Special Edition Using Sap R/3: The Most Complete Reference (Special Edition Using...)
Author: Asap World Consultancy, Jonathan Blain, Gray Elkington
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ISBN: 0789713519
Publisher: Que (August, 1997)
Sales Rank: 36,395
Average Customer Rating: 2.41 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Big, heavy book.
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.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Good reference book for SAP Implementation
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.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Jack of all master of none..
This was my first book on SAP, it did help to get an overview nothing more. If you're planning to ge t specialized in ABAP or any Module then better forget this one. Similar Products
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