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SAP Implementation (General)

Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide
By: Jose Fajardo, Elfriede Dustin
With companies pouring millions of dollars into SAP R/3 implementation, the question remains whether proper documentation, standards, strategy, and approach are all in place in order to successfully test the components of their SAP system. Designed for SAP managers, consultants, testers, and team leads, Testing SAP R/3 equips companies and SAP professionals to protect their multimillion dollar investment and build their system the right way and with quality.

Written by renowned SAP practitioners, this book reviews testing standards and techniques supported by the Software Engineering Institute, IEEE, and Unifying Modeling Language (UML) that have dominated the landscape for producing software-based applications, providing readers with information for conducting a major SAP testing cycle for either an SAP upgrade or initial SAP installation.

With the advent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies more than ever have the burden of demonstrating that their enterprise resource planning (ERP), financial, inventory, and supply chain systems are properly working. Providing much-needed industry guidance, this thought-provoking guide enables public companies to prove their SAP applications are running correctly and delivers powerful, straightforward, proven testing techniques and approaches for:

Building a system with quality as opposed to merely testing for quality
Adhering to testing practices from SAP's ASAP Roadmap Methodology, IBM's Ascendant Methodology, IEEE standards, and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
Construction of a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) to verify all in-scope requirements
Diagramming processes and requirements with Unifying Modeling Language (UML) notation
Documentation and adherence to test plans and test strategies that are subjected to version control
Inclusion and enforcement of quality assurance standards

A must-read for project managers, test managers, and configuration leads who want to establish a testing framework from the ground up based on industry-established principles, Testing SAP R/3 contains contributions from industry leaders in the fields of SAP testing, test tool automation, and templates to help project managers and test managers establish immediate testing best practices. Its step-by-step discussion covers all aspects of SAP testing from preparation to resolution of defects in order to achieve an efficiently managed SAP system.

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By: George W. Anderson
Everything a company needs to know to plan, organize, and perform an SAP implementation in one book!
Shows the reader how to actually plan an SAP Data Center, install mySAP components, and set up the tools and processes necessary to monitor and manage a productive SAP system. It covers how to perform a Total Cost of Ownership analysis to help refine your SAP Solution Vision, and then how to leverage SAP's technology partners to work through the SAP system landscape sizing process. Staffing the project, from the SAP Steering Committee all the way down to the primary SAP basis and computer operations teams, is covered as well. It also covers building high availability and disaster recoverability into your solutions, addressing critical training required by the SAP support team as well as end users, and how to use SAP-provided and a host of other 3rd party tools to manage your mySAP landscape. Finally, this is the only book that covers in detail how to address both functional and stress testing of your solution prior to going live.
Throughout the book, knowledge and processes are provided that will help you hit the ground running and help you save money. The book is written by an SAP Technical Certified Consultant with seven years of experience in SAP design and implementation who offers tried and proven approaches, scripts, and tools similar to those used by new and existing SAP customer sites. The accompanying CD of documents, presentations, scripts, checklists, and various tools valued at $50,000 saves time and makes the reader productive fast.
Coverage includes notated screen shots of real productive systems; custom checklists, how-to procedures, organization charts that can be leveraged immediately for staffing teams; PowerPoint presentations that can be used by management to sell, present, and provide status updates on their mySAP projects internally; tools, utilities, and XLS spreadsheets used to design, size, and understand SAP system architectures; actual Microsoft Project plans and implementation schedules to get the customer and 3rd party Project Manager's started quickly; and documentation templates and approaches that may be used at once.