I have 3.4 years of ABAP experience. Planning to learn SAP BI and Move to BI. Kindly Suggest

Hi Experts,
I have been working for almost 3 and half years on SAP ABAP. Now i am planning to Learn SAP BI/BW and move my carrier to SAP BI/BW Completely.
What would be the opportunities and carrier growth in the coming years for this combination. Please suggest.
I have read all the previous posts which were posted a year back about the same combination. But please suggest according to the present trend.
I will definitely consider your each and every suggestion of you as a priority one to my carrier growth.
Thanks and Regards,
V Shankar

HI V
if you already know it's better opportunities then it sounds like you have already answered your question
if you are not familiar with the concept of big data or HANA I recommend you enter those terms in your search engine or look at SCN Front page and start reading
as far as how to retrain and transition that will really depend on your current employment situation. What would be a great combination is a mix of ABAP with HANA. Without going into further detail I think you will gain more insight by your own research
regards
Colleen

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