Hee..hee.. spammenotspam .. I've worked for major MNCs in Oil&Gas + electronics/manufacturing before and most of them do have SAP as their back end systems. Oracle is good only for the database .. not the application..

This post has been edited by wiraone: Jul 8 2008, 10:06 PM

Yup, I do know Oracle have their own ERP system, the same goes to few other software houses that went folded down, either bought by the big twos or .. gone with the wind. Anyway, I'm no longer with Shell .. was there in 2000-2003 .. yes, doing SAP support .. what else

This post has been edited by wiraone: Jul 10 2008, 12:50 PM

Not really .. half of my friends who started doing ABAP are now happily doing functional and earning more than some of us who stick with ABAP or technical ..

ABAP course for RM35K? No thank you! You don't really need certification .. and I don't believe in extra certification. If I were to hire someone, his/her degree should be enough, he/she should be able to do some logic .. e.g. going from A to B .. and whatifs in between .. and surely attitude too .. hee.. hee..

Been doing ABAP since 1992 ... and stuck to it .. don't want to go the functional way .. don't want to go to the management way .. so, stick to be specialised only on ABAP for now (no Java .. just pure ABAP on R/3 and CRM). Anyway, my comment was specifically on the certification where you don't learn enough business flow in that RM35k/25days training. All these can be had during your attachement.. either in project or while doing support. Hope you understand my point there... why waste your money on certification .. (it will be different if your company send you for it tho' .. 25 days holiday .. !!)..

This post has been edited by wiraone: Jul 15 2008, 11:16 PM

Ouch .. Siebel? A defunct company who was bought over by Oracle?

And I guess that is why many have ditching ABAPers from 'you know where' because of the same reason. It is not what you thought you're getting, you get .. In any project, you've just enough time to guide/lead people around but many 'con'sulting firms will just put newcomers onboard or those 'cheap labours' to gain experience. You pay peanuts, you surely got monkeys!

SAP Portal requires Java knowledge .. No idea if there is a demand here, but it surely in demand elsewhere in the world especially when companies started implementing CRM system to cater for B2B or B2C customers. We've implemented it, but nobody in the team knows Java .. so, we're totally depending on external consultant for now.

We're engaging Bluefin Solutions (UK) and IT for People (Dutch) for now to work on SAP Portal.

R/3 & CRM .. doing all there .. developer, support and consultant ..

That sounds good, by cutting job means that they're cutting the headcount of their developers too. No more headache for us!! Yes .. especially for the 'traditional' developers like me. I hate it when those newer developers in SAP introduced lot of new stuff which we could not understand .. ABAP Object etc which is totally out of the world for us .. So .. go ahead SAP, cut the jobs .. and cut some of our headaches ..

Oh no .. don't tell me that I need to compete with 17 yrs old .. arghh.. what happened to this world???

WTH is BO?

Ouch .. another abbreviation in SAP that I don't know .. old man already.. could not help much since I'm not exposed to BO. Done some extractors for BW tho'.. that surely involve ABAP.

This is purely BULLSHIT! Spending RM3K for a paper which proves you nothing. I'll rather do something with my RM3K .. and not wasting it on useless paper.

Tough luck if you believe on that GUIXT is just a scripting language which allows you to customise screens based on user requirement but nothing more than that. I rarely see implementation which requires the use of guixt. ABAP is more than that .. it is the language used by SAP to run the core of the system, without ABAP, the system will be crippled. So, as long as SAP is still in use by businesses, I will say that the ABAPers will still be required. However, the emerging technologies brought by SAP might require you to be proficient in OO and as Java as well. For most of us who just know ABAP .. the future will still be there .. don't worry!

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Added on April 17, 2009, 7:54 amWaa.. love the job .. did a performance tuning stint before .. and it was great when your customers come back and say .. "good job mate .. you've really improve the system a lot .. " .. hee..hee.. believe it or not, changing the way you extract data will actually bring down the runtime from hours to minutes.

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Added on April 17, 2009, 7:59 amI was in one of the project run by SAP in UK for IS-Insurance. But ... heck, the way SAP did the implementation wasn't far different from the way the consulting companies do theirs. The only advantage is, SAP has pool of 'experts' which can be called anytime but they do cost a lot of money too to bring these 'experts' in.

This post has been edited by wiraone: Apr 17 2009, 07:59 AM

cheezy, not even close to that lah .. guixt is used mainly to customise complicated transactions where may be half of the fields are not required in regular transactions. E.g. FB01 screens, there are too many of unused fields for the user, so you could create a variant transaction using GUIXT to simply the data entry.. that it .. not much you can do with GUIXT.

Out of more than 15 yrs experience in SAP, I only come across one implementation that uses GUIXT. And I don't think it will be helpful in designing interface/BDC since GUIXT as it said, GUI Extension .. requires front end.

Accenture = Reliable? Questionable for sure But one thing tho' they're reliable in sipping every single sen from the clients .. haa..haa..

Come again? Superb in what?

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Added on May 7, 2009, 7:08 pmProbably stuck in Shell project for the past five years

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Added on May 7, 2009, 7:10 pmOuch.. now we know who is thinking of leaving ..

This post has been edited by wiraone: May 7 2009, 07:10 PM