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CURRENT RELEASES Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Reporting SAP NetWeaver® BW and SAP BusinessObjects™: The Comprehensive Guide NEW4 Integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x with SAP NetWeaver NEW ...........4 Reporting and Analysis with SAP BusinessObjects (2nd Edition) NEW .....................4 Creating Dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects (2nd Edition) NEW........................5 SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (2nd Edition) ...............................5 The SAP Crystal Reports® 2-Pack NEW ...............................................................5 Enterprise Information Management with SAP NEW ..............................................6 Business Intelligence with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 ........................................................6 SAP BusinessObjects System Administration............................................................6 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence® (2nd Edition) NEW.....................................6 SAP HANA® — An Introduction NEW.................................................................7

Human Capital Management Configuring and Customizing Employee and Manager Self-Services in SAP ERP HCM..................................................................................................8 Talent Management with SAP ERP HCM.................................................................8 SAP ERP HCM Processes and Forms NEW...............................................................8 Practical SAP US Payroll (2nd Edition) NEW ............................................................9 Personnel Planning and Development Using SAP ERP HCM (2nd Edition)................9 100 Things You Should Know About HR Management with SAP ...........................9 SAP Transaction Codes: Your Quick Reference to Transactions in SAP ERP .............9 Enterprise Compensation Management with SAP ERP HCM ...................................9

Finance and Controlling Customizing Financial Accounting in SAP .............................................................10 Configuring Controlling in SAP ERP NEW.............................................................10 Account Determination in SAP (2nd Edition) NEW................................................10 SAP ERP Financials Configuration and Design (2nd Edition) ..................................10 The SAP ERP Financials and Controlling Configuration 3-Pack NEW ............10 Actual Costing with the SAP Material Ledger........................................................11 Controlling-Profitability Analysis with SAP (2nd Edition) NEW...............................11 SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (2nd Edition) .............................11 100 Things You Should Know About Financial Accounting with SAP....................11 Maximizing Cash Management with SAP ERP Financials .......................................11 Financial Reporting with SAP (2nd Edition) ...........................................................11 Product Cost Controlling with SAP (2nd Edition) NEW .........................................12 Controlling with SAP — Practical Guide................................................................12

Discover ABAP (2nd Edition) .................................................................................16 ABAP Performance Tuning....................................................................................16 BRFplus — Business Rule Management for ABAP Applications..............................16 Next Generation ABAP Development (2nd Edition) ...............................................17 ABAP Objects: ABAP Programming in SAP NetWeaver..........................................17 ABAP Data Dictionary ...........................................................................................17 Design Patterns in Object-Oriented ABAP (2nd Edition).........................................17 ABAP Basics (2nd Edition) .....................................................................................17 ABAP Development for Financial Accounting: Custom Enhancements ..................18 ABAP Development for SAP Business Workflow ...................................................18 ABAP Development for Materials Management in SAP: User Exits and BAdIs........18 ABAP Development for SAP Sales and Distribution in SAP: User Exits and BAdIs NEW.................................................................................18 100 Things You Should Know About the ABAP Workbench NEW........................18

Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Manufacturing Warehouse Management with SAP ERP: Functionality and Technical Configuration (2nd Edition) NEW ......................................................19 Maximize Your Warehouse Operations with SAP ERP ...........................................19 Production Planning and Control with SAP ERP (2nd Edition)................................19 Materials Management with SAP ERP: Functionality and Technical Configuration (3rd Edition)................................................................................19 Project Management with SAP Project System (2nd Edition) .................................20 Effective Pricing with SAP ERP...............................................................................20 Sales and Distribution in SAP ERP — Practical Guide.............................................20 Optimizing Sales and Distribution in SAP ERP: Functionality and Configuration ......20 100 Things You Should Know About Sales and Distribution with SAP ERP NEW.....20 Integration of Materials Management with Financial Accounting in SAP...............21 Enhancing Supplier Relationship Management Using SAP SRM (2nd Edition) ........21 The Plant Maintenance 2-Pack..........................................................................21 Materials Planning with SAP .................................................................................21 SAP Extended Warehouse Management: Processes, Functionality, and Configuration ............................................................................................22 Global Available-to-Promise with SAP: Functionality and Configuration ................22 Demand Management with SAP...........................................................................22 Production Planning with SAP APO (2nd Edition) ..................................................23 Optimizing Reverse Logistics with SAP ERP............................................................23 Customizing Materials Management Processes in SAP ERP (2nd Edition) NEW .....23 SAP Product Lifecycle Management ......................................................................23 Demand and Supply Planning with SAP APO ........................................................23

Production Variance Analysis in SAP Controlling (2nd Edition) ..............................12 100 Things You Should Know About Controlling with SAP ..................................12 The Controlling Collection ................................................................................12

Customer Relationship Management Variant Configuration with SAP (2nd Edition) .......................................................13 SAP CRM Web Client Customizing and Development...........................................13 Planning Your SAP CRM Implementation..............................................................13 Maximizing Your SAP CRM Interaction Center......................................................13

IT Management The SAP Green Book — A Business Guide for Effectively Managing the SAP Lifecycle NEW ......................................................................................24 The SAP Blue Book — A Concise Business Guide to the World of SAP NEW ........24 The BPM 2-Pack..................................................................................................25 SAP Transaction Codes: Your Quick Reference to Transactions in SAP ERP ...........25 SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects: The Comprehensive Guide NEW .....25 Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP.....................................................................25

Service with SAP CRM ..........................................................................................13 SAP CRM Middleware Optimization Guide ...........................................................13 The SAP CRM Web Client 2-Pack .....................................................................13

Books for Developers The Complete Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal NEW............................................14 The SAP NetWeaver PI 2-Pack .........................................................................14 SAP Web Client: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers .....................................14 SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe (2nd Edition).......................................................15 Mastering IDoc Business Scenarios with SAP NetWeaver PI ...................................15 Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP.....................................................................15 The Official ABAP™ Reference (3rd Edition) ..........................................................16

