Enrollment Up in SAP University Alliance Program

A sluggish economy has done little to lessen the anticipated global shortage of SAP consultants. On Monday of this week an SAP official remarked that currently 30,000 openings exist for SAP consultants to support the company’s worldwide base of more than 82,000 customers.

Read Global CIO blog post: 30,000 Job Openings For SAP Consultants, SAP Official Says

As an integral part of its plan to proactively address this shortage, SAP has been hitting the college campus trail and ramping up enrollment in its University Alliance Program.

SAP's stated objective, as of June of 2008, was to quadruple participants in its University Alliance Program from 900 to 4,000 universities over the following few years. SAP's latest conquest in this mission: NC State College.

Read Carolina NewsWire article: NC State College of Management Joins SAP University Alliance Program

SAP also relies heavily on its partner ecosystem to ensure there is enough SAP talent to meet present and future demand, calling upon its largest 20 services partners to recruit, train or retrain a growing number of pros now and in the years ahead.

SAP also has high talent recruiting and development expectations for its network of 3,000+ tier two consulting partners, many of whom are well positioned to cultivate and grow SAP talent in vital geographic regions and vertical industries.

Read article by Sam Sliman, president for Optimal Solutions Integration: Surviving the SAP Talent Crunch  

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