The SAP R/3 Guide to EDI and Interfaces [Hardcover]

Axel Angeli (Author), Robi Gonfalonieri (Author), Ulrich Streit (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2000

This title teaches the reader how to customise the R/3 IDoc engine, interface IDocs with standard converters for X.12, EDIFACT, VDA etc., design your own IDoc structures, write IDoc handler programs in an hour, triggers IDocs from any R/3 application via messages or workflow, set up automated workflow based on IDocs, and set up ALE scenarios for automated data replications.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

By Axel Angeli, Ulrich Streit and Robi Gonfalonieri

Product Details

• Hardcover: 157 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; 1st edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3528057297
• ISBN-13: 978-3528057299
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,656,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very good information -- but grade school translation, November 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The SAP R/3 Guide to EDI and Interfaces (Hardcover)

There is quite valuable information for both EDI developers and project management leads smattered within -- my bias being from a project managment standpoint. The material is possibly worthy of four (possibly even five!) stars, but is presented quasi-reference style (read: haphazardly), in asides, and sprinkled liberally with anecdotes, quotations, and amateur pen and ink drawings. The writing style is informal, practically conversational at times, and, in small doses, refreshing. I'd be more than interested in seeing a review of the original German text... maybe it works better in the native tongue...

But the sad truth is this book was/is extremely difficult to read -- the translation from German is quite poor, almost unbelievably so at times. It's almost as if the original text was run through translation software and published as such without ever once being viewed by a native English-speaker. If Vieweg is truly interested in publishing to the English-speaking technical market, they may want to invest in SOMEONE with fluency in English so they can perform even a rudimentary edit of the material prior to publication.

Should have known when the reply card (nur auf Deutsch!) fell out of the book upon opening that this was going to be one of those challenge reads!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best book - if you're experienced, May 15, 2002

By 

Christian "Christian" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The SAP R/3 Guide to EDI and Interfaces (Hardcover)

This is the best book of the 3 available IDOC/ALE titles - but just for professionals, who want to get the essentials for the IDOC/ALE interface, and how to use workflow in that context.
It's thin (120 pages ?), but it focuses on the real important facts and informations.
It has just small chapters of explanation. But if you're familiar with SAP it's the best to get the issue in a very short time but almost complete.

(for SAP-beginners I would rather recommend the book from A. Nagpal et al)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Reference Source for EDI interfaces, June 6, 2002

By 

Sandra Williams (Decatur, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The SAP R/3 Guide to EDI and Interfaces (Hardcover)

Excellent reference source for consultants learning about the EDI interface and ALE. The book gives real world answers and cuts straight to the heart of the matter. I highly recommend the book for consultants working on the subsystem side as well as those consultants working EDI on the SAP side of the project.