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Books for Administrators The SAP Administration 2-Pack NEW ...............................................................26 SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP System Administration (4th Edition) NEW.....................26 SAP Administration — Practical Guide .................................................................26 Mastering SAP NetWeaver PI — Administration (2nd Edition) ...............................26 Practical Workflow for SAP (2nd Edition) .............................................................27 SAP Transaction Codes: Your Quick Reference to Transactions in SAP ERP ...........27 The Complete Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal NEW ............................................27 SAP Performance Optimization Guide (6th Edition)...............................................27 SAP Solution Manager (3rd Edition) NEW.............................................................28 SAP BusinessObjects System Administration..........................................................28

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Testing SAP Solutions (2nd Edition).......................................................................28 100 Things You Should Know About Authorizations in SAP NEW........................29 Conception and Installation of System Monitoring Using the SAP Solution Manager (2nd Edition)..................................................................29 SAP Security and Authorizations Collection NEW ..........................................29

Books for Beginners Using SAP: A Guide for Beginners and End Users .................................................30 Discover SAP (2nd Edition)....................................................................................30 Discover ABAP (2nd Edition) .................................................................................30 Discover SAP SCM ................................................................................................30 Discover SAP ERP Financials ..................................................................................30

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CURRENT RELEASES BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS, AND REPORTING

SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects: The Comprehensive Guide will teach you about all the features and functionalities offered in the SAP ects XI 4.x toolset. Take advantage of the reporting and analytics capabilities of sObjects, and learn how they can be used to satisfy specific business reporting s. This book tells you everything you need to know, and then shows how it ed via practical, real-life examples.

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Integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.x with SAP NetWeaver

Reporting and Analysis with SAP BusinessObjects (2nd Edition)

by Ingo Hilgefort

by Ingo Hilgefort

Get the crucial knowledge you need to make essential business intelligence products work on top of SAP NetWeaver. Continuing in the tradition of the first bestselling edition, this updated edition carefully guides you, click-by-click, through the process of connecting SAP BusinessObjects tools to SAP data. The expert advice and clear instruction that this book provides is just what you need to become an authority on integrating your SAP BusinessObjects BI platform with SAP NetWeaver.

Get started with SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence tools! This book will teach you about all the features and functionalities offered in the SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.x toolset. Take advantage of the reporting and analytics capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects, and learn how they can be used to satisfy specific business reporting requirements. This book tells you everything you need to know, and then shows how it can be applied via practical, real-life examples.

AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3223 $79.95 434 pages Print Online

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“If you are an SAP customer using BusinessObjects software or considering the use of BusinessObjects for your BI needs, this book is a “must-have” for your bookshelf.”

“With the BI4 release being the largest release in SAP BusinessObjects history, the toolset has fundamentally changed since the XI 3.x release and this book contains all the latest updates.”

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Creating Dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects (2nd Edition) d Evan DeLodder

our audience with eye-catching, informative, and easy-to-navigate dashboards usinessObjects Dashboards! In this book, you’ll quickly learn the basics of ur own dashboard and move on to customize your creations with themes, data s, and other essential features.

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This is your authoritative guide to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to help you understand its features, functions, implementation, and integration with other SAP components and applications. In addition to learning best practices for budgeting, planning, forecasting, and consolidation, you’ll understand how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation works for the SAP NetWeaver platform and integrates with other SAP components. This new edition covers the newest release, version 7.5, and includes additional coverage on consolidation and enhanced reporting features. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3204 $79.95 446 pages Print Online ■

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“This book has been written with SAP BPC developer in mind; it is easy to understand and helped me a lot with the implementation of BPC. It clearly illustrates step-by-step implementation with examples of how to do it.”

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Enterprise Information Management with SAP Gatling, Corrie Brague, Ryan Champlin, Helmut Stefani, Niels Weigel, et al.

ess is only as good as its data. The accuracy of enterprise information is ation for a business’ success — or failure. With this book, you’ll learn P enterprise information management tools will help you to eliminate hat foundation, and how to get started with these tools. Explore SAP’s IM products, assess which options are right for you, and then learn the working with them. With just the right mix of overview information and practical guidance, this book will help you ensure that all your decisions on clean and trusted information. s aging master data ter Data Governance a migration rmation Steward BusinessObjects Data Services

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SAP BusinessObjects System Administration SAP Certified Application Associate

Business Intelligence with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 by Lisette Bellissimo

Learn what it takes to become an SAP Certified Application Associate as you progress, step by step, through the key functions and business scenarios. Practice makes perfect, and this book provides you with a sampling of practice questions, so you’ll understand the different types of questions and learn how to answer correctly based on the detailed explanation of why each of the answers is correct or incorrect. Plus, get the inside scoop on special tips and tricks you can use to prepare for and pass the exam. Explore practical, tried-and-true advice about how to use particular functions, explanations based on realworld business scenarios, as well as useful study tips and much more. AVAILABLE NOW 2010 H3152 $69.95 318 pages Print Online ■

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SAP HANA — An Introduction and Penny Silvia all the hype — now rmation. Understand is and what it can n ten years, but right now. ? How will it work with ogy? What are the implens? stand the basics, dive heart of the topic with ructions and screenshots: pulate data? How do you nformation Composer? How do you work in the HANA Studio? With information for both a manager looking for the big picture and a consultant looking for the details, this introduction to SAP HANA is what you need: No marketing, just facts. Highlights: ■

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HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Configuring and Customizing Employee and Manager Self-Services in SAP ERP HCM ectively configure and customize the tools. With this detailed guide, he information you need for customizing employee self-services (ESS), ces (MSS), and the shared services center (SCC). You’ll learn everytandard “out of the box” configuration, from the early release with ITS est Web Dynpro offering in SAP ERP 6.0.

