difference between EP Development Consultant vs EPTechnology consultant

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I heard that there is a different designation for EP consultant.

1.EP Development consultant

2.EP Technology Consultant

whats the main difference between these two .What are role responsibilties and area of concern for both

Bye

rani A

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

EP Development consultant is usually a J2EE developer who typically develops applications using NW Developer Studio to deploy them on the EP. This role can be compared to ABAP Developer who might develop web applications using BSP/Web Dynpros to deploy on/call from EP.

EP Technical Consultants are typically the NW administrators with focus area of EP landscape design, installation and administration, patching, etc. This can be compared to the classic BASIS roles used to manage SAP application servers.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Shehryar,

Thanks for your valuable inputs.Can you please guide me that as beginner in EP to which we should concentrate on.Currently we are working on a support project in which we do both things you mentioned like portal upgrade,ticket solving ,small customization,room templates

creation and other administration activities.

We are not still doing any pure development activities.

Which is good on a long term career in EP?

Thanks in Advance

Rani A

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Currently, you are pretty much focused on administration activities which is perfectly ok if you intend to develop yourself into an EP Technical consultant/Administrator. Spend some time on it and try to learn as much as you can. Once you find yourself confident, try to get some some development knowledge.

Talking about long term career, that pretty much depends on where you want to go. Both areas are well in demand and need good consultants who know the ins and outs of the product. If you find yourself as a person who enjoys application development and intend to do so in future as well, then install NWDS on a machine and start playing around. This does require JAVA/Web Development knowledge.

On the other hand, if you are an infrastructures person who is into networking, DB/AS administration, etc, then what you are doing is prefectly fine. Build upon it.

Regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Now things are more clear.Can you suggest me that after installing NDS what are the development activities i can build apart from custom iviews.

I have a assumption that only custom iviews are development activity which we can perform on NDS,because all other iviews are standard in PCD and need only some configuration to connect to other applications.Am i rite?

What are the main power of PCD?Is it only related to iviews,pages,worksets,roles,folder or something extra can be achieved from that?

Regrds

Rani A

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

NWDS provides a full-fledged J2EE development environment. So you can develop applications based on JSPs/JAVA Beans/JDBC/etc. All you need to do is to deploy these applications on the J2EE server and then configure the Portal to call these up.

The Portal can display much more than iViews, such as Web Dynpro apps, ITS pages, JSPs, etc. If the existing iViews are not fulfilling customer requirements, then you can decided to create your own. PCD has both standard and custom iViews.

The PCD is a repository of all your portal content. Imagine a website like service.sap.com . It has so much content to present ranging from product info, downloads, trainings, customized pages, discussion forums, etc. How do you manage so much content without a content repository. So the PCD is at the heart of your Portal deployment as far as the content is concerned.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Shehryar,

Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions.From the mindset and skills i am not a core developer,but like to be a technology consultant in future.

Your replies have given a clear idea between the two.It really helped me.

Thanks again

Have a Nice day

Rani A

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Full points to you too.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I am glad you found my response helpful. Good luck in your career.

Regards