SAP consultants come in all aspects and extend from the extreme professionals that can only communicate in binary code, to those quiet talking ‘gift of the gab’ salesman like functional consultants who work in fear at the thought of talking anything technical. When a project gets on the process, functional consultants tend to drive the requirements gathering part of the project, then pull in the SAP ABAP professionals at the last moment when a requirement has been flooded out at a consumer workshop.