Awesome SAP SCM (EWM)
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I want to share my experience about Rajesh Mendonca SAP EWM Guru for writing this book on Fundamentals of SCM-EWM a step by step guide which I bought from Amazon.com, Normally I have some bad feeling towards online classes as I feel that our doubts cannot be cleared properly and I even faced a bad experience with one tutor which I took my SAP MM/IM/WM training at first and I ended up with confused knowledge. I was very much tensed what to do. Then I came to know about this book, without even taking online classes or attending the training classes from SAP I followed this book, which has all the fundamental step by step about SAP EWM from configuration to the actual business processes which the author has explained in such a way that even a fresher can grasp all the functionalities of SAP EWM. I rented both SAP ECC and SCM servers to do my practice and it works so amazing once you follow step by step procedure which is mentioned on the book. Now I feel that I've done the right work by getting this book and following it to get more knowledge of SAP SCM (EWM). The painstakingly step by step guide book for SAP EWM is very good reference materials while you being on the job.

Rajesh innovative idea of putting this book together for SAP EWM makes you feel comfort at your home, cutting gas cost and not wasting time in commuting is simply wonderful. It was time and money very well invested. The author of this book Rajesh Mendonca provided very easily understandable step wise procedure for all the requirements, practicing on the system and even the screen shots makes it easily understandable with all transaction codes and the navigational path to configure the system as per the business requirement. If anyone who is willing to get into SAP EWM with the basic knowledge of SAP WM can go thru this book and pursue a career on SAP EWM I guarantee it.

Rajesh Mendonca is very professional and has a very sound knowledge in SAP SCM (EWM) and shares all the knowledge on this book. I would recommend this book to all SAP WM Consultants who are there in the market. My good wishes and special thanks to Rajesh Mendonca for getting this wonderful book to the market place.
Cheers - SM Raja
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I am 47 years old and have been through 3 company downsizings.  I've been a draftsman for 20 years.  What did we ever do without software?
At my new position, I needed to learn SolidWorks quickly.  I did my research before I purchased this book.  I talked to the authors and downloaded a sample chapter off the publishers website.  I am very glad that I did this.  The book provides excellent examples and procedures for the beginner to the intermediate.  A lot of the other books out there are not as complete and they assume that you know various areas of the software and manufacturing procedures.  We all know that happens when you assume!!!!  I have been there!!
There is a great deal of emphasis on creating and modifying parts and thinking about the manufacturer's process.  I've been in the industry for 20 plus years and there were some design hints that I did not know.  Thank you.  If you are looking for a SW dictionary this is not a book for you.  If you are looking for a great design book to learn how to use SW and to learn about manufacturing and design intent, this is the book.
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I agree with AC, the topics Penelope Coventry covers in this title are covered very well. I found within just a few hours that I was creating new forms and views with the DFWP, styling the output from DVWP and building some nice customised applications.

The style is not like so many other books making you do menial tasks for the sake of step-by-step. Penelope instead has created some thoughtful and interesting exercises, assuming the reader wants to be engaged and create business value as a result of investing time working through the book. A refreshing approach I must say.

I recommend the book to any aspiring SharePoint designer but, would equally recommend some grounding in WSS architecture beforehand.
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I just got the book a few days ago, skimmed threw it at work. Lots of content and some advance game programming techniques. Im currently at on Chapter 3 working my way through the book by example. This book is perfect for me at my current C++ level and with some background in SFML already. So far had no problem following the book and examples and Im really excited to learn the Entity Component System.
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I was completely new to using SysML when I bought this book, but within a few weeks I felt competent creating all types of SysML diagrams in Visio (we currently do not have an automated tool).  The book is logically arranged and explanations are generally clear.  Examples are practical and substantial enough to be useful.  Besides scores of individual diagram examples, the author provides three comprehensive system examples using all the SysML diagrams.  I have found these to be extremely valuable in understanding how the various diagram types can be used together in various configurations.  Also included is a comprehensive appendix of all the symbols and notations associated with each diagram type, which I also reference frequently.  I recommend this book to both new and experienced SysML users--the author has done a great job explaining the language in a progressive and well-organized manner.  As a side note, I have found SysML to be very effective for modelling systems consisting of mechanical, electrical, and software components and it complements its software parent, UML, very well.  Of the many modeling tools I have used over the years, it is the most comprehensive, flexible, and intuitive to use.
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This is a great introduction to SAP FI/CO. Extremely well-written and easy to follow, this book uses practical examples and provides solutions to commonly encountered issues on the job.
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I am using this book in my SAP UA course that I teach and it is a very well written book that is an absolutely must for all SAP UA students who are doing the Great Bikes Company (GBI) case study. It is well written and gives the students solid background about the company that we are working on in-class in the ERP case studies. I should be requied for all entry level SAP ERP/ECC courses in all universities affiliated with the SAP University Alliance at the bachelor's level.  Dr. Berg
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These guys know what they are writing about.  Very easy read but covers a pretty complex subject.  Any just getting started in SharePoint would benefit greatly by reading this book.  I have been working in this area for years and still found the book very useful and full of insight that I can share with my clients.  Really impressed with this production, I'll definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to setup SharePoint for true ECM. You could save your company a ton of money and frustration by reading this book before starting your SharePoint Journey.
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Begin'ers + Mid Lvls Using SQL Svr 2K-- Get this book!!!

