SAP technical trends and Suggestions

As a leading ERP system, sap has experienced Oracle competition. Oracle's merger of People Soft, People Soft's merger of JD Edwards, and Oracle's merger of sieble, there is also the boom of the US economy in the late 1990s S, the slump and the recovery. The changes from R/2 to R/3 bring great changes to the employment market. Changes in SAP internal development since R/3, the first was the establishment of 4.0b, the first mature version of R/3, and the second was actually opposed by wallddorf, the result of SAP America's persistence is the networking of R/3. This is a simple and initial its, which was later replaced by the Web application server. In this case, SAP lags behind, however, they are catching up with powerful development capabilities. The third change is that sap recognizes that fortune 500 is almost impossible to completely abandon the legacy system. This is a decision and there is no challenge. So what sap can do is to embrace this decision, that is, to expand the R/3 function to actively unify the functions of other systems or legacy systems, so R/3-SD is extended to CRM outside R/3, r/3-mm-pur is extended to EBP/SRM outside R/3, PP is extended to APO, ECM is extended to PLM, and many software vendors that provide file management for SAP are in a dilemma, on the one hand, while sap supports them, it developed its own records management; ctms evolved into a solution manager out of R/3, which unified basis management, all master data is changed to MDM other than R/3. What does this mean? SAP believes that all r/3 and non-R/3 systems can exist, but the sales part can be handed over to CRM for processing ..., All r/3 and non-R/3 systems can exist, but the planning part can be handed over to APO for information sharing in the supply chain, global ATP, collaboration ..., All r/3 and non-R/3 systems can exist, but the purchase part can be handed over to SRM for processing .... In this way, SAP is implementing another unified approach. The third change is that sap splits the intelligence system from R/3, which is a weakness of R/3. R/3 is longer than the operation report, however, R is shorter than the analysis report, which is determined by its relational database. After separate BW is established, R/3 resources are freed for production. BW simply processes the analysis report. The fourth change is interface changes. BSP and Java applications make sap completely go to the web and conform to the trend. The latest progress is included in netweaver2004s, I am not very familiar with this development, and I only know its purpose. The fifth change is that sap further optimizes the connection with the non-SAP system, representing the work of Xi. Many tech fans are keen on Xi. These five changes, coupled with the economic recovery, have led to a surge in demand in the SAP job market. As an SAP professional, how can we maximize the benefits? 1. Don't be infatuated with big companies, and the three to five years of experience in small and medium-sized enterprises will accumulate valuable cross-module experience for themselves. Due to labor shortage, small and medium-sized enterprises are willing to use different modules, but they cannot maintain multiple analysts. They often add support and maintenance for different modules to analysts. This is a good thing from the perspective of personal career development, 3-5 years later, they will find that they are more powerful than their peers in large companies. SAP is designed in a module-by-module manner. From the perspective of individual learning, it is also a module-by-module mode. However, the actual problem occurs and the customer's needs are all based on the process, they are all cross-module, so cross-module is a must and a talent pursued by many companies. A person who only knows how to purchase, or only knows about SD, faces the competition of people with the same qualifications and the narrow employment market. 2. opportunities at work are very important, not limited to the support and maintenance of current modules. New modules, new knowledge, new processes, and new applications must be exposed. You must learn to reject the company's 100% use of you without providing learning opportunities. The ideal proportion is 60-70% support and 30-40% learning time. 3. in terms of knowledge structure, high-level structural knowledge is essential, but more importantly, detailed knowledge is not only about details, but also about its methodology for solving problems, this methodology is somewhat unique and is derived from the post-war research and conclusion on the running mode of the German general staff for more than one hundred years. This methodology is the core. What is interesting is that the core experience of SAP comes from this. It is also why people have reasonable expectations for SAP's years of employment. I. e. if you have worked in SAP for five years and have more than one year of experience, it mainly refers to the experience, familiarity with methodology, the ability to quickly discover problems, and determine the causes and solutions. This is actually the language of communication between wallddorf's German developers and analysts. I set the description here, but can you find my description? Can you understand my instructions? A good analyst cannot solve all problems, but generally speaking, he will spend less time solving more problems and provide more effective solutions, A more reasonable explanation and/or solution. This is also the most beautiful place in SAP, so that it can become a lifelong career. To sum up, the methodology is the core of SAP and the core of technical screening and interview in job search. A person who has mastered the methodology can make a person who understands sap's tricks and knows how to balance his needs for experience and methodology. The proficiency in methodology can make up for the lack of experience in a specific module of job seekers. On the contrary, the proficiency in a specific module cannot make up for the lack of methodology to the same extent. Note: This article is excerpted from the job-hopping experience of SAP consultants in China in the United States.