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ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP

Arvind Nagpal, Gareth De Bruyn, Robert Lyfareff

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Total reviews: 42 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

ALE, EDI, & IDoc Technologies for SAP is the first authoritative book on the market covering SAP's hottest technologies. Readers learn the concepts behind these technologies, use this knowledge to configure standard ALE and EDI scenarios, and develop custom scenarios by extending or developing new IDocs for different business situations. Prima Tech's expert SAP author covers every detail of the ALE and EDI planning and implementation stages, including all technical and business issues.

Whether readers seek to enter the dynamic ALE/EDI market or wish to expand their knowledge in an environment they currently work in, they'll benefit from the programming examples, system configuration strategies, and testing and troubleshooting techniques included in this comprehensive, authoritative guide.

The author earned his Masters degree in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems at North Carolina State University and has over four years' experience in SAP R/3 cross-application technologies. He has consulted for several Fortune 50 companies and has been hired by SAP on several occasions to teach SAP's ALE, EDI, IDoc, and workflow courses. His students think very highly of him as an instructor.

Apple Pro Training Series: Xsan Quick-Reference Guide (Apple Pro Training)

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Not bad as a reference 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is very good for anyone that want's to get started with Xsan. It explains all the terminology associated with Xsan such as MDC, RAID types and fiber terminologies and technologies. This is a very small book (about 130 pages with a lot of pictures) so don't expect this to be the answer to everything Xsan. But this does make a good reference for anyone that has to support Xsans such as consultants because it has some handy charts that show you how much bandwidth you need for a certain video format and how many XRaids you would need to achieve that bandwidth. It also has a good command line chapter that serves as a glorified man page.

At this time, this is the only printed materials for Xsan besides for the books you can get from Apple Training.

Editorial Review:

Apple’s exciting new enterprise-class file system offers high-speed access to centralized shared data. This handy booklet provides invaluable setup, configuration, and troubleshooting tips. Designed as a reference, you'll find clear explanations of everything from multiple-seat topologies to working with Xsan Admin software, plus useful illustrations and schematic diagrams. A must for every Xsan installation.

Network Printing: Building Print Services on Heterogeneous Networks

Matthew Gast, Todd Radermacher

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Editorial Review:

Paperless office, paperless schmoffice: if you can't get your document to look right on paper, you might as well not waste time creating it at all. For administrators, printing across a local area network (LAN) was hard enough when everyone was running the same operating system. Now, with at least three widespread versions of Windows, several Mac OS flavors, and Linux servers making inroads all the time, printing can be hairier than ever. Network Printing aims to clarify the mechanisms by which various operating systems--particularly Unix variants--speak to one another about printing matters. It also seeks to explain the procedures that administrators need to follow to get Macs and Windows machines printing on Unix and Linux boxes via Samba. Though it would be nice to see a section on getting Macs to print to Windows printers and vice versa, this book meets its goal.

In the section on Unix printing, all the popular print daemons are explained, including lp, lpr, lpd, and LPRng, relying heavily (and helpfully) on command-line listings. The Samba section on how to install Samba 2.0.6 under Unix and Linux and exercise its important commands is more procedural. Later you learn how to hook up Macs, Windows machines, and NetWare servers to Samba-enabled print servers. --David Wall

Topics covered: Printing over a network, with emphasis on Unix, Linux, Samba, and the means by which they connect to computers running Windows, Mac OS, and NetWare. Popular Unix print utilities are documented, plus how to install Samba and open its services to a heterogeneous network.

What Every Business Needs to Know About SAP (Prima Tech's SAP Book Series)

Lisa Ramsay Dietz

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An SAP Fairy Tale - Complete with deus ex machina 1 out of 5 stars.
17 of 19 people found this review helpful.

This book is an homage to SAP, first, and consultants, second.

According to the fairy tale included as a "real world example" of an SAP implementation, when your implementation gets rough, all you need to do is throw more money and consultants at it because the consultants know best. If you just turn your company over to the knowledgeable consultants, and don't worry about the bill, everything will work out fine.

The book does not include any detailed information about how the system works. It does not include any information about how to deal with interfaces or data conversion or any discussion of customizations and modifications. It does not include any discussion of any of the widely publicized failed SAP implementations and why they went wrong.