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Practical SAP US Payroll (2nd Edition) dgi

responsible for setting up, configuring, or using SAP US Payroll, you know s minor idiosyncrasies can cause headaches and holdups in your HR processes. provides you with the tools you need to get up to speed on payroll impleand cutover, time management integration, and troubleshooting of payroll new edition includes updated information for SAP ERP 6.0 and enhancement and 6. Balanced coverage of payroll processes, configuration, and real-life elps you develop valuable, applicable skills.

oyee master data ales ents and deductions e types ayroll schemas fits integration

Time management Tax reporting and processing Cutover, implementation, and post-golive phases Troubleshooting payroll issues

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Personnel Planning and Development Using SAP ERP HCM (2nd Edition) rd Haßmann, Christian Krämer, s Richter

fied and motivated employees are st critical asset of every company, and ng, retaining, and training them forms the basis for the future. With this book you’ll learn about all of the processes of personnel planning and development, explore the functions and basic customizing, and find out how to implement and use the components of SAP ERP HCM successfully. AVAILABLE NOW 2010 H3065 $69.95 562 pages Print Online ■

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you spent days trying to figure w to generate a personnel report ERP HCM, only to find out you just to click a few buttons? If so, you’ll be delighted with this book, which unlocks the secrets of SAP ERP HCM. It provides users and super-users with 100 tips and workarounds that you can use to increase productivity, save time, and improve the overall ease-of-use of SAP ERP HCM. The tips have been carefully selected to provide a collection of the best, most useful, and rarest information. AVAILABLE NOW 2010 H3155 $49.95 297 pages Print Online ■

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nki Krishnamoorthy, Martin Murray, and an Reynolds

your odyssey through the SAP menu tree and for all! This all-new reference book, ng more than 3,000 transactions, helps you ate through all major modules of SAP ERP 6.0 ease. Find codes by application, transaction or task to perform, and benefit from comprehensive descriptions of when and how to use a transaction. You’ll find information on functional transactions in FI/CO, IM, MM, WM, PP, SD, plant maintenance, quality management, project system, HR, and the Basis system.

ically managing compensation is a key apital management initiative that can mpact your company’s success, and with HCM enterprise compensation manageu have the tools you need for an effective istent strategy. So if you’re an HR professional, IT professional, or SAP ERP HCM consultant who needs to know how to deliver and support a successful enterprise compensation implementation using SAP, you’ll find exactly what you need in this detailed, practical book.

AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3175 $49.95 581 pages Print Online

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FINANCE AND CONTROLLING

Customizing Financial Accounting in SAP

Configuring Controlling in SAP ERP rio Faleiros and Kreis Ryan

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s a complete entation and ization guide ERP Financials ing. It provides s to the question, “What est way to map controluirements to the SAP system?” The authors provide you with a comprehensive guide for CO implementations in a casestudy approach.

comprehensive book s you how to cusfinancial accounting ERP for all of your business scenarios. er you want to your screen layout for end users or need to define new process variants in any FI component, this book makes configuring your solution easy for any business requirement. Acquire the knowledge behind the customizing actions. After reading this book, you’ll be able to take over an implementation in any stage, or start one of your own. Find information on seldom-covered topics: lease accounting, contract accounts receivable and payable, and much more.

Master information on the various submodules and tools encountered in a CO implementation, and learn the step-by-step instructions with concrete, real-world examples. This is a must-have guide for anyone interested in implementing and configuring controlling.

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Master the most important issues involved in designing and configuring an SAP ERP Financials implementation using this must-have reference. The new edition of this best-selling book is completely updated to provide you with information on everything from the general areas of SAP ERP Financials and how they fit in the SAP landscape, to how the new SAP General Ledger can work for you. Get the skills, tools, and knowledge you need to be able to understand and configure your SAP ERP Financials system.

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This clear and practical guide teaches you how to configure account determination in SAP ERP. Learn about the various account determination techniques in each component for generating General Ledger postings, including AR/AP, tax transactions, bank transactions, human capital management, and materials management. Get step-bystep configuration instructions, and in this new edition, each chapter provides real-world examples, business processes and scenarios, useful screenshots, and practical tips to help you understand and master all aspects of account determination. ■

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Actual Costing with the SAP Material Ledger

ControllingProfitability Analysis with SAP (2nd Edition)

da Reis

u are a controller, conor cost accounting onal, then this is your hensive guide to using P Material Ledger for costing! Here, you’ll fin wers to how, why, and to perform actual cost with the SAP Material Ledger to optimize your business practices. After a brief overview of how to configure the SAP Material Ledger, the book delves into more in-depth usages of actual costing and Material Ledger functionalities, such as using alternative valuation runs and actual costing cross-company code.

o Sisfontes-Monge

u’re looking for a book l help get you with cong Profitability s (CO-PA) in ok no further! Get up d with the basic tools, methods, and key functionalities you need for a CO-PA implementation. Find what you need to make CO-PA work best for your business, get an overview of how CO-PA and SAP HANA work together, and benefit from new information on integration topics, SAP BusinessObjects, and more.

AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3189 $79.95 511 pages Print Online

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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (2nd Edition)

100 Things You Should Know About Financial Accounting with SAP

Maximizing Cash Management with SAP ERP Financials

Financial Reporting with SAP (2nd Edition)

by Paul Ovigele

by Eleazar Ortega Van Steenberghe

by Sridhar Srinivasan and Kumar Srinivasan

This is your authoritative guide to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to help you understand its features, functions, implementation, and integration with other SAP components and applications. In addition to learning best practices for budgeting, planning, forecasting, and consolidation, you’ll understand how SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation works for the SAP NetWeaver platform and integrates with other SAP components. This new edition covers the newest release, version 7.5, and includes additional coverage on consolidation and enhanced reporting features.

This book provides 100 practical, little-known tips, tricks, and workarounds to help you get the most out of your SAP system. These time-saving shortcuts and workarounds will help users of all levels to get the most out of their daily interaction with the system. Use these insightful tips to configure screens to your personal needs, to significantly reduce the number of IT trouble tickets, and to work more efficiently. The hands-on approach and easy-to-follow layout will help you to pick up new skills in no time. Your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even find yourself saying, “I had no idea you could do this that way!”

