ERP Job Market (Opportunities in ERP & more) By Sanjay Anand April 2004

About Me 20 years business and technology experience of which 10 years is in ERP ranging from Programmer to Partner J.D. Edwards OneWorld (now PeopleSoft) Certified Professional (Consultant) and Instructor (Trainer) Worldwide Consultant of the Year, Valuable Teamwork, Special Achievement, Pioneer, Foundation etc. Awards Expertise in all Functional (Business) and Technology Phases of ERP Implementations and Project Lifecycles Clients included Domestic (US) and Global (US, Europe, Asia) Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies MSc in Technology, MS in Computers (BITS Pilani); MBA in Management, MS in Finance (Boston College)

ERP and More Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Customer Self Service (CSS), e.g. Siebel, Sales Force Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and Vendor/Supplier Self Service (VSS), e.g. JDE, Oracle Employee Relationship Management (ERM) and Employee Self Service (ESS), e.g. PeopleSoft, JDE Supply Chain Planning (SCP) and Management/ Integration/Collaborative-Commerce (SCM), e.g. All Other Areas like: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Point of Sales (POS), e.g. Web Methods, XML Data Warehousing (DW), Data Mining (DM), Business Intelligence (BI), OLAP e.g. Micro Strategy, Cognos

Opportunity Classification In-house Work directly for a company that uses one or more Enterprise Software Solutions (ESS) Examples: Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Reliance Industries, Birla Group Outsourced Work as an employee of the company that provides such Enterprise Software Solutions Examples: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDE; Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, L&T InfoTech

Hands-on versus Hands-off Hands-on Tactical/Entry-Level Deep knowledge of specific areas Technical Functional Hands-off Strategic/Management Broader knowledge/scope of system

Hands-On or Tactical Hands-on Tactical/Entry-Level Technical System/Network/Infrastructure Administration Programming/Application Design/Integration Functional System Analyst (Techno-Functional) Industry Specialist (e.g. Fin., Mfg., Dis.) Hands-off Strategic/Management

Hands-off or Management Hands-on Tactical/Entry-Level Hands-off Strategic/Management Technical Technical Project Manager System Designer/Architect Functional Overall Project Manager Functional Specialist

Experience and Descriptions Hands-on Tactical/Entry-Level Experience: < 5 years + Degree/Cert Job Title: Junior Programmer/Analyst Description: Design & Development Hands-off Strategic/Management Experience: 5-15 years + Grad Degree Job Title: Manager, Senior Analyst Description: Project/System Management

Questions and Answers Enterprise Software Solutions Information Technology Industry Opportunities and Employment US-India Offshore Outsourcing Any Other Topics of Interest Speaker’s Contact Information Phone / Fax: +1-909-363-8619 E-mail: sanjay@anands.com