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Summary: Step by Step guide to hell
Review: Anybody buying this book to learn some BW will be very much disappointed. Like the way the book is organised but older stuff. I can't beleive the greedy publiser is still selling this book. Not only they should stop selling, also should recall the book.
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Summary: Useful for Beginners
Review: As title suggests this book is step by step guide. I think author has assumed you already have knowledge of SAP BW concepts. It walks you through steps on how to create infocubes, load data and create queries and workbooks. Its EXTREMELY useful for people who are thinking to self-train themseleves in BW area . NOT meant for expereince BW people ...
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Summary: It based on BW2.0B and SAP R/3 4.0. and Really Step-by-Step.
Review: Currently BW 3.0B is used. But the book deal with BW 2.0B. Too late version. Also The book deal in step-by-step way, so It couldn't treat details.If you are really a novice, it will be good.
But If you have any experience and want to know more advanced topics, It will be not a good book.
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Summary: Navigation in 2.0 and nothing more...
Review: Disappointing in both structure and content; surprising thing, cosidering that the authors come with substantial credentials. It is more of an end-user self-training package targeting the individuals that want to memorize and troubleshoot their way through the setup rather that providing a step-by-step business case driven scenario. Unfortunately the release that make the subject of the book is already obsolete (well, this is not authors' fault). The CD-ROM attached to it is of little if any use;
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Summary: Hottest SAP Book in Town !!!
Review: I am a SAP Consultant for FICO for the last few years and I have experience in Data Warehousing projects. Now I have entered into the world of SAP-BIW, with my past experience in DW. I am involved currently in a SAP-BIW project. SAP- BIW has a Back End called 'Administrator Work Bench', which is all about Data Modelling, Data Targets which leads Info cubes, Info source and Data source. The back end process is all about gathering data from the data sources and put them in BIW thru R/3. The Front End is called 'Business Explorer' and this helps in viewing the data gathered for decision processing. Critical points about the Book: The Book deals only in Back End processes and it does not teach about Front End, except querying (chapter 5). To know about Front End extensivley, one has to read "SAP BW Reporting Made Easy, 2.0B/2.1C" by SAP Labs Inc. Simplification Group. Further even in Back End, it is not giving any info abt data modelling or data designing. It merely teaches how to transfer the data from Data source to BIW thru R/3. Regret that, it is not covering complicated transfers. This book is in-complete in many aspects. In other words, the book teaches the core functions required from BIW Consultant for handling the Back end processes. Positive points: Authors deserve appreciation for having written a book needed in the crucial time, since SAP- BIW is getting implemented in many places. The book is concise and clear in whatever topics they deal with. I should also say that this book can be useful from beginners to intermediate level. Beginners mean, those who have prior experince in SAP or in Data Warehousing but new to SAP- BIW. Thanks for reading.
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Summary: The book helped me, but I am not happy with the book
Review: I am an ABAPer, working on a BW project, and have access to BW system to carryout some self-study. I needed some reference to guide me through various aspects of BW technical tasks. Having read some reviews and browsing many of the BW books in the market, I felt that this book is the one I need. I didn't want the theory behind data warehousing. I needed to know what each of those BW objects are, how they are related, and how to create them. I am somewhat satisfied with the book as far as what I wanted to learn right now. However, I think much more could have been done. Surprisingly, I don't see any other book on BW that shows 'how to.' The CD that comes with the book is a joke. Completely worthless to me. If you have gone through BW training, this book may not be of much use to you. If you can find some other book that deals with fundamental technical aspects of BW, you might want to consider that. If you have nothing to refer to, you will be OK in purchasing this book.
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Summary: What SAP BW version ???
Review: Nowhere in the book, nor on Amazon detailed info nor in the "view pages inside" is mentioned that the book treats BW 2.0 and IS NOT GOOD for BW 3.1 or later. I had to read all the buyers reviews and to find out about the BW version, only after I had the book ordered and sent to me. So Because I use 3.2 I have sent back this book. It's not up-to-date, there seems not to be a reprint for BW 3.0 So it was not useful to me. I am very disappointed. The book can show you some tasks to do in BW 2.0 but it learns you nothing if you have other cubes to make in different SAP applications. Also, it does not mention the transaction names behind the screens printed. Pitty, since this could have helped us when working in BW 3.0 (screens and menus can change but often the TX's remain the same)...
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Summary: What SAP BW version ???
Review: Nowhere in the book, nor on Amazon detailed info nor in the "view pages inside" is mentioned that the book treats BW 2.0 and IS NOT GOOD for BW 3.1 or later. I had to read all the buyers reviews and to find out about the BW version, only after I had the book ordered and sent to me. So Because I use 3.2 I have sent back this book. It's not up-to-date, there seems not to be a reprint for BW 3.0 So it was not useful to me. I am very disappointed. The book can show you some tasks to do in BW 2.0 but it learns you nothing if you have other cubes to make in different SAP applications. Also, it does not mention the transaction names behind the screens printed. Pitty, since this could have helped us when working in BW 3.0 (screens and menus can change but often the TX's remain the same)...
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Summary: Seriously out of date
Review: The book is ok. Its not great. You can get something out of it ... Two main issues:
(1) If you are going to use this book with any BW versions 3.x, you are going to have trouble. This is so because (1.1) some of the screenshots are out of date, and (1.2) there are somethings that 2.x did and used that are not done and used anymore - for example the CS Unit of Measure is no longer used. If you dont know that, you will become old sitting in front of your screen trying to figure out why something is not working. (2) The books fails to omit some major steps. For example, in going from Ch.4 to Ch. 5 - Queries, you need to load some other data. At no point is this mentioned. I mean its quite obvious that more data needs to be entered, otherwise, Ch. 5 aint going to work - but thats just the problem - its too obvious. Sometimes - when we have been behind the screen for too many hours, we fail to see things precisely because they are TOO obvious. So ... you can wind up spending too much time futzing around trying to figure out why something is not working.
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Summary: Missing Steps
Review: The subtitle of this book should be A Step-by ... Guide. The chapters methodically detail the steps in creating the BW objects, with ample use of screenshots. However, some steps are neglected, and then data that you haven't entered is refered to in later steps. The data is easily entered by backing up and repeating the steps you've done in the previous sections and making up sample data, but there's no way that anyone followed the steps as written successfully. Poor QA here. That said, for someone looking for a book that will help them get a sample cube and queries running quickly, this is the book.
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