This book explains the functionality of all key SAP cash management components, including best practices, real-world business scenarios, key configuration, and master data information. It explains how all the components can be integrated, and how both the individual components and the integrated solution can be maximized for optimal performance. Topics covered include electronic banking, liquidity planner, in-house cash, bank communication management, and much more.

This book provides finance and IT teams with best practices for delivering financial reports faster, more accurately, and in compliance with various international accounting standards. Featuring step-by-step coverage of all major FI reporting functions (including sub-ledger, corporate finance management, and governance, risk and compliance), this book will help you streamline and simplify financial business processes and automate financial and management reporting in SAP ERP Financials. This new edition includes updated content on statutory reporting, segment reporting, AP and AR reports in SAP ERP, consolidated financial reporting, as well as the most recent reporting tools in SAP ERP and SAP BusinessObjects.

AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3204 $79.95 446 pages Print Online

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“By far the best SAP Banking/ Treasury book for Cash Management.”

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Product Cost Controlling with SAP (2nd Edition) n

will teach you how overhead costs flow from financial postings to cost then on to manufacturing orders. Find answers to your questions regarding ledger, transfer pricing and reporting, and discover how to address common as, including month-end processing, long run times, and message and variance s new edition includes updated content on cost object hierarchies, engineer-toake-to-order, as well as new case studies and real-world examples.

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Production Variance Analysis in SAP Controlling (2nd Edition)

100 Things You Should Know About Controlling with SAP

by Janet Salmon

by John Jordan

by John Jordan

Learn how to perform transactions with fewer steps and less effort, and you’ll discover how to troubleshoot minor problems and system issues. In addition to the core areas of controlling, you’ll also find coverage of more advanced topics, such as SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects, the SAP Financial Closing cockpit, and topics added in recent enhancement packages. This book will help you to master the system and work more efficiently on a daily basis.

This book presents a detailed explanation of how production variance analysis works in controlling with SAP, and focuses on the processes and reports that assist with all phases of the controlling process. You’ll learn controlling concepts from a simple and easy-to-understand level, while being introduced to in-depth information on master data and configuration setup requirements, based on SAP ERP 6.0.

The books in our “100 Things” series each provide 100 practical, little-known tips, tricks, and workarounds to help you get the most out of your SAP system. With the time-saving shortcuts and workarounds provided, users of all levels will get the most out of their daily interaction with the system. Your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even find yourself saying, “I had no idea you could do this that way!” or “I wish I had known how to do this a long time ago!”

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The Controlling Collection collection includes the following books: Controlling with SAP — Practical Guide Production Variance Analysis in SAP Controlling (2nd Edition) 100 Things You Should Know About Controlling with SAP Optimize Your SAP ERP Financials Controlling Implementation Product Cost Controlling with SAP (2nd Edition)

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Variant Configuration with SAP (2nd Edition) Blumöhr, Manfred Münch, and kalovic

this all-inclusive reference, you erything you need to impleustomize, and use variant conon with SAP. Whether you’re a ant, work directly with variant ration, or are a manager, this ontains essential information d in order to make key decin how variant configuration est for your company. book will help you understand integrate Variant Configuration esses such as quality mant and customer service, and explore the necessary customizing steps. Additionally, find extensive coverage on business processes for SAP ERP, including the Order Engineering Workbench, planning Variant Configuration, and more, and learn about unique configurations and enhancements that are possible within specific industries and how to manage them, accompanied by customer examples and practical suggestions. Benefit from the authors’ and SAP customers’ notes on special challenges encountered when implementing and using Variant Configuration for product models. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3214 $79.95 689 pages Print Online ■

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Do you want to utilize the new SAP CRM user interface in the best possible way? This comprehensive guide, suitable for SAP CRM 2007 and SAP CRM 7.0, explains everything that you need to know about the SAP CRM Web client: the architecture of the UI framework, the customizing options (roles, navigation, portal integration, and much more), as well as all options that are available for customer-specific extensions through programming.

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The Complete Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal itanya

tWeaver Portal implementation has many stages, and this book every step of the way. From blueprinting, installation, and conough portal content development and post-implementation echniques, you’ll find practical explanations and step-by-step hat will guide your everyday work. Whether you’re new to SAP NetWeaver nt to learn about the new features in the latest release, this reference is l companion.

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This is your comprehensive guide to developing and enhancing applications with SAP Web client. Focusing on development tasks and practical examples, this book will take you on a journey through the Web client framework, discussing different programming layers and development activities via the use of practical examples, screenshots, and code. With the perfect balance between theory and practical guidance, this book will teach you everything you need to know about building a full-fledged, enterprise-ready application using Web client. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3192 $79.95 624 pages Print Online ■

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SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe (2nd Edition) user, et al.

ver had any questions about working with SAP’s interactive forms, this book uable addition to your library. Whether you are a beginning or advanced nsultant, developer, or form designer, you will learn everything you need out working with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe. The book offers a comiscussion of the topic, explaining what interactive forms are, how they are used, and how to solve common problems associated with them. ded second edition is updated for SAP NetWeaver 7.20, and includes new ABAP Offline Infrastructure, XDC Editor, JobProfiles Editor, parallelization of nd more.

