This book helps you navigate past a wide range of potential pitfalls to ensure a largely problem-free BW implementation. Using a lessons-learned approach, the author highlights critical BW project-related issues from the start of an implementation to the end. Readers discover how to eliminate problems before they occur, by preparing for them from the outset. Learn about common BW mistakes, find out how to avoid them and understand how successful BW projects can be executed. Readers of this comprehensive reference get unparalleled advice to run your BW project efficiently, while circumventing major delays and common stumbling blocks. In addition, you'll benefit from the experience of others via sample documents such as review checklists, communications documents, and landscape and architecture documents. This book is highly valuable for those implementing BI NetWeaver 2004s (7.0) as well as 3.x.

The challenges facing BW projects can be cultural, political, technical, or fiscal in nature. This book helps you navigate past a wide range of potential pitfalls to ensure a largely problem-free BW implementation or upgrade. Learn about common BW mistakes, find out how to avoid them, and understand how successful BW projects can be executed. In addition, you ll benefit from sample documents that can be used in your project, including review checklists, communications documents, and landscape and architecture documents. The SAP NetWeaver BW Project Lifecycle Gain a practical understanding of what s involved in a typical SAP NetWeaver BW implementation, with an emphasis on the pitfalls and how to avoid them. Defining an Implementation Strategy Know the important questions to answer before starting any SAP NetWeaver BW project to ensure your project is planned, organized, and implemented as efficiently as possible. Preparing for Go-Live and the Go-Live Process Learn about the cut-over tasks associated with go-live and how proper planning can minimize stress and provide resources and escalation in the event of issues.After SAP NetWeaver BW Go-Live Discover the typical project responsibilities after go-live and the challenges faced in this phase of the project lifecycle. Enhance Quality: The Six Sigma Way Get an introduction to a few basic Six Sigma methodologies that can be used to enhance data quality.

SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through the entire journey, helping you avoid pain and pitfalls and gain all the benefits of SAP. The authors introduce start-to-finish business, technical, and project management roadmaps for successful SAP implementation. Then, drawing on their immense experience, they walk you through the entire process of planning and deployment—addressing make-or-break issues and hidden gaps that other guidebooks ignore. You’ll discover how to employ processes, models, and toolsets that help you achieve implementation excellence while systematically reducing cost and business risk. Along the way, you’ll find actionable advice and real-world insight into innovative project management, best-suited leadership, effective load testing, contemporary infrastructure implementation, and more. George W. Anderson is responsible for providing enterprise applications thought leadership for the EDS/HP office of the CTO. A long-time SAP consultant and PMI-certified project manager, George has authored several best-selling books and enjoys new challenges. Charles D. Nilson is a senior program manager for EDS/HP and has led many successful SAP implementation teams over the years. He is a PMI PMP and is SAP Partner Academy certified in MM and PP. Tim Rhodes is a senior SAP technical consultant for EDS/HP and a Basis/infrastructure veteran focused on implementing, migrating, and upgrading SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver solutions. Tim is also an SAP-certified technical consultant, OCP, MCSE, and HP Master ASE. Detailed Information on How To... Define the business vision driving your implementation, and use it to design your solution Use TCO techniques to fully understand SAP’s financial impact in your organization Structure your SAP project management office, business teams, technical support organization, and overall project team Size, plan, and test your SAP infrastructure to deliver the best performance and availability at the best cost Integrate SAP into an SOA environment Install and configure SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver components Perform basic functional configuration, testing, and change management activities Enable a smooth transition by successfully performing the critical tasks that immediately precede SAP Go-Live Choose the right mix of tools and applications to test, manage, and monitor SAP Prepare your SAP Operations team for its post-implementation responsibilities

Do you struggle with managing the all-encompassing product lifecycle, and need a comprehensive guide to the SAP Product Lifecycle Management solution? Look no further. This long-anticipated, up-to-date resource is your answer. Within these pages, youll find the comprehensive, functional overview of SAP PLM, from what it is to how it can benefit your business, with a plethora of business scenarios and processes included throughout. Youll learn how each PLM business process is supported by which part of the application, and how to implement those solutions. Whether youre a consultant, project manager, or part of the implementation teamyoull find what you need to prepare yourself to use the system effectively.

If you are a consultant, administrator, or developer who works with SAP NetWeaver Portal, this book is an invaluable resource. Starting with the blueprint phase of an installation through to the go-live and support phases, The Complete Guide to SAP NetWeaver Portal discusses topics relevant for installation, configuration, implementation, development, and administration. This one-stop guide is full of step-by-step instructions and detailed screenshots, and will teach you everything you need to know about working with SAP NetWeaver Portal.

