SAP: An Executive?s Comprehensive Guide

Crucial Help for Getting the Most from Today's Information Systems Technology Deciding what type of information systems your company will need to stay competitive into the twenty-first century is a highly complex and risky exercise. SAP: An Executive's Comprehensive Guide provides the information you need to assess your options realistically and make the most informed decisions possible. Written by a team of business, financial, and information systems professionals who have extensive experience with SAP system implementations at Fortune 500 companies, this book: * Explores the strategic role of client/server enterprise computing now and in the next century * Helps you to evaluate your company's long-term IS requirements * Offers an impartial look at SAP R/3 strengths and weaknesses * Outlines the costs and benefits involved in implementing SAP R/3 * Helps you decide whether SAP R/3 is right for your organization * Shows you how to make SAP R/3 an integral part of process redesign * Covers all key technical SAP aspects of concern to IS professionals Foreword by Herbert G. Vinnicombe, CIO of Lucent Technologies. Written by members of Coopers & Lybrand, L.L.C. who have worked to implement integrated software offered by Systems, Applications and Products (SAP), in particular SAP R/3 software, within Fortune 500 companies. Jacket design by David Levy. xxi+282 pages. Although focused on SAP software, considerations are universal regardless of brand. Hardcover has blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, in an as new, unclipped DJ. Interior is tight, clean and unmarked. As new. Copyright 1998. Printed on acid-free paper in U.S.A. Print-line indicates from 2nd printing. ISBN: 0-471-24992-0. LCCN: 97-51809. No MSR. …