Job for Consultant: RE: [sap-career] IDES (SAP Demo system) experience only

mardi 26 juillet 2011

RE: [sap-career] IDES (SAP Demo system) experience only

Posted by Thomas_Dulaney (IS Specialist)
on Jul 26 at 9:20 AM

I once had a friend who seriously thought he could become a pro golfer by only practicing at the driving range and on the putting green. So? here's the question? how do you think he did? Is it possible to become a professional golfer if you've never really played a round of golf? It's been 20 years and I haven't seen him on the pro circuit, so I'm assuming he kept his day job.

Practicing SAP on an IDES system is no different than expecting to master golf at the driving range. It's an artificial environment and without real users banging on the system creating real problems, you'll never really know how to solve real world problems. No one in a hiring position is going to consider IDES experience. IDES is a great supplement to real world experience. You may run into issues that are difficult to troubleshoot in your day to day job that you can address with IDES. You may want to do some what-if scenario tangents, that your day job might not be happy with if you were to try them on their system. But it's not going to substitute for doing the job, day to day. Having said that, you might win some brownie points for showing initiative, but that would only give you an advantage over another person with absolutely no real world experience. If you're up against someone with even 6 months real world experience, you'll probably lose.

Just my opinion!
--Tom

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Typewriter
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:23 AM
Subject: IDES (SAP Demo system) experience only

Hi Experts,
A sub-question was raised in this forum, & I wanted to get more clarity about it; therefore I request you to advise on the following -

A candidate is new to SAP & wants to practice SAP concepts in IDES (test system) for 1 year.

1. What can he/she not learn by practicing in IDES that shall put him/her at a disadvantage during implementation & support projects?

2. What major issues can he/she face while looking for SAP functional consultant jobs?

many thanks!

Regards,
Typewriter

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