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Agile SAP: Introducing flexibility, transparency and speed to SAP implementations

Agile SAP: Introducing flexibility, transparency and speed to SAP implementations

By: Sean Robson

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 24-JAN-2013

Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013

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"Invaluable practical advice Many SAP projects use waterfall methodologies, but these often run into budgeting and scheduling problems. In this unique book, Sean Robson presents ways of improving SAP implementations and offers practical advice on the most effective way to see a project through from beginning to end. Basing his strategies on the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto, and drawing on his vast experience, he particularly focuses on the use of Scrum and Kanban and their suitability for certain types of projects, enabling you to select the most appropriate method for the task...

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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By: Rehan Zaidi;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 26-DEC-2012

Insert Date: 31-DEC-2012

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Over 80 advanced recipes with excellent programming techniques that focus on the Netweaver 7.0 EHP2 and above Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real timeBuilding application using Kinect for Windows SDK. Get to grips with solving complicated problems using Regular Expressions in ABAP Master the creation of common Design Patterns using ABAP Objects Enhance SAP applications through the use of ABAP programming Covers the newest topics of Adobe Interactive Forms In Detail ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is...

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SAP HANA Starter

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SAP HANA Starter

By: Mark Walker;

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 21-NOV-2012

Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012

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Everything you need to know to be able to build your first SAP HANA standalone application with this book and ebook. Understand key principles behind SAP HANA Discover the main features of the SAP HANA Studio for application design Create a reporting application on the SAP HANA platform Visualize your reporting data in Microsoft Excel In Detail SAP HANA is SAP's in-memory database technology, and the focal point of their next generation strategy. Using column-based storage to provide highly compressed and rapidly accessed data, a SAP HANA application can be several...

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SAP on DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS: High Availability Solution Using System Automation

SAP on DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS: High Availability Solution Using System Automation

By: Viviane Anavi-Chaput; Andre Borkenfeld; Florence Dubois; Don Geissler; Lars Morten Haga; Matthias Hein; Wolfgang Reichert; Udo Wandrer; Mike Zazulak

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 13-SEP-2002

Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication explains the SAP high availability with System Automation solution. This solution provides the means for fully automating the management of all SAP components and related products running on OS/390, z/OS, AIX, Windows, or Linux. The automation software monitors all resources and controls the restart and/or takeover of failing components, thereby ensuring near continuous availability of the SAP system. The book describes the following: Requirements and objectives of high availability and automation for SAP Architecture of the SAP high availability...

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SAP on DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 and z/OS: Multiple Components in One Database (MCOD)

SAP on DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 and z/OS: Multiple Components in One Database (MCOD)

By: Mike Ebbers; Florence Dubois; Kellie Bohlsen; Tim Bohlsen; Bernd Kohler; Gert Ruland

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 19-FEB-2003

Insert Date: 29-OCT-2012

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The Multiple Components in One Database (MCOD) feature of SAP enables a reduction in the number of DB2 systems that need to be installed and maintained. This significantly simplifies overall database administration and is considered one of the major DB2 competitive advantages. This IBM Redbooks publication will help systems administrators, database administrators, managers, and operation staff to plan, implement, and administer an SAP MCOD landscape with DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for OS/390 and z/OS as the database management system. We describe how to merge existing systems into a single...

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Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems

Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 09-AUG-2011

Insert Date: 21-AUG-2012

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Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems covers the key processes supported by modern ERP systems. This textbook and the WileyPLUS online course is designed for use as both a reference guide and a conceptual resource for students taking ERP-focused courses using SAP. It examines in depth the core concepts applicable to all ERP environments, and it explains how those concepts can be utilized to implement business processes in SAP systems. Hallmark Features: Integrated Business Processes with ERP Systems approaches topics using an integrated process perspective of the firm....

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Building and Scaling SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 UDB ESE

Building and Scaling SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 UDB ESE

By: Chuck Ballard; Andreas Christian; Theodor H. Kuebler; Rodrigo A. Schiavon

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 29-JUN-2004

Insert Date: 13-AUG-2012

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SAP is a leading ERP vendor, with a large install base. A key element in their product set is the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW). The primary objective of this IBM Redbooks publication is to provide guidelines to help you implement your SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 UDB ESE. Two major considerations when building a business information warehouse are scalability and performance. In this book, we have demonstrated the wide range of scalability of BW when implemented on DB2, while maintaining the performance requirements that are so critical. The parallelism and data...

