From Book News, Inc.
Anderson, who currently works for Hewlett-Packard, offers a practical framework and best practices for planning, testing and implementing the MySAP business suite. He identifies drivers and characteristics of a SAP solution that impact total cost of ownership, discusses staffing and training, lists the tasks for installing each component, emphasizes the importance of managing change, and walks through the process of setting up a production system. The CD-ROM contains a sample project plan, PowerPoint presentations, Excel sizing worksheets, and scripts for a number of tools.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book 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.


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.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
Pity 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 ￯﾿ﾽbuy in.￯﾿ﾽ

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￯﾿ﾽll 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 ￯﾿ﾽsoft￯﾿ﾽ skills, reduce turnover -- and dramatically reduce risk.

Anderson thoroughly covers sizing and architecture, identifying drivers that impact long-term TCO, explaining why it￯﾿ﾽs critical to reflect business continuity issues early on, and showing how to do so. You￯﾿ﾽll walk through choosing partners, building your SAP data center, and actually installing SAP components and Solution Stack layers. There￯﾿ﾽs detailed coverage of best practices for day-to-day operations, change control, and managing functional development.

This book￯﾿ﾽs 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￯﾿ﾽve 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.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Everything a company needs to know to plan and organize an SAP implementation in one book!

This is the only book available that shows the reader how to actually monitor and manage a productive SAP system. It covers how to use SAP to manage itself and how this knowledge and process helps save money. The book is written by an SAP Technical Certified Consultant with six years of experience in SAP design and implementation who offers tried and proven approaches, scripts, and tools through examples of both new and existing SAP customer sites. The accompanying CD of scripts, documents, presentations, and sizing 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 SAP 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 PM's started quickly; and a list of batch scheduling minimum housecleaning jobs that must be implemented.

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