JonERP.com "Guide to Getting Your SAP Career Questions Answered"
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Jon Reed’s Introduction: Recently, I put together a guided tour to getting your SAP career questions answered. That tour has proven to be pretty popular, and you can take that tour here. However, I wanted to provide JonERP.com visitors with the full text of the entire tour below. I recommend you try the actual tour on Trailfire.com first, but if you want to refer back to any of the text, you can check each stop on the tour out here. This tour will give you some keys to how I analyze the SAP consulting market and learn about SAP skills trends.

Jon Reed's new introduction, 2008: I wrote this important piece on writing an effective SAP resume years ago, and it has disappeared from the web. We are now publishing it as it was originally written. Over time, I hope to update it further, but there is plenty of useful info in this version that you can put to use right away.

Jon Reed's new introduction, 2008: In the mid-‘90s, one of the first pieces I wrote about SAP was a much-read article called "The Art of SAP Interviewing." Eventually Michael Doane and I incorporated this into our SAP Consultant Handbook. In this article you're about to read, I have brought together some of the best aspects of the original book version and the original web version.

Jon Reed's new introduction, 2008:  In the mid-‘90s, we used to get a lot of questions about handling SAP phone screens. I put together a web guide that went out of print, and then Michael Doane and I published part of it in our SAP Consultant Handbook. In this article you're about to read, I have brought together some of the best aspects of the original book version and the original web version.

An Historical View of SAP EAI Trends:
Jon Reed Looks Back on His Interview with SAP EAI Expert Dave Bernard

Jon Reed's Introduction, February 2008: Looking back on my interview with Dave Bernard on SAP EAI technologies, I am struck by how today's EAI market is both fundamentally similar and fundamentally different. As I share these classic pieces with JonERP.com readers, my goal is to help frame today's market by understanding the history of particular SAP technologies and how they evolved. But there's more to these articles than history - there are skills lessons that can be applied today.

An Historical View of SAP Enterprise Portals:
Jon Reed Looks Back on His Interview with Portals Expert Pat McCarthy

Jon Reed's Introduction, January 2008: In September of 2002, I sat down with Pat McCarthy, Enterprise Portals expert, about the emergence of the SAP Enterprise Portals project. The interview was very popular with mySAPcareers readers, and I'm pleased to be able to offer it in its entirety for JonERP.com members.

An Historical View of SAP Business Warehouse:
Jon Reed Looks Back on His Interview with NetWeaver BI Expert Naeem Hashmi

Jon Reed's Introduction, April 2008: I'm pleased to present, in its entirety, this classic interview with Naeem Hashmi of InfoFrameworks on the emergence of the SAP BW product (now called NetWeaver BI). At the time I sat down with Naeem for this detailed look at birth and evolution of BW, we were a long way from the BI of today. But in the years since, many things that Naeem predicted have come true.

An Historical View of the SAP SEM Consultant:
Jon Reed Looks Back on His Interview with SAP SEM Consultant Paul Halley

A Look Back on EAI Consulting in an ERP World with B2B Workforce's Brian Trout

A Look Back with B2B Workforce's Brian Trout

Jon Reed's new introduction, April 2008: In January of 1999, I had the opportunity to interview Bobby Cameron, Principal Analyst at Forrester, about SAP's position in the evolving ERP market. Things are different now, but in the mid-‘90s, Forrester really was the thought leader in the ERP marketplace in terms of analyzing trends, and also providing a cautionary tone towards some of the over-spending and over-hype that was occurring in the market at that time. Nowadays, there is no one analyst firm that has a corner on the vision for the market.