COMPUTER TRAINING COURSE- SAP / COGNOS / ABAP

Source:- Freshersworld

What is SAP?

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products. It  is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall.

It is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software. The company's best known products are its enterprise resource planning application (SAP ERP), SAP Business Objects software, and most recently, Sybase mobile products and in-memory computing appliance SAP HANA.

The SAP not only enables customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications but is also an integration plateform for  the applications and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft use SAP are using SAP products to run their own businesses.

SAP applications provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The latest version of SAP includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.

SAP has recently recast its product offerings under a comprehensive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new e-business applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM).

SAP India began its operations in 1996 with headquarters in Bangalore and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and a direct presence in nine cities across India, besides having marketing associates in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Why SAP?

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions.

Over the last 11 years, SAP has been the undisputed market leader in the Indian enterprise software market. So learning this technology undoubtedly presents hugecareer opportunities are huge in SAP technology and this technology truly makes you a different face in crowd

Declared as the 'Hub of the year in Asia Pacific and Japan" in 2007, SAP India witnessed an unprecedented growth of over 100% both in terms of license revenue and customer acquisition.

Career and job opportunities in SAP are huge and also the monetary benefits one gets in this career is good. The entry would be bit challenging as the demand for this job is high so is the number of candidates for this job. Apart from having very good opportunities for SAP people the technology would long last for a great period of time which gives security of job in the market. You must clearly understand the enterprise's area of interest and must choose the appropriate module in SAP to get a great place in the job market.

So in a nut shell SAP enables you for

• Business analytics services
• IT transformation
• Custom development

Modules available in SAP are:

Functional Tracks

• Financials Accounting (FI)
• Management Accounting (CO)
• Human Resources (HR)
• Supply Chain Management - Order Fulfilment (SD)
• Supply Chain Management - Procurement (MM)
• Supply Chain Management - Planning & Manufacturing (PP)
• Product Lifecycle Management - Project Management (PS)
• Product Lifecycle Management - Plant Maintenance (PM)
• Product Lifecycle Management - Quality Management (QM)

Technical Tracks

• ABAP Workbench (Fundamentals & Concepts): SAP ABAP Programming

Scope of SAP

• Financial and public services
• Banking
• Defense and security
• Healthcare
• Higher education and research
• Insurance
• Public sector
• Manufacturing
• Aerospace and defense
• Automotive
• Chemicals
• Consumer products
• Engineering, construction, and operations
• High tech
• Industrial machinery and components
• Life sciences Mill products
• Mining
• Oil and gas
• Service
• Media
• Professional services
• Retail
• Telecommunications
• Travel and logistics services
• Utilities
• Wholesale distribution

Eligibility

Usually for Functional module, you need to have a minimum of 2-3 years of industrial experience in the relevant business function area and domain experience and for technical module of SAP you need to be strong in programming concepts, recommended for people with minimum 1-2 years of technical experience.