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SAP Implementation UnleashedA Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP  George W. AndersonCharles D. NilsonTim Rhodes  SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through the entire journey, helping you avoid pain and pitfalls and gain all the benefits of SAP.  The authors introduce start-to-finish business, technical, and project management roadmaps for successful SAP implementation. Then, drawing on their immense experience, they walk you through the entire process of planning and deployment—addressing make-or-break issues and hidden gaps that other guidebooks ignore. You’ll discover how to employ processes, models, and toolsets that help you achieve implementation excellence while systematically reducing cost and business risk. Along the way, you’ll find actionable advice and real-world insight into innovative project management, best-suited leadership, effective load testing, contemporary infrastructure implementation, and more.  George W. Anderson is responsible for providing enterprise applications thought leadership for the EDS/HP office of the CTO. A long-time SAP consultant and PMI-certified project manager, George has authored several best-selling books and enjoys new challenges.  Charles D. Nilson is a senior program manager for EDS/HP and has led many successful SAP implementation teams over the years. He is a PMI PMP and is SAP Partner Academy certified in MM and PP.  Tim Rhodes is a senior SAP technical consultant for EDS/HP and a Basis/infrastructure veteran focused on implementing, migrating, and upgrading SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver solutions. Tim is also an SAP-certified technical consultant, OCP, MCSE, and HP Master ASE.  Detailed Information on How To... Define the business vision driving your implementation, and use it to design your solutionUse TCO techniques to fully understand SAP’s financial impact in your organizationStructure your SAP project management office, business teams, technical support organization, and overall project teamSize, plan, and test your SAP infrastructure to deliver the best performance and availability at the best cost Integrate SAP into an SOA environmentInstall and configure SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver componentsPerform basic functional configuration, testing, and change management activitiesEnable a smooth transition by successfully performing the critical tasks that immediately precede SAP Go-LiveChoose the right mix of tools and applications to test, manage, and monitor SAP Prepare your SAP Operations team for its post-implementation responsibilities  Category: DatabasesCovers: SAPUser Level: Beginner–Intermediate–Advanced

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Co-published with More first-generation students are attending college than ever before, and policy makers agree that increasing their participation in higher education is a matter of priority. Despite this, there is no agreed definition about the term, few institutions can quantify how many first-generation students are enrolled, or mistakenly conflate them with low-income students, and many important dimensions to the first-generation student experience remain poorly documented. Few institutions have in place a clear, well-articulated practice for assisting first-generation students to succeed. Given that first-generation students comprise over 40% of incoming freshmen, increasing their retention and graduation rates can dramatically increase an institution’s overall retention and graduation rates, and enhance its image and desirability. It is clearly in every institution’s self-interest to ensure its first-generation students succeed, to identify and count them, and understand how to support them. This book provides high-level administrators with a plan of action for deans to create the awareness necessary for meaningful long-term change, sets out a campus acclimation process, and provides guidelines for the necessary support structures.At the heart of the book are 14 first-person narratives – by first-generation students spanning freshman to graduate years – that help the reader get to grips with the variety of ethnic and economic categories to which they belong. The book concludes by defining 14 key issues that institutions need to address, and offers a course of action for addressing them. This book is intended for everyone who serves these students – faculty, academic advisors, counselors, student affairs professionals, admissions officers, and administrators – and offers a set of best practices for how two- and four-year institutions can improve the success of their first-generation student populations.An ACPA Publication

HIGHLIGHT

Open Source SOA

shows readers how to build state-of-the-art SOA applications

using freely-available open-source technologies.

DESCRIPTION

You can build a world-class SOA infrastructure entirely using popular, and

mature, open-source applications. Unfortunately, the technical documentation

for most open-source projects focuses on a specific product, the big SOA picture.

You're left to your own devices to figure out how to cobble together a full

solution from the various bits. In other words, unless you already know how

Mule and Tuscany work with jBPM, you're stuck.

Open Source SOA shows readers how to build an entire SOA application using

open-source technologies. It shows readers how to apply key ideas like Enterprise

Service Bus (ESB) design and Business Process Management (BPM) and learn

the tools and techniques to implement them effectively.

To pull everything together, the author describes real-life case studies from his

own work to tie together all the principles and practices. These hard-to-find case

studies are pure gold for the reader, as most developers keep these trade secrets

to themselves.

KEY POINTS

• Theory—what SOA really represents

• Enablers—SOA core technologies

• Open-source applications that address the core technology

• Best-of-breed open-source solutions

• Real-life case studies

MARKET INFORMATION

SOA is a fact of life for enterprise developers. Open source technologies have

caught up with—and in many cases, surpassed—their commercial rivals in

terms of power, ease of use, and sophistication. This book shows a Java EE developer

how to apply SOA techniques using the best-of-breed open-sources tools.