Who’s majoring in SAP this semester?

My car and I moved at a slow crawl along the Massachusetts Turnpike on my commute home the other day, much of the road clogged by students heading through Newton, Mass. back to the many Boston colleges. Between marveling at how much a college kid can fit into a Civic and punching the radio station...
Learn SAP without spending all your money

Editor's Note: Last month, SearchSAP Expert Axel Angeli offered his take on how to get into SAP Basis. A reader responded by asking Axel how, when SAP prices...
Enterprise Support reveals a continental divide among SAP user groups

When a warranty runs out on a car, you don't typically opt for a more expensive warranty, or even extend it. You undergo the obligatory maintenance and when the car starts running really badly and breaks down, you put a lot of thought, and money, into outright replacing it. You then purchase a new...
How to get started in SAP

The demand for SAP technology and functional consultants is near an all-time high. However, if you don't already have an SAP job, building an SAP career remains a difficult undertaking.
Solving IDoc problems

IDoc is the SAP format in which data pertaining to business transactions gets exchanged. SAP end users and consultants specializing in supplier relationship management (SRM), procurement, and even application development are frequently exposed to IDocs, which can pose all kinds of technical...
Are your business intelligence users smarter than a high schooler?

Having a tough time getting business executives to do their own business intelligence? Well, at The Thacher School, a 119-year-old boarding high school in California, students and parents are conducting analysis on their own, using Xcelsius Present, a new application that converts Excel...
Web Dynpro: A surging SAP career opportunity

SAP's resident NetWeaver expert, Axel Angeli, has answered a flurry of reader questions lately, and one of the emerging themes is the strength of Web Dynpro as an SAP career skill. Web Dynpro lies within NetWeaver and is the programming model for Web-based business applications. Axel sees a strong...
SAP’s Bill McDermott offers growth clues

Are there acquisitions in SAP's future? SAP's Bill McDermott told SearchSAP.com last week that "...there are many ways that we can grow with our existing accounts." The president and CEO of SAP global...
Want an SAP job? Build your SAP intelligence

The most popular SAP-related question we see is, "How do I get into SAP?" The promise of a rewarding career with the world's largest enterprise applications company attracts a lot of interest from university graduates, IT professionals seeking to switch fields and consultants eager for recurring...