Database Reference
In-Depth Information
SAP Corporate Master's Program
SAP has collaborated with certain educational institutions to establish a corporate master's
program. Upon completing this program, you will receive an academic degree such as MBA
or MSc from the participating university. The following URL will provide more information
regarding this program.
www.sap.com/services/education/certification/corporate-master-program/index.epx
SAP Basis/NetWeaver Career Trends
In this section we will discuss SAP Basis career trends and related issues, such as how SAP
skills have evolved, what skills are hot right now, the impact of outsourcing on Basis jobs,
and emerging SAP Basis skills in areas such as virtualization and cloud computing environ-
ments.
Evolution of Basis/NetWeaver Skills
The SAP Basis skill set has evolved over time as the technology changed from being
centered on mainframes to the client-server model, and later on to the web infrastructure and
now moving toward virtualization, cloud computing, and in-memory database environ-
ments. Also the complexity of the SAP Basis job has increased over a period of time. In the
client-server environments with SAP R/3 (the old name for current SAP ECC/ERP system)
