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Summary: Disappointed
Review: As some of the other reviews have stated, this book is not a bad place to start, but it comes up well short of delivering on its promises. The highlights on the front cover of the book state that "advanced reporting concepts" are covered. I disagree. This book barely covers the basics. On page 239 the author briefly mentions Functional Areas without Logical Databases, but then claims that "advanced ABAP programming skills are required for this type of functional area creation." I have no ABAP programming experience but frequently use this method for my queries. If you have basic knowledge of the tables that contain your data its not that difficult. This is the true power of queries. A reasonably experienced user can meet his or her own reporting needs. If you're just getting started with queries this book will give you the basics, but you'll need to find other sources (or teach yourself) to really take advantage of their potential.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: As some of the other reviews have stated, this book is not a bad place to start, but it comes up well short of delivering on its promises. The highlights on the front cover of the book state that "advanced reporting concepts" are covered. I disagree. This book barely covers the basics. On page 239 the author briefly mentions Functional Areas without Logical Databases, but then claims that "advanced ABAP programming skills are required for this type of functional area creation." I have no ABAP programming experience but frequently use this method for my queries. If you have basic knowledge of the tables that contain your data its not that difficult. This is the true power of queries. A reasonably experienced user can meet his or her own reporting needs. If you're just getting started with queries this book will give you the basics, but you'll need to find other sources (or teach yourself) to really take advantage of their potential.
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Summary: Documentation
Review: Heard about the book through the ASUG SAP conference. It was the best SAP book our company has bought to date. It walks you through step by step of how to setup the ABAP Query and all these neat reporting tricks. Glad that we finally mastered this without having to rely on our programmers for every report. Would recommend this book to anyone who wants to figure out how to use the ABAP Query or Microsoft reporting through SAP.
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Summary: Really good book, teaches you everything in a simple way
Review: Hi, we tried to register for classes at SAP for the ABAP Query and we were told there were none. We bought 2 copies of the book and have properly setup the tool and are writing our own reports. It was very well written with good examples for both business readers and programmers (for the more advanced stuff). Would recommend A++
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Summary: Really good book, teaches you everything in a simple way
Review: Hi, we tried to register for classes at SAP for the ABAP Query and we were told there were none. We bought 2 copies of the book and have properly setup the tool and are writing our own reports. It was very well written with good examples for both business readers and programmers (for the more advanced stuff). Would recommend A++
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Summary: Expected more than I get
Review: I have expected more from this book. I was especially interested in HR section (ABAP query for this module is slightly different than for others), but there was nothing more than just basic staff. If you don't know anything or very little about ABAP query you can buy it. There is just little bit about reporting tree, how to create, change, etc it, nothing about interesting reports you may use. Few paragraphs are just for SAP beginners and few about staff like creating form letters in Word or about add-ons reporting tools like ARGUS. I think that just half of this book is useful somehow - this is a part about ABAP query.
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Summary: Not Bad for Beginers
Review: This book is good to start with. However it spends too much space in getting people familiar with the SAP theory and does not do much for SAP practice. You learn how to build a query, which is not a report but a bunch of data. I left with the impression that if I want to build a report I have one of the tree options; Call a programmer Output the data into an external database (i.e. Access) Buy another software. Hope this is not true. Again getting familiar with concepts like functional areas and functional groups is important.
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Summary: Wish SAP Offered a Class on This. . .
Review: We didn't even know that SAP had an end user reporting tool. We heard about the ABAP Query through the newgroups and we had trouble setting it up and SAP does not offer any training classes on it or on setting it up. Our company found this book (also on a recommendation from the newsgroup) and we were able to setup up the tool and teach all the end users (over 1800 in multiple locations in US and Malaysia) to write their own reports. Book is great I recommend it to all companies that have SAP and want their end users to be able to create their own reports.
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