"This book is the definitive guide for SAP NetWeaver BI professionals. Based on their extraordinary expertise with the product, the authors provide deep insights about key innovations in the areas of user experience, query performance, integrated planning, and enterprise-wide data warehousing." —Stefan Sigg, Vice President, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence The long-anticipated publication of this second edition reflects the growing success of SAP NetWeaver as well as the various Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities that are embedded with SAP BW version 7.0. Written by SAP insiders, this comprehensive guide takes into account the ever-changing features, functionality, and toolsets of SAP NetWeaver to bring you the most updated information on how to use SAP BW to design, build, deploy, populate, access, analyze, present, and administer data. You'll discover the options that are available in SAP NetWeaver and uncover a new means to improve business performance. This book reflects the process an organization goes through during an implementation of the software. The authors begin with an introduction to BI and SAP NetWeaver and quickly progress to information modeling and enterprise data warehouse concepts. You'll learn how to access and deliver meaningful analytic information to the organization, as well as perform integrated planning functions. Finally, the authors share invaluable insight on warehouse administration, performance, and security. With more than 50 percent new or revised material, this second edition of Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse shows you how to: Extract data from online transaction processing systems Store transformed data in a way that best supports reporting and analysis Use the various Business Explorer tools such as BEx Report Designer, BEx Analyzer, BEx Broadcaster, and BEx Web Application Designer Schedule, monitor, troubleshoot, and archive data loads The companion Web site contains sample chapters in Wiki format and the authors' blog where readers may enter discussions about the book and SAP. Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/ Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/mcdonald The companion Web site contains the sample code presented in the text of the book, plus implementation templates.

As an administrator, your ongoing to-do list dominates your desk. Let us help: With this book, learn the daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly administration tasks you should be performing, and how to perform them. This comprehensive guide will walk you through system setup and configuration to lay a sound foundation for effective data storage, and then teach you to employ performance tuning techniques to optimize system performance. Consult detailed best practices to learn how to create BW objects and run reports, as well as to effectively use jobs and skills profiles for system support. Advance your SAP BW system from a B-movie to a blockbuster.

The general theme of MEDICON 2013 is "Research and Development of Technology for Sustainable Healthcare". This decade is being characterized by the appearance and use of emergent technologies under development. This situation has produced a tremendous impact on Medicine and Biology from which it is expected an unparalleled evolution in these disciplines towards novel concept and practices. The consequence will be a significant improvement in health care and well-fare, i.e. the shift from a reactive medicine to a preventive medicine. This shift implies that the citizen will play an important role in the healthcare delivery process, what requires a comprehensive and personalized assistance. In this context, society will meet emerging media, incorporated to all objects, capable of providing a seamless, adaptive, anticipatory, unobtrusive and pervasive assistance. The challenge will be to remove current barriers related to the lack of knowledge required to produce new opportunities for all the society, while new paradigms are created for this inclusive society to be socially and economically sustainable, and respectful with the environment. In this way, these proceedings focus on the convergence of biomedical engineering topics ranging from formalized theory through experimental science and technological development to practical clinical applications.

See how SAP HANA has changed ABAP Whether you're studying for certification or just want to see what's new, you can learn to design simple and advanced SAP HANA applications with ABAP by using this comprehensive guide. Learn to enable code pushdown, use new Open SQL enhancements and CDS views, and integrate native SAP HANA objects. Use detailed programming examples to develop database procedures and optimize your applications. You'll be programming for SAP HANA in no time Basic Principles Explore essential SAP HANA principles like in-memory technology and architecture, the SAP Web IDE, and AS ABAP database programming. Advanced Techniques Learn to use tools like InfoProviders, EasyQuery Interface, and the Application Function Modeler for SAP HANA. Discover how to integrate geographical data from SAP HANA in ABAP programs. Optimizing Existing Applications Get step-by-step instructions to help you optimize existing ABAP applications, and learn how to speed up applications with SAP HANA. Highlights: Code pushdown SAP Web IDE Eclipse CDS views SQLScript Native SAP HANA object integration Open SQL enhancements Geo-information Text searches Error analysis

If you're making the leap from SAP BW to SAP HANA, this book is your indispensable companion. Thanks to detailed pre-migration and post-migration steps, as well as a complete guide to the actual migration process, it's never been easier to HANA-ify your SAP BW system. Once your migration is complete, learn everything you need to know about data modeling, reporting, and administration. Are you ready for the next generation of SAP BW? Highlights: Implementation options Preparing for migration Step-by-step migration guide Post-migration steps LSA++ Data modeling Reporting Administration