ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP [Hardcover]

Arvind Nagpal (Author), Gareth De Bruyn (Author), Robert Lyfareff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 7, 1999

The purpose of this book is to educate SAP R/3 users, technical and functional consultants in SAP's powerful integration technology of ALE - Application Link Enabling, and EDI - Electronic Data Interchange. This book is intended to be a hands-on approach to using and implementing ALE & EDI technologies with a minimal learning curve.

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About the Author

Arvind Nagpal is the Director of eBusines Services at Rapidigm. He has implemented ALE and EDI for several Fortune 500 companies. He is also a highly respected instructor for SAP cross-application technologies. His in-depth knowledge has aided many global companies in successfully implementing complex distributed SAP systems.

John Pitlak has been involved with EDI development and implementation for ten years. As a consultant to the EPA he participated in some of the early federal government EDI initiatives. John has served as a SAP R/3 consultant and has assisted numerous Fortune 500 clients in implementing EDI, ALE, and IDoc technologies. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 786 pages
• Publisher: Premier (April 7, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761519033
• ISBN-13: 978-0761519034
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've read both the Arvind Nagpal and Rajeev Kasturi books, June 24, 1999

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Dale R. Seng (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP (Hardcover)

I've read both the Arvind Nagpal and Rajeev Kasturi books, and I conclude that the Nagpal book is much better for me, a person who has been doing SAP EDI for several years.

I do not know either of these authors. I do not have anything to do with the publishers. I bet this is more than many of the reviewers here can say!

I know that sheer bulk is not what we are buying here, but let's do some numbers to examine one aspect of the comparison. The Kasturi book starts with 388 pages. Well over 100 pages in the back are tables out of SAP that we can print any time we want (or save a tree and just pull up a screen). Since I've worked with SAP EDI for a few years, I didn't expect a lot of things to be new to me in the first 3 or 4 chapters, but man, there was nothing even moderatly interesting to me in the early part of the book. That left about 150 pages in the middle that, I'll admit, I only skimmed. But the per-page cost of those few possibly valuable pages is quite high! There was a strong ALE / example flavor to the book. As if someone wrote about a few of their favorite implementations.

Now, the Nagpal book starts with quite a few more pages (786). There is NOT a huge section of this book dedicated to stuff I could print out of or look up in SAP. Yes, some of this stuff is 'light' too. And again, I'll admit to skimming a lot of it that I didn't have a pressing need to know right now. And yes, there are quite a few print-screens in the book (but I LIKE print-screens). The bottom line is that I, a person who's been using SAP-EDI quite a while, found the Nagpal title MORE INTERESTING, INFORMATIVE, and found it had MORE INFORMATION than the Kasturi book.

--Dale--

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book, well organized and full of useful information!, October 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP (Hardcover)

Thank you for an excellent book! I think it would be safe to say that this book has saved my company more than $30K in consulting costs already. I expect the savings to increase because his recommendations will allow us to implement a system with the proper controls in place to avoid costly errors. I have found Mr. Nagpal's book an invaluable reference to assist me in connecting our SAP 4.0B system to our major Canadian retailer customers.

I think SAP or the EAI vendors should give this book out with every licence! It's like a patient (and affordable!) SAP EDI consultant walking you through every step of the way.

I own both books and this one is by far the most useful. We did a customer master file load using ALE techniques and some program names were covered in the other book but Mr. Nagpal's book is the one I refer to daily.

If you have to do EDI with SAP then don't hesitate to buy this book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only 95% complete, October 14, 1999

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Terry Hutt ([e-mail]) (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP (Hardcover)

We're using version 3.1H (pretty old) and the samples in this book were lacking key information. It's better than nothing (much better) but getting the examples to work was very challanging. It also lacks some key information such as how to map EDI loops into IDOC structure definitions. It's worth the money, but only because there's no competition.