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Jon Reed

Jon Reed
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Jon Reed is an independent SAP analyst who writes on SAP consulting trends. Jon is the President of JonERP.com, an interactive web site that features Jon's take on SAP career trends. JonERP.com features Jon's SAP Career Blog and his “SAP Consulting Trends” podcasts with industry insiders. Jon writes frequently on BPX-related skills trends and will be collaborating with the BPX community on an ongoing basis in 2008 and beyond. Jon has been publishing SAP career analysis for more than a decade. He is the author of the popular SAP Consultant Handbook. Jon has served as the career expert for SearchSAP's “Ask The Expert” panel since 2002. He was also the founding editor of SAPtips, a leading publication on SAP implementation issues. Throughout the industry's ebbs and flows, thousands of SAP professionals have tracked the SAP market through Jon's commentary. He is also the author of Resumes from Hell, an illustrated "how-not to" guide through the worst resumes ever made.

What I Learned from the SAP BO Summit in Boston
On Tuesday, August 12 in Boston, I had the opportunity to attend the SAP BO Summit. The Summit was an opportunity for so-called “Influencers” to learn more about the SAP BO Roadmap and the value proposition that SAP/Business Objects provides to SAP customers. In this blog entry, I'll share what I learned. Aug. 18, 2008
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Will ASUG EDGE Have an Impact on How Companies Rate and Hire SAP Talent?
Recently I had the chance to talk with ASUG CEO Steve Strout about ASUG EDGE, ASUG’s new searchable online directory of SAP consultants and consulting firms. With its new ASUG EDGE offering, ASUG is hoping to have an impact on how SAP skills are sourced and evaluated. In this special blog entry, I'm going to share what I learned from Steve about ASUG EDGE. I will also offering my own preliminary take on how I think ASUG EDGE might impact SAP staffing, and the pros and cons of this service as I see it so far.  Jul. 16, 2008
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Webinar Follow Up: Questions on "Best Practices for Building a Successful SAP Consulting Business"
Recently I appeared on a webinar for SDN Subcriptions entitled “Best Practices in Building Your SAP Consulting Business.” The focus of this webinar was how to take your SAP career to the next level as a consultant, and how SDN Software Subscriptions (and SAP’s online communities as a whole) can play a role in this. In this blog entry, I’m going to answer all the questions directed towards me on the webinar that I wasn’t able to answer live at the event itself. As you’ll see, the topics are wide-ranging, but all of the questions do pertain to some aspect of SAP consulting “best practices.”  Jul. 9, 2008
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Is SAP Certification Worth the Money?
The value of SAP certification has been a continuously hot topic in my email inbox since I started writing SAP career newsletters in 1995. I think this issue has come to a head a bit lately because SAP is moving to enhance its certification program through a new three-tiered certification strategy. In this blog entry, I’ll link to some of the most recent discussions on SAP certification and then provide my own views. Jun. 8, 2008
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Is There Really an SAP Skills Shortage?
Every time I get back from SAPPHIRE or TechEd, one story remains a constant: What are we going to do about the so-called SAP skills shortage? In this blog entry, I'm going to call attention to a few misconceptions that surround this skills debate, and hopefully reach a greater understanding along the way.  May. 13, 2008
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Is it True That ABAP and SAP Configuration Jobs are Going Away?
Is it true that ABAP and SAP Configuration jobs are going away? I don't think so, but it's important to frame this discussion so we can look at how SAP skill sets are changing in the eSOA era.  Apr. 11, 2008
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How is the SAP Functional Skill Set Changing?
In this blog entry, I briefly introduce myself and my JonERP.com web site to the SAP BPX community, and then I go on to share a summary of wrote of BPX Director Marco ten Vaanholt's keys to becoming a Business Process Expert. I also share some interesting comments I got on this topic from my blog when I posted the original entry.  Mar. 24, 2008
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