The challenges facing BW projects can be cultural, political, technical, or fiscal in nature. This book helps you navigate past a wide range of potential pitfalls to ensure a largely problem-free BW implementation or upgrade. Learn about common BW mistakes, find out how to avoid them, and understand how successful BW projects can be executed. In addition, you ll benefit from sample documents that can be used in your project, including review checklists, communications documents, and landscape and architecture documents. The SAP NetWeaver BW Project Lifecycle Gain a practical understanding of what s involved in a typical SAP NetWeaver BW implementation, with an emphasis on the pitfalls and how to avoid them. Defining an Implementation Strategy Know the important questions to answer before starting any SAP NetWeaver BW project to ensure your project is planned, organized, and implemented as efficiently as possible. Preparing for Go-Live and the Go-Live Process Learn about the cut-over tasks associated with go-live and how proper planning can minimize stress and provide resources and escalation in the event of issues.After SAP NetWeaver BW Go-Live Discover the typical project responsibilities after go-live and the challenges faced in this phase of the project lifecycle. Enhance Quality: The Six Sigma Way Get an introduction to a few basic Six Sigma methodologies that can be used to enhance data quality.

This book helps you navigate past a wide range of potential pitfalls to ensure a largely problem-free BW implementation. Using a lessons-learned approach, the author highlights critical BW project-related issues from the start of an implementation to the end. Readers discover how to eliminate problems before they occur, by preparing for them from the outset. Learn about common BW mistakes, find out how to avoid them and understand how successful BW projects can be executed. Readers of this comprehensive reference get unparalleled advice to run your BW project efficiently, while circumventing major delays and common stumbling blocks. In addition, you'll benefit from the experience of others via sample documents such as review checklists, communications documents, and landscape and architecture documents. This book is highly valuable for those implementing BI NetWeaver 2004s (7.0) as well as 3.x.

SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through the entire journey, helping you avoid pain and pitfalls and gain all the benefits of SAP. The authors introduce start-to-finish business, technical, and project management roadmaps for successful SAP implementation. Then, drawing on their immense experience, they walk you through the entire process of planning and deployment—addressing make-or-break issues and hidden gaps that other guidebooks ignore. You’ll discover how to employ processes, models, and toolsets that help you achieve implementation excellence while systematically reducing cost and business risk. Along the way, you’ll find actionable advice and real-world insight into innovative project management, best-suited leadership, effective load testing, contemporary infrastructure implementation, and more. George W. Anderson is responsible for providing enterprise applications thought leadership for the EDS/HP office of the CTO. A long-time SAP consultant and PMI-certified project manager, George has authored several best-selling books and enjoys new challenges. Charles D. Nilson is a senior program manager for EDS/HP and has led many successful SAP implementation teams over the years. He is a PMI PMP and is SAP Partner Academy certified in MM and PP. Tim Rhodes is a senior SAP technical consultant for EDS/HP and a Basis/infrastructure veteran focused on implementing, migrating, and upgrading SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver solutions. Tim is also an SAP-certified technical consultant, OCP, MCSE, and HP Master ASE. Detailed Information on How To... Define the business vision driving your implementation, and use it to design your solution Use TCO techniques to fully understand SAP’s financial impact in your organization Structure your SAP project management office, business teams, technical support organization, and overall project team Size, plan, and test your SAP infrastructure to deliver the best performance and availability at the best cost Integrate SAP into an SOA environment Install and configure SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver components Perform basic functional configuration, testing, and change management activities Enable a smooth transition by successfully performing the critical tasks that immediately precede SAP Go-Live Choose the right mix of tools and applications to test, manage, and monitor SAP Prepare your SAP Operations team for its post-implementation responsibilities

If you are a consultant, administrator, or developer who works with SAP NetWeaver Portal, this book is an invaluable resource. Starting with the blueprint phase of an installation through to the go-live and support phases, The Complete Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal discusses topics relevant for installation, configuration, implementation, development, and administration. This one-stop guide is full of step-by-step instructions and detailed screenshots, and will teach you everything you need to know about working with SAP NetWeaver Portal.

There's more to upgrading your SAP system than just pressing a button. Here's the next-best thing: a comprehensive guide to the upgrade process. You'll understand project planning and processes, how to use upgrade tools in ABAP and Java systems, and how to upgrade individual products like SAP Solution Manager, SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP PI and SAP PO, and more. Finally, everything you need to perform successful SAP upgrades In this book, you'll learn about: Project Planning Don't embark on your upgrade journey unprepared. Understand how to plan for the project, and get to know the system architecture, upgrade tools, and strategies that you'll need to be successful. Upgrade Processes Find the steps you'll need to upgrade Java and ABAP systems, modify SAP objects, and learn how to use the right tools for these processes. Upgrading SAP Components Each SAP component has a unique flavor. Get what you need to upgrade each of the major components, including SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Process Integration, and more. Highlights: Project planning Technical planning ABAP and Java upgrades SAP Enterprise Portal SAP Process Orchestration SAP BusinessObjects BI Upgrade process and preparation Upgrade tools Modifying SAP objects SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, SAP BW Enhancement packages

See how SAP HANA has changed ABAP Whether you're studying for certification or just want to see what's new, you can learn to design simple and advanced SAP HANA applications with ABAP by using this comprehensive guide. Learn to enable code pushdown, use new Open SQL enhancements and CDS views, and integrate native SAP HANA objects. Use detailed programming examples to develop database procedures and optimize your applications. You'll be programming for SAP HANA in no time Basic Principles Explore essential SAP HANA principles like in-memory technology and architecture, the SAP Web IDE, and AS ABAP database programming. Advanced Techniques Learn to use tools like InfoProviders, EasyQuery Interface, and the Application Function Modeler for SAP HANA. Discover how to integrate geographical data from SAP HANA in ABAP programs. Optimizing Existing Applications Get step-by-step instructions to help you optimize existing ABAP applications, and learn how to speed up applications with SAP HANA. Highlights: Code pushdown SAP Web IDE Eclipse CDS views SQLScript Native SAP HANA object integration Open SQL enhancements Geo-information Text searches Error analysis

In today's competitive business environment, most companies realize that the better they can manage their customer relationships, the more successful they will become. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software systems are key tools for companies to manage the customer-facing processes of their businesses. However, many companies have resisted