SAP Basis career path Options

Hi All,
Can anyone tell me, what are all the SAP Basis career path options available in future for a Basis/NetWeaver Administrator?
Regards,
Rajkumar

Hello Rajkumar Bhumij
There are n number of skills you can focuses inside sap basis, listing a few important ones
1)Sap abap and java adminstration
2)sap solution manager skills
3)sap security
4)sap database adminstration
5)unix linux and operating systems skills can add very well for your career growth in sap basis.
Also have a look at new things like sap hana(High Performance Analytic appliance) and cloud computing skills so that for life time you can stand in the same domain.Go ahead .
all the best
alen

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I am a network professional working in the past 20 years supporting Novell and Microsoft OS and applications. Now I am looking for a path to start a different career.
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Hi Surendra,
You might want to check the [SAP Education technology certification page|http://www.sap.com/services/education/certification/index.epx], and select 'SAP NetWeaver' + 'Technology' + 'Technology Consultant' to retrieve the list of SAP certifications.
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I appreciate the length and detail of your post. I struggle answering questions from folks who give too little info. It's refreshing to have too much info for a change.
I'll summarize your post and give suggestions:
You have very strong end user experience, almost bordering on support level SD knowledge. You have experience with the way that at least one company implemented SAP SD but don't have many years of experience with different approaches, so you can't pitch yourself as someone who's "been-there, done-that" outside of the SD world and you can't bill yourself as having SD functional knowledge to the extend that you could be a consultant for SAP SD. (See FAQ: Different Career Paths in SAP for descriptions of different traditional SAP career paths.)
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You've found work at a company but had to start over at a lower level of responsibility. Since the job you just landed will be transitioning to SAP in 3 months, you have an opportunity to repeat your previous rise by volunteering to be a super-user again. Alternatively, you could talk to the group within your company and express your desire to help out supporting the system from the back end. Traditionally, companies lose a few folks immediately following an implementation, so there's a good chance that if you make your desires and skills known, that you'll be able to move onto the support team once a position opens up.
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Best regards,
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My name is Shaun and I am currently studying as a Bachelor in Economics, Majoring in Accounting and Economic History.
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I am not sure whether I want to do a CA or should I just go straight and be a SAP Certified Consultant.
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Hi Guru's,
I am in IT Infrastructure Management and I have more than 10 years of working experience in multiple companies. I have completed MCA, BCA, CCNA and ITIL and in my last job I was Sr. Manager IT.
I started my career as a Customer Support Engineer in 2004 and then promoted as a Network Engineer and then Team Leader and then Project Manager and then Asst. Manager IT and finally Sr. Manager IT. I switched 6 companies (ISP,IT,Pharmaceutical, Education etc.). Unfortunately my field demands lot of hard-work and payed very little(I got only 5 lac pa) on the other hand I saw several people who moved in SAP they get higher salaries and growing rapidly.
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Yours faithfully,
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