Which is a better career option? SAP MM consultant or Power BI analyst?

Would this client then spend money on an S/4 HANA? Hard to say, but their approach is leaning toward the negative.

Having spent 10+ years in the SAP world as an SD/MM consultant and then moving into the Power BI world, I have never been happier.

I think companies are sick of bloated SAP deployments that run over time and over budget. Gone are the days of the multi-million deployment and brownfield jobs. The proof is in the numbers, and SAP showed its hand when it extended its support for ECC6 from 2025 to 2027. Where they once would have set a date to end support for a version (therefore forcing users to upgrade and spend more money), users dug in their heels, delaying the leap to S/4 HANA, forcing SAP to extend the support or get hundreds of CEOs offside.

What reinforced this for me was that a client of mine needed a reporting solution out of SAP, weighed up what SAP had to offer, informed me that they were fed up with spending money on subpar SAP offerings, and decided to go with Power BI. Would this client then spend money on an S/4 HANA? Hard to say, but their approach is leaning toward the negative.

The other factor to this is Microsoft’s ability to sell. Power BI is easy to deploy, relatively cheap, and comes for free with your M365 account. It’s actually genius if you think about how they slot Power BI into your world.

TLDR: Which company has the better outlook, therefore, better career opportunity, Microsoft or SAP? Microsoft.