All-in-One Guides

SAP All-in-One Guides:

All-in-One Guides

All-in-One Guides cover all of your research needs. Each of the following guides is a collection of resources on a particular information security topic that tackles all stages of the learning and product buying cycle. First, the guide will help you understand specific risks and challenges. Then, it enables you to identify the best policies, processes and technologies for your organization, as well as offering insight into effective ways to engage vendors and evaluate specific products. Finally, the guide will advise you on post-purchasing issues, such as implementing and managing technology.

  • SAP security and compliance tutorial

    This Compliance and Security All-in-One Guide is a collection of resources designed to help SAP security professionals contribute effectively to their compliance programs. Each chapter addresses key concerns about regulations, process improvement and effective products. The goal is to help you build a risk management program that can meet regulatory expectations. Bookmark this guide and check back often for new material to put you ahead of the compliance curve.

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  • SAP XI-PI

    The SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) is one of four core capabilities within NetWeaver. Get to know SAP's enterprise integration highway with this SAP XI All-In-One guide. It discusses development, adapters, service-oriented architecture and more. Be sure to bookmark this guide because new content will be continuously added as companies transition to NetWeaver.

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  • SAP virtualization tutorial

    Finding areas for IT cost savings will continue to be important for SAP customers in 2010, and virtualization will become a bigger part of that conversation. Historically reluctant to try virtualization, in the last year SAP customer have embraced it not only for testing and other non-production purposes, but mission-critical applications as well. In this All-in-One guide, readers will get an overview of the benefits and challenges of virtualizing SAP applications.

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  • Planning your SAP BI strategy

    Since its BusinessObjects acquisition, SAP's BI roadmap has been frustrating, and at times confusing, for customers. While BusinessObjects brings some of the best BI and analytics tools in the industry, SAP's subsequent phasing out of the BEx tools has left many customers with questions about how to move forward. Customers also have questions on the SAP BW back-end, and its viability as a true data warehouse. Readers will get an overview of SAP's BI roadmap, as well as strategies for moving forward with BEx or BusinessObjects tools.

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  • SAP service-oriented architecture (SOA) guide

    Trying to keep up with news and advice on building an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA)? Use this guide to learn the latest in SOA strategies and tactics, including how to build a SOA with SAP and Oracle applications. In every section, you'll discover best practices, research and advice to help you design a SOA strategy that best suits your organization.

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  • SAP master data management (MDM) tutorial

    Master data management refers to synchronizing "master data" -- a company's most important data about its customers, products or other assets -- for the enterprise. MDM systems manage master data from a central system, whose architecture can be a registry model, a repository or persistent model, or a hybrid approach. In this SAP MDM tutorial, explore master data management concepts, learn about SAP's MDM solution, and check out MDM best practices and SAP MDM case studies.

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  • SAP CRM (customer relationship management)

    The best CRM solutions include business processes like sales, marketing, analytics and forecasting. This CRM guide will introduce you to today's CRM market and SAP's CRM module. Learn how to build a business case for CRM or a CRM upgrade, then get a walkthrough of a successful SAP CRM implementation and read about SAP CRM best practices.

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