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AVAILABLE 9/2012

by Michal Krawczyk and Michal Kowalczewski

Beginning with expert advice on the usage, configuration, and administration of IDocs, you’ll explore the key integration processes carried out with SAP NetWeaver PI, as well as sending IDocs to SAP NetWeaver PI or vice versa, IDoc monitoring within SAP NetWeaver landscapes, and all aspects of exchange development. New topics covered include the ALE distribution model, IDoc monitoring with SAP Solution Manager, and IDoc packaging. AVAILABLE NOW 2009 H3059 $84.95 241 pages Print Online ■

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The Official ABAP Reference (3rd Edition) Keller

o know ABAP in all its intricacy and detail with this, your comve reference for all ABAP statements. Each chapter discusses the keywords for the topic at hand, and begins with an introduction lains the essential concepts, such as character string processing, development, and more. For each statement, this two-volume set n explanation of the function, the syntax listing, a description, n special usage, and an example. The clear organization of content, dex, and the comprehensive glossary will help you navigate the complexities of ABAP with ease. hts

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BRFplus — Business Rule Management for ABAP Applications

ABAP Performance Tuning by Hermann Gahm

Discover ABAP (2nd Edition) by Thorsten Franz and Karl-Heinz Kühnhauser

If you’re new to ABAP and want practical programming guidance, look no further. Discover ABAP offers a clear and concise introduction to SAP’s main programming language, giving you the information you need to immediately start writing code. Based on an extended, real-life example that is carried throughout the book, you’ll quickly develop your own programming solutions, starting from page one. You can then take your new skills to the next level as you successfully use your custom source code in practice. This revised second edition is updated for SAP NetWeaver 7.2/02, and is exactly the tool you need to begin your ABAP experience.

This book is your one-stop resource to understanding and using BRFplus: Learn how to create applications with the BRFplus workbench as well as the API, find out how to manage applications and objects, and benefit from an extensive reference chapter on functions, data objects, rules and rulesets, expressions, and actions. Additional chapters on tools, performance, deployment, and other advanced topics round off this comprehensive book.

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This book is your guide for analyzing and optimizing ABAP source code. You’ll learn about the analysis tools and performance-relevant technologies, and discover how you can analyze existing source code and enhance your programming style. This is the resource you need to ensure that your ABAP programs are fully optimized. After reading this book, you’ll know when and how to use analysis tools properly — including Code Inspector, performance trace, ABAP trace, or single records statistics. ■

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Next Generation ABAP Development (2nd Edition) Heilman and Thomas Jung

gned to keep seasoned developers up-to-date with the latest techniques chnologies available in ABAP, this all-new second edition of our best-selle follows along with a lead ABAP developer as he learns how to assess mploy the new tools and features of ABAP from SAP NetWeaver 7.0 up to hancement package 2. Witness the entire process of building applications: , development, and testing of all areas. In addition, you’ll also become r with end-to-end object-oriented design techniques, and more. ghts Workbench tools and package hierarchy ABAP syntax enhancements Data Dictionary objects Data persistence layer Shared memory objects ■

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by Horst Keller and Sascha Krüger

Based on ABAP Objects, this 1000+ page book describes all concepts of modern ABAP up to release 7.0 (including a preview of release 7.10). Brand new topics found in the new edition include SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, regular expressions, shared objects, classbased exception handling, assertions, Web Dynpro for ABAP, object services, dynamic programming, interface technologies (RFC, ICF, XML), and test tools, among others.

If you work regularly with the ABAP Data Dictionary, this is the reference you need. Suitable for both beginners and advanced users, this book will answer all your questions about the central repository of information for ABAP data. You’ll learn basic background information as well as details about the specific functionality of Data Dictionary elements (domains, tables, views, etc.), both of which will help you enhance your programming skills. The book also provides coverage of more complex topics, such as lock objects. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3187 $69.95 409 pages Print Online ■

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ABAP Objects: ABAP Programming in SAP NetWeaver

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ABAP Basics (2nd Edition)

by Igor Barbaric

Whether you are already familiar with another programming language or ABAP is your first, this book provides you with comprehensive and structured basics on programming business-critical software. Get to know all relevant programming concepts and methods from scratch and implement them based on a holistic, real-life example. Procedural and object-oriented language elements are presented with step-bystep instructions, screenshots, and tried-and-tested tips.

by Günther Färber and Julia Kirchner

If a proven solution for a recurring problem already exists, why would you reinvent the wheel? This hands-on programming tutorial explains why and how you can use design patterns to help complete your ABAP tasks in less time with better code. Step-by-step, the author guides you through class and interface definitions, as well as the coding for all relevant methods. Plus, benefit immediately from extensively commented real-world code that shows how to implement MVC, Façade, Adapter, Decorator, and more in ABAP objects.

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ABAP Development for Financial Accounting: Custom Enhancements

ABAP Development for SAP Business Workflow by Ilja-Daniel Werner

With this book, you learn how to create custom enhancements to standard ABAP code in financial accounting for SAP, which will allow you to address all corporate and/or country-specific business rules. The author takes a systematic approach to the topic, introducing general information about the subject of enhancements, and then offering specific coding tutorials consisting of step-by-step instructions and screenshots. You’ll quickly learn how to find the appropriate enhancement for a particular problem, use all available data, and avoid common programming errors.

You’ll learn the aspects of the tools that are directly related to the developer’s tasks, understanding when it is necessary to use custom code and how to write this code. In the many activities and tutorials this book provides, you’ll discover how your work differs from the workflow engine of classic application development, as well as how to influence the behavior of a workflow with its own ABAP programs. Additionally, you’ll learn how to customize the workflow environment beyond standard programming. Learn to implement your workflow needs and avoid typical pitfalls with the help of code examples.

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ABAP Development for Materials Management in SAP: User Exits and BAdIs by Jürgen Schwaninger

The author uses his real-life experiences to provide ideal options for enhancing and optimizing the SAP standard through custom developments. This book shows you how to implement these customizations for materials management (MM) in SAP ERP and describes how they influence the behavior of the user exits with custom ABAP programs. AVAILABLE NOW 2010 H3174 $84.95 263 pages Print Online ■

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Warehouse Management with SAP ERP: Functionality and Technical Configuration (2nd Edition) urray

k provides an expanded, comprehensive overview of the various es and configurations needed for SAP warehouse management (WM). has provided you with the ultimate reference for anyone looking ormation, dealing with everything from the very basic key elements through M functionalities, such as stock placement and stock removal, to more recent ts in EWM, Yard Management, and EDI. This is your one-stop guide to help you nd and master WM in SAP, and work more efficiently.