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SAP Security Configuration and Deployment

SAP Security Configuration and Deployment

By: Joey Hirao

Publisher: Syngress

Publication Date: 31-OCT-2008

Insert Date: 04-AUG-2012

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Throughout the world, high-profile large organizations (aerospace and defense, automotive, banking, chemicals, financial service providers, healthcare, high tech, insurance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecommunications, and utilities) and governments are using SAP software to process their most mission-critical, highly sensitive data. With more than 100,000 installations, SAP is the world's largest enterprise software company and the world's third largest independent software supplier overall. Despite this widespread use, there have been very few books written on SAP...

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IBM iDoctor iSeries Job Watcher: Advanced Performance Tool

IBM iDoctor iSeries Job Watcher: Advanced Performance Tool

By: Jim Cook; Sandi Chromey; Tom Edgerton; Debbie Hatt

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 11-MAR-2005

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This IBM Redbooks publication is intended for those familiar with most of the IBM-provided iSeries performance tools that are generally available through the i5/OS operating systems commands and iSeries Navigator interfaces and the additional-cost Performance Tools for iSeries, 5722-PT1, licensed program. iDoctor for iSeries is a set of software performance analysis tools and associated services that extend your ability to evaluate the health of your iSeries-based system by gathering detailed information and providing automated, graphical analysis of this data. One of these tools, Job...

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IBM TotalStorage Migration Guide for the SAP User

IBM TotalStorage Migration Guide for the SAP User

By: Dave Lovelace; Sabine Kaschca; Bernd Mueller; Joe Meerscheidt

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 28-FEB-2005

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This IBM Redbooks publication demonstrates the relative ease with which SAP users can migrate to the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) 800. It describes how this can be accomplished in numerous ways, across a variety of hardware and software platforms. The book offers migration scenarios for customers who want to migrate from OEM storage subsystems to the ESS, and it covers a variety of migration tools and methodologies you can use to perform these migrations. In some cases, the use of software migration tools (such as FDRPAS) from third party vendors is described, while in...

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SAP Solutions on IBM DB2 UDB V8.2.2 Handbook

SAP Solutions on IBM DB2 UDB V8.2.2 Handbook

By: Whei-Jen Chen; Jochen Donner; Edgardo G. König; Masako Konno; Beck Tang; Xiaomei Wang

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 31-OCT-2005

Insert Date: 15-MAY-2012

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IBM and SAP share a vision for responding to customers' specific requirements for tighter integration, platform flexibility, lower total cost of ownership, and improved performance. DB2 UDB V8.2.2 is an SAP-optimized version that uses autonomic computing technologies specifically tuned to help SAP users streamline installation, improve performance, and increase availability. This IBM Redbooks publication provides information for SAP consultants and SAP system administrators. It includes the latest DB2 UDB architecture details, SAP-related features and functions, practical advice on SAP...

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SAP® Basis Administration Handbook, NetWeaver Edition

SAP® Basis Administration Handbook, NetWeaver Edition

By: Ranjit Mereddy

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 17-NOV-2011

Insert Date: 06-MAR-2012

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Implement a powerful end-to-end SAP administration solutionGet peak performance from your SAP ERP infrastructure using the detailed implementation, maintenance, and support information in this comprehensive resource. SAP Basis Administration Handbook, NetWeaver Edition delivers integrated management strategies covering both ABAP and Java stacks. Discover how to deploy components, accurately size throughout, configure Oracle databases, back up your system, and repair performance problems. Career trends, certification requirements, and marketable SAP Basis skills are also discussed in this...

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Integrating IBM Security and SAP Solutions

Integrating IBM Security and SAP Solutions

By: Axel Buecker; Ivy Chiu; Kenny Chow; Ingo Dressler; Anthony Ferguson; Vaughan Harper; David Moore; Zoran Radenkovic; Guy Redding; John Robinson; Sascha Schefenacker; Franz Wolfhagen

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 23-FEB-2012

Insert Date: 05-MAR-2012

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Many large and medium-sized organizations have made strategic investments in the SAP NetWeaver technology platform as their primary application platform. In fact, SAP software is used to manage many core business processes and data. As a result, it is critical for all organizations to manage the life cycle of user access to the SAP applications while adhering to security and risk compliance requirements.In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we discuss the integration points into SAP solutions that are supported by the IBM Security access and identity management product capabilities....

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IBM System Storage N Series for SAP

IBM System Storage N Series for SAP

By: Alex Osuna; Craig Sullivan

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 19-MAR-2007

Insert Date: 13-FEB-2012

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This IBM Redbooks publication provides best practices for deploying IBM System Storage N series storage systems, in support of mySAP Business Suite solutions that run in UNIX and NFS environments that use a DB2 database. We address common storage infrastructure design, operation, and management challenges that are faced by businesses and IT personnel, deploying the latest generation of SAP solutions. Our recommendations are general and do not refer to particular SAP applications nor to the size or scope of specific SAP implementations. We assume that you have a basic understanding of the...

