Product Description

If you are responsible for the administration of an SAP R/3 system, or would like to know more about it, this book will show you how to exploit the potential of the R/3 system to maximum effect. SAP R/3 Administration provides a detailed explanation of the technological basis and the development environment of the R/3 system and practical guidance on performance tuning.

This book provides detailed coverage of the organization and operation of the R/3 system and the transport system that monitors, coordinates and logs access to system data. It explains the fundamentals of ABAP/4, the programming language at the heart of the SAP R/3 system, and shows how to program simple reports and understand ABAP/4 programs.

With this book you will learn how to: * monitor and maintain a live R/3 system * understand different types of R/3 systems, exchange objects between these systems and control modifications to the user * use the CCMS (computer center management system) to observe R/3 operation and evaluate and avoid potential problems early on.

The authors have drawn on their own considerable experience in customer support to provide this comprehensive, practical guide to the administration and performance tuning of the SAP R/3 system. While you do not have to have any prior knowledge of the R/3 system to read this book, it is assumed that you will have some previous experience of relational database management systems and SQL.

An accompanying disk contains R/3 transport data for the examples featured in the book and is described in Appendix G.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2744455 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From the Back Cover
SAP R/3 Administration provides a detailed explanation of the technological basis and the development environment of the R/3 system and practical guidance on performance tuning.

This book provides detailed coverage of the organization and operation of the R/3 system and the transport system that monitors, coordinates and logs access to system data. It explains the fundamentals of ABAP/4, the programming language at the heart of the SAP R/3 system, and shows how to program simple reports and understand ABAP/4 programs.

With this book you will learn how to: monitor and maintain a live R/3 system understand different types of R/3 systems, exchange objects between these systems and control modifications to the user use the CCMS (computer center management system) to observe R/3 operation and evaluate and avoid potential problems early on.

The authors have drawn on their own considerable experience in customer support to provide this comprehensive, practical guide to the administration and performance tuning of the SAP R/3 system. While you do not have to have any prior knowledge of the R/3 system to read this book, it is assumed that you will have some previous experience of relational database management systems and SQL.

An accompanying disk contains R/3 transport data for the examples featured in the book and is described in Appendix G. 0201924692B04062001

About the Author
Liane Will has been involved in the development of R/3 since 1994. Today she works for SAP's Technical Core Competence Center (TCC), which is responsible for designing and building performance analysis tools and services. This is her fourth book about SAP products. 0201924692AB12142001

Customer Reviews

Outdated, neither for advanced user nor beginner
Most of the content is tailored for SAP R/3 Release 3 and it contains several descriptions and references to Release 2.2.

The massive use of SAP terminology will be very confusing for SAP newbies. The diagrams are very dry and don't offer much additional insights into the concepts described in the text.

For experienced SAP adminstrators the book is just too thin to be of any use. Better go for the 900+ pages SAP handbook.

The translation from the German original is quite mediocre. On several occasions you can see the original shine through. Most of the presented examples contain German names for tables, fields or variables. For readers without knowledge of the German language some of the examples could be quite hard to understand (I'm German myself so no problem here).

A disappointment; based on older releases
Bought it and returned it shortly thereafter. This book is very basic, has no depth where one typically needs it, and covers a limited range of topics. Not much better than the basic Help provided by the software. Most disappointing is the fact that the book is based on releases 3.0 and earlier. Not worth the money.

SAP on-line help is far better!
This a badly translated book, i.e. not written originally in English. The book does not have a focal point. It is only abstracts form the on-line help. Does not worth the money.