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With this book, discover how to examine all of your warehouse processes from incoming products to shipment completion, and review the challenges and opportunities at each key processing point from both technical and operational perspectives. Loaded with success stories, best practices, and explanations of the tools offered in the warehouse management functionality of SAP ERP, this comprehensive reference provides you with the knowledge you need to achieve results with minimal time and expense.

This new, expanded edition is your musthave guide for implementing and using production planning (PP) in the SAP system. You’ll learn about the different customizing processes of PP in detail — from business fundamentals to integration with SAP SCM (APO) — and everything you need to know about discrete manufacturing using SAP ERP. The book is based on the current release of SAP ERP (6.0), but is also suited for users of older releases.

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Project Management with SAP Project System (2nd Edition)

Effective Pricing with SAP ERP

by Mario Franz

Master the most important issues around pricing in SAP ERP with this one-stop, comprehensive reference. You’ll learn about the key elements of pricing in sales and distribution and materials management, and discover complete, step-by-step instructions on how to configure pricing. This book provides you with a practical perspective on the entire process, with coverage that includes basic and advanced configuration and condition techniques, as well as integration points with other SAP tools, such as financial accounting and cost accounting. Each chapter provides real-world examples, case studies, and practical tips to help you understand and master pricing in SAP ERP.

by D. Rajen Iyer and Suresh Veeraraghavan

SAP Project System (PS) supports the total lifecycle of a project from planning and budgeting to closing. With this book, you’ll learn how to implement, customize, and use SAP Project System for your own projects. You’ll explore all project phases from planning to invoicing, and you’ll learn how PS integrates with other key SAP applications. This new edition has been completely updated to include all of the changes from the latest enhancement packages. AVAILABLE NOW 2009 H3104 $69.95 527 pages Print Online ■

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100 Things You Should Know About Sales and Distribution with SAP

This book focuses on the practical, day-to-day requirements of working with sales and distribution (SD) in SAP ERP. You’ll learn how to perform transactions with fewer steps and less effort, and discover how to troubleshoot minor problems and system issues. In addition to the core areas of sales and distribution, such as sales, pricing, delivery, transportation, and billing, you’ll also find coverage of more advanced topics, like special sales processes (cross-company and third-party) and reporting. Each chapter provides you with the menu paths and transaction codes that are used to execute each of the many detailed examples.

by Ashish Mohapatra

by Matt Chudy and Luis Castedo

If you want to learn how to configure and use sales and distribution in SAP ERP to optimize and streamline your business, this is the book you need. You’ll be able to use SAP ERP to fulfill orders and deliver your products and services more effectively, improving performance of the system and getting a better return on investment for your sales and distribution implementation. Throughout this book, you’ll find step-by-step instructions and realworld examples that will help you understand and optimize sales and distribution in SAP ERP.

Work smarter with Sales and Distribution! Have you ever spent far more time than you should on a sales activity, only to discover that you could have saved time with a simple tip? Here you go: SAP PRESS equips you with “100 Things” that unlock the secrets of working with Sales and Distribution with SAP.

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Integration of Materials Management with Financial Accounting in SAP by Faisal Mahboob

This book explains how to configure the system effectively so that you can streamline your business processes, and continually improve your procurement processes with MM and SAP ERP Financials. You’ll learn about account and controlling postings as related to FI compliance, and their impact on MM functional design and configuration. And you’ll find many real-world examples, troubleshooting techniques, and step-by-step descriptions that make the material straightforward and practical. AVAILABLE NOW 2010 H3130 $79.95 432 pages Print Online ■

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Enhancing Supplier Relationship Management Using SAP SRM (2nd Edition) by Sachin Sethi

This completely updated and expanded new edition is a detailed and practical guide to the essentials of SAP SRM 5.0 and 7.0, including a functionality overview, new product enhancements, and best practices for optimizing your business processes. Throughout the book, you’ll find tips and tricks, practical examples, expert analysis of the changes in SAP SRM 7.0, and information on how SAP SRM integrates with core SAP ERP components. This is the one resource you need to get the most out of SAP SRM. AVAILABLE NOW 2009 H3096 $79.95 714 pages Print Online ■

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Materials Planning with SAP by Marc Hoppe, Ferenc Gulyássy, Martin Isermann, and Oliver Köhler

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With this comprehensive reference, you’ll learn how to implement, optimize, and use SAP ERP and SAP APO for effective materials planning. Expert insights help you understand cross-component materials planning with SAP ERP and SAP SCM as well as modern materials planning procedures. Readers discover how to configure and use the different SAP ERP applications and how best to integrate them with an existing SAP system. In addition, the authors show you how to optimize the tools and determine which settings are useful, and how they affect other settings. AVAILABLE NOW 2009 H3004 $79.95 562 pages Print Online ■

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SAP Extended Warehouse Management: Processes, Functionality, and Configuration l.

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Global Available-to-Promise with SAP: Functionality and Configuration

Demand Management with SAP

by Sandeep Pradhan and Pavan Verma

This is the first resource that managers and business leaders need to understand and effectively use SAP demand management tools. Each chapter begins with a general description of a business strategy or a process in demand management from the SAP perspective, and then teaches how the SAP solution is designed to work and teaches readers how to configure and customize the solutions. After reading this book, users will understand demand management, and will know how to configure and use the SAP solutions.

Learn how to implement and configure GATP to meet your company’s order fulfillment cycle, including the key elements of GATP in SAP SCM with complete, step-by-step instructions. Each chapter provides real-life business scenarios and case study examples, and offers insight on basic and advanced ATP methods, as well as practical tips and tricks on implementing and sustaining the GATP solution. After reading this book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of how GATP bridges the integration gap between order fulfillment and planning, and know how to configure your systems to work efficiently and effectively.

by Christopher Foti and Jessie Chimni

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Production Planning with SAP APO (2nd Edition)

Optimizing Reverse Logistics with SAP ERP

by Jochen Balla and Frank Layer

by Srivathsan Narayanan

This book provides you with a comprehensive and practical guide to implementing, customizing, and using production planning in SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO). You’ll learn how to set up the data exchange between SAP ERP and SAP APO to ensure that you’re making the most out of the versatile functions and options of SAP APO-PP/DS. In addition to covering the standard processes, you’ll learn about various advanced processes, such as multi-resource planning and the MRP-based detailed scheduling.

