MySAP ERP for dummies
SAP is the world's leading provider of ERP software and services, with worldwide revenue in 2004 of 9.7 billion and a 57 percent market share among major business application providers; it is one of the world's largest software companies overallERP is a flexible, open technology platform t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J.
John Wiley
2005
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| Series: | --For dummies
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Unifying DataManaging Business Information; Customizing Development; Unified Lifecycle Management; Governing Applications; Consolidating All Your Systems; Service-Oriented Architecture Design and Deployment; Guided Procedures: Focus on Activity; Designing Processes and Managing Solutions: SAP Solution Manager; What Can SAP NetWeaver Do for You?; Technology and Data: The Great Equalizers; SAP NetWeaver Enables Business Process Evolution; Chapter 7: Bringing Services to Life with SAP NetWeaver; Working with Services; A Web Service Description Language Primer; Modeling with Enterprise Services
- ESA Is Open to Working with Other ToolsChapter 8: SAP NetWeaver Up and Running; Figuring Out ESA Run-Time Architecture; Business and Technical Protocols: Synchronous versus Asynchronous; Getting a Handle on the Transactional Behavior of Services; Simplifying Sessions; Seamless Security; Taking a Closer Look at Web-Service Run-Time Architecture; Discovering XI Run-Time Architecture; Chapter 9: Composites: Extending mySAP ERP; What Are Composites?; The Nature of Composites; Fitting Together Composite Applications; SAP xApps: Delivering on the Innovation Promise
- MySAP ERP For Dummies; About the Authors; Authors' Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Why Buy This Book?; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Part I: mySAP ERP in a Services-Enabled World; Chapter 1: ERP: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; Just What Is ERP?; A Brief History of ERP; What Early ERP Did Right; Where ERP Had Room to Grow; The New ERP: mySAP ERP at Your Service; Service-Enabled: The Foundation of Flexible ERP Today; Exploring the Benefits of Enterprise Services
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262) and index
- Chapter 4: Gaining Business InsightTapping into the Potential of Analytics; Empowering Business People; Tallying Up the Analytics You Get in mySAP ERP; Analytics in Action; Chapter 5: Keeping IT Flexible; Creating a Common Language for IT and Business; How IT Works in a Service-Enabled World; Using Abstraction to Hide Complexity; Summing Up the IT Service-Enabled World; Part II: Getting Under the Hood: The Underlying Technology; Chapter 6: Meet SAP NetWeaver; So, What Exactly Is SAP NetWeaver?; Orchestrating a Technology Symphony; Giving SAP NetWeaver the Once-Over; Making Users Productive
- Enterprise Services Provide Building BlocksWhere Does ERP Fit In?; Chapter 2: Differentiating Yourself with ERP; Start by Being Business Model-Driven; Differentiating versus Standard Processes; Bringing in Innovation; Meeting the Two Challenges of Innovation; Chapter 3: Raising the Bar on Productivity; Upping Your Usability; Integrating with Applications You Use Every Day; How Roles Make Life Easier; Self-Service for Productivity; Preconfigured Business Scenarios; Gaining Productivity through Industry-Specific Scenarios; Sharing and Outsourcing; Making Things Run Smoothly with Automation