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Here is a description of training offered by SAP and others. Included are tips on scheduling and taking exams, links to blogs and training offerings, and comparison of curriculums.

SAP 3rd Party Training

While most training vendors provide good value for the money, several have tarnished the industry's reputation by charging money up front and disappearing overnight without notice. The longer an institution has been around, the less likely this will happen. So beware. Check with the BBB and add the word "rip-off" when searching for the name of a particular vendor.

Leading Training has SAP classrooms and servers in Irvine, California and Iselin, New Jersey. They offer an instructor-led on-line 64-hour (8 webex sessions 8 hours each) over 4 weekends (Saturday and Sunday) for $1,800. VPN access to servers are provided for 90-120 days. A Yahoo group complements materials on a CD.

SAP Remote System live Access for $200 a month.

eLink Software in Southern California

MLC College claims to have offices in Canada, US, and India. But why the temporary site?

Houston Community / College SouthWest College in Stafford, Texas through DominionSAP.

MyITGroup.com

Cognizant

SAPCookbook.com

Becoming an SAP Consultant (Premier Press © 1999 (255 pages) by Gareth M. de Bruyn and Ken Kroes

Michael Management offers self-study end-user SAP courses for $300.

Community Groups

IT Toolbox has an active email/web community.

SAP University Alliance

Like Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, and other software companies, SAP offers a University Alliances program (http://www.sap.com/usa/company/ua/) so that faculty at colleges and universities can offer courses on SAP technologies.

In addition to the SAP Business Suite family of solutions (SAP ERP), demonstrations, exercises and problem-solving, case studies, and research programs are needed.

SAP's Institute for Innovation and Development sponsors an annual Curriculum Congress

Taking classes though this program provides credit toward advanced degrees.
However, most universities do not offer access to servers after the class ends. Professors at universities are not as adept at troubleshooting as faculty in technical schools who have less advanced degrees but more real-life experience.

Central (Mt. Pleasant) Michigan University has, for $16,000 USD, 4 on-line classes (plus 2 week on-site SAP certification) class as part of their MBA program. But SAP Consultant Certification as Solution Architect in C_TERP10_05 Integration of Business Processes with mySAP ERP 2005.

CMU also has an on-site MSIS degree featuring SAP Enterprise Software.

SAP Resources at CMU

Penn State's Enterprise Integration Consortium (during 1999) installed SAP R/3 4.0 on 4 Unisys machines in the Shields building to support varioius programs, including Penn's Masters in Manufacturing Enterprise Integration/Supply Chain Management, But Penn's classes do not offer in-depth hands-on training in operating and developing SAP software.

SAP Resources at Penn's SAP Student Interest Group