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Can I learn SAP HANA and choose as a career option?

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HI All,

I am a AIX/Solaris Administrator, with a little knowledge about Databases for around 5 yrs and 6 months now. Planning to choose HANA as my career option.

Can you please let me know the below.

1. Can choose it as a career option though I have ZERO knowledge about SAP and its Components?

2. What is the Career path for HANA?

3. Is it good for me to make a move to SAP now with all these exp?

Regards

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1. Can choose it as a career option though I have ZERO knowledge about SAP and its Components?

Yeah, There is nothing that we human can't learn, so even you don't have any knowledge of SAP you can start learning.

2. What is the Career path for HANA?

Its very good. You can find no. of docs for the same, its easily available.

3. Is it good for me to make a move to SAP now with all these exp?

I don't think,its good step. But still you are working on some DB related domain so working and picking the root logic of HANA won't be much difficult for you. So within in couple of year, if you worked hard everything will be very good.

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vivekbhoj
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Hi Indradev,

HANA is a database and you have Linux experience so it would be a good choice for you to adopt HANA technical part and learn how to install HANA on Linux and other stuff related to administration

1. Can choose it as a career option though I have ZERO knowledge about SAP and its Components? Yes

2. What is the Career path for HANA?

You can check my blog for starting to learn HANA?

3. Is it good for me to make a move to SAP now with all these exp? Yes, your experience with Solaris and database will help you in HANA

Regards,

Vivek

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Thanks for the reply Vivek.

What is the difference in work for HANA Functional and HANA Technical?

Does but have equal opportunities in market?

BR

Indradev

vivekbhoj
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Its HANA Developer and HANA Technical

HANA Developer will develop models and other stuff based on HANA while HANA technical will configure, install and administer HANA stuff

Both have good opportunities in  the market

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Thanks for the link Vivek.

I have gone through you link and found that you have mentioned BW/BO is good to learn for HANA and when i go through the SCN i see ABAP is good for BI/BW and this is forming a vicious circle.

1. Where do i need to start exactly? (ABAP->BI->BW->BO->HANA)

2. If the above is true can u suggest me any other SAP technology other than BASIS I can learn and make you of my skills without such dependencies?

BR

vivekbhoj
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Hi Indradev,

SAP is very vast

ABAP is SAP development language

BW is a data warehouse

BO are reporting tools

These tools are generally used by Developers and as I told you - as per your experience HANA Technical is better for you and is like SAP Basis

I would recommend you to go through HANA Technical related links provided by me in the blog like

http://scn.sap.com/community/training-and-education/certification/blog/2012/10/29/preparing-for-hana...

You may also check the below threads:

http://scn.sap.com/thread/2095335

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3288969

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3220487

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3362494

Regards,

Vivek

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1. Can choose it as a career option though I have ZERO knowledge about SAP and its Components?

Yeah, There is nothing that we human can't learn, so even you don't have any knowledge of SAP you can start learning.

2. What is the Career path for HANA?

Its very good. You can find no. of docs for the same, its easily available.

3. Is it good for me to make a move to SAP now with all these exp?

I don't think,its good step. But still you are working on some DB related domain so working and picking the root logic of HANA won't be much difficult for you. So within in couple of year, if you worked hard everything will be very good.

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Thanks for the reply Chandra,

Chandra. I might sound novice but i would like to make a correct move as i can't afford another.


3. Is it good for me to make a move to SAP now with all these exp?

I don't think,its good step. But still you are working on some DB related domain so working and picking the root logic of HANA won't be much difficult for you. So within in couple of year, if you worked hard everything will be very good.

Can you suggest me a best option to move as I am interested to move to SAP considering the Career oppurtunities with it.

BR

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Ok one quick question, Why you want to move to SAP Domain. ?

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Unix administration is slowly loosing its impact in the market and finding it difficult to get a good project to work with. This is the main reason i am looking for change. As well as the salaries are very limited in India.

i see the same with basis similar to system administration. Hence the change to have job security and career security. As sap is the hot skill in the market i would like to choose this as my career path and if i still delay in making a choice i will have no other alternative.

i am very keen and interested to learn any sap technology which has good future and returns down the lane.

So can u plz suggest me a module, technology which i can learn quickly without many dependent, i am not saying not at all but minimal other modules soo that i can work hard and implement it.

