. As an author, it is particularly important to Björn to present PP fundamentals in a practical manner and to empower readers to understand and investigate the power of SAP PP functionality.
Available on amazon

Help your business team prepare for and participate in the SAP project journey! Get an early read on timelines, processes, responsibilities, and potential setbacks. Understand how your implementation, upgrade, or migration is structured, how to assemble the deliverables, and how to dodge common pitfalls. With this preview of what to expect, what questions to ask, and when to take which steps, you can execute planning, go-live, and post-go-live activities without tripping up or getting lost.

The complete guide to SAP projects for project team members
Project phases, roles, and deliverables—beyond the ASAP Roadmap
All technical topics explained from the business perspective

More details on SAP Press Website

What does SAP HANA mean for you? This book is your introduction to all the essentials: from implementation options to the basics of data modeling and administration. With cutting-edge coverage of SAP HANA smart data access, SAP HANA Vora, and more, this best-seller has everything you need to take your first steps with SAP HANA.

Explore SAP HANA in all its forms: as a database, application platform, and driver for SAP S/4HANA
Learn about data modeling, data provisioning, and administration
Get the basics you need to speed into the world of SAP HANA

More details on SAP Press Website

Software can be daunting, but learning about it doesn’t have to be! This guide is your comprehensive overview of all SAP modules and components. Whether you're a decision-maker, professional, or are looking to start your SAP career, this book will paint you the picture of the SAP system by introducing you to each major module and showing you what it can do. Are you wondering how SAP software actually works, or what advantages it provides? Real-world examples highlight how different businesses have benefited from SAP software. Discover the world of SAP!

Learn what SAP has to offer
Explore the functionality of each major software module and component
Jumpstart your SAP career

More details available on SAP website

What is SAP Implementation?

2013-02-24T08:31:00.003-08:00

SAP, a global leader in the ERP World, no doubt provides a cost-effective solution to the business needs. It is, as well, offering a lucrative career (see the career path graph below) to the SAP aspirants (B.Tech., B.E., M.Sc., MBA, CA, M.Com. etc.) who are interested to build a career in SAP after their graduations. After studying the world job market, it is clear and concise that job market for the SAP aspirants is bright and innovative and there is an increasing growth in SAP applications across the industries. It still makes a difficult situation for the SAP freshers to get into the industry as every companies are interested to recruit a candidate having certain experience.

I have come across some doubts on my own experience - certain terminologies are puzzling our minds, particularly to the entry level SAP professionals. One of them is implementation. This word often creates conflicting meaning with the word configuration. But, there is substantial difference between these two words.

What is the difference between SAP Implementation and SAP Configuration?

SAP Implementation is a generic method based on certain best practices and case studies from various literature sources that defines the processes and products help an organization to plan and execute the implementation of SAP software. SAP Implementation is always associated with Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). First, SAP experts have to study and research the company, its business process as well as its business requirement before implementing the SAP software. The TCO analysis determines how a business can get the best business solution that helps the firm to reduce the total cost of ownership.

No implementation is an island. SAP implementation always comes with a big fat cost, so partners required. SAP business and application partners (TSO: Technical Support Organization) are needed to share/reduce the cost of ownership.

SAP Implementation - ASAP Methodology

Image source: Infosys

On the other hand, configuration means to tailor the SAP system to meet the needs of our business by using the existing data - it means changing switches or setting default.It includes the physical layout, interconnections and functional characteristics of the system.

What is SAP Customization and how is it different from SAP Configuration?

SAP customization means to customize or adopt the system which includes the process of mapping SAP to your business process. It also involves changes of codes to create functionality that is not available through configuration. Customization comes with a cost as the change in codes may make difficult the companies to upgrade the software in future and may not easily migrate to a new version. Customization is done in IMG (Implementation Guide).

Configuration

Configuration is very difficult to undo.
It does not involve any changes to the underlying software code.

Customization

Changes in code, SAP may no longer support.
Research is needed before modification.

SAP Career Path:

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Useful SAP Books

SAP Implementation Unleashed

A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP

By: George W. Anderson

Charles D. Nilson

Tim Rhodes

Publication Date: May 31, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0672330040 | ISBN-13: 978-0672330049 | Edition: 1

SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through the entire journey, helping you avoid pain and pitfalls and gain all the benefits of SAP. Check out on Amazon.

Configuring Financial Accounting in SAP

By Veeriah Narayanan2011

765 Pages | ISBN: 1592293778

This is a complete implementation and configuration guide for SAP ERP Financials Financial Accounting. It provides answers to the question, What is the best way to implement and customize FI for this business? The author has taken his 25 years of experience in the industry and provides you with a well thought-out, comprehensive guide for FI implementations in a case-study approach. You will master information on the various sub-components and tools encountered in an FI implementation, and learn the step-by-step instructions with concrete, real-world examples. This is a must-have guide for anyone interested in implementing and configuring Financial Accounting. Check out on Amazon.

Get Free Access to SAP IDES ERP 6.0 System

2013-02-15T01:36:00.003-08:00

Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System: IDES ERP 6.0

Dear SAPiens and Aspirant SAPiens,

A very good news for all of you!!

How to access the IDES system:

1. Request for an username and password

2. Download

SAP GUI for Windows

SAPGUI installation instructions for MS-Windows

SAPGUI 7.30 Complete Installation package - Compilation 1
(ZIP archive: 840MB) News Patch (patch level 2, Hotfix 1) for SAPGUI 7.30 (self-extracting archive: 110MB)

SAPGUI 7.20
The installation package is no longer provided.
Please install version 7.30.

