SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP

The start-to-finish guide to designing, managing, implementing, and upgrading enterprise SAP solutions -A 100% practical roadmap that integrates business, project management, and technical perspectives: the whole organization approach thats needed to succeed. -Up-to-the-minute insights for implementing the new SAP ECC atop the SAP NetWeaver platform. -Authored by a team of SAP business analysts, project managers, and technical consultants with extensive enterprise experience. Authored by exceptionally experienced SAP implementers, this book provides comprehensive, real-world roadmaps for succeeding with any SAP implementation or upgrade. Its the only book to present a holistic, whole organization approach that fully reflects the challenges, issues, and tasks faced by every participant -- including executives, managers, technical professionals, programmers, project managers, and end-users. Utilizing a real-world case study, the authors walk through planning, designing, customizing, and implementing SAP solutions with SAPs ERP Central Component (SAP R/3s successor). They demonstrate the concurrent work streams of each participant, identify critical path milestones, and cover all essential subprojects and tasks. Each chapter contains sections on project management and oversight; executive tasks; business process configuration tasks; technology and programming tasks; and issues related to the end-user community. By reading this book from cover to cover, readers can gain a truly comprehensive view of implementing SAP. Alternatively, they can pick and choose chapters related to their most immediate concerns. Either way, SAP Implementation Unleashed will help readers overcome the complexity typically associated with SAP deployments, so they can gain more business value sooner.