R/3 Authorization Made Easy 4.6A/B [Paperback]

SAP Labs Inc. R/3 Simplification Group (Author), Incorporated SAP Labs (Author), Inc. R/3 Simplification Group SAP Labs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 16, 2000

Written for SAP consultants and customers, this guidebook helps you to set up the authorization concept in the R/3 System. Using step-by-step instructions, it shows you how to use the Profile Generator during and after the R/3 implementation.

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From the Author

This guidebook is designed to help you set up the authorization environment in the customer system using the Profile Generator (PG). It explains what you need to know to perform this task and helps you use the standard tools provided with your system.

This book does not cover authorizations for add-on components or New Dimension products. It also does not cover Internet-related authorizations (encryption, authentication, and credit card security).

This guide refers to Release 4.6A/B of the SAP R/3 System. All screenshots are from Release 4.6A unless otherwise noted.

The structure of this guidebook matches the setup of the authorization concept, progressing from a new R/3 installation all the way to an upgrade. If you upgrade from an older release see chapter 14, Upgrade, for more information.

About This Guide

This guide provides you with the following:
- The big picture (security and the authorization concept in R/3)
- Tasks you need to perform during and after installation of R/3 to facilitate the use of the Profile Generator
- Tasks you need to perform after an upgrade of the R/3 System
- All the essential steps for security implementation using the PG and Central User Administration
- Tasks to prepare for going live
- Appendixes with the most important SAPNet-R/3 Frontend notes for authorizations and the most frequently asked questions.

Who Is This Guide For?

This guide was designed for the following people using the Profile Generator either in an implementation project or as an ongoing reference:
- Basis Consultants who install R/3 and set up the security at customer sites
- Application Consultants who want to start using the Profile Generator as the basis for their customer security implementation
- Customer IT and help desk personnel

About the Author

The R/3 Simplification Group at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, develops or helps develop "Accelerators" to make R/3 implementations quicker, cheaper, and easier. The R/3 Made Easy guidebook series was created to help customers speed up their R/3 implementations. The Made Easy guidebooks are all written by authors with field experience in the area they cover.

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, SAP Labs, Inc. researches and develops cutting-edge software products for the SAP business application systems. SAP Labs, Inc. employs over 450 people from 15 countries and is a member of the worldwide SAP AG company network. Our mission is to develop country-specific products for American and Canadian customers and to integrate new technologies developed in the Silicon Valley in the SAP systems worldwide.

SAP AG is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany and is the world's fourth largest software firm. It employs over 18,000 people in more than 50 countries and is currently the largest software company trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SAP). SAP Labs, Inc. is a subsidiary of SAP America, the SAP marketing, training, and consulting headquarters in the United States.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 354 pages
• Publisher: Johnson Printing Service (February 16, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 189357024X
• ISBN-13: 978-1893570245
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,160,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Security Administrator, April 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: R/3 Authorization Made Easy 4.6A/B (Paperback)

Excellent guidebook in administrating SAP Security. I rely heavily on this book and OSS notes to do my job efficiently and productively.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book - But now getting obsolete, September 14, 2006

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Susan K-H "Susan K-H" - See all my reviews

This review is from: R/3 Authorization Made Easy 4.6A/B (Paperback)

If SAP would publish made easy guides for all their modules they could kick the worlds software a**...This book is as good as the best 'step-by-step' books put out by Microsoft. Why SAP can't put out documentation as-good-as Microsoft is beyound me...they are really missing the boat (or perhaps the point of poor documentation is a full-employment scheme for expensive consultants...Note: if you think the online help provided with SAP is any help, think again, it's for the most part useless...SAP help screens look like they were designed by 'educational experts' who wring any sense of meaning or context from a subject to derive an abstraction which provides only 'when you click this, this screen comes up' duh...I know that, so what does it mean?...what does the screen info do? How does it fit into the context?...ya gotta hope there is a book, or hire a consultant)

This is a great book that together with the SAP Press book 'SAP Authorization System' is an essential to my understanding SAP authorizations. Note that I went to the SAP CA940 class on authorizations and the instructor didn't even mention these books (and for the several thousand dollars the class cost you'd think SAP would provide them for free.)

The only problem is the book is for 4.6A/B...and many customers are on 4.6C, and now heading for ECC6.
Special note: this book is available as a PDF...and if you shlep around on the internet long enough perhaps you could find a place to download it...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very straight foward explanations. It's a recommended book for SAP Authorizations concepts and implementations., January 24, 2011

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Marcio Brener - See all my reviews

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This review is from: R/3 Authorization Made Easy 4.6A/B (Paperback)

Very straight foward explanations. It's a recommended book for SAP Authorizations concepts and implementations.
In the very first chapter the book introduces all concepts and possibilities about authorizations, and then explains any transaction and detail about each one.
I'm using SAP ECC 6.0, although the book covers 4.6A, it contains all essential concept and explanatory information needed to implment security.