Latest Patch (patch level 14) for SAPGUI 7.20
(self-extracting archive: 144MB)

SAP support for version 7.20 will end on 9 April 2013.

_____________________________________________________________________

SAPGUI for Java (Linux, Mac OSX)

SAPGUI 7.30 Requirements for Release 7.30

Installation package, including documentation

> Download for Linux

> Download for Mac OSX

Use the consolut SAP IDES System with your own SAPGUI

_________________________________________________________

Application Server: i62external

SAProuter-String: /H/ides.consolut.eu/W/consolut/H/

System-ID: I62

System Number: 09

SAP Online Help PDFs

Source: Consolut International AG, Switzerland

SAP's 'Timesless' Future

2013-02-14T22:23:00.000-08:00

By Dan Woods

Why the software giant should stick to its knitting.

Much of the analysis of the CEO transition at SAP has focused on the need for the software giant to regain a sense of excitement for its customers. In a sense, analysts are suggesting that SAP find a way to become the "New New Thing."

But SAP ( SAP - news - people ) will not succeed in becoming the New New Thing, and it shouldn't try. Customers do not go to SAP to find excitement; they go to automate business processes and provide a foundation for innovation in a stable, reliable manner over a span of decades.

What SAP should do is find a way to explain the strength of its functional footprint, adapt its sales and delivery model, and focus on fixing the problems of delivering a consistent, pleasing customer experience through its network of partners.

SAP became huge based on the strength of SAP R/3, and it was amplified by three forces: frustration with mainframes (SAP could run on Unix), exploitation of the PC as a user interface (SAP supported the client-server model) and reliance on a network of systems integrators to sell and implement its software (SAP had an aggressive willingness to share a substantial chunk of the revenue pie with an extended partner network).

SAP is now the focus of frustration. A loud and significant group of customers say SAP's software costs too much and is not flexible. SAP must acknowledge that it understands why customers are upset.

Much of my recent career has been spent writing books, some sponsored by SAP, that explain the value of technology. Here's my unsolicited advice for SAP:

Reconfigure the customer experience. One of the major advantages SaaS (software as a service) providers have is complete control over the customer experience. On-premise vendors like SAP have systems integrators, IT departments, consultants and outsourcers, each with their own agenda. SAP must simplify installation, expand the pool of certified expertise and rein in its sales team and partners on setting expectations about functionality and costs. The seeds of much of the current dissatisfaction were sown during the sales process.

If a modern SaaS product allows for 1,000 points of configuration on 100 processes, SAP may allow for 10,000 points of configuration on 1,000 processes. The key question: Can you make configuring 10,000 variables simpler and less of a black art? SAP has put forth many attempts at this in the past with templates and preconfigured settings. The company must find a way to win this battle, which may be the key to winning the war.

Change the sales and delivery model. Claims about the demise of on-premise software have been exaggerated, but customers clearly don't want to be burdened with managing complex software. Using SAP software should start to feel more like using SaaS software.

What are the Intangible Benefits of ERP?

2012-11-02T02:50:00.002-07:00

By Phil Marshall (erpfocus.com)

Any company which has remodeled their headquarters, invested in employee education, or contributed time or money to local charities understands fully the concept of intangible benefits. The implicit notion with an intangible benefit is that, given time and patience, it will eventually turn into a tangible benefit. A prospect suitably impressed with headquarters might choose to become a customer; a well trained employee should become a more productive employee; a good relationship with the community provides a better pool of job applicants. So how does this apply to ERP?

One of the greatest intangible benefits from ERP is a stair step increase in the amount, accuracy, and timeliness of information. This does not apply to the standard information that came out of legacy, like daily revenue reports, or the monthly income statement, but new things that were always wished for but technically impossible. When business units begin to learn how to ask ERP-intelligent business questions (“What is each work center’s contribution to our total margin?”), then rapid learning occurs, better business decisions are made, and benefits do, in fact, become tangible.

Benefits of Standardization

Another intangible benefit from a successful ERP implementation is standardization. Standardization brings the company culture together, it makes upgrades and changes more efficient, and it ensures a global consistency in process and service. Standardization is not always an easy sell as a benefit, for the paradoxical reason that everyone believes that they possess the better process/system. So to your audience, “standardization” can be synonymous with “mediocrity”. The gain is that everyone can leverage enhancements made after day one, and improve together.

Still another intangible of ERP is making explicit the interdependency that jobs in an organization have. When information is generated and remains within functional silos, it is very easy for a job function to evolve into a role that could not be defined as a “team player”. If you hear someone described as (or describe themselves as) a “traffic cop”, an “enforcer”, “a fixer”, or the like, you should feel uneasy. ERP demonstrates forcefully is that everything interrelates, and the only way to become highly effective at operating ERP is to become highly effective as a team.

A final benefit is a general improvement in total financial controls, as indicated by outside financial audits. Read more

How Can I Start a Career as an SAP Consultant?

2012-10-12T04:32:00.001-07:00

By Jon Reed

When you begin to think about your SAP career, you can start by deciding whether you want to be an SAP functional consultant or an SAP technical consultant. Of course, there can be some crossover between these two, and ideally, you will have a mix of both, but careers in SAP are about focus. Your focus is dictated by two things: the overall background of your experience, and where you want to be headed from here.

