will abap with srm helpful

[Former Member]

Hello Mentors,

   I am a certified abap consultant working for 4 years into sap.1 years back I started working with SRM.Now i am worikng as SAP abap srm technical consultant.I did 1 implementation in srm.But now I don't see any project for srm in my organization.  I don't know whether abap + srm be helpful or not.Recently I also started with EP. Now I am also able to configure EP admin part for SRM portal ,which I recently configured for one of my client.Please guide me what should I do.I have worked on webdynpro , workflow , reports , module pool , bsp , then in srm side , creating rfx , maintaining the suppliers.I am totally confused where should I go now.I am really keen to learn but not able to as there is no project.

Thanks

Gaurav Gautam

[Former Member]

Hi,

Whatever you are learning in SAP  ..It would be benefit for Other Projects..and you can upgrade you Skills...Earning Knowledge in SAP is benefit for you are future.

[Former Member]

Hi Naveen ,

   Thanks a lot for your view. I will definitely look forward to it .:)

Thanks

Gaurav

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

You have good experience in ABAP and have worked for SRM which I believe would have given  you good insight of SRM from domain knowledge perspective. See if you like BI/BO, just explore it and see if ABAP complements BI/BO then it would be great. You can then take up a training on HANA (in-memory DB) from SAP as HANA would be the DB in demand because SAP wishes to promote it because of its various advantages.

Thank you,

Nagarajan Viswanathan

[Former Member]

Hi Nagarajan,

   Thanks for your wonderful comment and thanks   a lot for your guidelines. Is it required to have any other knowledge apart from this to learn HANA. Also for BI/BO.As per my knowledge BI I useful for me as it create Rfx in SRM we copy the BI's only.Now as I have learnt EP , I think EP is giving me some help . For implementation point of view.Implementing SRM portal was required to be done by a EP consultant but as I have learnt so now I am deployed to configure for the same which I liked it too.But as now I don't see good projects in my organization.Also now I am not able to learn much into my area of interest.So please could you let me know what basic should I have to go for BI/BO or HANA and is HANA good for technical consultants

Thanks

Gaurav

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

I have tried to answer your questions in sequence.

1.  is HANA good for technical consultants?

Ans - There are two tracks when it comest o learning HANA, (1- HANA Developer - deals with making/generating reports/data model etc and is more of the developer track. 2. HANA Admin - this is like any DBA performing the installation/maintenance/tuning etc. HANA is a database like other but the main difference is that it is "in-memory database" which makes it faster in terms of information retreival, HANA makes use of RAM (Ramdom Access Memory) to load/store data for any realtime query/data request. If you know any database and SQL then it is good, but even if you don't know you can still learn. For you it wouldn't be a problem as per my understanding.

2. what basic should I have to go for BI/BO?

Ans. I have seen people who were totally new to SAP and started learning BI/BO and did good. BI/BW is for reporting, with respect to BO you say it is both technical and functional. The most important thing that I have understood with respect to making good in SAP is the business knowledge or you can even say domain knowledge. All SAP modules are used for business, so if you understand business processes then it will help you understand the requirement and you can come up with good solutions.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Nagarajan Viswanathan

[Former Member]

Hi Nagarajan,

    Thanks sir for your guidance.The way you explained about HANA I think it would be pretty interesting while learning HANA.Just one thing to ask as per your comment the two tracks, which one I should go for.

Regarding BI/BO or BI/BW . A bit of understanding was done by the comment of Ramanjaneyulu Sir, that BW , which holds the data, through Bex tool and the same tool used as input for BO .

Now which one I should go for BI/BO or BI/BW.

Thanks

Gaurav

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

Consultants working on BI/BO or BI/BW can go for HANA because in order to learn HANA you don't have to have a lot of experience in sql/database but having experience and exposure will definitely help and may give an edge compared to those who are new to database/HANA.

If I was in your position then I would go for BI/BO because in SAP one must have a good understanding of business and the functional side to prosper and stay at the top. BO is like technical and functional so you would have the edge of having technical know how and business logic also.

BI is about making/generating reports on historic data for different stakeholders which helps in making business decision. Using HANA you can make reports way quicker then earlier because of in-memory database "HANA" which is too fast in rendering data to data models.

I hope I was able to answer your question.

Thank you,

Nagarajan Viswanathan

[Former Member]

HI Nagarajan,

     Thanks a lot Sir. I heard some where that for learning HANA you should have a good knowledge of BW.Is that true? Also if I go with BI/BO will it be difficult for me to learn HANA.