This is the book you need to master reverse logistics. You’ll learn how to configure and use SAP ERP to optimize reverse logistics practices, particularly returns, repairs, and refurbishment. And with the step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, and tips provided throughout, you’ll find many ways to streamline your processes and make your business perform more efficiently. This is the book that will ensure you’re getting the most out of the reverse logistics tools in SAP ERP. AVAILABLE NOW 2010 H3125 $84.95 311 pages Print Online ■

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SAP Product Lifecycle Management

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The SAP Green Book — A Business Guide for Effectively Managing the SAP Lifecycle d, project complete? Think twice! Read The SAP Green Book and learn how gn business and IT, as well as understand how to generate the most benefit plementation. A must-read for all managers new to SAP! elp you: mplementation mistakes SAP maturity and your users‘ skills stain a Center of Excellence plementing SAP doesn’t help your business!It’s the actions taken after e continuous success. Learn how to assess your SAP maturity, how to make (and vice versa), how to keep your end users happy, and more. AVAILABLE NOW 2012 H3215 $29.95 264 pages Print Online ■

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is just a piece of software.” — If this sounds familiar, this book is for you. Learn from g author Michael Doane what it means to implement SAP, and how SAP will change ness forever. Benefit from his advice on how to prepare your organization for the transito assess your “SAP maturity,” how to instill the necessary mindset, and how to build of Excellence for continuous business/IT alignment. Countless managers were poorly for the challenge — don’t become one of them! ts at is SAP? allenges in SAP projects essing an organization‘s readiness SAP P project and system lifecycle t-implementation pitfalls

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SAP Transaction Codes: Your Quick Reference to Transactions in SAP ERP by Venki Krishnamoorthy, Martin Murray, and Norman Reynolds

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Get started with SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence tools! This book will teach you about all the features and functionalities offered in the SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.x toolset. Take advantage of the reporting and analytics capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects, and learn how they can be used to satisfy specific business reporting requirements. This book tells you everything you need to know, and then shows how it can be applied via practical, real-life examples.

End your odyssey through the SAP menu tree once and for all! This all-new reference book, covering more than 3,000 transactions, helps you navigate through all major modules of SAP ERP 6.0 with ease. Find codes by application, transaction title, or task to perform, and benefit from comprehensive descriptions of when and how to use a transaction. You’ll find information on functional transactions in FI/CO, IM, MM, WM, PP, SD, plant maintenance, quality management, project system, HR, and the Basis system. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3175 $49.95 581 pages Print Online

Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP

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SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP System Administration (4th Edition)

SAP Administration — Practical Guide

by Frank Föse, Liane Will, and Sigrid Hagemann

This book serves as an up-to-date resource based on release 7.0/7.1 of SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP. A practical guide to commonly performed system administrator tasks, the book will provide you with concrete and detailed instructions on how to perform both routine and special activities, using step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots. In addition, the appendices provide you with lists of transaction codes, help topics, SAP Notes, and more.

by Sebastian Schreckenbach

This updated, all-inclusive resource on the administration of ABAP-based SAP systems is just the tool you need to become up-todate on the latest changes. This book takes a holistic approach to the topic and provides all of the main concepts and background information on all administration tools for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP. Additionally, with the tips and exam questions included, you can use this book to prepare for the Certified Technical Consultant exam. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3216 $79.95 734 pages Print Online ■

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by Marcus Banner, Heinzpeter Klein, and Christian Riesener

As the core middleware in your system landscape, SAP NetWeaver PI plays an enterprise-critical role. But how can you ensure smooth operation? This book answers your questions. Using a highly detailed scenario as an example, the authors guide you through all administration tasks and provide useful tips for your daily work. AVAILABLE NOW 2009 H3092 $84.95 225 pages Print Online ■

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Practical Workflow for SAP (2nd Edition) et al.

general overview of workflow processes, learn how to deploy and extend s, and discover how to create your own successful workflow projects. The ethora of technical details you’ll need if you’re implementing. The book is P NetWeaver 7.0 and includes information on upgrading workflow, univerr ABAP objects, and other effective capabilities. usiness Workflow: Configuration, Work Item Delivery, Agents, on Your Own Workflow: Design Techniques, Objects, ABAP Classes, Agent on, Custom Programs, Universal Worklist ce Technologies and Workflow: Interface Options, Web Dynpro ABAP/ orms, Alloy, Duet® flows in SAP Business Suite Applications: ArchiveLink, SAP ERP, SRM,

AVAILABLE NOW 2009 H3057 $79.95 953 pages Print Online ■

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SAP Transaction Codes: Your Quick Reference to Transactions in SAP ERP

The Complete Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal

by Venki Krishnamoorthy, Martin Murray, and Norman Reynolds

An SAP NetWeaver Portal implementation has many stages, and this book will help you every step of the way. From blueprinting, installation, and configuration through portal content development and post-implementation monitoring techniques, you’ll find practical explanations and step-by-step instructions that will guide your everyday work. Whether you’re new to SAP NetWeaver Portal or want to learn about the new features in the latest release, this reference is your essential companion.

End your odyssey through the SAP menu tree once and for all! This all-new reference book, covering more than 3,000 transactions, helps you navigate through all major modules of SAP ERP 6.0 with ease. Find codes by application, transaction title, or task to perform, and benefit from comprehensive descriptions of when and how to use a transaction. You’ll find information on functional transactions in FI/CO, IM, MM, WM, PP, SD, plant maintenance, quality management, project system, HR, and the Basis system. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3175 $49.95 581 pages Print Online ■

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SAP Performance Optimization Guide (6th Edition)

by Manish Chaitanya

AVAILABLE NOW 2012 H3226 $69.95 453 pages Print Online

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by Thomas Schneider

This new edition contains all the valuable information of the previous editions: the fundamentals of analyzing and optimizing SAP system performance, critical architectural aspects of all important SAP backend servers, and tools and hints for analyzing and tuning performance. The author has also added a new focus on SAP NetWeaver BW, including new concepts in index design and data modeling, as well as coverage of SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, based on TREX. In addition to the SAP NetWeaver BW content, the book is further enriched with updates related to SAP NetWeaver 7.1 and SAP Solution Manager, enterprise edition, and also provides more in-depth information on sizing.