Those SAP professionals with a functional background in areas such as finance, supply chain management, or customer relationship management, will likely focus on the functional side of SAP in their consulting careers. On the technical side, there is a distinction to be made between two main career paths: SAP developer and SAP Netweaver Engineer, or what has historically been called the "SAP Basis consultant." Basis incorporates hands-on SAP systems administration functions.

Often, some DBA know-how is included in the Basis skill set, though on larger SAP installations, the SAP DBA is frequently a separate role. The same goes for SAP Security. While there is such a thing as an SAP Security consultant, security is often a skill set under the SAP Basis umbrella.

Business Intelligence (BI) is starting to impact all SAP roles and all SAP professionals should consider developing proficiency in this area.

With those distinctions in mind, how do you become an SAP consultant in today's marketplace? It's helpful to think of SAP consulting as a combination of two important skill sets: SAP implementation experience and enterprise consulting experience. It's not always easy to acquire both these skills at the same time. In the 1990s, you could sometimes get trained as a consultant while getting your first SAP exposure at the same time, and all you needed was a certification. That's not the case anymore.

To become an SAP consultant in today's market, you almost always need to have SAP implementation experience under your belt already. That means you've done a 2-4 year stint working in a hands-on capacity on a full-blown SAP project. Typically, this experience is acquired while being a full-time employee. On the functional side, product configuration skills are still important, as well as full life cycle experience throughout an implementation. On the Basis side, product installation and systems optimization is the key, and on the developer side, experience customizing SAP reports, making UI enhancements, and developing third party interfaces are examples of bread-and-butter skills. This type of experience, accumulated over years, forms the core of the SAP skill set. Read more at erptips

Why is SAP bullish about 2012?

2012-10-08T08:29:00.002-07:00

By Dennis Howlett for Irregular Enterprise

Earlier today, SAP firmed up on its pre-announced results for 2011, producing a comparatively bullish forecast for 2012. This should not surprise. SAP did a lot of the right things it needed to in 2011. In turn, that allows it to make bold statements at a time when economic forecasts are far from rosy.

What follows represents my interpretation of a conversation I had today with Jim Snabe, co-CEO SAP, a brief discussion with Hasso Plattner, co-founder and VIshal Sikka, executive board member plus assorted snippets of conversation with senior SAP policy makers over the last couple of days.

176,000 customers on business applications means SAP does not have to move the sales needle that much in order for an uptick to show in top line revenue.
HANA, which is a big ticket software and services item is moving from hype to reality much more quickly than many of us thought. The introduction of modest (by SAP standards) solutions like COPA accelerator (financial reporting) on HANA will speed up (sic) sales to customers for whom HANA has been out of reach. The new revenue guidance suggests SAP is accelerating conversion, moving rapidly from 1:4/5 to more like 1:3.
Despite continuing grumbles around the cost of maintenance, SAP has done a solid execution job in persuading customers that 22% is a price worth paying through incremental but perceived valuable add ons. That becomes less defensible absent fresh solutions past 2012-13. Even so, when you work the numbers, it becomes apparent SAP's maintenance stream represents a very long tail: like 10-11 years. It's a heck of a soft, fluffy cushion when seen as a 90-95% margin line item.
Its ponderous foot slog towards mobile has turned out to be fortuitous. With Apple recording insanely good numbers, SAP's reach should mean it benefits hugely via the halo effect. I have never seen so many Apple devices being toted in enterprise. There are lots of question marks around execution and SAPs ability to get partners onboarded but SAP is not having too many problems developing a healthy pipeline. It will need to push hard in this area with developersduring 2012 to make that pipeline as fat as possible.
The real shock is that some SIs are reporting heavy demand for new SAP implementations. That is as in major upgrades coming in at eye watering numbers - think $100 million. This is a short lived benefit for SAP because regardless of what the overall top line looks like, the core Business Suite trendline over time is down, not up. Not a problem in 2012 and 2013 but beyond?
SAP is cautious about the impact of the SuccessFactors acquisition which is currently delayed for unspecified reasons but not connected to regulatory concerns. Flat in 2012 based upon SFSF 2011 numbers? That depends on when the deal is finally closed. We had expected the deal to close by now but the best they can say is 'Q1.' That has to blow SAP's cloud plans off course a wee bit but they have factored in for that very heavily. Downside yes, but tempered by conservative planning and forecasting.
SAP has done a good job rebuilding goodwill with customers and, to a certain extent, developers although that last constituent could do with a good bit of love if SAP is to capitalise on its mobility and HANA potential.

What's not to like?

