Pls advice to make a career path in SAP

Hi,
My qualification is MCA... Fresher... working in past 4months... Now am supporting Internal Billing applications of my organization developed by ASP and ASP.net with back end SQL server.... In my team SAP people also there for support to the functions of HRIS (Human Resource Information System and the Billing Applications). I am having the opportunity to get the knowledge from the SAP team... with in short period am able to slowly and slowly move to that team.. So please advise me is that SAP functions are having good growth.... and i start to learn technical SAP ABAP first by that suggestion given by that SAP team member... pls anybody give advise?
Moderator message: moved from ABAP General to Career Center, please post in correct forum next time.
Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Oct 26, 2010 9:57 AM

Dear Ayyappan,
It is you to decide whether you should opt for technical or the functional expertise based on your qualifications and interest areas. As you are the best judge of your own skills!!
As per my take, seeing your experience i strongly feel that you have some technical background and should opt for the technical ABAP expertise. In case u feel that you are good at the functional expertise as well and can make a mark then you should go for techno functional modules which requires the knowledge of both the technical as well as functional i.e., in case of all Industrial modules like the ISU etc.
Regards,
Prashant

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