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BOOKS FOR ADMINISTRATORS

SAP Solution Manager (3rd Edition) chäfer and Matthias Melich

ew in SAP Solution Manager 7.1? In this book, you’ll find much more than to this question. Discover all of the platform’s functions and learn how to d improve the planning, operation, and optimization of your solution with SAP anager. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this definitive book leaves no questions d! Whether it’s the new Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure, Custom Code nt, or Change Impact Analysis that you are interested in, you can take a look hood” of SAP Solution Manager and understand its concepts.

on Implementation and Documentation Management ests for Change, Quality Gates, and Transport Management nt Management and Service Desk oring, Root Cause Analysis, and Technical Administration ess Process Monitoring and Job Management enance and Upgrade Management ge In-House Developments AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3224 $69.95 727 pages Print Online ■

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SAP BusinessObjects System Administration AVAILABLE 10/2012

Testing SAP Solutions (2nd Edition) by Markus Helfen and Hans Martin Trauthwein

This complete guide to test planning and test execution answers all of your questions. Not only will you learn the basics for a test strategy and a test methodology that fit the requirements of your solution, you will also understand functionality and usage of all the tools SAP and their partners provide for testing: Extensive, practical chapters on the most important tools, SAP Solution Manager and eCATT, as well as substantial coverage of TDMS, HP Quality Center, and SAP LoadRunner show exactly how to perform functional and performance tests. In addition, for each tool you’ll find a real-life project report from a well-known SAP customer. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3168 $79.95 712 pages Print Online ■

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100 Things You Should Know About Authorizations in SAP Manara and Andrea Cavalleri

arter with authorizations! Have you ever had an unauthorized user access n your system that you could have sworn was off limits? Here you go: SAP ps you with “100 Things” that unlock the secrets of managing your security zations in SAP. 100 little-known time-saving tips and tricks ve detailed instructions and guiding screenshots home practical, expert advice for system administrators enshots and instructions, this book will help you pick up new tips and tricks such as implementing effective auditing practices and better security. AVAILABLE NOW H3233 $59.95 346 pages Print Online ■

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Conception and Installation of System Monitoring Using the SAP Solution Manager (2nd Edition)

SAP Security and Authorizations Collection This collection includes the following books: ■

by Corina Weidmann and Lars Teuber

This practical guide provides you with comprehensive information on how to develop a concept for central system monitoring and then implement it using SAP Solution Manager. Based on detailed, step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn about the configuration of this solution, how to set up the monitoring functionality, and how best to utilize the alert monitor and central autoreaction methods. A chapter on performance reporting using SAP NetWeaver BW serves to round out this exceptional book. AVAILABLE NOW 2009 H3075 $84.95 192 pages Print Online ■

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Authorizations in SAP Software: Design and Configuration SAP Security and Risk Management (2nd Edition) 100 Things You Should Know About Authorizations in SAP

AVAILABLE NOW ■ HC3247 ■ $199.85 199.85 $169 ■ More than 1700 pages ■ Print ■ Online Please note: Collection contents, pricing and availability subject to change. Visit www.sap-press.com for current details.

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BOOKS FOR BEGINNERS

Using SAP: A Guide for Beginners and End Users

“Finally, a book specifically designed for end users and those new to SAP.” AVAILABLE NOW

Discover SAP (2nd Edition) by Nancy Muir and Ian Kimbell

In this completely updated edition, you'll find what you need to really understand where SAP can fit into your operations. This practical guide will take you on a complete journey — from the history of SAP to a detailed look at each solution and the technology that runs them. Everything from the newest solutions for sustainability and the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio to the tried-and-true solutions for small to midsize businesses, financials, CRM, HR, supply chain management, and more are covered.

AVAILABLE NOW ■ 2009 ■ H3095 ■ $39.95 ■ 438 Pages

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Discover ABAP (2nd Edition)

Discover SAP SCM

by Thorsten Franz and Karl-Heinz Kühnhauser

by Shaun Snapp

If you’re new to ABAP and want practical programming guidance, look no further. Discover ABAP offers a clear and concise introduction to SAP’s main programming language, giving you the information you need to immediately start writing code. Based on an extended, real-life example that is carried throughout the book, you’ll quickly develop your own programming solutions, starting from page one. You can then take your new skills to the next level as you successfully use your custom source code in practice. This revised second edition is updated for SAP NetWeaver 7.2/02, and is exactly the tool you need to begin your ABAP experience. AVAILABLE NOW 2011 H3218 $49.95 525 pages Print Online ■

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Discover SAP ERP Financials

Whether you’re a decision maker considering SAP SCM, a consultant seeking functional details or you’re just starting to work with SAP SCM, this guide will give you the insight and knowledge needed to understand the features and benefits of SAP SCM. You’ll find details on the evolution of the software, guided tours through each application, advice on which functionality to implement, and expert guidance on how to get the best return on your investment. AVAILABLE NOW 2009 ■ H3098 $39.95 382 Pages Print Online ■

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by Manish Patel

This very detailed, reader-friendly reference, will give you an in-depth overview of the key components of SAP ERP Financials. You’ll learn how each component works, the advantages they offer, and how this fully integrated package addresses the challenges facing today’s companies. Along the way, you’ll also learn how to improve your efficiency in key financial areas, including profitability analysis, financial supply chain management, cost-accounting, and more. AVAILABLE NOW 2008 ■ H2918 $39.95 546 Pages Print Online ■

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