SAP's concentration on aggregated top line growth masks fundamental problems with keeping sales of the core apps moving along. Everyone knows that outside of the odd opportunistic deal or possible Oracle refugee, those deals are done. However, SAP also knows that if it is to have a credible future it needs to radically rethink business applications. That inevitably means cloud but how does it transition without giving the Street one heck of a fright? Here are two scenarios:

Useful links - SAP Program, Training & Perspective

2012-10-08T04:26:00.001-07:00

SAP Traning Hub

http://www.saptraininghub.com/sap-fico-training-tutorials/

SAP FI Youtube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZV7mmtzZrs
http://www.sapvideos.net/

http://134.198.33.115/sap/saptutorial.htm
SAP Tutorial

SAP FSCM
http://sap-fscm.blogspot.it/

FICO Consultant
http://ficoconsultants.blogspot.it/

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/searchSAP.com - a SAP-Specific Portal for IT professionals focused on SAP. Site features include, Fast and focused search capabilities Links to relevant content, editorial insight and summaries, Daily industry news and weekly technology tips delivered via email.

http://freebooks.by.ru/view/Abap4in21day/index.htm
Sams Teach Yourself ABAP/4 in 21 Days - free book

http://www.antarcon.com/
Antarcon - Free SAP & ABAP community

http://www.intelligenterp.com/resources.shtmlSAP Resources

http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/training/
http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/docs/webdocs/getstarted/gs.html
SAP Training - online training and learning material available

http://sap.mis.cmich.edu/sap-ual.htm
SAP University Alliance Links

http://sap.mis.cmich.edu/sap-esoft00.htmSAP Introductory Course Lessons and Other Course Support

http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/docs/webdocs/paperdocs.html
Downloading paper SAP documents

http://www.bus.utexas.edu/dept/msis/courses/syllabi_spring/MIS%20382N.4%20scott.htm http://www.bus.utexas.edu/dept/msis/courses/syllabi_spring/MIS%20373.3%20scott.htm
University of Texas Course - The University of Texas has one of the premier SAP courses, and has some of its course information on the web, including student projects.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/solutions/sap.html
SAP R/3 Redbooks - Here are several free books from IBM on SAP R/3

http://www.sapfaq.com
SAP Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.workflowing.com/id35.htm
Frequentaly Asked Questions about SAP Business Workflow

http://src.thehub.com.au/
SAP Resource Center

http://www.sapfans.com
SAP Fans SAP Fans site
http://www.sapfans.com/sapfans/repos/saprep.htm

SAP Repository page from sapfans.com

http://www.brabandt.de/html/sap_tips___tricks.htm
SAP Tips and Tricks

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/
ITToolbox Portal for SAP

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/newsletter/selectlist.asp
2 Free SAP Newsletters
http://www.prima-tech.com/custom/sap/
More How-To SAP Books

http://198.112.59.30/home/print9497.nsf/all/SL10sapwrk
Computer World Aritcle, "Cashing in on SAP skills isn't so easy"

http://www.sap-professional.org/
SAP Professional Organization, has forum archives and links

http://help.sap.com/
SAP Help Portal, a great site for all SAP Documentation online for free

http://www.sap.com
SAP Home Page - Official home page of SAP

http://www.sap.com/education/index.htm
SAP Education - these courses cost money

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/

http://academic.uofs.edu/faculty/gramborw/sap/saptutorial.htm

http://www.controller.cmich.edu/SAP/saphelp.htm

http://www.originet.com.br/users/miranda/

http://www.solutions-gmbh.de/hr/defaltEB.stm

http://ifr.sap.com/

http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/index.html

ABAP Central Information, help, source code, tutorials
  http://www.scott.net/~solomon/

ABAP Reference Online ABAP programming language reference
  http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/teaching/sap_r3/ABAP4/abapindx.htm

Allen Davis & Associates SAP Career Center - Tips & comments on SAP trends
  http://www.softwarejobs.com/sap.html

Bill's page Bill Bradford's page (resources & consultants contact)
  http://home.earthlink.net/~thebradfords/

Cambridge Publications MIT - SAP Mailing list archives (search engine)
  http://www.documentation.com/saplist/saplist.htm

CT-Softwareberatungs GmbH Tools and Training in the field of standard
software R/3 & ABAP programming (tips & tricks, sample reports)
  http://www.ct-software.com

Finnish User Group SAP Finnish User Group
  http://www.sapfinug.fi

Group of MM Consultants Sap's MM module information and links
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/6345/

Imre & Kinga Kabai's homepage Helpful ABAP programs for system
administrators
  http://www.kabai.com/abaps/q.htm

LOGOS Consulting Experts in interface development using IDocs, ALE, RFC
and Desktop Integration
  http://www.logosworld.de/logos/index.htm

PrimeStaff IT & SAP Recruiting Specialists (resources & opportunities)
  http://www.primestaff.net

RealTime-USA SAP newsgroup archive and other services
  http://www.realtime-usa.com

SAP Labs, Inc. Sap's research and development teams
  http://www.saplabs.com/

Sap R/3 consultants network SAP R/3 and ABAP4 Knowledge Server
  http://www.bgs.dk/

SAP Resource Centre SAP related information, products, links.
  http://src.thehub.com.au

Sapiens Melanie Kovarik SAP page (links and other references)
  http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/1635/

Sapient es, Inc. Specializing in the placement of ABAP/4 programmers
  http://www.sap-abap-jobs.com

SAPProJournal Electronic version of SAP Professional Journal
  http://www.sappro.com

CIO.COM / ERP ERP/Supply Chain Research Center
  http://www.cio.com/forums/erp/

SAP Info Indian SAP Info site (Ramesh Kumar)
  http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Park/5407/sapinfo.html

Kabai's homepage Imre & Kinga Kabai's homepage
  http://www.kabai.com/

Siemens AG SAP R/3 live & run (Siemens solutions)
  http://www.siemens.de/sap/index_en.shtml

Siam-ease Simmonds and Associates Product for SAP R/3
  http://home.global.co.za/~simmonds/siamease.html

