Moving into SAP - SOA - Netweaver

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm a non SAP person and currently work as a Technical Architect in SOA field predominantly from middle ware integration, Java & J2EE background with an overall experience of 10+ years.

I specialise in IBM WebSphere domain specially BPEL, EIS Adapters, Web Service, ESB, and BPM using IBM's WebSphere Process Server.

Just to mention, I'm not just a white board architect and am pretty much hands on person capable of developing the integration solutions using SOA , Webservices & BPEL.

<u>I'm very keen to know if it is possible and WORTH getting into SAP at this stage. You might be wondering why? and the answer to that is to acquire new skills and thus make myself more competitive and marketable and of course with a big monetary benefit

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Recently I've been hearing a lot about the SAP's implementation of BPEL4WS, Netweaver, SOA and XI, and was thinking it might not be as hard as I'm assuming?? (I may be wrong, please please do let me know if I am

Any suggestions and guidance in this matter is most welcome and appreciate your time to read and answer my post.

Thanks

Amitesh

[sbhutani1]

Also if you learn the XI skills then it would be very helful to you because XI is the central and most important part of ESOA and will be acting as Business Process Platform for the future SAP applications.

Regards

Sumit Bhutani

[Former Member]

Hi, Srikant & Sumit,

Thanks for your suggestions and taking out your time to answer my query.

Would you suggest any road map to get trained or learn the ESO tools and XI etc.

Appreciate your help.

Regards

Amitesh

[sbhutani1]

well for learning ESOA and XI, there are lots of available SAP training sessions on the SDN.

follow these two links for ESOA and XI learning sessions by SAP

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/esoa-elearning

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/xi-elearning

Also if these replies have helped you then dont forget to reward points

Regards

Sumit Bhutani

[former_member445109]

Hi Amitesh,

You are strong in java technologies, so add the some basic skills of SAP ABAP that will more helpfull for you, if you want switch to SAP.

Assuming You also strong in SOA, both ESOA, SOA are conceptualwise same but in SAP, using different tools like CAF,VC etc for developing process.

In ESOA more thing consulting part have to work for customers.

I think you can easily adopt these new technologies.

Rgrds

Srikanth

[Former Member]

Hi Srikanth,

Why do you think that adding some basic SAP ABAP skillis will be helpful for learning XI?

Regards

Mike