SAP Functional consultant roles with S/4 HANA

[Former Member]

Hi

in the current scenario there is huge role for SAP functional consultants, along with ABAPers and BASIC guys, in implementations,

with SAP S/4 HANA (both on premise and cloud) would there be similar roles available ?

we can see there is some talk about ABAP in HANA on premise, but could not find much information about the SAP Functional consultants roles in SAP S4 HANA (both on-premise and cloud)

what do you guys thing, would there still be a IMG in S4 HANA and there will be great needed for SAP functional consultants in new SAP Implements with S4HANA

[richard_hirsch]

Depends on whether the S/4HANA instance is running OnPrem, in the HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) or in the PublicCloud. In OnPrem version, there will probably be some IMG work - in the HEC less work and in the PublicCloud even less or no work

Since one of the main points of S/4HANA is to reduce customization, I assume that you will see less IMG work irregardless of where it is deployed.

D.

[Former Member]

thanks Richard,

for taking time to clear some doubts, it will help alot,

so its the customer who will drive this....

if every customer moves to cloud (both HEC or public cloud) - SAP Functional consultants will be obsolete by 2025

even if there are some onPrem, due to pre-packaged S/4, there will be very less work

so the 40K odd SAP Functional consultants careers would be ended by 2025