SAP Club SAP Club site
  http://www.sapclub.com/content/mainframe.html

SAP Resources The specialist SAP recruiter service
  http://www.sap-resources.com/saprhome.htm

SAP Assist IT Toolbox Portal for SAP
  http://www.sapassist.com

HelpS@P The Knowledge Resource for SAP Professionals
  http://www.helpsap.com

Foro ABAP Foro de discusión sobre ABAP/4 en español
  http://members.es.tripod.de/abap4/

SAPiT Consulting Consulting firm specialized in SAP R/3
  http://www.sapit.net/

SAR Consultants Project implementation and specialist service
  http://www.sar-consultants.com/

Zoption Third-party software for SAP R/3
  http://zoption.com/

Phase Two Consulting Consulting firm specialized in SAP R/3
  http://www.phasetwoconsulting.com/

Abapers.com Online information service for ABAP programmers
  http://www.abapers.com/

ABAP Efficient Efficiencie Guidelines
  http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/6338/abapp.html

German Intro An Introduction to German for ABAP/4 Programmer
  http://www.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/sap-germ.html

Popey.com Alan Popes Website
  http://www.popey.com/

Wong Matt Wong's SAP Basis Site
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/4858/sap/

ASUG American SAP User's Group
  http://www.asug.com

How to Become a SAP System Analyst

2012-10-06T07:42:00.002-07:00

Instructions

Train to Become a SAP Analyst
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  Begin the appropriate education to become a SAP system analyst. A bachelor's degree in computer systems, industrial engineering or business management is desired by the companies who hire SAP specialists. In addition to majoring in computer science, you should choose a variety of elective courses, such as finance and database maintenance, to give you a well-rounded education.
- 2
  
  Brush up on SAP computer software. It's utilized in different industries for system applications and data processing methods. By exploring the areas of this program you like best, you can better focus your job search after college.
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  Manage your choices wisely during college to prepare for a career as a SAP analyst. In addition to taking classes like SAP XI and NetWeaver, learn about business administration and sales and marketing. While working in the corporate structure, an analyst tends to overlap with many different departments.
  
  SAP (Systems Applications and Products) is a business-based software that runs on a platform called NetWeaver. SAP functions with business applications and data systems used by many kinds of companies worldwide and employ thousands of system analysts. (picture & text courtesy: ehow.com)
Find Employment as a SAP System Analyst
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  Apply for a position as a SAP system analyst. A larger organization can offer you the most opportunities for growth and job diversity. Some companies design and configure SAP modules in-house or hire consultants or information systems agencies to take on the analyst role.
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  Get a professional certification to add to your credentials. In addition to your bachelor's degree, obtain a master-certification in SAP systems to give you an added boost in getting a job. You can apply for certification at the official SAP website (see Resources below).
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  Continue your education. For further advancement in this field, a postgraduate degree can serve you well. Additionally, you need to possess either a master's degree or 10 years of solid experience in information technology in order to attain certain positions in this field.

Source: How to Become a SAP System Analyst | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2070986_become-sap-system-analyst.html#ixzz28WvK2dcm

SAP Career: What You Should Consider

2012-10-03T06:43:00.001-07:00

Dear SAPiens and aspirant SAPiens.

Are you seriously considering SAP as your ERP career? Then, you must be serious and curious to know much more about SAP, its different modules, experiences and its effect on salary structures. There is a beautiful quote by Napoleon Bonaparte "Ability is of little account without opportunity", but the world is always open to skilled personnel and human capital is the most important resource to a firm, society and to the world as well.

The question is answered if you are still thinking why SAP and why not other ERP software? Study shows a consistent figure of job creation by the ERP softwares. While SAP creates 5010 number of jobs in the last 30 days worldwide, the perfomance of other ERP leading softwares such as Oracle, Axapta, Navision are negligible.

Graph courtesy JobGraphs

Considering the SAP modules, FICO is always on top attracting talents in to the job market. Besides, industry needs more CRM, A & D, ABAP, ABAP and BW/BI. Though it is not rightly predictable about the market trends, but continuous research shows a stable market behavior.

Graph courtesy JobGraphs

Money certainly plays an important role in our life driving our desires to a new height. So, salary/ Cost to the company (CTC) is always matter to an employee and to the firm/company as well. Observing the graph, it is pretty clear that UK is on the top followed by Australia and the United States.

Graph courtesy JobGraphs

SAP is always in demand compare to other ERP softwares in the market. Considering the geographical demand of SAP software, US tops the list, followed by Australia in the 2nd list and Germany in the 3rd list.

Graph courtesy JobGraphs

In job creation, France has created 121 number of jobs in the last 30 days, whereas Italy was able to created 89 and Spain 35 number of jobs in 2011.

Graph courtesy JobGraphs

SAP role/position plays a central role in the market. Studying the below figure, it shows SAP senior consultant (20%) plays a major role followed by SAP lead (13%) SAP developer (11%) and SAP analyst (9%) respectively. Both SAP technical consultant (1%) and SAP trainer (1%) play least roles.

Graph courtesy JobGraphs

Experience always counts, whether it is job market or education sector. The below figure shows SAP professional with 5+ years of experiences can play a significant role.

Graph courtesy JobGraphs

I hope this above study will give your much information to follow your dream! Wish you all a great success ahead.

SAP Online Super Summit 2012

2012-09-18T01:22:00.000-07:00

Dear SAPiens and aspirant SAPiens.

