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Hi All,

I have 2+years of experience infobasic(t24- temenos)  support,but i am planning to move on as i feel i am not much confident in infobasic Programming.Our company is a product based company which has a product ,including enhancements not technology wise but client wise.Some how i am not getting enough knowledge which will allow me to match market expectations .I want to change my job but have no confidence that i can continue in infobasic programming.

so i have 2 choices i feel,one is SAP (which does not include much programming) and other is testing.Development to testing is seeming odd i know.

but i have kept it as an option as it does not include programming.On the other hand i feel SAP is best .For SAP i want some body to suggest me which could be the best module that does not involve much coding but at the same time has a better stand in future market.

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Jelena_Perfiljeva
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If you're just looking for more income then one thing you got wrong about SAP is that it has not really been such "hot skill" for over 10 years already. The "get rich quick" days of the SAP world are long gone, it's just the urban legends that live on.

Certainly one can make comfortable living in an SAP job, providing they have experience and are located geographically where the juicy SAP jobs are and/or are willing to travel. But trying to switch from another specialty to SAP in the middle of your adult life (I assume) for no other reason than just hoping to make more money does not seem reasonable. As I mentioned, those well-paid jobs require some experience. No one would hire a newbie for those positions (and when you switch you'll become a newbie again). So you might be sorely disappointed in SAP as a money-making machine.

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Colleen
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Hi Venkatesan

Okay, programming is not your strong point.

What made you put SAP in your top two choices. There is nothing to tell us what sort of module or area to recommend to you other than not writing code.

What are your perceptions thus far of SAP?

Regards

Colleen

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Hi Colleen,

I am so interested in SAP, off-course each and and every technology is difficult at onepoint of time, but if your are interested you can overcome anything.So I decided to come into sap and made it as passion. Now please suggest me a module other than ABAP.

Regards

Venkat JC

Colleen
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HI Venktasean

I agree - things can be easily difficult when you first start

But you are not helping yourself here or paying attention to what my comment was.

So far you have told me that you do not want to be a developer. I asked you why you thought about SAP and what you interests are so people can actually provide you valuable advise.

I've written this type of response on other posts before but this is what will happen on this thread if you do not personalise it:

  1. Someone will come in and tell you do to HANA, Fiori and Cloud as they are the big ticket items and big future
  2. Next person will come in and say not HANA if you don't like ABAP/development
  3. The Tech regulars will pop in and mention Basis
  4. The SD guru will come in and say come join their module because they see big future
  5. Another person will join in and list out what all of the modules stand for (same information which has been copy pasted around SCN for quite a few years and is outdated)

And so it goes on: do you see a pattern in any of this? If not, it comes down to everyone is going to tell you what they already do or what they perceive to be the next money-making-niche-area

I get that many of us would love to follow our passions only but face the reality that we have bills to pay and personal responsibility. So I do get that ultimately we want to receive an answer that will guarantee us a job and an income that we can live off.

But the problem is, if you do not have the aptitude for the money-making item then you will not realise the good job and income.

So I ask again, what is your background and what skills do you think you have that you are good at. Some questions to ask yourself:

  • what did you study at school and university?
  • do you like business side or technical IT?
  • what are you strengths and weaknesses?
  • what do you know about SAP and the road map (again you've already decided this is what you want to do)?
  • have you worked in any industry to have business knowledge an experience (e.g. my first part time job as a teenager was to work in a shop. It helped me cement my procurement knowledge which is one of the first modules that I did help desk support for)

And the list goes on.

SAP can include a lot of programming or it can include none. Really depends on speciality.

Regards

Colleen

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Hi Venkatesan,

If you have any accounts related education background, you can choose SAP FICO or else select SAP SD or SAP BI.

Regards,

Naresh

Colleen
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Hi Naresh

I'm sure you are trying to be helpful, but based on what Venkat has said, can you please provide further details as to why SAP FICO, SAP SD or SAP BI would be a good decision for him?

You've unfortunately made my prediction come true (point 4 or close enough)

Regards

Colleen

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Hi COlleen,

What ever you mentioned above is 100% true, am here to earn more income and same time with passion.