Also can you provide me some good materials for learning BI/BO.I hope you are clear with my Skill Set . SO according to it if you can provide me some directions to learn BI/BO.

Thanks

Gaurav

[Former Member]

Hi Gautam,

HANA is an in-memory database which is way faster in terms of information retrieval compared to the traditional databases because HANA sits in the main memory (RAM of the server)it is so because these days the cost of hardware has become way cheaper than in the past so having information in the main memory reduced the read time greatly which allows for reports being generated almost like in real time.

So when you are going to learn HANA then you are learning a new database which is different then the other databases (non in-memory databases) and has no prerequisite like BI/BW/BO but  the learning track should be like first you learn BI-BO then take up HANA.

If you are determined to make your career in BI/BO then I would suggest you learn it from SAP Labs if you can afford the cost as training is expensive from SAP Labs but has its own advantages one one would be that you can appear for the certification immediately after the training. There are some private training companies who are not partners of SAP but they provide training on different modules of SAP but some background check about the reputation and the trainers qualities should be done to make sure you get what you are looking for and paying for

Now, you can find a lot of material in SCN posted by various BI/BO professionals and also they have posted many useful articles and blogs. You have to do a search in the right section and use all the valuable resource available here and also contribute to the community.

Here is something to get you started for BI

- http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/e3/e60138fede083de10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm

For BO - http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b02e31fb-3568-2e10-e78f-92412c3c0...

Best of Luck.

Nagarajan Viswanathan

[Former Member]

Hi Nagarajan,

   I already did my certification in ABAP from Atos which is also a SAP partner.So is it required to go for certification of BI/BO.Will learning wont make me as Techno-Functional.

Thanks

Gaurav

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

Having certification adds value in many ways and attracts employers/recruiters, when you learn BI/BO and start working on it then you can decide to go for certification. Unless you use your knowledge/whatever you learnt in real time for some productive work it wouldn't make much sense to call oneself a professional.

I would say that you learn BI/BO and get a project/job in it and then later decide if you need/want to go for Cert on it. In my view I would say you are a professional and would make a great one if you continue learning new stuff and sharpening your skills and continue to share and contribute in the SCN community.

Best of Luck.

Nagarajan Viswanathan

[RamanKorrapati]

Hi Gaurav,

You have multiple talent. ABAP is always very useful with other modules. if you have chance to learn BW/BI, try to look into it. now days BW with is ABAP have more projects and chances too.

For BW consultant with ABAP - its very good combination. ABAP is always advantage with other modules. Now days hot cake modules are BW/BO and HANA. As per the your convenient try check on it. its worthy for you if you add those.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi Ramanjaneyulu,

   Thanks a lot for your guideline. Can you please tell me something about BW . Are you talking about BI/BO or BI/BW.Learning BI/BW with knowledge of EP be helpful.Also in HANA which part I should learn , will it require any other knowledge apart from what I am having.Can Abaper's go for HANA.

Thanks

Gaurav

[RamanKorrapati]

Hi Gaurav,

BW generally never holds data. so we need to pull data form ECC/Non SAP to BW. once data was stored at BW targets thru Bex tool we can do reporting. this same bex reports are used as input at BO level also. this will be very good combination for you.you may get chance to explore other module where bw used as source.

BW can be as source to BO and BPC and HANA also.

HANA - you can learn basic concepts of hana. recently sap gave online course with free of cost. they may give once again this year. so you can get benefit from that course.

https://open.sap.com/courses, you can register yourself at open course, they send mails when the new courses goping to begin. even you can recheck past course named as Introduction to software devlopment on SAP HANA.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hello Ramanjaneyulu,

    Thanks a lot sir for this .I will go as you said .I think it must be interesting to learn BW.Also do you have any documents to learn BW for beginners.

Thanks

Gaurav

[RamanKorrapati]

Hi Gaurav,

For Basic SCN is more helpful.You can check written docs/blogs/wiki. its have huge info.

Ex , check this below one.

http://scn.sap.com/community/data-warehousing/netweaver-bw/blog/2012/10/11/learning-sap-bw-everythin...

You can check bw forums:

1. Data warehouse

2. SAP Netweaver Warehouse

3. Business content and extrcators

4. SAP Bex(Buisness EXplorer)

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1020282

Thanks