CAreer in SAP BASIS comaprision with SAP GRC/Security

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

I am an SAP BASIS consultant with 2 years of experience working in a MNC company,

I want to change my career to SAP GRC/SAP Security, i have some basic knowledge on SAP Security,

COuld you please advice me, which one to choose,?

Does  SAP GRC/Security has demand , and can we get oportunities to work abroad compared to SAP BASIS ?

which one has more scope SAP BASIS or SAP Security/GRC ?

Because in BASIS, i am not getting enough scope to work on some good things like Installation, upgrades, Migration,

i am doing a very basic kind of work like tranports, job scheduling, monitoring, and other small activities ?

So request you people to advice me ?

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regards

Rakesh  Rao

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[Colleen]

Hi Rakesh

I saw your post in GRC and was waiting of it to appear here

First up - 2 years is still junior. You may find batch jobs, transports, monitoring, etc all mundane but it is a foundation and learning ground work and foundations to being a good Basis Administration. And one things for sure, an awesome basic (I name my best-techy-friend) makes a huge difference on project timelines and deliverables for the rest of us.

Installation and Upgrades come with time. Whilst still performing junior tasks you could focus on reading up on approaches in case an opportunity in your job comes us and be prepared to prove to your management that you are ready for a bigger responsibility.

Switching to GRC/Security would be pointless unless you have a desire to learn GRC or Security. These are my background and they are undervalued until things go wrong (insurance policy in a way).

If you do switch you will reset your 2 years of domain experience back to 0 and you will start off with password resets and basic user administration

It takes time to work through the ranks. It was 3 years before I got to build my first role. I spent my first few years in security on email chasing approvals, password resets, user account creation, running reports for audit - sounds familiar to what you are doing now?

You have to master the basics before you are trusted and ready for the more complex activities. By knowing what you are doing now you will be more successful when the time comes to step up and do migrations, upgrades and installations. Support production by mastering you technical analysis skills is how you can break through being a fresher/junior

Regards

Colleen

Ps - if your motivation is more than "good things" happy to answer questions specific to security and GRC.

Also, boring doesn't mean it can't get interesting nor does it mean it's a worthless activity:

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[Reagan]

Hello

Because in BASIS, i am not getting enough scope to work on some good things like Installation, upgrades, Migration

You should be skilled and certified (for certain tasks) to do activities like migration, upgrades, UC conversion etc.

The most important thing is that these are NOT daily or regular activities and this could be one of the reasons why you are not getting such opportunities.

Start with these things :

Database administration

Memory tuning

Performance analysis

Once you know how things work then do activities like homogeneous system copies, SP updates etc.

Consider SP update as a mini upgrade.

What matters is to know the things (very well) you do and not do things to make a big CV.

Finally, stop creating multiple threads. I see you have created another one today.

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3577100

Regards

RB