Hi,
It will be ideal if you shift to BI and later on take some training in BO. Being an ABAPer will help you a lot in BI. The knowledge of BO will greatly expand your horizon in the technical arena.
The combination of ABAP, BI and BO will give that edge you need in the future to survive in the technical market.
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1) Take some BO training for your short-term competitive edge. Learn the business intelligence language of non-SAP business users. SAP BI consultants need to become enterprise bi-linguals. Learn the BO Data Integrator (which is Acta ETL tool), which could eventually become the SAP ETL tool for non-SAP data sources without coding ABAP.
2) Get some training in Enterprise Architecture (EA). This will help you understand the actual business processes that span across SAP and non-SAP solutions, how people use information and when/how/why they make decisions that pertain to the BI side. You will be a better BI consultant with some EA understanding, and this will enable you to diversify your profession as well.
3) I would also suggest to BO consultants to start learning SAP BI and get used to the SAP BI lingo. The BO universes will disappear from the SAP universe sooner than you may have imagined. Prepare yourself with SAP BI.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
JituK
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Edited by: Jitu Krishna on Apr 12, 2008 1:02 PM