Basically, the book tells you the history of SAP (as a software and as a company), gives you a high level fairy tale (an SAP version of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" where the business is suffering during the SAP implementation and the consultants magically come in and solve all the problems and the company lives happily ever after), and then goes on to say that SAP is so good that even when the author had criticisms about the software, it was just because she wasn't taking a broad enough view of how the SAP software was evolving, and once she talked to the nice developers at SAP, they showed her why what they were doing was right.

The bottom line from this book:

1) SAP good 2) Consultants wise and helpful

For more depth, you'll have to go somewhere else.

Editorial Review:

This book helps executives and managers break through the mystery of an SAP implementation. Topics covered include the SAP marketplace, the benefits of implementing SAP and how it affects a company as a whole, budgeting for the transition, assembling an SAP project team, working with implementation partners and consultants, and the cost of a successful implementation. Based on the field experience of a Fortune 50 consultant, this book walks readers through the decision to choose SAP, provides executives with realistic expectations for the implementation process, and shares insight into the future of SAP.

Sap R/3 Ale & Edi Technologies (Sap Technical Expert Series)

Rajeev Kasturi

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Editorial Review:

Targeted at the SAP R/3 developer, SAP R/3 ALE and EDI Technologies provides working examples of using and customizing this industrial-strength, enterprise-level package.

The book begins with a quick introduction to Application Linking Enabling (ALE) and the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in the SAP R/3 package. By using SAP tools, ALE/EDI developers can query data, move it around within distributed systems, and even create reports with third-party tools. The powerful SAP R/3 package contains data fields that can automate virtually any manufacturing or business scenario. The author introduces Intermediate DOCuments (IDOCs), which provide message-based delivery of data.

Further sections investigate master data distribution (which involves requesting IDOC for particular fields). Throughout the book, the author enumerates the steps required within SAP R/3 to generate data (including screen shots of the R/3 tool at work). He also covers both outbound and inbound processing and how to customize IDOC messages. (This can be done to improve performance, for instance.)

Later the book turns to EDI and explains how to generate electronic reports (such as invoices), as well as how to submit data into R/3 via EDI. The book offers tips and techniques for optimizing data processing within distributed systems and features an appendix listing R/3 message codes and IDOC types (which all go by short mnemonic codes).

Written for the reader who already understands the basics of SAP R/3 but wants to learn more, this book can fill a useful niche for the enterprise developer who wants to see this powerful package at work. --Richard Dragan

Macs on the Go

John Tollett, Robin Williams

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Now that you have a Mac laptop, you have everything
you need to be a Road Warrior—a mobile computing
expert. Grab your Mac laptop and let John and Robin
show you how to realize the full potential of mobile
computing. Be productive, be creative, or just have a
lot of fun while you’re on the go! Whether you’re
traveling from one room to the other, from home to
office, or even to another country, Macs on the Go!
shows you how to take advantage of the power of
mobility.

You’ll learn how to:
- Modify your Network settings for connectivity.
- Use the Mac’s built-in software to keep in touch.
- Receive and send email from almost anywhere
in the world.
- Customize Network settings.
- Use iChat to video conference or audio chat
while on the go.
- Keep in touch using .Mac Group pages or iWeb
for blogs, photo pages, and movie pages.
- Take advantage of cool .Mac account features.

And you’ll learn about:
- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology.
- Wireless connections and Hotspots.
- Using a mobile phone to connect to the Internet.
- File sharing while on the go.
- Advanced Road Warrior tips.

iMovie 2: The Missing Manual

David Pogue

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Macintosh products are known for being easy to use, and deservedly so. You can muddle your way through pretty much any Mac OS program, and make it do what it's supposed to, without a manual or the online help. The latest version of the video-editing software for Mac OS, iMovie 2, is no exception, but David Pogue delivers real value in iMovie 2: The Missing Manual. Composed in Pogue's trademark friendly style, the book contains enough excellently written explanations and examples to significantly flatten the iMovie 2 learning curve, so it's a pleasure to read, bookmark, and refer back to.

For an example of how this book is technically precise in an engaging way, consider how it explains the purpose of the QT Margins check box, which has to do with compensating for a margin-cropping characteristic of televisions. Pogue proposes an equivalent label: "'QT Margins' means 'Assume this movie will be shown as a QuickTime movie, and therefore won't have chopped-off margins.'" The meaning of a fairly cryptic label becomes absolutely obvious.

