Customer Reviews

R/3 Authorization Made Easy 4.6A/B

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

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...

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.

This book follows the traditional format of SAP Made Easy Guides. It covers Authorizations fairly well but still lacks the complete content that Authorizations Administrators need. 75% of the Authorization features are covered, hopefully the next version will include all the features. Yes, the book is useful, but not needed if you already have an excellent understanding of the tool in prior versions of SAP

The book is excellent at describing the SAP R/3 Security system and giving a new administrator the info they need to get started.

Book covers material in a straight forward how to manner for day to day operations.

This is my second copy from Amazon that is missing the Chapter cover page and overview for every chapter.

SAP Authorization System covers the concept from a broaden perspective, and in fact refers to Authorizations made easy for detail. I would recommend both books.