A New Comer to SAP

[Former Member]

I welcome the opinion of people who work with SAP products, on the following topic.

I am thinking of learning the SAP software. I would like to find out where to start from.

I work in Corporate IT for over two decades. I have a lot of experience with many different programming languages, packages, applications, SDLC, etc.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

Stefanos

[Former Member]

Hello Stefanos,

Another way of learning ABAP and SAP is trying to get into a company (for example, Accenture) which also hires unexperienced workers and offers free initial courses.

Regards,

Javier

[Former Member]

Hello Stefanos ,

I think you should go for ABAP developemnt module.

ABAP is programming language in which all SAP modules are built.

check this link

http://www.sap-press.com/

you can buy a book on ABAP, and along with these book you get miniSAP CD, which you can install on your PC

regards

[Former Member]

You can alos buy the CD's direct from the SAP Shop or even download the newest ABAP stack direct from SDN Downloads itself.

[Former Member]

All depends on what you want to do, are you on the Business Process side or the development side.

I guess in order for anyone to help you out knowing a more specific goal is going to be necessary there are so many SAP Products and to be honest anyone who says they are an expert in all of them either built all of them or has found some way to clone themselves and then transfer all data from all clones back to themselves.

[Former Member]

Craig, I am on the development side. I want to refocus my IT "specialization" in order to get back into the work force. By the way, I wonder if there are SAP opportunities for new-comers.

I heard about SAP basis and ABAP. I also found a "school" in New York City, where they teach 40-48 hours for either one of these courses, on weekends. The charge is between $4600 and $3600 respectively.

I wonder which should be the right sequence to learn properly. Also, is it worth to register for any of those courses, or just buy a book and study? Unfortunately, I do not have any software at hand, or in the company that I worked for.

Thanks

Stefanos

[maximilian_schaufler]

Imo, before you spend any money, go download some evaluation software to play around with - you can find it in the download section here on SDN.

Then look around here on SDN for articles, weblogs, also start to read through help.sap.com, maybe get some basic presentation material from either SDN or also from www.sap.com/community.

A good book to start might be SAP Netweaver for Dummies, or myERP for Dummies, as they give an overview of the SAP world, technical as well as non-technical.

Especially with help.sap.com you should be able to learn quite a bit to start with, then use SDN material for more detailed experiments.

Cheers,

Max

[Former Member]

Max has some good points there, I started in the SAP world about 2 years ago maybe 2 and half now - I had a real system in the beginning but I did most of my stuff on the MiniWAS 6.20 system.

/people/sap.user72/blog/2004/12/08/mini-me-of-was-620-the-saga-continues

/people/sap.user72/blog/2004/09/06/mini-me-of-webas-620

I would suggest you take a look at these weblogs they I think we'll get you started on a preview edition at least the 620 I've not played around with the new ABAP preview yet but in the download forum, , they have quite a bit activity with it.

To start check out the weblogs from Brian McKellar, https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/u/164.Then [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] check out my other weblog tutorials, /people/sap.user72/blog/2004/09/07/bsp-howto-exploring-bsp-development-and-the-miniwas-620 and https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/wlg/1435. [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] From there you can jump to the ones from Thomas Jung, https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/u/1918. [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]

Message was edited by: Craig Cmehil