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Jon Reed Interviews Marco ten Vaanholt, Global Director of SAP BPX, Presented by B2B Workforce. "The SAP BPX Community Leader explains the role of BPX and how SAP professionals can evolve into Business Process Experts (BPEs)."
Jon gets Marco's views on how to become an SAP Business Process expert, and how SAP BPX can help with this transition. Marco explains the various components of the BPE skill set, and Jon and Marco discuss how quickly SAP consultants need to make these skills changes and what the next steps are. Jon also asks Marco to break down the BPE skills needed from two directions: SAP technical and SAP functional job roles. Marco goes into specifics about the tools that SAP consultants will want to master to stay marketable. He also ties in the emerging BPE role with SAP's Enterprise SOA initiative and the broader need for Web 2.0 skills.
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Jon Reed Interviews Kent Sanders, SAP Enterprise Architect, Presented by B2B Workforce. "An inside look at how Enterprise SOA is Changing SAP Projects and SAP Skills"
Jon Reed speaks with SAP Enterprise Architect Kent Sanders, and gets Kent's take on the keys to attracting and retaining SAP talent, how SAP developers can stay relevant on projects and reduce the risk of being outsourced, and how Kent's project team has developed a different way of obtaining "buy in" for eSOA projects, building support "from the bottom up." During this thirty-five minute podcast, Kent talks about the tools SAP professionals need to master to stay relevant, and how his project finds the right mix between outside consultants and internal training.
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B2B Career Questions, December 2007
Jon Reed
Q: I am considering specializing in an SAP industry solution. I was thinking about IS-Media or maybe EH&S, perhaps with some GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) exposure. What do you think?
JR: Industry Solutions are a tricky area to specialize in within SAP. Once you pick an industry solution as a focus, you are in a narrow area of specialization, which might be problematic in terms of making sure you are eligible for a wide range of positions. Of course, it all depends on how much demand there is for the industry solution you are pursuing.
Let's start out by making a distinction between specializing in an industry and specializing in an industry solution. Not all SAP customers in a particular industry are actually using the industry solution for that industry. In this case, the question pertains to the ability to implement and configure SAP's industry solution. So one aspect of our question is: which industry solutions are the most popular within SAP currently?
Where is the demand for skills the highest?
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Keep Holiday Stress to a Minimum: Learn to Say No
Before your holiday stress levels start to rise, learn these 4 simple tactics for saying no to unnecessary obligations.
By Katherine Kam
WebMD Feature
For many of us, the holidays were magical in childhood, carefree times to be savored. But then we grew into hordes of harried adults, falling victim to the season's high expectations. Holiday stress has become as much a tradition as the Christmas ham.
"People are overcommitted," says Marc D. Skelton, PhD, PsyD, a psychologist in Laguna Niguel, Calif. "Christmas and other holidays around this time are always supposed to be fun, and you're supposed to do a good job in terms of entertaining friends and family."
In an attempt to live up to the season's tall orders, "people will just run from pillar to post," he says. It's not even "Christmas" anymore, some of his clients lament. It's "Stressmas."
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How much do you know about the most widely celebrated December holidays in the United States? Test your knowledge of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza with the quizzes below.
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