Sap Basis Future forecast

[pnagar]

Dear all,

Thanks everyone for reading this and giving your time.

I am working as sap basis administrator form last 3 years but i am not sure about basis future.Even sometime i think to change to different domain like Data scientist or IOT. Please help me to decide what should i choose .Should i go with Basis only or i should change to different technology.

If you suggest to switch to another technology then also please let me know which technology or role i should switch too.?

Thanks a lot again.

[ImtiazKaredia]

I do not think if it is question of SAP BASIS as future.

What you need to ask is what things you know and how you evolve. The fundamentals of technology in IT is what you need to understand.

Think from the perspective of OSI Layer Model. That is the fundamental of IT evolution.

Like how Networking works and is evolving.

How Database Technologies work and is evolving (HANA is one example)

How Application Technologies are working and evolving?(Cloud an example)

Similarly for Hardware, Storage, presentation technologies and so on.

So you think from the basics, It does not matter what happens to SAP. You will always be relevant in some form and companies values this.

Remember any technology can be learnt or improved at any point of life. What is important is the roots and keeping yourself relevant to what opportunities you get offered in life.

No one can know everything at all time. It is the dedication, hard and smart work, intent to learn, attitude, communication skills and keeping your self close to knowledge is what pays off.

[S_Sriram]

Hi All.

SAP ERP 6 system end of support on 2025 till that time SAP Basis required, after that we can see and if it is required we can switch to SAP HANA either on premise or cloud. Year 2020 no problem for Basis.

Regrads

Sriram

[kaus19d]

Hi pnagar,

Its important that we know who we really are. So being a SAP-BASIS person, would always be a SAP-BASIS person. There are a lot of various smaller technology trying to emerge everyday. Every year, you will find some new small small technologies coming up. So, if you then decide to switch, you might end up switching careers & even jobs every year to remain employed to the choice of your new new work-domains every year. So, obviously if some technology becomes a bit popular, then creates a good market value & then the bigger Technology giants try to take-over on bidding. 1 of the reason why new products come-up. Although its a good thing as we have new technology meaning we have advanced & progressed further. Anyways career in SAP-BASIS is having good prospect as every year the no of SAP customer increases only, although its for any modules in SAP. SAP also tries to launch various products every year.

So, generally switching career, this feeling of career-shift you would strongly get when you go in a local Training centre & try to enquire what technology they are teaching/coaching. So, they do sell & pitch that in such a good way that you would really think for a moment to switch to that career. Just telling this from a personal experience after I just started my career in SAP.

But, in fact, instead, if you try exploring something, where your SAP-BASIS career does not get lost, then it would be probably better choice be made. Maybe you need explore deeply the options inside SAP-BASIS. With emerging SAP technology, there is Automation processes going everywhere on all tasks & there are new standard tools coming up for every SAP maintenance tasks or SAP related activities, maybe you would like to concentrate there. Its because who knows the core concept clearly there is always a place for them. So with coming new tools & technologies, its required to have current insight for a employee working in that domain

Reference below blogs suggestion to go through meanwhile,

https://blogs.sap.com/2010/05/11/back-to-basis/

https://blogs.sap.com/2012/03/13/faq-for-sap-netweaver-admin-sap-basis-careers/

Thanks,

Kaushik

[MortenWittrock]

Hi Prashant

I don't really see Basis becoming irrelevant anytime soon. Always remember that an SAP system running in a virtual machine in the cloud, is still an SAP system that needs maintaining, monitoring, upgrading etc. The cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft do not handle any of that stuff; they only provide the infrastructure.

So for now, I wouldn't worry at all. But let's say that at some point in the future, most customers move to Software-as-a-Service ERP systems. In that landscape, there are still extensions to be deployed, transported, monitored etc. There are still connections and resources that must be managed, security issues, upgrade cycle management etc. Your existing Basis knowledge can still be applied here. The tools and processes will be different, for sure, but the core principles will not be radically different.

Regards,

Morten