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Originally Posted by msrrautela 
3>Talking about Pre-sales & ERP implemenation roles which are offered to graduates it's really not very clear to me as to what these guys do & how much techincal things you have to learn (as I have already told above ,I despise technical stuff ) ?
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Hi everyone, (anurag you reading this?
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Was very interesting to read through the entire thread.
Some intro first:
I am a BSc graduate (Economics Honours) working in an IT company since May 2007. You may wonder whats a BSc grad doing in IT, that too from Economics background. Well, the year I passed out from college, a few IT majors came for recruitment and I was placed into testing services of the organization.
Initially, I was pretty apprehensive about the work I would be doing, working on building test cases, using Quality Center, LoadRunner, etc.
However, fortunately, I was placed into a particular horizontal called Oracle Apps Testing CoE. What we do is basically is we go from a functional prespective to test a particular implementation of Oracle Apps. (Financials, SCM, HRMS, CRM being the suites). Along with working on these projects, in our free time, we are building a reusable plug and play test case repository for vanilla implementation of Oracle Apps.
Me, being from Eco background, tend to find my niche more in the Financial modules of Oracle Apps, however, project accounting is pretty interesting also.
What my point is: Being in this testing environment, I am regularly interacting with Oracle Apps functionally, amidst all these multiple modules. Would this entail/empower me to actually work as an ERP consultant after my post grad? (PS: Am planning on appearing for CAT 08. Actually, CAT was one of the reasons I went for work ex rather than a masters).
Other than this, what I could gather under my limited knowledge of IT operations is that, the Business Analysts generally do a lot of RFPs, Estiations, proposals and SOWs, atleast in our CoE.
msrrautela,
As per your question, I would try to answer ur question on ERP implementation.
An ERP product is a cross industry product. It is used in a banking org, it is also used in a healthcare provider's organization. So basically what the ERP vendors like SAP, Oracle corp does is that they sell a particular "skeleton" application.
This skeleton application needs to be customized as per your industry/organization's needs.
Say, from Financials perspective, I would have to set up the entire accounting structure of the company, following my company's norms. Also, when I would be working on a multinational framework, I would need to incorporate multi currency and multi calendar framework for my implementation. So thats basically what an ERP implementation is: Based on the client requirements, you "tweak" the skeleton application and build new functionalities into it (as per your desries).
Hope I was clear in my understanding.
All,
please let me know whether with this background and work experiece, what chances do I have to make a grounding in this particular industry, especially ERP?
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