New to SAP, please HELP

[Former Member]

Hey everyone, hows it going?

A little about me: I am 24, graduated from Penn State with a degree in electrical engineering. Currently i am working in the oilfield (since oct 07) and making no use of the stuff i learned in college.

I am currently in Houston and came across this posting about a SAP training course.

http://houston.craigslist.org/sof/549958539.html

Its for SAP BW 3.5.

My question: Is this certification beneficial?

My Aim: I wanna stop doing what i am doing right now and get into the SAP field.

I have no prior experience with software stuff. I can play around on the computer but i have not taking any programming courses. Do you guys think that i will be able to understand SAP and secure a decent job in this field if i go thru this course?

I appreciate all your input.

[Former Member]

Hi Naren,

I, too was an engineering graduate. If you are interested in joining the SAP field you must first know what SAP is all about. And also the Modules involved such as PP, SD, MM, FI, CO and such.

For newbies, it's usually best if you could get a SAP certificate in any of the SAP modules, as stated above. After certification, it'd be easier for you to land a job as a SAP consultant as a newbie in any SAP companies.

Hope this helps,

Zarah

[Former Member]

Hey Zarah, thanks a lot for the prompt reply. I am going to ask you a couple of stupid questions though.

I google'd SAP modules and skimmed through it. So i got a rough idea of what it is.

My question would be that if i complete this course, would it help me to get from where i am right now (newbie) to where i want to get to (a decent paying job).

Listed below is what this course is offering:

SAP BW 3.5 Course Details

Basics of SAP Business Information Warehousing

Data Modeling

InfoProvider

Using Different InfoProvider Types

Navigation Attributes

Dimensions

Structure of Dimension Tables

Dimension Modeling

BW Star Schema

Warehouse Management

Administrator Workbench Functions

Scheduler

Monitor

Source Systems

BW Statistics

Texts, Attributes, Hierarchies

Data Flow in BW

Transfer Rules

Update Rules

Business Content

Storing Data in BW

Data Targets

Architecture

Data Target - Administration

Aggregate Maintenance

Metadata Repository

<span style="font- size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana" Data Extraction into Business Warehousing from R/3 and Flat File Systems

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DataSources

Extraction from CO-PA

Creating a DataSource

Data Transfer

Data Extraction Logistics

LO Cockpit Functions

LO DataSources Data Flow in R/3

Structure of Delta Method for LO Cockpit DataSources

Delta Method for DataSources to LIS InfoStructures

Delta Method

Delta Method Components

Generic Extraction

Data Types

Data Sources

Enhancing Business Content

Extraction with Flat Files

Data Types that Can be Extracted using Flat Files

DB Connect

Reporting- The Purpose of BW

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Reporting

InfoProvider

Report/Report Interface

Business Explorer

The BEx Browser

BEx Query Designer

Analysis and Reporting in the BEx Analyzer

BEx Web Application Designer

Query Designer

Calculated and Restricted Key Figures

Properties of Key Figures

Navigation

Query Properties

Variables

Exceptions

Pre-Calculating Web Templates

BEx Web Application Designer

Web Items

Structuring the Layout of Web Templates

Cascading Stylesheets

Chart Designer

Web Analyzer

Ad-hoc Query Designer

<span style="font- size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana" SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management) BPS (Business Planning and Simulation)

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General concepts and challenges of business planning

Positioning of BPS and relationship to BW

Set up of planning structures

Manual planning and layout formatting

Locking concept and commit model used in BPS

Configuration of planning functions and sequences

I really appreciate the help.