A very exciting opportunity for all of you. Join the World's leading experts for one day exclusive online event (HANA, CRM and Finance, 12 hours)

Is SAP Certification Worth the Money?

2012-09-02T06:55:00.001-07:00

By John Reed

This is a very hard question to answer, in part because money is relative. If you have plenty of cash stashed away, then you can never go wrong with an investment in SAP certification. But, few of us fit into that category. That means we need a clearer understanding of how SAP certification fits into our career strategy. SAP certification is full of controversy because of the contrast between the importance of certification versus hands-on SAP skills. In this blog entry, I’ll summarize some of my views on SAP certification and hopefully we can get some comments going on this topic also.

The SAP certification debate took on some new life not long ago in a blog post that SearchSAP.com Site Editor Demir Barlas posted that soon became alengthy discussion thread. I recommend you check out that thread to get a well-rounded view of the issue. In that particular case, the certification question was focused on the value of certification for so-called "freshers," or folks who are new to the SAP market. But of course SAP certification concerns all SAP professionals, whether you are new to the field or looking for an added edge in the market.

Certification was also a hot topic at Sapphire again this year, in part because of the desire on the part of the SAP community to understand SAP’s new three-tiered certification strategy. Some people like to frame the SAP certification issue in terms of whether SAP certification is a rip-off, and I have done that before myself. But I think the best way to look at SAP certification is to ask if it’s overrated or not. And the answer to that question is, "it depends." In terms of a "quick fix" to immediately break into SAP or change your SAP career fortunes, I think SAP certification is overrated. But in terms of a savvy way to enhance your marketability in a long-term sense, I think SAP certification may even be underrated.

Let me review a few of the key points I have said about SAP certification over the years.
Here are some highlights from the first comment I made to Demir’s entry about certification on SearchSAP.com:

"I read this certification article and comments with great interest. I have served as the resident SAP career expert on SearchSAP.com since 2002, and I’ve been answering questions about the marketability of SAP certification since 1995.I continue to field continual questions on the value of training and certification both on SearchSAP.com and on my own web site, JonERP.com.

Obviously from this blog, this topic remains a heated point of debate, as it should be. SAP training and certification is a significant investment for an individual SAP professional, and to this day, I feel that too many people dive headlong into that investment without weighing their options carefully. (Of course, some people are fortunate enough to get their training and/or certification paid for by their employers, in which case, it is more of a no-brainer to go ahead and do it).

There is obviously no one right answer to the question of the value of SAP certification. You can find examples of those who have had success with SAP certification and at the same time, you can find plenty of examples of those who invested in SAP certification and ultimately could not land an SAP job based on that certification. I’ve heard from those folks and they are not a happy group.

It’s helpful to understand how SAP certification fits into the supply and demand of the marketplace. Back in the 1990s, it was possible to land an SAP job with "certification only" because there weren’t enough experienced consultants, and "Big Six firms" on large project sites were able to field teams with plenty of junior-level consultants who did not have any hands-on SAP experience other than their classroom certifications.

The power of certification in the SAP market has changed largely because most of these "entry level" consulting positions on client sites are gone forever. Most SAP customers are sophisticated enough to expect more seasoned SAP pros with actual SAP project experience. And there are fewer "big bang" type implementations where companies just open the floodgates and hire hundreds of consultants regardless of experience level. As a result, even though the SAP consulting market is very healthy, the power of SAP certification to land that all-important first project has diminished over the years, and I don’t expect that power to return.

Before we go further with my comments, it’s helpful to understand that SAP has also been adding to its certification levels. The classic level of SAP certification is now called the "Associate" level. SAP is now rolling out the "Professional" level certification in many areas. This is a more rigorous certification program and as such, may eventually carry more weight in the marketplace, we will have to see. There is a third level of certification on the way also, called the "Master" level. It is rumored that this level will likely involve some measurement of project experience. If this comes to pass, I would not be surprised if this higher level of certification carries much more weight.

Certification is interesting from the vantage point of hype. Sometimes I have found that SAP hypes its own certification, but often, I find that it’s the job seekers themselves who latch onto certification and hype it for themselves. Demir is absolutely right in his post: many aspiring SAP professionals view certification as the easy (if expensive) way to open a door into the SAP field that is not always easy to open.

It’s hard to argue that SAP certification is an absolute waste of money and time. It all depends on how much money and time you have. But when we consider the value of certification, I think the biggest determining factor is: how many SAP jobs require certification? The answer is: only a small percentage. Project references are so much more important, as others commenting on this blog entry have noted. And even those jobs that require SAP certification also tend to require a number of years in the SAP field as well.

5 Reasons Why SAP Is The Best ERP System

2012-07-20T11:25:00.001-07:00

In today's challenging business environment, best-run companies have clarity across all aspects of their business, which allows them to act quickly with increased insight, efficiency, and flexibility. This is particularly true if your business includes SAP.

SAP is the world's largest business software company and the third-largest independent software provider in terms of revenues. Even though the competition is fierce with a lot of new entrants in the marketplace from large and small vendors over this time, SAP is still a leader in enterprise software. Here are some reasons which explain why SAP continues to be the market leader in the enterprise space:

1. The first reason is simply the fact that SAP solutions are scalable and can be customized according to the evolving business requirements of an enterprise. It can be easily integrated with future applications giving users a significant competitive advantage in the market. SAP solutions have become integral to the foundation of international businesses, as almost half of the world's Fortune1000 companies have implemented ERP solutions from SAP.

