What SAP technology skills are essential for the future?

What SAP technology skills are essential for the future?

What are the new upcoming technologies in SAP? I am working as an ABAP consultant -- do I need to learn NetWeaver for the future? Anything else?

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Yes, NetWeaver is the way to go. So is Java. And while you're at it, get your feet wet in the open source world. SAP has a major commitment to open source, and skills in open source technology such as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) will be extremely useful in the SAP world of the future.

This was first published in February 2006