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41. | Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS By: Georg Mayer; Giovanni Grita; Martin Cardoso; Lindy Crawford; Wilfried Alle; Lydia Parziale; Theodor Kuebler Publisher: IBM Redbooks Publication Date: 17-MAR-2008 Insert Date: 03-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS Clients want to know how to exploit the new features of both DB2
V9 and SAP in their SAP BI environments. This IBM Redbooks
publication describes the benefits of DB2 V9 for SAP Business
Information Warehouse. It covers best practices and provides
performance and tuning recommendations.
SAP Business Information Warehouse is the central reporting tool
for almost all SAP business solutions. It is based on building
blocks called InfoObjects that contain data about customers, sales,
and business information. InfoObjects include InfoSources, DataSore
objects, and InfoCubes. The...
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42. | Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 UDB for z/OS V8 By: Mike Ebbers; Brenda Beane; David Bellion; Nick Dyke; Andrew Hartman; Veng Ly; Mike Mardis; Bala Prabahar; Michael Thelosen; Theodor H. Kuebler Publisher: IBM Redbooks Publication Date: 30-APR-2008 Insert Date: 03-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 UDB for z/OS V8 Note: This is a republishing of SG24-6489-00, which was
withdrawn in error when we updated it with SG24-6489-01. This -00
book covers DB2 V8 while the -01 version covers DB2 V9, so we are
making both books available.
This IBM Redbook describes the benefits of DB2® V8 for SAP
Business Information Warehouse. It lists best practices and
provides performance and tuning recommendations for SAP Business
Information Warehouse.
In today’s fast-moving business environment, there is a need
for more and better business information. Data warehousing and
business intelligence (BI) systems...
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43. | Implementing SAP Applications on the IBM System i Platform with IBM i5/OS By: Susan Powers; Matthias Bartusch; Manfred Engelbart; Dieter Huber; Gert Ruland; Sabine Schloesser; Ron Schmerbauch; Steve J. Tlusty Publisher: IBM Redbooks Publication Date: 08-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 02-JUL-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Implementing SAP Applications on the IBM System i Platform with IBM i5/OS This IBM Redbook features a collection of knowledge gained from
IBM and SAP system experts who work with customers that use SAP
applications on the IBM System i platform with i5/OS. It is written
to assist SAP basis consultants and other IT professionals with the
implementation of a total business solution, consisting of System i
servers, i5/OS Version 5 Release 4 (V5R4), DB2 UDB for i5/OS
database, and SAP products.
The ideas in this book apply to the entire spectrum of business
solutions within the mySAP Business Suite. These solutions share
SAP NetWeaver, the common technical...
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44. | Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Third Edition By: George W. Anderson; Tim Rhodes; Jeff Davis; John Dobbins; Andreas Jenzer Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 06-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 22-JUN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Third Edition Third Edition: Thoroughly Updated and
Expanded, with Extensive New Coverage!
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less,
you’ll master the entire SAP project lifecycle, from planning
through implementation and system administration through day-to-day
operations. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step
approach, you’ll gain a strong real-world foundation in both
the technology and business essentials of today’s SAP
products and applications—from the ground up.
Step-by-step instructions walk you through
the most common questions, issues, and tasks you’ll encounter
with SAP.
Case...
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45. | SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 19-MAY-2003 Insert Date: 14-MAR-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation Everything a company needs to know to plan, organize, and
perform an SAP implementation in one book!
This is the only book available that shows the reader how to
actually plan an SAP Data Center, install mySAP components, and set
up the tools and processes necessary to monitor and manage a
productive SAP system. It covers how to perform a Total Cost of
Ownership analysis to help refine your SAP Solution Vision, and
then how to leverage SAP¿s technology partners to work
through the SAP system landscape sizing process. Staffing the
project, from the SAP Steering Committee all the way down to...
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46. | By: McDonald, Kevin; Wilmsmeier, Andreas; Dixon, David C.; Inmon, W. H. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 28-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2008 Slots: 1.0 | "This book is the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI
professionals. Based on their extraordinary expertise with the
product, the authors provide deep insights about key innovations in
the areas of user experience, query performance, integrated
planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing."
—Stefan Sigg, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver Business
Intelligence
The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects
the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various
Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP
BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders,...
