SAP: An Executive’s Comprehensive Guide
posted on 16 Apr 11SAP: An Executive’s Comprehensive Guide
Crucial Help for Getting the Most from Today’s Information Systems Technology Deciding what type of information systems your company will need to stay competitive into the twenty-first century is a highly complex and risky exercise. SAP: An Executive’s Comprehensive Guide provides the information you need to assess your options realistically and make the most informed decisions possible. Written by a team of business, financial, and information systems professionals who have extensive experience with SAP system implementations at Fortune 500 companies, this book:
* Explores the strategic role of client/server enterprise computing now and in the next century
* Helps you to evaluate your company’s long-term IS requirements
* Offers an impartial look at SAP R/3 strengths and weaknesses
* Outlines the costs and benefits involved in implementing SAP R/3
* Helps you decide whether SAP R/3 is right for your organization
* Shows you how to make SAP R/3 an integral part of process redesign
* Covers all key technical SAP aspects of concern to IS professionals
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SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP
posted on 23 Mar 11SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP
SAP Implementation Unleashed
A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP
George W. Anderson
Charles D. Nilson
Tim Rhodes
SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through the entire journey, helping you avoid pain and pitfalls and gain all the benefits of SAP.
The authors introduce start-to-finish business, technical, and project management roadmaps for successful SAP implementation. Then, drawing on their immense experience, they walk you through the entire process of planning and deployment—addressing make-or-break issues and hidden gaps that other guidebooks ignore. You’ll discover how to employ processes, models, and toolsets that help you achieve implementation excellence while systematically reducing cost and business risk. Along the way, you’ll find actionable advice and real-world insight into innovative project management, best-suited leadership, effective load testing, contemporary infrastructure implementation, and more.
George W. Anderson is responsible for providing enterprise applications thought leadership for the EDS/HP office of the CTO. A long-time SAP consultant and PMI-certified project manager, George has authored several best-selling books and enjoys new challenges.
Charles D. Nilson is a senior program manager for EDS/HP and has led many successful SAP implementation teams over the years. He is a PMI PMP and is SAP Partner Academy certified in MM and PP.
Tim Rhodes is a senior SAP technical consultant for EDS/HP and a Basis/infrastructure veteran focused on implementing, migrating, and upgrading SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver solutions. Tim is also an SAP-certified technical consultant, OCP, MCSE, and HP Master ASE.
Detailed Information on How To…
- Define the business vision driving your implementation, and use it to design your solution
- Use TCO techniques to fully understand SAP’s financial impact in your organization
- Structure your SAP project management office, business teams, technical support organization, and overall project team
- Size, plan, and test your SAP infrastructure to deliver the best performance and availability at the best cost
- Integrate SAP into an SOA environment
- Install and configure SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver components
- Perform basic functional configuration, testing, and change management activities
- Enable a smooth transition by successfully performing the critical tasks that immediately precede
- SAP Go-Live
- Choose the right mix of tools and applications to test, manage, and monitor SAP
- Prepare your SAP Operations team for its post-implementation responsibilities
Category: Databases
Covers: SAP
User Level: Beginner–Intermediate–Advanced
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Discover SAP
posted on 30 Jan 11Discover SAP
Discover what SAP is all about and learn how the new products and solutions can improve your business processes. In this completely updated edition, you’ll find what you need to really understand where SAP can fit into your operations. Whether you’re a decision-maker, consultant, or new SAP professional, this practical guide will take you on a complete journey from the history of SAP to a detailed look at each solution and the technology that runs them. Everything from the newest solutions for sustainability and the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio to the tried-and-true solutions for small to midsize businesses, financials, CRM, HR, supply chain management, and more are covered. Highlights -Business Suite 7 -SAP BusinessObjects -Supply Chain Management -Financials -Human Capital Management -Customer Relationship Management -Supplier Relationship Management -Strategy for Small to Midsize Businesses -SAP Composite Applications -Duetâ„¢, Alloyâ„¢, and SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe®
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SAP R/3 for Everyone: Step-by-Step Instructions, Practical Advice, and Other Tips and Tricks for Working with SAP Reviews
posted on 18 Jan 11SAP R/3 for Everyone: Step-by-Step Instructions, Practical Advice, and Other Tips and Tricks for Working with SAP
SAP R/3 for Everyone is the nontechnical user’s guide to working with SAP R/3, the leading business enterprise software product in the world. Written and road-tested by experienced SAP R/3 users and trainers, this book saves typical SAP R/3 users time and trouble by providing them with the universal skills needed to work with any module of this complex software.
SAP R/3 can be used effectively by anyone who can perform a handful of simple procedures that are employed in nearly every SAP R/3 transaction. The authors explain these procedures in plain English, using illustrations and real-world examples.
After a brief explanation of the architecture and operation of SAP R/3, readers get step-by-step instruction in
- Logging on and off, managing passwords, and customizing the SAP application window and screens
- Navigating between screens with menu folders, transaction codes, and the menu bar
- Setting up customized favorites folders with quick links to the initial screens of transactions and other useful resources
- Understanding the four basic transaction types
- Working on initial screens, including tips and techniques for entering codes, searching for codes, customizing initial screens, and using multiple selection screens and selection options
- Customizing output reports with filters, sorts, sums, and display variants
- Exporting output reports to Microsoft Excel and Word and e-mailing output reports to other SAP users
Practical and jargon-free, SAP R/3 for Everyone provides readers with the skills and confidence they need to efficiently conduct any business activity with SAP R/3.
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Rightshore!: Successfully Industrialize SAP® Projects Offshore
posted on 28 Dec 10Rightshore!: Successfully Industrialize SAP® Projects Offshore
At a time when business demands urge companies to innovate and CIOs face increasing cost pressures, offshore delivery offers the opportunity to industrialize the implementation processes for system harmonization, consolidation, and enhancement, thereby realizing substantial cost savings and quality improvements. Rightshore® – a registered trademark of Capgemini – is about organizing the distributed delivery process that embraces on-site, nearshore and offshore services.
