Frankness is a quality permeating the pages of Implementing SAP R/3: How to Introduce a Large System into a Large Organization. Mining nearly three decades worth of combined consulting experience, authors Bancroft, Seip, and Sprengel provide incisive and brutally honest insight into what it means to overhaul both business and computing practices with SAP R/3. The book focuses more on business and process reengineering than configurations or programming. Implementing SAP R/3 does manage to provide a balanced view of the technological components of the R/3 system. The authors take pains to explain what types of businesses it is best suited for, its failures and shortcomings, as well as its triumphs.  The explanation of R/3 that kick starts this book is highly approachable, detailing the philosophical and technical underpinnings of this system. The other three loosely constructed sections deal almost exclusively with the complexity of an R/3 implementation. Throughout these portions, the authors emphasize the importance of identifying and establishing project goals, a point liberally illustrated by various case studies. Additionally, a terrific glossary is tucked away in the final pages, as are four appendices. These appendices cover data-modeling and relational-database concepts, content and structure of the SAP data dictionary, and the development of Advanced Business Application Programming/4GL (ABAP4). --Sarah L. Roberts-Witt

Implementing Sap R/3: How to Introduce a Large System into a Large Organization

Computers & Technology

Manning Publications

Bancroft, Nancy H.

Computer Science

Manning Pubns Co

<p>Best-selling SAP R/3 implementation guide. New section on SAP configuration and implementation pitfalls.</p>

Implementing Sap R/3 : How to Introduce a Large System into a Large Organization, 2nd Edition

Seip, Henning

Sprengel, Andrea

Networking & Cloud Computing

PRENTICE/HALL

<p>Challenges management teams to cooperate in new ways in order to bring about technological change that meets both business and employee goals for the organization. Offers a context and methodology for achieving successful change and looks at this kind of change in management from a holistic perspective. Considers the changing business environment of the '90s which demands a stimulating and creative new way of instituting technological change.</p>

New Partnerships for Managing Technological Change

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

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