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47. | SAP SCM: Applications and Modeling for Supply Chain Management (with BW Primer) By: Wood, Daniel C. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 02-FEB-2007 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SAP SCM: Applications and Modeling for Supply Chain Management (with BW Primer)
SAP SCM: Applications and Modeling for Supply Chain
Management empowers you to capitalize on the sophistication of
SAP APO. This book provides clear advice on the inevitable,
critical decisions that can lead to project success or failure and
shows you, wherever you are on the supply chain management
staff—buyer, planner, ground controller or analyst—to
fully exploit the agility SAP APO offers.
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48. | Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide By: Jose Fajardo; Elfriede Dustin Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 20-APR-2007 Insert Date: 07-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide
Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide shows how to implement a disciplined, efficient, and proven approach for testing SAP R/3 correctly from the beginning of the SAP implementation through post-production support. The book also shows SAP professionals how to efficiently provide testing coverage for all SAP objects before they are moved into a production environment.
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49. | Mastering Enterprise SOA with SAP NetWeaver® and mySAP™ ERP By: Campbell, Scott; Mohun, Vamsi Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 07-DEC-2007 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mastering Enterprise SOA with SAP NetWeaver® and mySAP™ ERP
* SAP is investing billions to redesign its flagship R/3 product
line based on its ESA, and that ESA will become the standard
framework for developing all new SAP ERP applications with
NetWeaver
* This book provides an overview of the core building blocks of
SAP's new ESA, and shows how ESA works with the NetWeaver platform
as well as mySAP ERP
* A step-by-step action plan proposes ideas for designing ESA-based
SAP applications
* The companion Web site contains in-depth case examples that show
how to build various SAP services and applications using the
NetWeaver development tools, plus...
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50. | Crystal Reports® XI: Official Guide By: Neil FitzGerald; James Edkins; Annette Jonker; Michael Voloshko Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 01-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Crystal Reports® XI: Official Guide The authorized guide to the
latest edition of the #1 business intelligence software product -
Crystal Reports. More than 16 million licenses of Crystal Reports
have been shipped to date. This book is a reference designed
to provide hands-on guidance for the latest release of the product
suite. The latest version of Crystal Reports and the Business
Objects enterprise reporting suite delivers vast product
enhancements and a tighter integration that will drive upgrades
from licensees. Brand new features (e.g. Dynamic and Cascading
Parameter Generation) will also appeal to new audiences. Over...
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51. | By: Danielle Larocca Signorile Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 24-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 04-OCT-2006 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SAP Query Reporting SAP Query Reporting is everything an SAP user needs to
know to create your own reports in SAP using Query tools, no
programming required! Designed as a hands-on learning aid, you will
be able to follow along and perform each new skill learned on
your own SAP system. The book's tutorial style, step-by-step
instruction will teach you everything you need to know to use the
SAP Query tools, including its configuration, advanced usage, and
integration to Microsoft. Additionally the book gives best business
practice recommendations for the technology and internal business
use of the tools. Learn...
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52. | Sams Teach Yourself SAP™ in 24 Hours, Second Edition By: George Anderson; Danielle Larocca Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 07-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 15-NOV-2005 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself SAP™ in 24 Hours, Second Edition A new edition of this book is now available,
ISBN-10: 0137142846 ISBN:13 9780137142842
Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours,
Second Edition is the perfect tool for learning one of the most
sophisticated enterprise solutions available today. Designed to
being with the basics, you will become acquainted with the entire
SAP system, from navigation to creating your own reports. You'll
also cover:
Implementation tools and methodologies
NetWeaver
ECC 5.0
Designing Screens and menus
Reporting
Integration with Microsoft Office
And more
Written by leading SAP...
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53. | By: Jim Mazzullo; Peter Wheatley Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 15-JUL-2005 Insert Date: 28-JUL-2005 Slots: 1.0 | 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...
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54. | Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10 Publisher: Que Publication Date: 14-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Special Edition Using® Crystal Reports® 10 Special Edition Using Crystal Reports 10 is a reference
guide designed to provide hands-on experience with the latest
release of the product suite. The latest version of the Crystal
Reporting Suite, delivers vast enhancements that drive upgrades
from licensees who'll seek a reference to help them migrate. As
Crystal Decisions insiders, the authors bring unique and valuable
real-world perspectives on implementations and use of the Crystal
Reports product. The book includes content, tutorials and samples
for reporting within the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET environment
and on the SAP Business...
