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1 online resource |
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--For dummies |
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--For dummies.
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MySAP ERP For Dummies; About the Authors; Authors' Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Why Buy This Book?; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Part I: mySAP ERP in a Services-Enabled World; Chapter 1: ERP: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; Just What Is ERP?; A Brief History of ERP; What Early ERP Did Right; Where ERP Had Room to Grow; The New ERP: mySAP ERP at Your Service; Service-Enabled: The Foundation of Flexible ERP Today; Exploring the Benefits of Enterprise Services |
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Enterprise Services Provide Building BlocksWhere Does ERP Fit In?; Chapter 2: Differentiating Yourself with ERP; Start by Being Business Model-Driven; Differentiating versus Standard Processes; Bringing in Innovation; Meeting the Two Challenges of Innovation; Chapter 3: Raising the Bar on Productivity; Upping Your Usability; Integrating with Applications You Use Every Day; How Roles Make Life Easier; Self-Service for Productivity; Preconfigured Business Scenarios; Gaining Productivity through Industry-Specific Scenarios; Sharing and Outsourcing; Making Things Run Smoothly with Automation |
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Chapter 4: Gaining Business InsightTapping into the Potential of Analytics; Empowering Business People; Tallying Up the Analytics You Get in mySAP ERP; Analytics in Action; Chapter 5: Keeping IT Flexible; Creating a Common Language for IT and Business; How IT Works in a Service-Enabled World; Using Abstraction to Hide Complexity; Summing Up the IT Service-Enabled World; Part II: Getting Under the Hood: The Underlying Technology; Chapter 6: Meet SAP NetWeaver; So, What Exactly Is SAP NetWeaver?; Orchestrating a Technology Symphony; Giving SAP NetWeaver the Once-Over; Making Users Productive |
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Unifying DataManaging Business Information; Customizing Development; Unified Lifecycle Management; Governing Applications; Consolidating All Your Systems; Service-Oriented Architecture Design and Deployment; Guided Procedures: Focus on Activity; Designing Processes and Managing Solutions: SAP Solution Manager; What Can SAP NetWeaver Do for You?; Technology and Data: The Great Equalizers; SAP NetWeaver Enables Business Process Evolution; Chapter 7: Bringing Services to Life with SAP NetWeaver; Working with Services; A Web Service Description Language Primer; Modeling with Enterprise Services |
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ESA Is Open to Working with Other ToolsChapter 8: SAP NetWeaver Up and Running; Figuring Out ESA Run-Time Architecture; Business and Technical Protocols: Synchronous versus Asynchronous; Getting a Handle on the Transactional Behavior of Services; Simplifying Sessions; Seamless Security; Taking a Closer Look at Web-Service Run-Time Architecture; Discovering XI Run-Time Architecture; Chapter 9: Composites: Extending mySAP ERP; What Are Composites?; The Nature of Composites; Fitting Together Composite Applications; SAP xApps: Delivering on the Innovation Promise |
| Summary |
SAP is the world's leading provider of ERP software and services, with worldwide revenue in 2004 of 9.7 billion and a 57 percent market share among major business application providers; it is one of the world's largest software companies overallERP is a flexible, open technology platform that helps businesses run more efficiently (and profitably) by providing integrated management of key operations and supply chainsWritten for IT professionals who find it hard to get through SAP's complex documentation, our book demonstrates how ERP can cut costs, provides a clear overview of |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
SAP ERP. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008048144
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SAP ERP fast |
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Management information systems.
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Production management -- Data processing.
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Electronic commerce.
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Management Information Systems
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Production & Operations Management.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Engineering.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
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Management information systems.
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Production management -- Data processing.
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Electronic commerce.
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Business and Management.
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Electronic commerce
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Management information systems
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Production management -- Data processing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kimbell, Ian
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| ISBN |
9780764599958 |
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076459995X |
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9780471783374 |
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0471783374 |
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9781118054819 |
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1118054814 |
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9781299546882 |
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1299546889 |
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