Job for Consultant: Re: [sap-career] From SAP to Oracle?

lundi 11 juillet 2011

Re: [sap-career] From SAP to Oracle?

Posted by Sai Krishna (SAP BI Consultant)
on Jul 11 at 5:38 AM

Hi,

Presales is definitely an exciting career and depending upon your
background, you could choose between technical and non-technical presales.
Another classification is Products or Services sales. Generally for product
sales, experienced people having expert knowledge of the product tend to
land into such careers. Services sales is a but different and
product-specific knowledge is not required much.

I believe a person is a better judge of his/her capacity for such a role as
in case of professional firms, its not only about going to firms and
delivering presentations. Although this is where you might start, you have
to be a part of the overall sales strategy, go-to-market strategy,
budgeting, marketing campaigns etc. as in the end, it is about the revenue
you have generated for the firm. It is definitely a promising and exciting
career path for the RIGHT person.

SAP Presales is a good career path but doing presales is much more about
knowing SAP, the product. You will have to understand the firm's business
goals and how to best position the firm against its competitors. In the long
run, you must be able to depict an insight into the overall market and how
to capitalize upon the opportunities that exist.

Hope this helps.

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Kate_
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:30 AM
Subject: From SAP to Oracle?

Hi Guys,

I have 10+ yrs experience in SAP as end user. Currently trying to find work as junior(!) SAP consultant.

As result of my activity I have got a call from an agent trying to get me in as "Oracle CRM OnDemand Pre-sales Consultant". I have never worked with Oracle, but heard from a few ex colleagues (also SAP-reared) no good about it.

Anybody here can compare the 2 systems from experience?

Also I haven't a clue what pre-sales consultant means and would rather appreciate an unbiased view. (Agents tend to distort job specs towards my career goal if they know what that is - at least in my experience).

Many thanks in advance,

Kate_

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