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SAP R/3 Business Blueprint: Understanding the Business Process Reference Model

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This book gives a general insight on SAP R/3 functional (and a little bit of technical) model. This book can be very good introduction for the corporate executives with very little or no SAP R/3 experience. However, the contents of this book can be too obvious for those who already have worked with SAP R/3 system.

I don't normally comment, but I don't know what book the reader from Minn. was reading. I'm guessing he meant to review a different book. This is not a "German" book at all. This is the clearest, best written book on SAP I've read, and I've read most of them. If you need an introduction to the business logic behind SAP, this is the book to buy.

The SAP R/3 Business Blueprint is the only book that is written from both the business sides and the information technology sides of SAP. Thus, it is perfect for anyone who is implementing or about to implement SAP in their organization. I found that it had exactly the right amount of general description to give me an understanding of those areas of the business that I am not directly involved in. But for areas of which I was most familiar, procurement and sales and distribution, I found it was equally informative. It is simply a must read for anyone involved in the SAP world.

This is the ideal book for anyone who is either directly involved with the implementation of an R/3 sysetm or who is planning on implementing it in the near future. I showed it to a couple of my friends who are SAP consultants & IT project managers and they found it to be an invaluable source of information.

One of the best comprehensive books written about SAP. There are many reasons to recommend this book. The language is very easy to understand even for an outsider, all important subjects are covered and presented very well, level of details is appropriate to quickly give the readers a working knowledge of how almost all the moduls function. This is a great help to many SAP professionals, business managers as well as technical people who only know about their own modules and not others. Many ERP professionals I talked with considered this book as "The SAP Bible." If you want to spend money on only one book about SAP, this is the one to buy.

This is my third book on SAP R/3. This book is another example of poorly written book on SAP. Though the topics are categorized very carefully and intelligently, the text in the book is in the language that requires 'translation in English.' The terms are either ill defined or if defined, then they have been used inconsistently. It was hard to get out the concept behind a topic, since authors give scattered information without focusing on main idea. Also, authors could have written the business processes (SAP modules) in more like step-by-step (or recipe) method, rather than in 'composition' format.

There's a lot of relevant information in this book, but the authors have a repetitive, rambling, and sometimes vague style that makes it anything but a pleasure to read. You really have to work to sift the wheat from the chaff here. It could be easily condensed to half its size without losing any information.

This book is a very instructive example how to use business models dealing with complexity.Especially the method of "Event Driven Process Chains (EPC)" seems to be a powerfull way of modelling business processes including aspects of organization. Its nice to see that an idea born in germany is going around the world. I am only missing the references .......

The book is easy to read and understand. The reader knows exactly where to go if he has specific topics he wants to read about. A few more graphics in the beginning could have been helpful if you have never seen an R/3 Reference Model before. Recommendation even for students.

THE PRESENT BOOK GIVES A GOOD OVERVIEW OF THE SAP R/3 BLUPRINT. The example chosen are quite relevent . But I personally feel that the material can very well be condensed which will add to the worth of this book.But I must admit the first readingof this book really motivated me towards th relevance of the SAP Blueprint. The book shold contain more screens indicating how the information appears in actual SAP R/3 system screens.