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Infrastructure Solutions: Design, Manage, and Optimize a 20 TB SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Data Warehouse

Infrastructure Solutions: Design, Manage, and Optimize a 20 TB SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Data Warehouse

By: Christian Matthys; David Bright; Carol Davis; Fabio Hasegawa; Philippe Jachimcsyk; Steve Lockwood; Thomas Marien; Julien Maussion; Stefan Ulrich

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 07-APR-2007

Insert Date: 13-FEB-2012

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In order to improve the performance and operational efficiency of businesses worldwide, a customer using SAP wanted to establish a global business program to define and implement a standardized, group-wide business process architecture and associated master data for the parameterization of the group software tools. The expected growth of the number of users and the size of the database would be at a level never reached by other customers, however, so IBM was asked to undertake the following: - Test the application to be sure it could sustain such growth. - Prove the manageability of the...

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Running SAP Solutions with IBM DB2 10 for z/OS on the IBM zEnterprise System

Running SAP Solutions with IBM DB2 10 for z/OS on the IBM zEnterprise System

By: Lydia Parziale; Petra Bührer; Dr. Matthias Gimbel; Martin Hagelstrom; Maxim Kukarev; Oliver Petrik; Franz Voelker

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Publication Date: 20-JAN-2012

Insert Date: 30-JAN-2012

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication highlights the key enhancements of IBM DB2® 10 for SAP. These enhancements include performance, scalability for several threads, new and more granular privileges, and auditing capabilities. This book is for IT specialists and architects who are interested in how SAP NetWeaver v7.3 interacts and uses the new features of DB2 10 for z/OS®.This book focuses on the SAP Business Suite of applications and how these applications run on IBM zEnterprise™ infrastructures. It begins with a brief overview of the SAP NetWeaver products and hardware and explains the...

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Configuring SAP ERP Financials and Controlling

Configuring SAP® ERP Financial and Controlling

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Publisher: Sybex

Publication Date: 30-MAR-2009

Insert Date: 03-NOV-2011

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SAP is the world leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software; of the software s modules, the FI (Finance) and CO (Controlling) are by far the most popular and are widely implemented. This book has no competition it is the only book on the market on how to configure and implement SAP s FI and CO modules to maximize functionality and features hands-on, step-by-step instructions and real-world examples that provide immediate and practical solutions. Updated for SAP s ECC 6.0, the book covers FI enterprise structure, general ledger, substitutions and validations, automatic account...

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

By: David Lai; Xavier Hacking

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Publication Date: 23-MAY-2011

Insert Date: 22-SEP-2011

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Over 90 simple and incredibly effective recipes for transforming your business data into exciting dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Xcelsius Learn valuable Dashboard Design best practices and tips through easy to follow recipes Become skilled in using and configuring all Dashboard Design components Learn how to apply Dynamic Visibility to enhance your dashboards Get introduced to the most important add-ons available for Dashboard Design with the most up to date information for Dashboards 4.0 In Detail Xcelsius 2008 was recently included in SAP’s...

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SAP? ABAPâ„¢ Handbook

SAP? ABAPâ„¢ Handbook

By: Inc. Kogent Learning Solutions

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Publication Date: 31-MAR-2011

Insert Date: 24-APR-2011

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Designed as a comprehensive reference for programmers and SAP users or as review for certification, SAP ABAP Handbook includes all the major concepts related to ABAP programming. With and easy-to-follow writing style, it begins with an explanation of the SAP ERP system and progresses to the architecture of SAP R/3 to SAP ERP ECC 6.0. A complete glossary of terms is included to help the reader understand the myriad terms and programming issues associated with this language. Topics covered include dialogs, ABAP dictionary, error messages, programming in the ABAP Editor, Busines Add-Ins,...

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Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 24-MAY-2011

Insert Date: 05-FEB-2011

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The #1 hands-on SAP tutorial for beginners: now fully updated and 100% refocused on two key audiences: business users and IT professionals Now easier to read and more useful, with more actionable guidance, better screenshots, and better foundational material for beginners Reflects new SAP technologies and roadmaps, including SAP in the cloud Covers the full lifecycle: project management, installation, administration, usage - even SAP careers Step-by-step instructions, case studies, exercises, and tips In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, beginning-to-intermediate-level...