For someone who is pursuing a career in functional roles in Oracle® Applications, it is important to have strong general knowledge of industries, business processes within those industries and terms used in different business scenarios. We usually gain and enhance this business process knowledge by providing solutions for different companies in wide variety of industries. After all you become a most sought after resource because of your deep experience in wide variety of industries and companies. But it is not possible to be there in every project implementation to get that kind of experience.

If you have been working in Oracle® applications for some time now, you must have heard of tools like OBM (Oracle® Business Models), Oracle® Business Accelerators (http://accelerators.oracle.com) that give you good insight to general business processes used in software.

SAP® has something similar called Solution Composer that gives you a library of packaged business processes in general in many different industries. This software, as I understand, is used by SAP® consultants to develop customer specific solutions out of these general processes (much like OBM and OBAs of Oracle®).

This software gives you the following among many other features:
• Pre-delivered content as a basis to develop an initial understanding of business processes in wide variety of industries
• Comprehensive portfolio of Industry, Cross-industry and Infrastructure and Service maps

You can use these pre-packaged functional flows in wide variety of industries to understand your customer processes prior to your implementations. Trust me, you gain a good insight into the processes flows and get an opportunity to start mulling over applying the same to Oracle® Applications.

You can register and download the software at http://www28.sap.com/mk/get/g-smcentry.