I have just completed my SAP BI (Business Intelligence) training. If you have been following my blog for a while now, you would have noticed that I have been posting my notes and I view this as a good way to learn.
I have also noticed that you have to do a lot of practice when learning SAP. If you learn how to play golf, you can get all theory you want, but if you don’t go out and hit some balls, you will never be good at it. Even after you have been on the job for a couple of years, you will still have to do some practice in you spare time to freshen up on the skills which you have not been in contact with on a day to day basis. The amount of knowledge you have to know to master SAP Business intelligence is vast. This should not discourage you from learning. You only have to master the basics and the rest is derived from it. By the basics, I mean reporting, modelling concepts, performance tuning concepts etc.
Apart from learning these basics, you also have to practice because developing BI solutions consists of a lot of hands-on work, which I like. To get hands-on experience in using the software you would need to get access to an SAP server. There are a lot of companies that offer SAP access and I want to give you list of the ones I have come across.
I currently have 6 months of SAP access from the training institute I did my training with but I intend to pay for server access after this 6 months are over. SAP server access is very important to anybody trying to break into SAP because you need to show that you have some initial experience. You don’t want to turn up on your first day and start looking lost.
Here is the list.
- SID members is more on the expensive side, they charge £99.00 per month and £1200.00 per year. They offer access to an ECC 6.0 system. I am not sure if they have BI installed though
- Rent Our Server offers SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP BI 7.0 for $99.00
- IDESAccess offers 3 months of access for $199
- Access to Micheal management’s SAP servers start at $99.00 per month
Update: 09/11/2008 While doing some more research I found another company based in Australia that offer SAP Access. At $49/per month, this is by far the cheapest solution I found.
You really do not need to pay for server access until you have gone through a training course and you want to sharpen your skills.
If you have any experience with these sites, please let me know.
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