Advice on joining the SAP world

Having been in SAP for some years I get asked this question how to get into SAP as a career. I was writing this to a close friend of mine and thought of putting it on the blog. This advice is a rather first step to decide which stream to join in SAP -

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Back from SAP TechED 2007

Last night I landed back in San Jose on US Airways 162 which should have been dubbed rather TechED flight. I am sure more than 50% folks were returning from Mandalay Bay. It was easily the biggest TechED so far with 6000 folks from all over the US, quite a few from outside US [...]

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The coming of composites

Enterprise software has been of great interest to me since the college days. Sadgopan who heads eBusiness and Consulting for Satyam has written an excellent article on evolution of enterprise software and the direction it is going to take in future. He is musing
With globalization and a flat world [...]

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See the big picture at News.com

Read over at Silicon Beat about the new Big Picture feature of New.com. It tells you about the related stories, companies and concepts related to the present story. Immediately went and checked this story. See what the big picture is.

Isn’t it interesting how SAP has Micorsoft, Oracle in its vicinity.

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indiOne hotels by Tata Group

A nice hotel is a must for any business traveller. A good night at a decent hotel can do good for the business. As a SAP professional constantly on the road, I can associate with this. Just read over at Rajesh Jain’s Emergic about the new hotels from Tata group called indiOne. Rajesh has [...]

In the rosy days of late nineties there were three pure portal play companies. Plumtree, Epicentric and Toptier. Then sometime in late 2000 SAP decided to complement there technology platform with a portal offering. They acquired Toptier for whopping $400 millions and married it with their existing portal product called workplace. This was a great [...]

Something to watch for – SAP and Linux

I was smitten by Linux very early in my tech life. I still remember how long it took to configure X Windows on a CEL machine in the summer of 95. SAP also has a special initiative for linux It pleased me to read about German Railways migration to linux over here. What got me [...]

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SAP on Slashdot

If something makes a news on Slashdot it has to belong to the kingdom of day-to-day geeks. Typically SAP professionals start getting the news about cool technologies brewing inside the tech giant thru various niche magazines and lately SDN. I was excited to read Dagfinn Parnas’s article SAP Virtual Machine Container (as seen on [...]

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A good Diwali greeting

I got a nice Diwali greeting from someone at SAP. I love it.

I too have been sending HTML greetings over the years. What I liked about this one was the right header, content and footer.
Pankaj

Real Time – A tribute to Hasso Plattner

Got the book in the mail today courtesy Jeff Nolan of SAP Ventures. Some one, I think Vivekanand, said once to the effect that if you need advice on something, see what the great men of the world did in the same situation. It would be intersting to read how Hasso made a company with [...]

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