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What Every Business Needs to Know About SAP (Prima Tech's SAP Book Series)

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This book is an homage to SAP, first, and consultants, second.

According to the fairy tale included as a "real world example" of an SAP implementation, when your implementation gets rough, all you need to do is throw more money and consultants at it because the consultants know best. If you just turn your company over to the knowledgeable consultants, and don't worry about the bill, everything will work out fine.

The book does not include any detailed information about how the system works. It does not include any information about how to deal with interfaces or data conversion or any discussion of customizations and modifications. It does not include any discussion of any of the widely publicized failed SAP implementations and why they went wrong.

Basically, the book tells you the history of SAP (as a software and as a company), gives you a high level fairy tale (an SAP version of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" where the business is suffering during the SAP implementation and the consultants magically come in and solve all the problems and the company lives happily ever after), and then goes on to say that SAP is so good that even when the author had criticisms about the software, it was just because she wasn't taking a broad enough view of how the SAP software was evolving, and once she talked to the nice developers at SAP, they showed her why what they were doing was right.

The bottom line from this book:

1) SAP good 2) Consultants wise and helpful

For more depth, you'll have to go somewhere else.

This is an SAP book. It will tell you about SAP so if you read it you will know more about SAP.

I don't know what that other guy was smoking, but this book was
without a doubt the most useful book available on implementing SAP.
It is not meant necessarily to be an in-depth technical guide, but rather a utilitarian manual to prepare and equip a company for the arduous task of implementing SAP. I found the insights to be intriguing and accurate, and I would recommend this book to any executive who is donned with the task of training his or her subordinates to the gauntlet that is.... SAP

5 stars, very helpful