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About
I started my career at SAP Africa in 2000 as an ABAP Developer. My initiation into the SAP World was to spend my first six months writing SAP Scripts and ABAP Reports. Soon after that I was thrown onto a Mobile Sales 2.0B implementation because I happened to list Visual Basic as a skill on my CV.
I have been on SAP CRM projects since(…luckily not Mobile Sales). The SAP market in South Africa is relatively small compared to the rest of the world, but the upside of this is you have the opportunity to get involved in many diverse projects and roles. I currently work for Consnet, a CRM Special Expertise Partner for SAP in South Africa.
These days, most of my time is spent in meetings, presentations and MS Office.
However, I still do the occasional bit of ABAP or CRM config and will try to dump whatever I am busy with here. This blog may contain anything related to SAP, CRM, ABAP, Basis, Web Development and the Consulting Business in general.
Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed in this blog are my own, and as such should not be taken as the views or opinions of Consnet or for that matter SAP. You should not even assume that they are accurate, unbiased or correct(I will try though).
August 8, 2008 - 1:55 pm
I would like to know what is a good way and where to go to get started in SAP ABAP. Maybe online tutor and later certification. Do you have any recommendations?
August 27, 2008 - 5:48 pm
ABAP is a programming language like any other. I think first decide if you are a programmer or not. If you are a programmer, there are 2 things you will need to learn:
1. The syntax, and this is easy.
2. The SAP environment(really hard), but you can only gain this via practical experience.
I would make 2 suggestions.
1. The quality of ABAP help has degraded, but help.sap.com, still has some good info(If you can get your hands on a 4.6C help file use it. Its better). Also, read sdn.sap.com and the net in general, lots of examples to be found.
2. Get a system and start developing apps(this is the quickest way to learn). You can order this for free at http://www.sap.com/linux. SAP will ship you a CD for free. It is a older release with no ERP features and only runs on Linux, but ABAP is still there. There are other test drives available as well.
I assume you want to do certification without formal training? You can, but it is tough to find and get through all the material covered in the course.