SAP NetWeaver for Dummies 1st Edition

This is the first "for Dummies" book I have read and I was very pleased. The authors did an excellent job explaining all of the elements of SAP NetWeaver and how they inter-relate. As a business executive trying to get my arms around the technology, this was exactly what I needed. It will be valuable reference for the future, as well.

If you have time to wade through all the jokey junk that's supposed to make it interesting, because you can't concentrate on a single concept for more than one sentence at a time without comic relief in the middle of it, by all means, buy this book, you are its target. What a waste, I'm really annoyed that I can't return it.

In the sense that it fills up to its title: it's not meant to provide a real indepth insight on technical aspects of a SAP technology or product, but it does give the non-SAP expert a relatively reasonable insight in the SAP NetWeaver proposition and platform/landscape. A minor point is that it already on some aspect outdated, as appearing in 2004. The global architectural ideas of SAP behind the NetWeaver platform however still remain.

Miss SAP but all are same

A thorough detailed read with a lot of good detail about the process and SAP itself. Good to read in conjunction with other SAP books to broaden you knowledge base.

While true the author hits more on what rather than 'how', this is one of those books every sap project manager and technical team member should have, if not just so we can all speak the same language. No, it's not an implementation book (pick up Anderson's SAP planning/best practices book). And no, it's by no means a guide for administrators (see Burleson, Hernandez, or Liane Will's books, among others). It's more important, in that its the consistent foundation you can all build upon.

Came to know major components of sap net weaver in a short time. I recommend lot of diagram and real life example to correlate things better.

I got this book to get myself more educated on what SAP Netweaver is all about. I've been doing SAP consulting for over ten years but, like others, feel like I'm not up-to-date with the latest SAP Technologies and products.After carrying this book around with me for over two months, I'm still not done with it. This is because I keep on getting irritated when I read this book and then I put it down. And I'm not easily irritated. I think I'm at the point where I'm going to put it in a box (with many other books that I DID read) and read something else instead. This book is just wasting my time.Here's my problems with this book:1. The writers try to be funny/entertaining all the time. I do like humor, but they do it way, way too much and they are not funny at all.2. Some of the things they discuss are simple, basic, worthless information that any IT person knows.3. They make Netweaver seem easy, all-good and the future of IT. I love SAP and I think Netweaver is probably a good platform. But I think this book is overselling it and making unproven claims that may mislead less-experienced people.This book could have been good if the (useful) content was offered in a different way. Some suggestions if a second edition materializes.1. Don't try to be funny. Just present the material.2. Leave out all the unnecessary, useless information. You're not obligated to go over 400 pages. I'd prefer to read a thinner book with just the relevant information.I don't always give the lowest rating for things I don't like. And this book does have some useful information here and there. But the presentation is just so terrible to me that it makes whatever good it has worthless.