Here are the below answer for your questions.

1. Am basically from BE (computer science and engineering)

2.My weakness is in coding and rather saying am not interested.Another than coding and finance , I can tackle anything. I have some knowledge in SAP BASIS and went for training in a unauthorized center. 

3. By asking suggestion from others, as you said all are telling different things and their view. Some says after SAP moves into cloud or with Fiori "BASIS consultant will be reduced".First I concluded to move with BASIS ,With the suggestion all now I couldn't conclude which module should I go for.

4. I like technical but like basis and not more on complex coding work.

5. I have 2+ Years of experience in banking domain (Technology is Infobasic (i.e) T24 Temenos product), don't know how many of them knows this technology.

About SAP according to my knowledge:

SAP is a integrated or closed frame work with all functionality (i.e) centralized. With SAP many small business and in top most business gained a lots of gain to their organisation. Lot more there to say about SAP , but I don't have hands on experience to collaborate things and functionality here. 

If anything wrong about my knowledge in SAP, please do correct me.

I think this will help you to suggest or opt me a module to lead my career.

Regards

Venkat JC

Colleen
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HI Venkat

4. I like technical but like basis and not more on complex coding work.

I think there are a lot of technical people out there who may be amused that you consider programming more complex than keeping the system(s) alive. But it really goes to show that we all have different strengths and weakness. Something that you may find difficult can be a piece of cake for someone else.

From what you've shared, you are describing a technical background. You haven't told any of us anything business/domain related (and that's fine too). Even your Finance skills sounds technical as well. As you've done some study in Basis you have an idea about it.


3. By asking suggestion from others, as you said all are telling different things and their view. Some says after SAP moves into cloud or with Fiori "BASIS consultant will be reduced".First I concluded to move with BASIS ,With the suggestion all now I couldn't conclude which module should I go for.

Okay, I consider the above statement a bit of a fallacy or misconception. End of the day, the best quote I've come across for cloud is "someone else's infrastructure". Basis and System Administration are still necessary it's just where they are located. Some business may no longer keep the skill in house and have a managed service. But the end of the day, the managed service needs the skill to provide the service. If you are located in India or a typical offshore location, then that skill might still exist. Also, there's two sides to the system administration - some clients will still keep some technical skills in house. There's also a lot of places who still host their systems onsite and won't embrace the cloud any time soon.

Although I disagree with the classification, application security is technically part of the Basis area. It's still an important role (becoming more so due to cloud) which will always be necessary.

As Jelena has mentioned, SAP is no longer the area to make "easy" money. The boom time of an immature market has gone. Yes, there are new products (e.g. Fiori and HANA) which are creating the niche skill. However, due to market saturation, those already working in SAP with a few years of experience are transition and diversify into these new skills.

I won't tell you what module to choose. If you aren't going to choose something relatively technical (e.g. Basis or Development) there is still insufficient information in your profile to suggest a business area. Again, if you are located in India it is my understanding that domain knowledge is also required.

Whatever you choose, be careful in how much you are investing as getting a job without experience (aka fresher) is difficult. It is hard to see the number of community members disappointed in no job realisation a  year after study and certification as well as spending or borrowing a lot of money. Again, no answer on my side how to solve this but it is a problem globally.

Regards

Colleen

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Hi Colleen,

Kindly provide your email id or skype id. Please i need your suggestion.

Jelena_Perfiljeva
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If you're just looking for more income then one thing you got wrong about SAP is that it has not really been such "hot skill" for over 10 years already. The "get rich quick" days of the SAP world are long gone, it's just the urban legends that live on.

Certainly one can make comfortable living in an SAP job, providing they have experience and are located geographically where the juicy SAP jobs are and/or are willing to travel. But trying to switch from another specialty to SAP in the middle of your adult life (I assume) for no other reason than just hoping to make more money does not seem reasonable. As I mentioned, those well-paid jobs require some experience. No one would hire a newbie for those positions (and when you switch you'll become a newbie again). So you might be sorely disappointed in SAP as a money-making machine.