...Have experience with programming langs. like c++, java, vb, c# (and other procedural and OOP langs.)?  Having trouble transitioning from procedural and OOP langs to set/list based T-SQL?  Get this book.

This book is great.  Plenty of explanations of T-SQL concepts.  The author is a good writter.  Many thanks to the author and publisher for putting the entire book on the CDROM as a PDF file.  Now I can take the book with me without the extra weight.  I have it on my laptop.  I will be studying for my 1st SQL exam in two months, but in the mean time I'm able to finish my DB project at work now.

I bought it because I wanted to be able to write stored proc's., user defined functions, sub-queries, DTS packages, and learn how to schedule jobs in SQL Server.  Also I needed some well explained examples of creative uses of select statements and sub-queries.  The author delivers.  For example, turning a single column in a table into a comma separate value list (CSV list).  Which is often used with look-up tables used to populate a drop-down list or multi-select list.

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DECLARE @strValue VARCHAR(30)

SET @strValue = ''

SELECT @strValue = @strValue + tbl_Cities. CityName ','

FROM tbl_Cities

Result is like... "New York City,Chicago,Miami,Dallas"

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There is another book that is recommended/hailed as the best T-SQL book, but this book will get you up and running fast and offers more than just T-SQL...  plenty of SQL Server admin content and practice advice that is used in the real world.
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I could write 10 pages about why I love this sysem but instead, I will direct you to their online videos and website.  The price here is the best you'll find and the system is super easy to set up and monitor.  I love the fact that there are NO CONTRACTS, cancel anytime and system is expandable to cover more windows, doors, motion sensors, CO2 detection and water sensors.  Its a GREAT product, super user friendly and super reliable.  I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone and I've already bought it again.  The first one was for a rental house and the new owner liked it so much that he bought it from me as part of the sale.
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It's good to know there is a book available which covers SP1 for VMM and Windows Server 2012. Also App Controller, SCOM and the integration with VMM are discussed. Since it's written by a person with much knowledge and experience it contains tons of good hands-on information based on real life experience. This book should be on the shelf of every VMM engineer and administrator. Since it contains good information about VMM architecture, design and deployment as well this book is recommended for IT architects.
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I don't have goglobal_2000's experience with XML. (I probably don't have his tenacity either, but let's not get personal.) So I don't know if his criticism is on-point or completely made up. But I think highly enough of Que Publishing's "Using" series in general - and the Word titles in particular - to want to post some praise of its broader merits.
I have perused pretty much every Word instruction manual on the market, and this is the one I'd go with. Most importantly, it is *extremely* comprehensive. Speaking personally, I can figure out how to cut-and-paste for myself. It's programming macros and the other scarily powerful features at the far edges of Microsoft-space that I need my hand held with, and Camarda does it nicely. But as thick as this volume is, it's all muscle - no bad jokes, no time wasting.
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This is an excellent product for developers who work from home. I has all the SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition features. You can't use it for production but you can develop all your database, queries, stored procedures, SSRS projects, etc and transfer it to your clients production server.  You can't beat this deal!
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This review was written by a Certfied SAP Solution Consultant for Netweaver BI 7.0 with 8 years of hands-on-exoerience with SAP BW and a total of 14 years of SAP-Experience.

I bought this book to find information on the connection between SAP BW and its new front-end reporting tool BusinessObjects (BO), that is going to replace the older Business-Explorer product family, even though SAP guarantees another 7-year-support for the Business Explorer. As I have no hands-on experience with BO yet, as I have not finished this book yet, my review must necessarily be a careful one.

There are 3 alternative books on the topic:
(1) This book
(2) Mr Hilgeforts previous book, published 1 year ago
(3) A german publcation by Mr. Eggers et. al.
I bought this book, because I prefer books written by 1 author to books written by 5 authors, and because an earlier book by Mr. Eggers
on SAP BW 3.1 did contain serious errors.

