Overview
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 the primary SAP basis and computer operations teams, is covered as well. It also covers building high availability and disaster recoverability into your solutions, addressing critical training required by the SAP support team as well as end users, and how to use SAP-provided and a host of other 3rd party tools to manage your mySAP landscape. Finally, this is the only book that covers in detail how to address both functional and stress testing of your solution prior to going live.
Throughout the book, knowledge and processes are provided that will help you hit the ground running and help you save money. The book is written by an SAP Technical Certified Consultant with seven years of experience in SAP design and implementation who offers tried and proven approaches, scripts, and tools similar to those used by new and existing SAP customer sites. The accompanying CD of documents, presentations, scripts, checklists, and various tools valued at $50,000 saves time and makes the reader productive fast.
Coverage includes notated screen shots of real productive systems; custom checklists, how-to procedures, organization charts that can be leveraged immediately for staffing teams; PowerPoint presentations that can be used by management to sell, present, and provide status updates on their mySAP projects internally; tools, utilities, and XLS spreadsheets used to design, size, and understand SAP system architectures; actual Microsoft Project plans and implementation schedules to get the customer and 3rd party Project Manager's started quickly; and documentation templates and approaches that may be used at once.
Synopsis
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 the primary SAP basis and computer operations teams, is covered as well. It also covers building high availability and disaster recoverability into your solutions, addressing critical training required by the SAP support team as well as end users, and how to use SAP-provided and a host of other 3rd party tools to manage your mySAP landscape. Finally, this is the only book that covers in detail how to address both functional and stress testing of your solution prior to going live.
Throughout the book, knowledge and processes are provided that will help you hit the ground running and help you save money. The book is written by an SAP Technical Certified Consultant with seven years of experience in SAP design and implementation who offers tried and proven approaches, scripts, and tools similar to those used by new and existing SAP customer sites. The accompanying CD of documents, presentations, scripts, checklists, and various tools valued at $50,000 saves time and makes the reader productive fast.
Coverage includes notated screen shots of real productive systems; custom checklists, how-to procedures, organization charts that can be leveraged immediately for staffing teams; PowerPoint presentations that can be used by management to sell, present, and provide status updates on their mySAP projects internally; tools, utilities, and XLS spreadsheets used to design, size, and understand SAP system architectures; actual Microsoft Project plans and implementation schedules to get the customer and 3rd party Project Manager's started quickly; and documentation templates and approaches that may be used at once.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewPity the folks who had to implement SAP from scratch in earlier years. They had to figure it all out by themselves. Now a single book covers all you need to rapidly construct project plans and schedules, size your implementation, design for high availability, organize your team, plan for support -- even build executive “buy in.”
Longtime SAP implementer George W. Anderson covers SAP and mySAP, not only from the technical point of view but also from the business point of view, where the implementation risks are high and careers are at stake. You’ll start from the very beginning: defining business, uptime, and performance requirements; planning for manageability; even deciding whether to outsource your entire SAP implementation to an ASP. Next, he offers superb start-to-finish guidance on staffing all levels of your SAP technical organization. His approach will get you qualified people faster, reflect both technical and “soft” skills, reduce turnover -- and dramatically reduce risk.
Anderson thoroughly covers sizing and architecture, identifying drivers that impact long-term TCO, explaining why it’s critical to reflect business continuity issues early on, and showing how to do so. You’ll walk through choosing partners, building your SAP data center, and actually installing SAP components and Solution Stack layers. There’s detailed coverage of best practices for day-to-day operations, change control, and managing functional development.
This book’s CD-ROM contains complete high-level and detailed project planning templates; job descriptions, test plans, TCO analysis worksheets, sizing and architecture questionnaires, data center planning checklists, change management forms, and loads more. We’ve never seen this much SAP expertise between two covers. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.