- Copyright
- Foreword: Planning an SAP Deployment
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Preparing for Your mySAP Business Suite Implementation
- Introduction to SAP Implementation Planning
- What an SAP Project Looks Like
- In the Beginning
- Tactical Reasons for Implementing SAP
- Strategic “Big Picture” Goals of Implementing mySAP.com
- Beware—When SAP Projects Are Less Than Successful
- Setting the Stage for a Successful Implementation
- The Structure and Role of the Steering Committee
- Moving Beyond the “Napkin” Plan
- Tools and Techniques
- Summary
- Crafting Your mySAP Solution Vision
- Designing and Initially Staffing the SAP Technical Support Organization (TSO)
- Overview—What Is an SAP Infrastructure TSO?
- TSO Overview—Roles and Responsibilities
- Organizational Chart Approaches in the Real World
- Recruiting the Core TSO Leads
- Consultants Versus Training Your Own Internal Resources
- Revising the SAP Infrastructure Implementation Budget
- Tools and Techniques
- Summary
- Getting Started—Sizing and Blueprinting
- Total Cost of Ownership Analysis in Preparation for Sizing
- Identifying High Availability and Disaster Recovery Requirements
- Introduction to Availability
- Addressing Availability Early in the SAP Project
- Determining Your Required Level of Disaster Tolerance
- Remedying Single Points of Failure in the Stack
- SAP Data Center Infrastructure SPOFs
- SAP Server SPOFs
- Disk Subsystem Single Points of Failure
- Single Points of Failure Inherent in the OS
- SPOFs and the Database Layer
- mySAP.com Single Points of Failure
- SAP General Availability and DR Best Practices
- A Final Look at the SAP System Landscape
- Tools and Techniques
- Summary
- Sizing: Engaging the SAP Solution Stack Vendors
- Overview—The Sizing and Blueprinting Process
- General Sizing Best Practices and Approaches
- Preparing for the SAP Sizing Process
- SAP Hardware, OS, and Database Sizing
- Sizing Considerations for mySAP Components
- Selecting Your SAP Solution Stack Partners
- Executing the SAP Infrastructure Planning Sessions
- Tools and Techniques
- Summary
- Staffing the Technical Support Organization
- Critical SAP Training Requirements
- Developing the SAP Data Center
- Performing mySAP.com Component Installations
- Implementation Methodologies for SAP Installations
- Rounding Out Your SAP System Landscape
- Leveraging Installation Documentation, Tools, and Approaches
- Installing Your mySAP-Enabling Foundation—NetWeaver
- Installation Details for mySAP Components
- Addressing General mySAP Post-Installation Tasks
- Tools and Techniques
- Summary
- Rounding Out Support for SAP
- Moving into SAP Functional Development
- Preparing the Production Environment
- Systems and Stress Testing
- Introduction—Preparing for Production Stress Testing
- System-Level Stress Testing and Pre-Tuning
- Key SAP Stress-Testing Considerations
- How to Test mySAP Components
- Script Development and Preparation in the Real World
- Stress Test Execution During “Test Week”
- Additional Stress-Testing Goals
- Extracting the Last Drop of Value out of Testing
- Lessons Learned in the Real World
- Tools and Techniques
- Summary
- Preparing for SAP Go-Live
- Systems and Stress Testing
Tools and Techniques
On the Planning CD, I have enclosed the organization charts illustrated in this chapter, plus the other figures. I have also included the SAP Help Desk sample questions and scenarios discussed earlier, a sample excerpt from a recent SAP Comparative Analysis, and a few new job descriptions.
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