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Starting to transform your business with SAP NetWeaver is that daunting. NetWeaver is both an application platform and an integration platform. It integrates your current IT systems to enable portals, collaboration, data management, and development environments. To grasp the complexities and possibilities of SAP ASAP, dig in with SAP NetWeaver For Dummies and explore:
- MySAP Business Suite
- SAP Enterprise Planning Resource (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Human Capital Management (HCM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), and more
- Mobile Infrastructure that performs like a universal translator for mobile interfaces, including laptops, wireless phones, and PDAs
- Master Data Management, including using the content consolidation technique to “clean up” data, master data harmonization to distribute it, and central master data management to maintain a data repository
- Web Application Service and NetWeaver Developer Studio—tools that let you integrate and create your own customized applications
Written by Dan Woods, former CTO of The Street.com and CapitalThinking, and Jeffrey Word, the Director of Technology Strategy for SAP, this guide features real–life stories from businesses and examples of typical uses to help you cut through the complexities and get up and running. It includes a CD–ROM with:
- Detailed white papers and product overviews
- Stores from customers using SAP NetWeaver today
- Demos that show SAP NetWeaver in action
- A directory of resources for additional information
Like that interstate system, SAP NetWeaver doesn’t have to be integrated all at once. You choose the applications that have the most potential to benefit your company’s operations and bottom line. SAP NetWeaver For Dummies even gives you recommendations for rolling it out and suggests practical ways to get started and get quick returns on your SAP investment. Then you’re going full–speed ahead on the road to success!
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Discover how SAP NetWeaver can help benefit your company′s bottom line
So you′ve heard about SAP NetWeaver and you think it might be great for your business, if only you were sure exactly what it is? Relax – we′ve got you covered. Here′s your guidebook to SAP NetWeaver, the Web services–based business integration and application platform that enables portals, collaboration, data management, development environments, and more.
All this on the bonus CD–ROM
- Additional detailed information about SAP NetWeaver
- Demos of SAP NetWeaver capabilities
- Success stories from companies already using SAP NetWeaver
- For details and complete system requirements, see the CD–ROM appendix.
Discover how to:
- Apply SAP NetWeaver′s capabilities to your business
- Understand how the components work together
- Employ SAP NetWeaver′s ready–made solutions
- Use SAP NetWeaver with existing technology
- Gain ideas from other successful users
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This book is well structured but there is so little information of value that it is unlikely that anyone would be able to use it to learn about SAP in any meaningful way. You could get exactly the same information by simply reading through various web sites.
If you are looking to implement SAP, then this book will not provide you with anything that will assist you. If you already have implemented SAP, then the chances are that you already know most of the information in the book, and possibly more.
Part 1 deals with the Enterprise software basics and introduces us to general IT and evolution of IT enabled solutions. This part also gives details of where the code runs and which layer the topic in discussion belongs to.
Part 2 titled the cast of components gives details of what the Netweaver is capable of doing. I found chapter 8 interesting and stunning that SAP has tried to integrate loads of heterogeneous applications like facebook, yahoo, SDN etc. into one.
Chapter 9 has been written well to highlight the benefits of Mobile Infrastructure.
Seeing the title, I jumped straight into part 3 "A nifty development toolkit". But as usual only some high level details are discussed on why SAP choose Eclipse and what the NWDS is capable of doing. A lot of graphs have been given on how NWDS improves productivity.
This book is targeted for top management and gives loads of high level overview and details of what SAP Netweaver can do. No configuration or coding is discussed. Lots of tips have been given on reducing the TCO (Total cost of ownership).
In part 4 authors are concentrating more on marketing SAP Netweaver. They compare the advantages of SAP Netweaver and so on.
In part 5 list of useful websites like sap dot com, sdn dot com etc. :-)
If you are part of pre sales team and looking for an Introduction to SAP Netweaver, then this book is for you. NOT a single transaction code is given in this book. Fresh, hot and pure Theory and contents of SAP NetWeaver.
The title SAP Netweaver for dummies is misleading. For dummies, the best place to start is knowing what is SAP and how it is used in ERP.
At one point of time, I wanted to discontinue reading the book after going through the initial few chapters, as I was expecting a technical introduction to SAP Netweaver.
I will resist my temptation to give a 1 star and be generous. After all the book did give the contents of NetWeaver in an organized manner (unlike SDN). This rating is from a SAP Developer with over 13 years of experience.
I think SDN has got enough documents dealing with What is SAP Netweaver question. Of course unless you have enough cash to spare to buy this book :-)
The book is heavily SAP biased (not surprising, given that one of the authors works for SAP) and hypes NetWeaver almost as the culminating achievement and ultimate destiny of IT. This tone almost became too much for me at times - using phrases such as "The bad news? There IS no bad news!" when describing software does dent the credibility a bit for me. Read it for the useful technical overview; take the hype with a grain of salt.
Finally, this slightly twee approach can be dangerous: readers with a technical background can read between the lines and easily imagine the blood, sweat and tears it takes to implement a system of this magnitude, but the non-technically oriented can easily become seduced by the tone of this book, which glosses over all the gory details and focuses on the happy end results and TCO benefits. This might very well build up unrealistic expectations for readers with a non-technical background. So if you're in that group, please keep in mind that properly installing and configuring the entire NetWeaver platform for any reasonably sized company will not be quite the happy lark the book hints at - even though the book barely mentions this, it WILL be a HUGE effort - even though the end result may very well be worth it.
However, with those cevaeats in mind, this is still a useful overview and primer, once you look past the over-the-top hype.
After carrying this book around with me for over two months, I'm still not done with it. This is because I keep on getting irritated when I read this book and then I put it down. And I'm not easily irritated. I think I'm at the point where I'm going to put it in a box (with many other books that I DID read) and read something else instead. This book is just wasting my time.
Here's my problems with this book:
1. The writers try to be funny/entertaining all the time. I do like humor, but they do it way, way too much and they are not funny at all.
2. Some of the things they discuss are simple, basic, worthless information that any IT person knows.
3. They make Netweaver seem easy, all-good and the future of IT. I love SAP and I think Netweaver is probably a good platform. But I think this book is overselling it and making unproven claims that may mislead less-experienced people.
This book could have been good if the (useful) content was offered in a different way. Some suggestions if a second edition materializes.
1. Don't try to be funny. Just present the material.
2. Leave out all the unnecessary, useless information. You're not obligated to go over 400 pages. I'd prefer to read a thinner book with just the relevant information.
I don't always give the lowest rating for things I don't like. And this book does have some useful information here and there. But the presentation is just so terrible to me that it makes whatever good it has worthless.
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