Customer Reviews

Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)

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I was looking for a book that would provide a beginners introduction to SAP. Well this book did fulfill my needs to a great extent. This book is probably the most up to date introductory book on SAP. It also provides a good concise history, purpose, and value for each of the SAP modules. However the book fails to show how various modules link to each other. It also fails to explain why there are so many modules. I did find answers to all these questions but that was with the help of other books.

This book will set you in right direction but don't expect it to answer all your questions. It seriously needs some good technical diagrams. Diagrams in the book are of no value.

This is probably the most up-to-date overview book on SAP there is (as of mid-2006), unfortunately it's much more useful for those who will be day-to-day end users of SAP than it is for implementors, administrators, or auditors. What you need to know to begin to navigate the SAP GUIs is covered here, but if you don't or haven't actually worked with a large company's supply chain or customer relationship management systems this information isn't going to do you a lot of good--it's about SAP (specifically using the front-end, for the most part), not ERP/CRM. If you're going to be using SAP day-to-day this book may help you get started more quickly, especially if you can follow along on your computer while reading.

If you're going to be implementing, administrating, or auditing/securing SAP, you won't get much out of this book. If you're serious about learning SAP your best bet, unfortunately, is to take an instructor-led, hands-on course.

If your willing to wade through the different focus, you will find this a very useful book. It is by no means complete but nonetheless highlights how SAP has evolbved from R/3 to mySAP ERP and Business Suite, and ties in and explains Netweaver and where ECC fits in. The authors jump around between user, business and technical topics and theres less screen images than the first edition. Overall it's a great buy though.

This book is not intended for technical users. It provides a very high level guide for day to day users. Chapters 1-3 are worth reading to get a broad overview of SAP.
After those three chapters, the book suffers from trying to cover just a tiny bit of everything in SAP. The authors dont want to leave anything out, but at the same time they don't cover anything in great detail.
At your company, you will probably need to learn certain components and transaction in SAP, but surely not everything.
I recommend reading the first 3 chapters, and then the single chapter on the area of SAP in which you will be working. Reading much more than that will probably be a waste of time. I doubt you will ever use it as a reference and that is why I do not recommend purchasing it. It might be available at your local library.
To its credit, the book is well written. The pictures are in black and white, but are still useful. Learning how to use SAP, however, is best done in front the computer with a teacher at your side. I learned much more in a half-hour session with a seasoned user than I did by reading several chapters of this book.

If you are a new SAP user, you should definetely read this book. It highlights the SAP basics, but if you are looking for more advanced and technical explanations you should search for other books.

I am on a project team that is starting the implementation of a specialized SAP module, and I purchased Mr. Anderson's book to help me get a high-level overview of the overall SAP application. I am a relatively new SAP user, and this book was extremely valuable in helping me ascend the learning curve and get up-to-speed on this project. I can now have intelligent conversation with our technical staff, ask knowledgeable questions, and generally understand their answers.

My suggestions at this point would be to include a general glossary and an acronym glossary. I would also recommend, in addition to the "Watch out" and "By the way" boxes, another information source titled, "For further information on this topic".

Given that an overall reference for SAP could easily be the size of a set of encyclopedias, I would give this single book 5 stars out of 5.

I purchased this book to get familiar with SAP in a hurry. Let's just say, "I'm familiar!" Nice book to recommend.

We give this book to all folks new to SAP; especially good for sales executives, account managers, project managers, and others who do are not in a technical position and need to gain a good overview of SAP and SAP's latest architecture

I bought this book to learn SAP on my own. I took a graduate course at the University of Texas at Dallas and this book was the text book for SAP's introductory course!!

Great layouts, screen prints, and how-to's. Very good primer for SAP. You won't know all there is to know in this little book, but it will get you started.

Book was just what I was shopping for. The merhcant was great, no problems. I would purchase again from this vendor.