2. SAP has been mainly focusing on enterprise applications for the last 30 years, the area where they hold the market leader spot today across the globe. While the other large ERP software vendors, tend to have multiple business focuses - like, databases as an example.

3. SAP continues to focus its ERP applications on maximizing resources, reducing costs and optimizing performance that is customized for businesses and industries. SAP provides a comprehensive range of business software and enterprise applications - designed for global operations and supported with globalization services - to empower every aspect of your business.

4. SAP architecture is extremely strong with a process-centric focus and a foundation that operates in real time communication with enterprise wide business processes that is highly flexible.

5. Lastly, with the experience of the last 30 years SAP has afforded their enterprise applications to be extremely industry and business specific. They have already built and refined these industry specific solutions with real customers and real implementations carrying the knowledge base and enhancing their technology and application offerings each year for the last three decades.

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Top 10 reasons why people are so mad for SAP Certification

2012-07-10T02:21:00.000-07:00

By Ravi Sankar Venna

SAP Certification is the most sought after certifications in the Information Technology (IT) world. In every nook and corner of the world, it has created tremendous buzz among the IT professionals. Probably, SAP Certification is one of the most criticised certifications, but at the same, it is one of the biggest dreams for number of individuals. Many people have criticised in many ways by writing blogs, articles and even books. But, nobody can rule out the craze that it has created in this fast moving IT world. SAP Certification is one of the most successful IT certifications in the recent past. Either directly or indirectly, it has given employment to millions of people across the globe. Though, there are many contenders for the top certification position from Microsoft, Cisco, Sun and Oracle, but still people go so mad for this SAP Certification. SAP Certification is undoubtedly the number one product based IT certification in the current market trend. If you see the number of people enrolling for SAP Certification across the globe is a benchmark for other certifications.

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Five Mistakes SAP Job Seekers Make!

2012-07-05T07:19:00.001-07:00

Where Can You Learn SAP?

2012-06-29T07:50:00.001-07:00

Why you need to be a SAP professional- watch this short video by SAP University Alliances: Insights on SAP Professional Careers.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/a048bb79-c6f3-2c10-80be-8d102ec7de31&overridelayout=true

SAP Courses at Universities by SAP University Alliances

A Complete list of SAP University Alliance Partner
http://uaaroundtheworld.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/overview(bD1lbiZjPTEwMQ==)/start.htm

AUSTRALIA

1.Victoria University's Faculty of Business and Law

http://www.business.vu.edu.au/sap/

2. University of Technology Sydney

http://www.business.uts.edu.au/accounting/courses/sap/courses.html

3. Monash University

http://www.monash.edu.au/ohs/training/training-records-sap.html

4. University of Southern Queensland

http://www.usq.edu.au/course/specification/2011/ACC3101-S1-2011-ONC-SPRNG.html

SPAIN

Graduate Certificate in SAP ERP (only in Spainsh Language)
Autonomous University of Barcelona
http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite/postgraduate/graduate-certificate-in-sap-erp/basic-details-1217916968009.html/param1-1714_en/param2-2004/

GERMANY
SAP Corporate master program

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Master of Business Engineering (MBE)
Master of Science (MSc)
Master of Computer Science (MCompSc)

http://www.sap-corporate-master.com/

SAP International Summer School

Harz University of Applied Science

http://welcome.hs-harz.de/7567.0.html

EUROPE AND AFRICA

University of Duisburg-Essen online SAP program only for students

http://www.erp4students.eu/

UNITED KINGDOM

1.University of Leeds

http://iss.leeds.ac.uk/info/225/training/247/training

2. University of Warwick

http://www.wbs.ac.uk/students/masters/ismi/

3. City University of London

http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/pgcourses/sap/

4. University of Salford Machester

http://intranet.salford.ac.uk/sap/training

5. Brunel University London: Business System Integration with SAP Technology

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/siscm/disc/postgraduates/masters/business-systems-integration-with-sap-technology

6. University of Leicester

http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/staff-development/courses/finance/

7. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

http://onlineshop.strath.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&prodid=200&deptid=152&catid=70

8. Birmigham City University

http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/enterprise-systems-management

9. Sheffield Hallam University

http://www.shu.ac.uk/prospectus/course/1091/careers/

10. North Umbria University

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/central/finance/stafflist/sapsupport/sapnewsevents/saptrainingtimetable

11. University of Liverpool

http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/university-of-liverpool-management-school/management-school/taught/e-business-strategy-and-systems-msc/overview/

UNITED STATES

1. Central Michigan University

http://sap.mis.cmich.edu/

2. Georgia Southern University

http://cit.georgiasouthern.edu/is/sapfaq.html

3.Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

http://ucc.uwm.edu/Default.aspx

4. University of Arkansas, USA

http://enterprise.waltoncollege.uark.edu/SAP.asp

5. Rogers State University

http://www.rsu.edu/bartlesville/sap.asp

6. University of Southern California

http://mapp.usc.edu/professionalprograms/ShortCourses/TERP10.htm

7. Penn State Beaver : Pennsylvania University

http://www.br.psu.edu/Academics/Degrees/35228.htm

8. University of Tampa

http://www.ut.edu/sapprep/

9. Texas State University

http://www.txstate.edu/sap/

10. Steinbeis Center of Management and Technology

http://www.scmt.com/en/partners/corporate-programs/sap-mba.html

SINGAPORE

Singapore Management University

http://www2.sis.smu.edu.sg/programme/nextu_professional_courses.asp

INDIA

Ganpat University and Victoria University

http://www.cia-gnu.ac.in/university.php#ciasis

CANANDA

Algonquin College

Athabasca University

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Carleton University

Centennial College

École de Technologie Supérieure

École des Hautes Études Commerciales

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Grant MacEwan College

Humber College

Kwantlen University College

Laurentian University

McMaster University

NAIT

Niagara College

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Ryerson Universtiy

SAIT Polytechnic

Seneca College

Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

St. Francis Xavier University

Université de Sherbrooke

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Université du Québec à Montréal

