SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation

I owe George big time for helping me launch a new career as an SAP Project Planner/coordinator/leader. Between this book and my experience writing software spec's to IEEE standards, I wrote a proposal that got me a 10 month gig planning and coordinating the SAP implementation for an existing client. The material on CD alone is worth 100 times the cost of the book - you get PowerPoint demos, spreadsheets, MS Project plans, and tons of documents that you can modify and present as your own work. Even with an inside edge I never would have been able to write such a credible proposal w/o this book.

My thanks to George for putting together a book that is both detailed and and sactually fun to read. I LOL in every chapter at his customer stories and still manage to learn something. Now if only SAP Press would follow the same approach!

What I especially like is the thoroughness of this book, it is technical and complete and well organized. George Anderson covers everything I believe is important: sizing, system management, training, high availability options and disaster recovery, testing - all technically descriptive but easy to read. And most sap products are covered (WebAS, EP, BW, PLM, CRM, etc). And I have used the book to help me solve questions with new systems we are putting in, especially chapter 5 on total cost of ownrship studies and how to stress test, and used the operations info in chapter 14 too. If your the guy adminsistering your current or new sap systems or a sap systems manager, you'll want this book.

As a long time SAP consultant in Canada and northern US, I've read or looked through most of the technical books covering SAP R/3 and some newer modules. I was intrigued by what seemed to be something different in this book, however, and picked it up just last week. I must say, it is very good. The author's approach is unique, fresh, and an enjoyable read. But I was blown away by the CD. Most book CDs are fairly predictable and less than interesting, much less valuable. Not so with this one though. Instead, George Anderson has included some very compelling documents, excellent (though sometimes too simple) spreadsheets, and 2 very nice project plans, among other excellent objects like pictures, powerpoint files, and more. My hat is off. Well done.