Why SAP is considered as highest paying jobs?

This article will help you answer your queries related to pay scale offered in SAP consulting and related WH-Questions.
We often hear that salaries drawn by SAP professionals are at a higher range and SAP domain offers most happening salary packages in the software and ERP business.
Many professionals’ compare salaries drawn by SAP consultants with other platforms like JAVA, networking, software programming, sales and marketing or maintenance and end up with finding that the SAP professionals make more money than they ever dreamt of.

Is that because extensive travel involvement, insufficient supply in the market or anything else?

No. Even companies don’t prefer their resources to travel extensively and increase cost to company unnecessarily. No company offers higher salary packages only because of extensive travel requirement of profile.

It could be because all colleges mass-produce Java Programmers, Web Developers, Application Developers and Android Developers and even Sales & Marketing executives. But, you will hardly find any ABAP-programmer or SAP Functional Consultant coming straight from the college/university. SAP is a technology you cannot really learn at home or office. It needs use cases to be learned in valuable way. And let’s not forget that you cannot compare apples with oranges. So it indicates that it is probably an issue of supply and demand of SAP professionals.

As SAP is doing well, so SAP consultants are in high demand, whether it is technical consultants or functional consultants. Around 80% Fortune 500 companies that we dream of working in uses SAP platform.

Listed below are few common findings ensuring heavy packages in SAP

The Demand-Supply ratio:
The Supply is much less when we compare with the demand of SAP professionals. This is why the employers are ready to pay up extra in order to meet the demand of highly trained SAP recruits.

Increasing ROI of Companies:
SAP consultants are highly paid by the companies so that their Return on Investment increases over the period of time and the cost can be controlled with amplified performance.

The challenging job:
The work profile of the SAP consultant is quite challenging which makes their polishes their learning and improves growth rate, as this the core of any organization. A small bug can end up with wastage of billions. This is why, the career of the SAP consultant is truly rewarding.

SAP Implementation in Fortune 500 & similarly capable companies:
SAP implementations are usually carried out in the high budget companies or the large scale organizations. These companies have the capacity of paying their employees with a better pay packages. This is also a reason because of which the SAP consultants get such an attractive pay package compared to the other IT fields.

Education of the employee:
A recent study said that the education level or qualification does play an important role in the employee’s salary hike or increment. But once you get the experience in the field it adds more value to your resume than your education.

We hope you’ll find this stuff useful in planning and shifting your career in SAP. If you still have any doubts and queries you can directly connect to our SAP career counselor and placement team for insights.

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SAP Certification & Career:

Why people attract towards SAP as Career?

The main reason is great salaries, Work-Life balance and salary hikes along with opportunities to work in abroad. Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting out, SAP has a career path for you. It doesn’t matter whether your current working experience is in Sales, IT, HR, Mechanical, or you are just a fresher or anything else.

The second reason is again the promising one; we all know how scary it is when it comes to Layoffs. But as of now there is no massive layoff witnessed in SAP Ecosystem as it has become most preferred ERP in the era of digitization.

If you are looking forward a career in SAP you might have done your research by now for the same. There are generally two types of SAP certification providers in India.

The one that costs high and the other one that costs cheaper as compare to the first category. Immediately the question strikes the mind “why there is this huge difference in SAP Certification costs?”

The following article will answer all your queries regarding SAP Education.

First let’s get to know “What is Global SAP Certification?

SAP certifications helps in validating the expertise and experience of SAP partners, software users, customers and professionals who are looking to be placed in a SAP Ecosystem. The certification is recognized globally and is a standardized measure for several roles and responsibilities in SAP domain.

What is SAP Authorized Training Partner?

So to keep the process of SAP certification full proof SAP Germany has their authorized training partners in India & globally, who conducts training on behalf of SAP.

All the trainers in SAP Authorized Training are appointed by SAP itself to maintain quality in training delivery. This is the main reason behind the cost of SAP Certification.

Beware of Fake & Local SAP Certifications: Global Vs Local SAP Training

As now we all know what Global SAP certification is, let’s have little idea about Local certifications and institutes.

