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Upgrading SAP: The Comprehensive Guide

There’s more to upgrading your SAP system than just pressing a button. Here’s the next-best thing: a comprehensive guide to the upgrade process. You’ll understand project planning and processes, how to use upgrade tools in ABAP and Java systems, and how to upgrade individual products like SAP Solution Manager, SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP PI and SAP PO, and more. Finally, everything you need to perform successful SAP upgrades!

  • Master the SAP upgrade process, from project management to technical steps
  • Learn how to perform AS ABAP and Java upgrades: PREPARE, SAPup, and more
  • Find out what you need to know for upgrading individual SAP components

What You Will Learn?

Project Planning

Don’t embark on your upgrade journey unprepared. Understand how to plan for the project, and get to know the system architecture, upgrade tools, and strategies that you’ll need to be successful.

Upgrade Processes

Find the steps you’ll need to upgrade Java and ABAP systems, modify SAP objects, and learn how to use the right tools for these processes.

Upgrading SAP Components

Each SAP component has a unique flavor. Get what you need to upgrade each of the major components, including SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Process Integration, and more.

Book’s Highlights

  • SAP project planning
  • Technical planning
  • ABAP and Java upgrades
  • SAP Enterprise Portal upgrades
  • SAP Solution Manager upgrades
  • SAP BW upgrades
  • SAP SCM upgrades
  • SAP CRM upgrades
  • SAP SCM upgrades
  • Software Update Manager (SUM)

About the Author of This SAP BASIS Book

Mark Mergaerts is a principal technical consultant working for Logos Consulting, a Belgian consulting company that focuses exclusively on SAP technology (BC). Before that, he worked for SAP Belgium between 1995 and 2011, giving him almost 20 years of SAP BC experience. His activities concentrate on system administration, database management, performance, upgrades (he has been upgrading SAP since the days of release 2.1), and platform and Unicode migrations. He is the co-author with Bert Vanstechelman of the SAP OS/DB Migration Project Guide and mySAP ERP Upgrade Project Guide and of the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Upgrade Guide, the first edition of the present book.

Bert Vanstechelman is founder of and principal technical consultant at Logos Consulting, and has more than 20 years of experience in SAP Basis consulting, running all kinds of SAP versions in combination with all possible databases and operating systems supported by SAP. He specializes in platform migrations, SAP release upgrades, and Unicode conversions. Bert is a member of the board of advisors of the SAP Professional Journal. He is also the co-author with Mark Mergaerts of the following SAP PRESS books: the SAP OS/DB Migration Project Guide, the mySAP ERP Upgrade Project Guide, and the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Upgrade Guide. Bert lives near Bruges, Belgium, and is married with three children. Bert can be reached at bert@logosconsulting.be.

Purchase This SAP BASIS Book

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