BASIS or PI administration

[Former Member]

HI

I have been working as BASIS administrator since last two years.

Now on my current project I am getting a chance to work on SAP PI.

I want to know whether specialized jobs like SAP PI administrator exit.

Should I stick to BASIS or develop expertise as PI administrator.

I want your guidance on this . Which one is better career wise?

Is it possible to shift to Business Process Management and Integration with PI background and how is this option career wise.

With regards

[OttoGold]

I am not sure if my idea about the jobs is right. I am not sure if I can tell the message, but:

what I have heard, tried, both PI and BASIS are very important, demanded and (what surprised me!) are connected together very much. The idea is the PI (and some more things like connectors and stuff) are expanding the basis from one system to many. PI is not only about messaging, it is also about the security, system users (not dialog, or how do you call that) and some more interesting integration stuff. If the basis "opening" will be about the administration and stuff, it will be very close to what you have done so far, I believe. Only if that would be some development work, only then it will not stick the "basis" topic. In that case the experience will widen your view and knowledge and be helpful for you tu understanf the position of your systems in the landscape (a distributed one, not one system) and the demans on your system/s.

Accept the PI work and 1) you can always withdraw from the new area and make you money in basis or 2) you will widen your basis knowledge to "distributed" systems (and/or some development).

The choice is clear, accept that.

Otto