As SAP is one of the trending and reliable career options today, there are many local institutes, private trainers & classes available that provide SAP Training and some of them also provide their private certificates in India. As they costs less as compared to Authorized SAP Certification, SAP aspirants like fresh graduates & working professionals gets easily attracted towards it. But here is the biggest threat; these certification programs are not legal in SAP industry. As they cost less, people get trapped into it very easy. These certification and training programs are of no use when it comes to Placement & jobs in SAP domain, not only MNCs but even in local companies as well. No Multinational Company consider local or unauthorized SAP certification and people end up doing Authorized SAP Certification again. This not only costs them extra money but it also costs time, in some cases it costs people their confidence as well.

Here are few stats about salaries, experience and level of job satisfaction in SAP Ecosystem taken from Payscale.com

Professional's rating to SAP Career infographicAs now we’ve come to conclusion part it is now clearly understood that; The best decision to go for Authorized SAP training and certification. This will now only give your career a boost but it is assumed and experienced by many that work-life balance in SAP domain is way much better than any other domain.

To know which SAP Certification Course is suitable to you and your work profile; book a free career counselling call from Atos India SAP Training

Why Atos is most preferred SAP Authorized Training Partner in India?

With over 16 years of unrivaled industry experience in delivering SAP Education services, we believe in providing advanced knowledge and skills to our customers. We understand how swiftly the SAP market has evolved and is progressing.

  • 100% placement Assistance.
  • Atos has proven placement records.
  • Placed 1100+ candidates in 2016.
  • Preferred recruitment partner for over 350+ MNCs & companies in India.
  • Facilities like Guru on Call.
  • Awarded every year by SAP for Education, Quality and Services.

Explore Career Opportunities in Digital Transformation & Disruption Era

Technology is growing fast, really fast. Even, the MD of Daimler Benz has mind blowing thoughts over it. According to him, their competitors are changing. Traditional car manufacturers are no longer their competitors; they are replaced with Tesla, Google, Apple, Amazon & others. There have always been the 3 constants….Death, Taxes and CHANGE!

Software & cloud will disrupt most of the old-style industries in upcoming decade.

Uber – The Taxi giant has just an application, they don’t even own any cars still they massively hampered car sales.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world.

In the US, young lawyers already don’t get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.

So if you study law in US, you are in little trouble, as there will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.

Coming back to the point, ERP, Cloud, IoT are the technologies of the present future that every business is touching in some or the other way.

What SAP is offering at this stage?

SAP offers solutions for all levels of disruption you can imagine. SAP HANA as the fastest database, SAP S/4 HANA as the digital core and the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) provide all requirements needed to take a step into new businesses or updating existing one.

Today 86% of global Fortune 500 companies run SAP software which is increasing in day by day due to its flexibility, accuracy, efficiency, security and robustness. It is world’s leading Provider of Business Software.

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To help businesses transition to the digital age, SAP has introduced SAP S/4HANA. This next generation business suite has been specifically designed to combat complexity, streamline digital transformation, and provide the ultimate sophistication: simplicity. SAP S/4HANA brings together Big Data analytics and applications on a single platform, to give business leaders an instant and harmonized view across all company operations.

By providing a single version of the truth, SAP S/4HANA brings massive simplification and innovation to streamline processes and operations, and drive instant value across lines of business.

Built on the SAP HANA platform, which supports real-time transactions, reporting and analysis, the suite frees businesses from the technology limitations of the past, enabling users to gain instant insights at the most granular level, across all data and dimensions, and take immediate action.

Plus, advanced predictive analytics enable business leaders to better analyze trends, simulate the outcomes of strategic options, and optimize planning, so companies have the ability to adapt, innovate, and reinvent the future of their business. And all this comes with a re-imagined, intuitive user experience.

Concluding the chapter – The market is witnessing the swift changes in Business Stereotypes, Structures, Processes, Competitions due to Technology Transformations.

Digital transformation is about more than technology and should put users at the forefront of all activities, the right formula is: reimagining business models + reimaging customer and user experience + leverage latest technology trends = design-led digital transformation.

Now that you have an understanding of SAP & SAP S/4HANA and how it can empower you on your career journey in digital transformation, why not talk to the people who know best and spend some time discussing your profile with us? It’s always the best place to start, so that we can get an understanding of your unique needs and explore how we can help you transform your career.