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Special Edition Using SAP R/3 (3rd Edition)

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It is amazing that anyone can write so much and say so little

Comparable to "Freshman 101". Don't bother

This book is useful for two things: introducing neophytes to R/3 , and as a book end. Special Edition Using SAP R/3 is one of those volumes that is so bulky that it will look impressive and hold your other books in place. Readers who do not know SAP will learn enough about R/3 to understand the basic functions and architecture. If you have already decided to implement R/3 and have any background with the system, even if only an introductory course, skip this book. You will find it incomplete. If you know nothing about SAP feel like skipping the demos and spending a good portion of a hundred bucks get this book. If you need to fill four inches of bookshelf this volume will do it.

I highly recommend you get your copy of this 1,200 + page book for use in your outhouse. Since Sears stopped printing their catalog years ago, there are few replacements out there for such an essential household item. Be the first on your block to wipe it off with SAP!

this is a book totally useless. It tells you nothing! 1. I doubt the author is from Germany because I got big language problem when trying to understand the sentences. The author loved to make long sentences which confused me all the time. 2. The author just tells you what SAP can do, this is absolutely not what I want. People can learn this from newspaper or review or advertisement. what people want to know is how to use SAP or how to implement, install it. actually the book tells nothing. 3. the quality is bad. I got a book, of which 200 pages were printed in Yellow paper, 100 pages were printed in grey paper. The index on each page of chapter 17 was printed as "chapter 18". 4. I am totally disappointed. now I know why SAP is difficult to learn, the reference book made so!

There are good and bad points about this book. First, like the summary states, it is a nice,big, heavy book. If you need to hold down something firmly, this is the book to place on top of it. Now, the bad part: many parts of the book are simply too superficial. This book sounds like a big advertising brochure for SAP, and if you are looking for that, SAP AG might be able to do a better job of selling their product. Also, in many major modules, the book has an irritating tone that somehow presupposes that you have an absolutely ready SAP system in front of you and are trying to get an idea of what it is doing. Many sentences have the phrase " the system will have been configured to" do this, or do that... This includes sections that should really be giving you good, solid information on how the system has been configured, and how else it could have been configured. In the middle of this, we have inane statements, which are really too numerous to list, which give the book a "business perspective". If that is what the book aimed to do in the first place, then I wish people like me, who are looking for a techno-business view, were better informed before buying this book.

In short, the book falls short on the very count that appears be it's strong point: depth. If anybody who is really working on SAP got anything useful out of this book, I would be amazed to hear about it.

Given its price and size, one would expect this book to contain a great deal of useful information. In fact, it reads like a sales and marketing press release. The writing is also very disjointed. There is a great deal of repetition as well as jumping from topic to topic with little or no connection. Definitely not worth the money.

I am a SAP consultant The book is with respect meant for SAP Jobhunters to join the author's company and guide them through interviews etc. The author spent half the book on it. It is almost 1000 pages yet only some 60 pages is spent on the important SD module. It's title reads "Using SAP R/3" which is grossly misleading in my opinion. That implies to discuss substantial issues and that is why I bought it over the Internet. It also boosts ASAP Consulting extensively. If I were Que Publishing I would have referred it back. The author undoubtedly has vast knowledge yet does not choose to share that with us. I definitely do NOT recomend this book seen against its pricetag.

Lame result of an ambitious and wordy project. The book targets a too broad audience and in the process it misses much of its value. Nevertheless, this book has a virtue as a good source of reference for SAP project management and business process overviews.

This was my first book on SAP, it did help to get an overview nothing more. If you're planning to ge t specialized in ABAP or any Module then better forget this one.