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55. | mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 25-JUN-2004 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing
“A good book for people who deal with SAP systems for a
living. I haven’t read another book like this. It’s
technical but it’s also an entertaining read. A pleasant
departure from the norm.”
—David C. Gilliland, Senior Consultant, SAP America,
Inc.
“Clearly, this book could be used as an excellent
development tool and could help a company like mine perfect
performance tuning steps and standards.”
—Dennis Prince, SAP Development/Support Specialist,
Hewlett-Packard
“SAP optimization is one of those subjects that developers
struggle to find time for and managers don’t know...
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56. | DB2 UDB for z/OS V8: Through the Looking Glass and What SAP Found There By: Paolo Bruni; Tim Bohlsen; Mark Keimig; Peter Mohrholz; Johannes Schuetzner; Thomas Wilson Publisher: IBM Redbooks Publication Date: 01-DEC-2003 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: DB2 UDB for z/OS V8: Through the Looking Glass and What SAP Found There DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 (DB2 V8) introduces a large number of new features that provide for unmatched scalability, availability, performance, and manageability to reliably handle any information needed in SAP solutions. The objective of this IBM Redbook is to identify the new features of DB2 V8 that are particularly beneficial to SAP and to describe how SAP applications can take advantage of these new features. While some of these features can be exploited transparently by the currently available versions of DB2, for some others the next technological release of SAP will be required. The...
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57. | SAP on DB2 for z/OS and OS/390: High Availability and Performance Monitoring with Data Sharing By: Viviane Anavi-Chaput; David Bellion; Tim Bohlsen; Humberto Carrasco; Mike Gordon; Flavio Lima; Mary Siart; Mike Zazulak Publisher: IBM Redbooks Publication Date: 01-DEC-2003 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2004 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SAP on DB2 for z/OS and OS/390: High Availability and Performance Monitoring with Data Sharing This IBM Redbook addresses the challenges posed by monitoring high availability, scalability, and performance in an SAP sysplex data sharing environment. It introduces the motivations for utilizing a design based on DB2 data sharing. It includes the principal SAP-DB2 data sharing architecture options and trade-offs used in the industry today and issues that play a role in both high availability and scalability, such as failover design, database connectivity design, workload splitting and load balancing, MCOD, and coupling facility design.
The book discusses single point of failure,...
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58. | Special Edition Using Crystal Enterprise™ 8.5 Publisher: Que Publication Date: 31-MAY-2002 Insert Date: 24-JUN-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Special Edition Using Crystal Enterprise™ 8.5 The only reference available on Crystal Enterprise written by
employees of Crystal Decisions, creator of Crystal
Enterprise.
Special Edition Using Crystal Enterprise 8.5 provides a
comprehensive reference for the enterprise information delivery
solution, Crystal Enterprise. This book will help readers
understand where and how Crystal Enterprise can be applied to solve
business problems. Written as a guide through planning, deploying,
administering, and managing an enterprise reporting system based on
Crystal Enterprise. Using practical examples of how Crystal
Enterprise can be deployed in...
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59. | Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports® 9 in 24 Hours By: Joe Estes; Neil FitzGerald; Kathryn Hunt; Steve Lucas; Ryan Marples Publisher: Sams Publication Date: 03-SEP-2002 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports® 9 in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours guides
the reader through understanding data sources, to creating simple
reports using the provided report wizards to custom reporting
creation, modification and design techniques. Crystal Reports 9
includes unprecedented technological advances and user interface
design improvements. Crystal Reports can access data from the most
widely used databases and can integrate data from multiple
databases within one report....
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60. | By: Biao Fu Ph.D.; Henry Fu P.E. Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 23-JUL-2002 Insert Date: 28-DEC-2002 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SAP® BW: A Step-by-Step Guide SAP BW has recently come to the fore as a valuable tool for
developing data warehouses that accurately and effectively support
critical business decision making. It facilitates easy-to-use and
high-performance extraction, transfer, transformation, and loading
of data from a variety of data sources, including such
comprehensive business management systems as SAP R/3.
This practitioner's guide uses step-by-step instructions
complete with a plethora of screen captures to illustrate key SAP
BW functionalities. It demonstrates how SAP BW implements the
fundamental star schema and solves the...
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