Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #437439 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

George Anderson is an SAP Technical Certified Consultant with seven years of SAP design, implementation, training, and project management experience. He has designed hundreds of mySAP system landscapes, helped to implement more than fifty of these, and has assisted in numerous pre-go-live activities like installation and tuning, stress-testing, enterprise systems management integration, and external systems integration. For two years he worked for Compaq's SAP Competency Center, which supports new and existing SAP-on-Compaq customers. George is certified in much of the SAP technology stack, from server and SAN/disk subsystem hardware (HP Professional/Compaq ASE), to deep OS (MCSE), to SQL Server (SAP), to SAP Basis (SAP TCC and HP Master ASE). He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute.

Customer Reviews

This books title is very misleading - keep reading.
When we started on my second SAP installation, one of my first moves was to do an Amazon search on "SAP". I suspected there would be quite a few titles and there are. So far I have read 14 of them including this one. My experience has been that almost everyone wants to write about some piece of the puzzle that they know a lot about. Not George. He tackles the entire process, including how to keep it running well once you are live.

To top it off, he is the only person I've met that is actually qualified to speak and write in such a broad manner.

This is the one book you need to get started with. It is also the book you need to go live with. At current consulting rates, you can pay for the advice in this book in about 15 minutes. This book really isn't so much about planning as it is surviving and thriving in the eye of the storm. It is by far the best of the 14 books that I have read.

This book got me the job!
I owe George big time for helping me launch a new career as an SAP Project Planner/coordinator/leader. Between this book and my experience writing software spec's to IEEE standards, I wrote a proposal that got me a 10 month gig planning and coordinating the SAP implementation for an existing client. The material on CD alone is worth 100 times the cost of the book - you get PowerPoint demos, spreadsheets, MS Project plans, and tons of documents that you can modify and present as your own work. Even with an inside edge I never would have been able to write such a credible proposal w/o this book.

The book is great but the CD is fantastic!
As a long time SAP consultant in Canada and northern US, I've read or looked through most of the technical books covering SAP R/3 and some newer modules. I was intrigued by what seemed to be something different in this book, however, and picked it up just last week. I must say, it is very good. The author's approach is unique, fresh, and an enjoyable read.

But I was blown away by the CD. Most book CDs are fairly predictable and less than interesting, much less valuable. Not so with this one though. Instead, George Anderson has included some very compelling documents, excellent (though sometimes too simple) spreadsheets, and 2 very nice project plans, among other excellent objects like pictures, powerpoint files, and more. My hat is off. Well done.