University du Quebec en Outaouais

University of Windsor

York University

Note: Please send us your university SAP program details if it is not updated here. Our contact email: sapplatform@sapworld.net.tc

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SAP Useful Links and Resources

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Free SAP Tutorial and training

http://www.intelligentedu.com/newly_researched_free_training/SAP.html

SAP Tutorial

http://134.198.33.115/sap/saptutorial.htm

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/

searchSAP.com - a SAP-Specific Portal for IT professionals focused on SAP. Site features include, Fast and focused search capabilities Links to relevant content, editorial insight and summaries, Daily industry news and weekly technology tips delivered via email.

http://freebooks.by.ru/view/Abap4in21day/index.htm
Sams Teach Yourself ABAP/4 in 21 Days - free book

http://www.antarcon.com/
Antarcon - Free SAP & ABAP community

http://www.intelligenterp.com/resources.shtmlSAP Resources

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/

ABAP Central Information, help, source code, tutorials
  http://www.scott.net/~solomon/

ABAP Reference Online ABAP programming language reference
  http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/teaching/sap_r3/ABAP4/abapindx.htm

Allen Davis & Associates SAP Career Center - Tips & comments on SAP trends
  http://www.softwarejobs.com/sap.html

Bill's page Bill Bradford's page (resources & consultants contact)
  http://home.earthlink.net/~thebradfords/

Cambridge Publications MIT - SAP Mailing list archives (search engine)
  http://www.documentation.com/saplist/saplist.htm

CT-Softwareberatungs GmbH Tools and Training in the field of standard
software R/3 & ABAP programming (tips & tricks, sample reports)
  http://www.ct-software.com

Finnish User Group SAP Finnish User Group
  http://www.sapfinug.fi

Group of MM Consultants Sap's MM module information and links
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/6345/

Imre & Kinga Kabai's homepage Helpful ABAP programs for system
administrators
  http://www.kabai.com/abaps/q.htm

LOGOS Consulting Experts in interface development using IDocs, ALE, RFC
and Desktop Integration
  http://www.logosworld.de/logos/index.htm

PrimeStaff IT & SAP Recruiting Specialists (resources & opportunities)
  http://www.primestaff.net

RealTime-USA SAP newsgroup archive and other services
  http://www.realtime-usa.com

SAP Labs, Inc. Sap's research and development teams
  http://www.saplabs.com/

Sap R/3 consultants network SAP R/3 and ABAP4 Knowledge Server
  http://www.bgs.dk/

SAP Resource Centre SAP related information, products, links.
  http://src.thehub.com.au

Sapiens Melanie Kovarik SAP page (links and other references)
  http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/1635/

Sapient es, Inc. Specializing in the placement of ABAP/4 programmers
  http://www.sap-abap-jobs.com

SAPProJournal Electronic version of SAP Professional Journal
  http://www.sappro.com

CIO.COM / ERP ERP/Supply Chain Research Center
  http://www.cio.com/forums/erp/

SAP Info Indian SAP Info site (Ramesh Kumar)
  http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Park/5407/sapinfo.html

Kabai's homepage Imre & Kinga Kabai's homepage
  http://www.kabai.com/

Siemens AG SAP R/3 live & run (Siemens solutions)
  http://www.siemens.de/sap/index_en.shtml

Siam-ease Simmonds and Associates Product for SAP R/3
  http://home.global.co.za/~simmonds/siamease.html

SAP Club SAP Club site
  http://www.sapclub.com/content/mainframe.html

SAP Resources The specialist SAP recruiter service
  http://www.sap-resources.com/saprhome.htm

SAP Assist IT Toolbox Portal for SAP
  http://www.sapassist.com

HelpS@P The Knowledge Resource for SAP Professionals
  http://www.helpsap.com

Foro ABAP Foro de discusión sobre ABAP/4 en español
  http://members.es.tripod.de/abap4/

SAPiT Consulting Consulting firm specialized in SAP R/3
  http://www.sapit.net/

SAR Consultants Project implementation and specialist service
  http://www.sar-consultants.com/

Zoption Third-party software for SAP R/3
  http://zoption.com/

Phase Two Consulting Consulting firm specialized in SAP R/3
  http://www.phasetwoconsulting.com/

Abapers.com Online information service for ABAP programmers
  http://www.abapers.com/

ABAP Efficient Efficiencie Guidelines
  http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/6338/abapp.html

German Intro An Introduction to German for ABAP/4 Programmer
  http://www.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/sap-germ.html

Popey.com Alan Popes Website
  http://www.popey.com/

Wong Matt Wong's SAP Basis Site
  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/4858/sap/

ASUG American SAP User's Group
  http://www.asug.com

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