Blog of SAP Business Intelligence Insights & Information - Lonnie Ayers, CEO and SAP Certified Consultant

New to the SAP Consulting world?  Not to worry, everybody had to start fresh at some point, sometimes by design and sometimes, accidentally.  Like any demanding profession, there are a number of areas where you will need to work constantly to achieve the skill level required to excel in SAP Consulting:

Have recently read several articles on the state of SAP Certification and the value of SAP Certification.   I think the authors miss the point.  They are asking whether the existing SAP Certification is valuable and ‘fit for purpose’.   The more important question is whether SAP, the company, has designed a SAP training and certification system that is appropriate for the task, or is simply focused on generating revenue (and profit) for SAP versus supplying the market with the appropriately skilled consulting skills.  Also important is whether they have designed a system that benefits the consultants themselves (who are also customers of SAP, who many times pay for the expensive training themselves).