Customer Reviews

SAP Business One: Simple But Powerful

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I bought Thomas Teufels book and found it semi useful. I went back to see if there were any other SAP Business One books published. Checking the reviews I noticed someone who had given the book five stars. I found this strange and checked which other books he had reviewed. Turns out he has reviewed almost 2000 books and from what I could see he has only handed out five stars with a few exceptions which have been fours.

He is making a mockery of the whole rating system and should not be allowed to mislead Amazon customers any longer.

Had purchased the book anticipating that it included comprehensive case study examples (based on another review indicating that it included "two concrete examples from the industry. This book provides not only theoretical, but also practical, instruction for the efficient use of SAP Business One.") Instead, found that while it has some good chapters (e.g. table listings & suggested implementation checklists) it primarily only compares screen shots with a master process flow-chart. So if you're typically like the "learn by doing" style of sample exercises provided in the Dummies or Step-By-Step style books, you may find this lacking since it only give conceptual overviews.

As others I expected this book to contain relevant information concerning general use of the SAP Business One software in a practical hands-on way. Unfortunately, it contains little or no info with regards to initial setup of company, data files and back-up, initial general settings, master data preparation / migration and final tweaking of the system in order to get the basics working. It does contain some process analysis and a list of questions before installation, which were quite useful. Totally agree with Arne Thomessens point concerning John Matlock Gunny's review of this book.

SAP is the big German software company that has taken it's basic database and used it to create a number of integrated business packages. Business One is their package that's oriented to small to medium sized businesses. They say businesses from 2 to 250 people. But I'm not so sure that I agree with the low end of this estimate. This is a pretty healthy package (with the corresponding price tag) for so small a company.

Buying a book like this on each of the software packages you are considering purchasing makes good sense. Here you can get a feeling of just how well suited the software is to the way you want to do business.

This book completely describes the Business One software package from the basic concept to modifying it via their SDK. It can be used as an evaluation guide (to see if Business One is for you) or an an implementation guide. It would be very useful to have read this beforehand. It's concise and to the point.