Further kudos go to the book's designers for their liberal inclusion of illustrations. Where multiple frames are needed to illustrate a point, they're included. Tips and notes serve a valuable purpose, and are likely to introduce even seasoned iMovie editors to features they've missed on their own. --David Wall

Topics covered: Capturing video with a camera, then editing it on the Mac to include appealing transitions, effects, titling, and audio. The process of exporting edited video from the computer (such as for videotape or Web publishing).

iChat AV 2 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Jeff Carlson

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If you thought instant messaging was cool, wait 'til you see iChat AV! By adding audio and video to the mix, Apple has taken iChat into the Jetsons-style future; this guide promises to get you there with it. With access to more than 100 million AOL Instant Messenger and Mac users, iChat AV ensures that you get face time with friends and family, wherever they are. This friendly, task-based guide gets you up and running fast as it covers the basics of setting up and working with iChat: creating your Buddy List, sending instant messages, initiating audio and video chats, configuring your FireWire Webcam, creating chat rooms, transferring files, and more. You'll also learn how to take advantage of Mac OS X's Mail and Address Book applications, which work seamlessly with iChat. Simple step-by-step instructions peppered with hundreds of screen shots and loads of time-saving tips step you through each iChat AV task--until with veteran author Jeff Carlson's help, you've mastered them all!

The Wireless Networking Starter Kit

Adam Engst, Glenn Fleishman

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Once authors Adam C. Engst and Glenn Fleishman discovered that the freedom of a wireless network meant they could access the Internet from bed, the living room, the coffee house down the street, most major airports, and even some city parks, there was no going back to the days of clumsy wired networks. Now they¿re here to share their knowledge in the new book The Wireless Networking Starter Kit Whether you¿re a Mac or PC user, if you¿re ready to embrace the freedom of wireless, this is the place to start. In these pages youst about the underpinnings of wireless technology and network basics before getting down to the real business at hand: setting up, configuring, and maintaining a wireless network. Step-by-step instructions delivered in easily digestible chunks make it easy to get your own network humming. Along the way youut security, sharing Internet connections among multiple computers, bridging two Ethernet networks, and more. And if you do run into trouble, thereoubleshooting guide to answer your questions. If you have a couple of computers and the desire to connect them, youything you need to do so here.

Internet Security for Your Macintosh: A Guide for the Rest of Us

Alan B. Oppenheimer, Charles Whitaker

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Another "Must Have" Mac Computer Book 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 14 people found this review helpful.

Internet Security for the Macintosh - A Guide for the Rest of Us is I believe a "Must Have" Computer Manual, alongside David Pouges "Missing Manual" and Steve Schwartz "Internet Explorer for Macintosh" for every serious Mac Users reference library

The authors, Oppenheimer and Whittaker come impeccably credentialed and their expertise as filtered by joint authorship has clearly made use of their backgrounds with measured and pragmatic effective advice taking you carefully through security requirements from the bottom up. One undeniable advantage in this respect is that they also currently provide ISP services so they know what the real world is about and it shines through.

In addition the timing of the publication is excellent.

Whilst it is Mac specific it could well be considered an essential basic Internet Security Manual for PC Users as well.

The Manual of around 400 pages and 18 chapters is broken down into four sections 1. General Security Principles 2. Securing Internet Services 3. Enhancing Overall Security and 4. Advanced Topics.

The message comes through. If you don't get the basics right even if you apply the advanced advice there may be holes in your system (Microsoft where have we experienced this before!)

There are chapters on Viruses, Personal Firewalls, Home Networking, Securing Mac OS X and an intriguing - Just say no to FTP!

Here I believe in the one place is pragmatic and sensible advice which if followed will make your computer far less vulnerable to Villains, Hackers and Mischief Makers, particularly now that the migration to Cable, ADSL and other broadband DSL technologies leave us a lot more vulnerable than with dial up connections.

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Editorial Review:

Within the past few years, permanent connections to the Internet (cable modems, DSL) and peer-to-peer networking (such as Napster) have become popular with home users, but these technological advances open up your computer to security risks. While there are many books available on Internet and network security, there are currently no books available on personal Macintosh security for home users written for both Mac OS 9 and OS X. Macintosh Internet Security: A Guide to Securing your Mac on the Internet fills this void with a home user guide to the essentials of Macintosh security. From viruses and personal firewalls, to analyzing and responding to security threats, Macintosh Internet Security leads beginner and advanced Macintosh users through the basics of personal Macintosh security.