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May 5th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
SID: What is it?
Firstly thanks to William for his review of the SID service that I have been a part of in getting set up.
The original idea was born of frustration with not being able to use SAP other than on client sites - and feeling that long unchallenging contracts can leave you deskilled. It was also frustrating to work on Z sites and start to forget what standard SAP really was.
I won’t bore you with the history of the name; as it could so easily have been called “Dave” at some point and it is good job we didn’t as that is now a TV Channel here in the UK.
What is important is what we are aiming to achieve - enabling SAP professionals to undertake self paced continual professional development; to constantly have access to a sandbox that is their’s - and is independent of employer or contract.
I won’t bang on about it as there are many web pages full of detail (see the link at the bottom of the post).
What I will do is just to answer William’s point about User Exits and Programs. SAP have so far only licensed us to provide a configuration environment and not developer keys. So sorry to all you ABAPers out there - we are not there yet. What we can do - as the holders of the developer key for the installation - is to apply code that you pass to us to QA. If it doesn’t adversely affect other members we can load this - and we have done so for a number of our existing members of the last year. We have also loaded a few programs - again that we have QA’d first.
Anyway - to keep this short we are pleased to be able to offer a service to all serious SAP configurers, trainers and testers out there; to provide you with your own ’standard’ SAP system. I just wish that I had access to one eight years ago when I first started contracting.
For further information regarding SID visit: http://www.sapcontractors.com/sandbox.php