Andreas Vogel Boeken

SAP is the world's leading provider of ERP software and services, with worldwide revenue in 2004 of $9.7 billion and a 57 percent market share among major business application providers; it is one of the world's largest software companies overall ERP is a flexible, open technology platform that helps businesses run more efficiently (and profitably) by providing integrated management of key operations and supply chains Written for IT professionals who find it hard to get through SAP's complex documentation, our book demonstrates how ERP can cut costs, provides a clear overview of how the ESA (enterprise service architecture) model affects ERP, and shows how to implement the new ERP in the real world Topics covered include reducing the cost of an existing IT backbone, using the new ERP to address a company's pain points and challenges, and proving the value of ERP through ROI (return on investment) and TCO (total cost of ownership) studies

A complete hands-on guide to programming with the powerful new distributed object standards.If you want to take advantage of the bold new generation of object monitor technologies, you need to understand the underlying distributed object and transactional models. This book gets you quickly up and running with the essential knowledge and skills you need to program transactions. In particular, the book covers the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Java Transaction Service (JTS), and Object Transaction Service (OTS) specifications.The book explains all three specifications and includes design patterns as well as substantial real-world programming examples. Although all sample code is implemented with Inprise Applications Server, it is strictly written to the applicable specifications and is fully portable across specification-compliant EJB containers and vendors.On the companion Web site you'll find.* Sample code.* OTS and EJB updates.