Enterprise SOA & Solution Manager - any particular skills to be learnt ?

Hi all,
I have 8+ yrs exp in SAP, across MM WM & SolMan areas, all as Functional Consultant.
I have made some basic readings about SOA and am very glad to see a lot of strides being made by SAP in this area.
I am keen to know what are the exact tangible skills in SOA that a Functional guy should learn, to be of relevance in Consulting/Job market? In particular, are there skills that would help offer a customer a easier roadmap to SOA by using Solution Manager as an enabler.
Best regards,
Srini

Hi Mendel,
Being new to ESOA, I could now appreciate some of the points you have highlighted. Many thanks.
I posed this question due to earlier instances of other people speaking of the two tools/methods as being almost complementary. [like [this|http://www.sap.com/community/events/2006_11_02_On24/index.epx] webcast].
I am experienced in SolMan, but new to ESOA and was keen to see what further skills should I pick up, if I have to offer some enabling inputs to any ESOA team that's running a project, and evinces interest to implement SolMan too.
I guess I have a lot more reading to do on ESOA and find out certain connections myself. For instance, I am keen to know:
(1) How SolMan can help define Business Scenarios that span Services as opposed to mere Logical Components that are involved
(2) How would the Project System Landscape look like ?
(3) How would a project created in ESOA framework lend itself to Business Process (& Interface) Monitoring via SolMan ?
(4) All other SolMan provided scenarios - like Change Request Management (ChaRM), Solution Monitoring, Integration of SolMan with HP QC tool for test purposes - how can a ESOA project benefit from these ?
I am sorry if these queries are inchoate and not clear enough expressions.
The best way to learn would perhaps be to be thrown into a ESOA project, but there aren't many to land in
Best regards,
Srini

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