Mr Hilgefort writes in a clear style, and there are many pictures and hands-on-examples in his book. Therefore I do recommend it. However, dear Ingo could not resist the temptation to use a large letter type and lots of blank space, in order to maximize pages (and his income).
The total price of the book is fair.

If You consider buying this book, check this list :
(1) Are You already an expert on SAP BW ? If not, this advanced text is not for You. There are other books for novices.
(2) If Your company has not bought BO yet, study the old Business Explorer (BEx) first. BEx is better than its reputation, most customers do not know about its full functionality, and the deadline for the end of support is 7 years off.
(3) Be aware, that SAP have changed their policy on SAP BW a dozen times without prior notice, that even BO may disappear overnight, and
that nicer pictures in a frontend tool are no substitute for a missing corporate strategy, defective planning of business units, or a lousy
SAP BW implementation. The current SAP BW-Release is something of a
hybrid, caught between BW 3.5 and a future Release, that is going to overthrow the old staging process, that You must still use for external hierarchies etc. Nobody knows, how this is going to affect BO.
(4) Hilgeforts next book on this topic will be published in march 2010.
Any book on this topic may be out of date, before You have finished it.
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This book, as well as Vol. 1, has made life as a developer much much easier and more productive.  I am involved with the design, implementation and integration of distributed real-time embedded systems.  One day a co-worker and I were doing some debugging of our application code and were having some difficulty.  We then reminded ourselves that the particular system we were working on was a distributed, heterogeneous, embedded, real-time, multithreaded, object-oriented, C++,  web-enabled  application.  Each of the previous modifiers by themselves can make a project difficult, but throw them all together and you have an adventure on your hands.  We needed the information in this book to succeed.
Following the information in the book, we were able to easily hook our application code to these frameworks. After that point, the debugging we had to do was in our problem-domain application code.  The ACE frameworks we were using under the hood were working perfectly and allowed us to concentrate our efforts on our specific application.  We were very happy that much of the difficult work had been done by others and was now documented in a book such as this.  The information in this book gives you the tools and frameworks you need to tackle projects like this and succeed in a timeframe that allows you to be competitive.
In one of our projects we had a need for an event demultiplexing/dispatching mechanism. We were able to use the Reactor and Acceptor/Connector framework  implementations described in detail in this book to solve our problem.  The book describes very clearly how to use and extend these frameworks.  In a different part of the project we needed a similar mechanism but based on Win32 events as opposed the select call.  We found exactly what we were looking for described in the book, the WFMO reactor implementation.  In very short order, we were able to have our application up and running.  Shortly thereafter, we had to add some concurrency capabilities to some parts of our application.  We were able to immediately apply the ACE Task framework as described in the book.  Using the information in the book, we were not only able to use the frameworks, but also understand how they worked and why they worked that way.  Folks, including ourselves, were very surprised at how quickly these systems came together.
The book is very clearly written and includes many source code examples and applications, UML diagrams as well as detailed sidebars describing how to handle specific corner cases that you may encounter.
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The content is a well researched and comprehensive look at financial reporting, presented in a concise way which will appeal to functional technical and project managers alike. This is one of the first books I have read in my 20 years SAP consulting career which kept my attention from start to finish. This book is certainly good value and a recommended read for all current and future SAP guru's.
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For years it seems like I've heard about SAP being the complete antithesis of Silicon Valley/ US headquartered giants while at the same time earning almost as much money. Knowing this about SAP, I decided it was time to look into it. "SAP Nation" appears to blend a few things that I find very desirable into one book.
First, its written by an independent observerVinnie Mirchandani, ex Gartner and publishing one of the most respected and widely read blogs  and in particular, followed by the  CEOs and CIOs on the happenings in the enterprise software world. The vast majority of the book seems to portray SAP in balanced light, but contains quips that allow the reader to see where all the SAP detractors might have a point.  Second, if you read this book soon, the information will be more practical than books that seem to focus on interesting, but outdated info about the companies products or strategies.
The book captures all significant developments that have happened in SAP world, most notably in this century, examines very diligently the voice of the customer. Two things stand out among the range of issues covered. The twenty five case studies and their variety rooted on different contextual needs and the sizing of the SAP economy stand out as key insights. In fact the book and the table of contents has the word Customer repeating so many times  so focused on capturing the customer perspective, not often done so rigorously in the enterprise software world.
If you want a book that puts SAP in a good light while displaying its bad side at times and to hear mostly about SAP, arguably among the worlds largest enterprise software company, covered through incisive analysis and painstaking research- then, this is the book. Read it! PS I loved it.