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Summary: This is not a book...it is a 1164 page brochure
Review: It is amazing that anyone can write so much and say so little
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Summary: Jack of all master of none..
Review: Lame result of an ambitious and wordy project. The book targets a too broad audience and in the process it misses much of its value. Nevertheless, this book has a virtue as a good source of reference for SAP project management and business process overviews.
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Summary: Anticlimax
Review: Lame result of an ambitious and wordy project. The book targets a too broad audience and in the process it misses much of its value. Nevertheless, this book has a virtue as a good source of reference for SAP project management and business process overviews.
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Summary: A Complete Summary of Important SAP Subjects
Review: One of the best comprehensive books written about SAP. Most important subjects are presented well. Level of detail is appropriate to quickly give the reader a working knowledege of how almost all the modules fuction. This is a great help to many SAP professionals that only know about their own modules and not others. It is great for managers as well as technical people. It has architectural, functional, business, process and other views to satisfy different readers with different needs Excellent book.
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Summary: Thousands of pages of bulletted lists. Useless.
Review: Someone mentioned that it is a thousand page brochure. Right on the (wasted) money sir! I bought this book to gain some insight into SAP. But this book was a great disappointment. Words don't come to me to describe my disgust after wasting 75 dollars on this book. Just because SAP knowledge isn't easily available, people like me keep wasting our money on whatever is available in the market. I have learned my lesson, now I spend a couple of hours sitting in Barnes and Noble before making a decision to buy.
The only reason I give it one star is ... there is no option to give a zero star.
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Summary: Big, heavy book.
Review: There are good and bad points about this book. First, like the summary states, it is a nice,big, heavy book. If you need to hold down something firmly, this is the book to place on top of it. Now, the bad part: many parts of the book are simply too superficial. This book sounds like a big advertising brochure for SAP, and if you are looking for that, SAP AG might be able to do a better job of selling their product. Also, in many major modules, the book has an irritating tone that somehow presupposes that you have an absolutely ready SAP system in front of you and are trying to get an idea of what it is doing. Many sentences have the phrase " the system will have been configured to" do this, or do that... This includes sections that should really be giving you good, solid information on how the system has been configured, and how else it could have been configured. In the middle of this, we have inane statements, which are really too numerous to list, which give the book a "business perspective". If that is what the book aimed to do in the first place, then I wish people like me, who are looking for a techno-business view, were better informed before buying this book.In short, the book falls short on the very count that appears be it's strong point: depth. If anybody who is really working on SAP got anything useful out of this book, I would be amazed to hear about it.
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Summary: lots of material but not always accurate
Review: This book has more than 1000 pages and I was first impressed by the size and bought it. When I read through it I was in many chapters disappointed. E.g. Chapter 25 "Understanding SAP R/3 Accelerated Implementation Methods" covers "R/3 with HP OpenView OmniBack II", a systems management topic but definitely not what was promised in the heading. Some chapters are excellent, some contain inaccurate or old information. It looks like each chapter was writtern by a seperate person that got a heading and published whatever was available to that person. Summary "less is sometimes more"
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Summary: A massive tome that fails to live up to it¿s billing.
Review: This book is useful for two things: introducing neophytes to R/3 , and as a book end. Special Edition Using SAP R/3 is one of those volumes that is so bulky that it will look impressive and hold your other books in place. Readers who do not know SAP will learn enough about R/3 to understand the basic functions and architecture. If you have already decided to implement R/3 and have any background with the system, even if only an introductory course, skip this book. You will find it incomplete. If you know nothing about SAP feel like skipping the demos and spending a good portion of a hundred bucks get this book. If you need to fill four inches of bookshelf this volume will do it.
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Summary: Excellent, Must read for any SAP aspirant
Review: This book not just covers the R/3 system but encompasses the complete world of SAP. Best guide to learn and implement the R/3 system. The impressive part of the book is the appndices about employment and other details. FI-CO is covered in great detail.
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Summary: Good reference book for SAP Implementation
Review: This book's orientation is different from many other SAP books. The target segment for this book appears to be prospective SAP Consultants aspiring to be involved in implementation of projects, personnel in the Implementing organisation whose services will be used in implementation and end user. These days many people get trained/ acquire knowledge in SAP modules such as FI-CO, Logistics, SD, HRMS, etc by attending training courses in various Computer Training Institutes. Some even work as Trainee Consultants in some organisations. The real-life Implementation experience is all together different from what these people learn in Institutes. I feel that this book will be certainly helpful to fill such gap between real-life Implementation exp and learnings. At least, the book will enable the reader what to do when he is put in the project for the first time. Good points abt this book: 1. It gives good view of R/3 architecture 2. Giving ideas about possible Implementation issues that can arise 3. Inputs for preparing a good SAPper CV 4. Employment opportunities in SAP. Negative points: Jack of all, master of none! Inadequate coverage of various modules, which is understandable! Conclusion: The user level is mentioned as Intermediate to Advanced in the back cover, but I feel that this book is only suitable to Beginners to Intermediate level.
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