BR

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Oh, then Answer is SAP Basis .

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Hi Indradev,

I read your posts and the few responses to it. Just a take a few seconds and think about what you are asking, if there is such a module in SAP which is very easy to learn with minimal support from others and that gives you growth then don't you think all the people who want what you want would learn the same module , and so many people with the same skill will be available in the resource pool which will lead to less jobs in that area.

Regarding growth, you should know the place where your skills are needed and in demand, and also measure the depth of your skill. I know some people who started their sys admin/support work in Unix/Linux environment and got good appreciation for their innovative work.

What makes SAP more popular and attractive is that it has modules which are technical, functional and a few are both, so people from different background and experiences come to learn it and make a career in it.

You should take sometime and go through what BI/BO/BW are and see if you understand them and see that they will give you a good platform for your future.

HANA is new and there are many people who are learning it and going for certification for future implementations of it, you too can learn that and go deeper then many and make yourself a highly skilled professional in it.

Cheers,

Nagarajan Viswanathan

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can you suggest me anything else apart from basis


as i don't want to do system/basis administration anymore. This is highly demanded but not paid.so if i invest my time of learning sap basis in any other sap techno functional module i would think i will have a good returns too.

BR

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I read your posts and the few responses to it. Just a take a few seconds and think about what you are asking, if there is such a module in SAP which is very easy to learn with minimal support from others and that gives you growth then don't you think all the people who want what you want would learn the same module , and so many people with the same skill will be available in the resource pool which will lead to less jobs in that area.

You are correct but, I meant minimal dependency on other sap modules so that i would not again struggle to learn all modules with is time consuming which i can't loose now at-least I should step into SAP and then learn the dependencies.

I agree the point "more you learn more safer you are".


Regarding growth, you should know the place where your skills are needed and in demand, and also measure the depth of your skill. I know some people who started their sys admin/support work in Unix/Linux environment and got good appreciation for their innovative work.

This is true if they already have 10-12  years of exp. But If i continue with the same i have below problems out of my experience.

1. No good projects available other than Chennai and Blore. (Very tough for me bcoz of dependencies)

2. No Architectural jobs in India only maintenance and SME at the max rest all are done from Onsite.

3. Salary Threshold.

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Hi Indradev,

You have been working in the IT industry for 6 years so you understand that people who want better job opportunities have to move from place to place as not every region has high requirement of professionals because of limited companies in that area.

You have dependencies because of which you can't move/relocate to other place then the same may happen with a job in any domain. I know many people who are wanting to have a better job with more high level work and better pay but they don't want to relocate, so they have to compromise till something comes up where they are located.

The level of skill required for architectural level jobs or more towards the core technical work requires a lot of skills which are not found in many people who have been working in the Linux/Unix domain, it is due to many reasons such as (1. No self initiative to learn more and improve their understanding and knowledge of the platform, 2. People don't have that much of strength to work hard and go deeper to the machine level design and understanding).

Take sometime and read about what BI is about and why organizations need it and how the demand will be in the future. A combination of BI + HANA goes very well and many people are opting for it, it is not very difficult to learn but one should know how to make best use of it for management. It involves dealing with importing data from different repositories and making a meaningful and useful report to the different stakeholders of the company. HANA is an in-memory database which is way faster then the traditional database because the data resides in the RAM which drastically reduces the time to information retrieval. If you understand DBMS and have worked with SQL then you wouldn't find it difficult to lean and understand.

Whatever you learn, make sure that the trainer and the training institute are good and deliver on what they preach.

Cheers,

Nagarajan Viswanathan

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Hi ALL,

         Considering opinions from all members here, i have decided to go with ABAP first, once i get knowledge of ABAP ,Later i can move to BI/BW as you suggested and then move on to HANA.

In fact i was interested to learn BI/BW first , But after knowing use ABAP knowledge in BI/BW domain,decided to learn ABAP first.

Hope i have Choose Correct Path,

Thanks for you Time and Suggestion.

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Then try with ABAP. If you want to know more about ABAP, Here..

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Hi Indradev,

Whichever module you choose to pursue, make sure you give your best to learn and understand it and keep reading posts/articles/blogs in SCN as it will help you learn and will give you lot of information.

Good Luck to you.

Cheers,

Nagarajan Viswanathan

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Thanks for the help Nagarajan.

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Anytime Indradev.