SAP Authorization System: Design and Implementation of Authorization concepts for SAP R/3 and SAP Enterprise Portals [Hardcover]

IBM Business Consulting GmbH (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 16, 2003

This practical guide offers you a detailed introduction to all the essential aspects of SAP Authorization management, as well as the necessary organizational and technical structures and tools. Take advantage of a proven Phase Model to help you navigate through all of the stages leading up to the implementation and deployment of an authorization concept, from the procedural steps required to design the concept, to the production phase, and lastly, to the supervision phase. In addition, you'll quickly learn how to set up authorization via the SAP R/3 Profile Generator.

This book provides in-depth coverage of the special security requirements of the SAP Enterprise Portal as well as the SAP R/3 standards and infrastructure, which serve as a framework to develop and support SAP Authorization concepts.

Highlights:

• Special features of the SAP Authorization System
• Fundamental principles of the SAP Authorization concept
• Internal Control System (ICS)
• Best practices for the design phase
• Best practices for the production phase
• Testing of Authorization concepts
• Audit Information System (AIS)
• SAP Enterprise Portal: components, access control and administration, integration, and more!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

This book was written by a team of highly experienced SAP consultants from IBM Business Consulting Services GmbH. The authors have honed their expertise with many years of experience with SAP technology, especially with regard to the implementation of SAP Authorization concepts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 350 pages
• Publisher: SAP Press (September 16, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592290167
• ISBN-13: 978-1592290161
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #723,369 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most useful authorizations book I read after AMEZ, November 21, 2005

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Wannabe SAP Admin "Wannabe SAP Admin" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAP Authorization System: Design and Implementation of Authorization concepts for SAP R/3 and SAP Enterprise Portals (Hardcover)

This book is simply superb. I am somewhat experienced in SAP Authorizations. I learnt the basics of authorizations from the book "Authorizations made easy" by SAP Press. But after that I bought this book, and I cant emphasize how much this book has helped me to get the bigger picture of Authorizations. A must book for wannabe SAP Authorization Administrators. First book is AMEZ, next comes this book. I found it very helpful to understand how the SAP Authorization system is designed in an actual implementation. I am sure this book will be very helpful to people who are already experienced, but for beginners this is a book that cant be missed !!!

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars SAP Authorization System, April 28, 2005

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Juan Carlos Garcia "Juan Garcia" (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SAP Authorization System: Design and Implementation of Authorization concepts for SAP R/3 and SAP Enterprise Portals (Hardcover)

You put together a team of 8 people from IBM, 1 Doctor among them, to produce a book with no specific details that explain in detail, as expected, and after reading the table of contents, how to do the work with sufficient screen shots, step by step actions, etc.

This is an IBM best practives generic guideline, not an SAP in detail book.

An article from the SAP Professional Journal about the matter, has more contents than this book.

I do not recommend it, unless you are a project manager, and want to have a brush up of what SAP security is all about.

I apologize for the comment, but I expected more from IBM and SAP, as well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Also Get the Made Easy Guide, September 14, 2006

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

This review is from: SAP Authorization System: Design and Implementation of Authorization concepts for SAP R/3 and SAP Enterprise Portals (Hardcover)

This is an essential book to help with "conceptualizing" what's going on with authorizations...the criticism by the other reviewer of this book on this web site is (in my opinion) mostly misplaced, as the details of how to actually click-n-use Authorizations transactions such as PFCG or SU01 or PPOM needs to be learned in the SAP class (was CA 940), or you can use the Made Easy Guide.

I highly recommend before going to the SAP class on Authorizations that you read this book and crash around in a test SAP client a bit... Note that the SAP class, which cost thousands of dollars, didn't provide a free copy of this book (or even mention it's existance...typical SAP)