SAP Netweaver for Dummies

by Dan Woods and Jeffrey Word

Imagine that it's the 1950s, and you are in charge of developing the U. S. interstate system. There are countless roads already in use. The system can go in numerous different directions. Where do you begin? Starting to transform your business with SAP NetWeaver is that daunting. NetWeaver is both an application platform and an integration platform. It integrates your current IT systems to enable portals, collaboration, data management, and development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764568833
• ISBN13: 9780764568831
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Very good survey of SAP NetWeaver

This is the first "for Dummies" book I have read and I was very pleased. The authors did an excellent job explaining all of the elements of SAP NetWeaver and how they inter-relate. As a business executive trying to get my arms around the technology, this was exactly what I needed. It will be valuable reference for the future, as well.

Excellent Overview on Undocumented subject

This is great beginning for someone who is in SAP but want to learn about Netweaver. I read SAP official documentation and I feel the information in the book is very relavant.The book gives future trends very clearly and actually convinces you.Every business aspect of Netweaver is explained with an example.Moreover,you will love jokes and humour.Nice book to keep by the bed. I recommend reading this book and start reading materials on sap.com and other sap sites.

Excellent read for the whole team

While true the author hits more on what rather than 'how', this is one of those books every sap project manager and technical team member should have, if not just so we can all speak the same language. No, it's not an implementation book (pick up Anderson's SAP planning/best practices book). And no, it's by no means a guide for administrators (see Burleson, Hernandez, or Liane Will's books, among others). It's more important, in that its the consistent foundation you can all build upon.

Great overview book

It's strange that people expect a reference book when they are buying and reviewing a "for dummies" book. This is a great book for it's purpose, giving a solid overview of the building blocks of Netweaver. Everyone who is working in SAP or thinking about the future of business applications or ERP should read this book because it does give a good view of what the future brings. There is a turning point now in the business application world with the web becoming the frontend, portals, webservices, service oriented architecture being some of the buzzwords that will not go away in the next decade or so. Every SAP consultant who is wondering about what Netweaver is all about should get this book since it's the best overview available at the moment.

Finally a book that makes sense about the future of IT!

With waves of Web Services hype that have threatened to drown us all in corporate IT departments, it is amazing that no other leading enterprise software vendor has taken a stab at clarifying things for us "mere mortals". I'm not sure if the title has already been used, but this book could have easily been named "portals for mortals", since it brings concepts that have been thus far conveyed with a bunch of 4 letter words (yes, worse then you think....SOAP, WSDL, HTTP, J2EE...)If you want to understand how to build a single comprehensive portal platform and tie in all the applications, transactions, information, and business services that exist today all around your company, and that you struggle to even keep up with their function, this book is for you. From basic concepts to valuable tips, it has it all!!!