SAP BW: A Step-by-Step Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide PAP/CDR Edition

I am an ABAPer, working on a BW project, and have access to BW system to carryout some self-study. I needed some reference to guide me through various aspects of BW technical tasks.Having read some reviews and browsing many of the BW books in the market, I felt that this book is the one I need. I didn't want the theory behind data warehousing. I needed to know what each of those BW objects are, how they are related, and how to create them.I am somewhat satisfied with the book as far as what I wanted to learn right now. However, I think much more could have been done. Surprisingly, I don't see any other book on BW that shows 'how to.'The CD that comes with the book is a joke. Completely worthless to me.If you have gone through BW training, this book may not be of much use to you. If you can find some other book that deals with fundamental technical aspects of BW, you might want to consider that. If you have nothing to refer to, you will be OK in purchasing this book.

The quality and que materials is so good, meets the specifications of the website and sending fulfilled in time. I am satisfied with my purchase.

The book is good if you need the basics; the book is not very detailed. Look for other books if you can

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It is very good book to start with to understand SAP BW, even though it was written a while back.

I am a SAP Consultant for FICO for the last few years and I have experience in Data Warehousing projects. Now I have entered into the world of SAP-BIW, with my past experience in DW. I am involved currently in a SAP-BIW project.SAP- BIW has a Back End called 'Administrator Work Bench', which is all about Data Modelling, Data Targets which leads Info cubes, Info source and Data source. The back end process is all about gathering data from the data sources and put them in BIW thru R/3. The Front End is called 'Business Explorer' and this helps in viewing the data gathered for decision processing.Critical points about the Book: The Book deals only in Back End processes and it does not teach about Front End, except querying (chapter 5). To know about Front End extensivley, one has to read "SAP BW Reporting Made Easy, 2.0B/2.1C" by SAP Labs Inc. Simplification Group.Further even in Back End, it is not giving any info abt data modelling or data designing. It merely teaches how to transfer the data from Data source to BIW thru R/3. Regret that, it is not covering complicated transfers. This book is in-complete in many aspects. In other words, the book teaches the core functions required from BIW Consultant for handling the Back end processes.Positive points: Authors deserve appreciation for having written a book needed in the crucial time, since SAP- BIW is getting implemented in many places. The book is concise and clear in whatever topics they deal with.I should also say that this book can be useful from beginners to intermediate level. Beginners mean, those who have prior experince in SAP or in Data Warehousing but new to SAP- BIW.Thanks for reading.

The subtitle of this book should be A Step-by ... Guide. The chapters methodically detail the steps in creating the BW objects, with ample use of screenshots. However, some steps are neglected, and then data that you haven't entered is refered to in later steps. The data is easily entered by backing up and repeating the steps you've done in the previous sections and making up sample data, but there's no way that anyone followed the steps as written successfully. Poor QA here. That said, for someone looking for a book that will help them get a sample cube and queries running quickly, this is the book.

Disappointing in both structure and content; surprising thing, cosidering that the authors come with substantial credentials.It is more of an end-user self-training package targeting the individuals that want to memorize and troubleshoot their way through the setup rather that providing a step-by-step business case driven scenario.Unfortunately the release that make the subject of the book is already obsolete (well, this is not authors' fault).The CD-ROM attached to it is of little if any use;

Good Guide

this book is excellent finally a straight talking book that you can use as a reference guide it does jump over a few data aspects with no detail but overall best buy so far

The book helped me a lot in understand the concepts of BW.Thanks Amazon for hold such products in your shopping cart. :)

Got what I ordered and reasonable price

Good helps,step by step examplesperfect to discover SAP BWDo not replace of course a complete training but allow a tour in the application to understand of it works