ABAP/4 for Not Yet Techies 2

"Computer Careers: A Hot Skill -- High Tech Jobs Programming for the Current #1 Enterprise Resource Package, SAP R/3"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

That’s where you and a computer career with ABAP/4 come in

ABAP/4 is the programming language used to make those changes to the SAP packages. The company doesn’t want to wait until next year for the changes it makes to show up in the software it uses, it needs the changes made yesterday. Therefore, ABAP/4 helps to have people readily available and trained to make the changes and development it needs.

The bad news is that all SAP training is expensive. At $10,000 to $20,000, most of it is paid for by companies training their employees in the new software packages. Employee training is in fact one of the largest expenses for a company purchasing SAP (or any similar ERP software). It’s not easy to find (or pay for) if you are not already in the loop.

The good news is that many more books are available to teach you ABAP/4 and all other aspects of a computer job with SAP than is true of other ERP software.

Of course, they cost $40-$50 or so depending on your online bookstore discount, but that’s a lot less than $10,000 to $20,000 to learn it.

It also helps to have experience in as many of the above business areas as possible. Nobody can have extensive experience in all of them, of course, but the more overall business experience with a major company you can say you have, so you do at least know one end of an inventory control system from the other, the better off you are. Because not all the answers are going to be in the software.

Therefore, it would be to your advantage once you know ABAP/4 to look for work within the industry or industries in which you have your experience.

If you’ve been a junior banking executive and you apply for work with a toy manufacturer, they may doubt your ability to design software to meet their order tracking needs.

Once you acquire skill and some experience in ABAP/4 though, you have a very marketable computer careers commodity for the right company or for becoming an independent consultant.

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