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Fifth Edition

Michael Missbach
George Anderson

800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46240 USA

Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition

Copyright 2016 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33740-6
ISBN-10: 0-672-33740-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015910544
Printed in the United States of America
First Printing September 2015

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Dr. Michael Missbach, Manager of the Cisco SAP Competence Center, focuses on best practices for SAP HANA and other mission-critical applications in public and private cloud scenarios. Earlier, he worked as IT Superintendent for ALCOA. He has also written books on SAP hardware, SAP system operation, adaptive SAP infrastructures, SAP on Windows, and SAP on the cloud.

Dr. George Anderson, senior architect and program manager for Microsoft Services, specializes in designing and deploying mission-critical SAP and Microsoft Dynamics solutions. A certified SAP technical consultant, PMI PMP, and Six Sigma black belt, he has also written books on SAP implementation, performance testing, and project management.

This book is the product of voluntary work completed over many nights, weekends, and airplane flights. We wish to extend a special thank you to all of our customers and colleagues who selflessly provided so much help in the form of insight, tips, contributions, reviews, and constructive criticism. Without their support, we would not have been able to write this book.

In particular, we would like to call out the following people: Sean Donaldson and Len Landale from secure-24 and Steffi Dnnebier from Grand-consult for their contributions to the topic of systems management; Gerhard Lausser for his insights on Nagios; Antonie Katschinsky from Cap Gemini for much of the introduction on simplified finance; Cameron Gardiner from Microsoft for his deep expertise around SAP and the cloud; and Andreas Jenzer, Jeff Davis, Sebastian Lenz, and Stefan Schiele for their proofreading and SAP application and technical insight. The practical experience of all of our advisors added much of the enduring value of this book, and their support was a great source of encouragement.

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Now that weve covered the basics of SAP and what it means The world of SAP and our world in general have gone through major upheavals in the last few years, and I was excited to share with SAPlings and veterans alike just how much had changed. This is how George Anderson started the introduction of the 4th edition of this book in 2011. And it reflects exactly how I felt when he and Sams asked me to take over as the primary author for this newest edition: thrilled! And honored as well. Seriously! Actually, George and I shared the work to rewrite and edit this 5th edition. We introduced many more screen shots and other graphics, and revised the format while preserving the most teachable aspects of earlier editions.