EDI Books

I wish all books on sap were this organized and practical.

but where afraid to ask.

If you are new to SAP and the concepts of IDOCS and message types etc, this book is for you !!

Worth having as a reference book on any shelf.

This is one of the best books and by far the most well written in my opinion. It just teaches you ALE,eDI and SAP. I have used this book,I have been a technical team lead in SAP for years and I recommend anyone working on ALE and EDI in my team to read this book at least once. This is money well spent. Just get a used one because this has become very pricy now. I bought my original book for $60 5 years ago and there is still nothing that replaces this book in the market,if you really want to learn EDI and ALE in SAP on your own. You would need access to an SAP system to enjoy the full benefits of this book!

This book is my EDI Bible. Full of handy transactions and SAP delivered functions that will make your job a whole lot easier. Plus it was NOT written by SAP-AG which means it actually makes sense and contains actual examples with step by step instructions. Best SAP book so far

This book is out of print everywhere, but I just brought a brand new one earlier this month. The publisher still have about 20 copies left. Just call THOMSON LEARNING at 1-800-354-9706. Good Luck!

This book is not worth buying at all. the author cleverly uses buzz words and selling tactics that try to make the book look good. I would shop for other SAP books. Dont waste your money on this one.

I found this book to be very well written and very well structured. It is definitely for both beginners and advanced folks in ALE. I like the systematic handling of topcis and the examples. I would say all in all an excellent work. Came in handy for solving many problems. Only expectation is an updated version for 4.6C.

Have you access to the on-line SAP help? If yes, then do not waste your money! If this is your first approach to ALE and EDI, it worths the bucks you'll spend on it. No original ideas, no tricks in this book.

Mr. Kasturi presents the ever confusing world of SAP EDI and ALE in a very simple manner. His penchant for using "honking big images" really helps out as he takes you through the configuration steps required to get ALE/EDI up and running on your SAP system.

I have used this book on project after project to help enable EDI and each time it fulfills it's purpose perfectly.

This book is an invaluable reference - Thanks Raajiv!

RMW

I am an experienced SD consultant and work often with EDI. I have about 15 SAP books of which 2 are worthless: this book and the large 'Que' handbook. When you eliminate screenprints, abap code and dictionary descriptions dumped right out of SAP you are left with only about 150 pages of basic text. My colleague and I have half-jokingly considered trying to get McGraw Hill to buy this book back. On completely the other side of the coin - the book on the same topic by Arvind Nagpal is possibly the best SAP book I own. If this book is worth $5 (probably not) then the Nagpal book is worth $500.

It appears certain that the 5 star reviews shown here are mistaken or false. They just do not correspond with the reality. I suppose it is possible that someone has used the Nagpal book and mistakenly wrote a review for the book here (titles are similar and both are Indian authors - would certainly be possible). I tend to believe, however, that the reviews are actually contrived to prop this book up and that is why I feel the need to write this review. Even worse - it seems there are false-negative reviews written for the competing SAP EDI book by Nagpal.

If there is any question just find a place to thumb through the 2 texts. There is NO doubt of the result.

This will be a short review--I assure you. If you are serious about achieving CCNP status, this is the book to read after completing your CCNA (for that I recommend Tod Lammle's book).

Whether or not you pursue the CCNP certification router configuration is something that is a key to ensuring that your network is safe from the outside and the safety of the data is a prime concern of any network administrator.

This 635 page guide is a great addition to my technical library with the information presented I was able to enhance my router knowledge for both network and training purposes. The book is broken into five parts with Part 1 covering the overview the scalable Internetwork.

Part 2 delves into the topics of managing traffic, network congestion, setting up IP access lists, IPX/SPX and SAP access lists and setting up queuing to take care of traffic problems. Part 3 covers VLSM, Classless and Classful subletting, OSPF in both single and multiple areas, EIGRP and BGP protocols.

Part 4 is the Dial-Up section with topics like WAN encapsulations, ISDN, DDR, PPP and HDLC. Finally part 5 the Non-Routing section where you learn about bridging techniques like source-routing, transparent and translational. The book is filled with actual examples of the code to make the understanding easier. Overall an excellent buy for the money.

This book could have been much, much more than it ended up. I bought it without having read any kind of review and I definitely regret it. After having read a far superior book on ACRC (Semester Five Companion Guide), I have to say that this book lacks too much in detail for the price. There are numerous errors (which you can view errata on the Cisco Press web site, it's massive) in this book as well that can confuse the reader tremendously. I only buy Cisco Press books, but had this been my first, I may have reconsidered. Mark McGregor did a much better job writing the Academy curriculum.

As i have advised many CCNP-tobe, you'll need both thing : 1) Cisco Press Study Guide ( this book for ACRC ) 2) Cisco ACRC exam guide ( for brushing and prepare you in the coming days of your testing experience :).

Use this study guide for your replacement of ACRC traning course.

Good luck, ( Scored 884, in 1 hour, though i thought i failed ).

The concepts of this book are great - it explains the steps the router takes to accomplish a task. Unfortunately, the implementation isn't what I expected. Perfect example is setting up NAT. This book explains everything about how nat works, what it does and how it does it, but it doesn't give the OS commands to implement it! For the price, I would think that could be included.

If you are looking for a good introduction to what EDI is all about this is a good book to start with. Gives you the basic concepts of how EDI works and what you should consider before attempting to implement. This is not a technical book but it is good for a technical person who needs to have a basic overview of the material.

We are in the process of implementing EDI at our company and I found the book to be very helpful for grasping what EDI is and how it fits into the whole business model. We were having a hard time understanding how the translation and mapping functions fit into the business process - the book does an excellent job explaining in laymans terms what EDI is about and what it can do for your company. Great starting point if your company's thinking about getting into this area.

In a world of mushrooming computer Buzz words, Sullivan's attempt to give lucid fundamental picture and use of EDI, XML in E-commerce is quite useful for a beginner who wants to make a career in this field.

good introductory book on EDI. Good focus on what is needed. Little focus on how to accomplish it.

It is a nice book for the first timer who wants to get the overview of the EDI but don't expect the practical techinques of EDI. It tells What it is but don't tell how to do it.

I have intermeidate experience with BizTalk, and many of the examples in this book are not fully explained, nor is there adequate sample code to review.

Also, on the publisher's site, there is not book code page to be found. Apparently there was once a page but the link has been broken for several weeks. I presume that so many people had questions that the author stopped supporting the book. I woulds stay away from this one.

BizTalk 2006 Recipes is a refreshing book. Rather than re-organize the existing help, they have taken the time to address dozens and dozens of common scenarios and provided "recipes" for each of these.
This is information that you don't find in the help. Just like a cookbook, appetizers, breads, drinks, poultry, salads, etc., BizTalk 2006 Recipes uses the same paradigm, Schemas, Mapping, Messaging, Orchestrations, etc. For each "recipe," you have the problem you are trying to solve, the solution for the problem, and then best part, "How it Works," which explains the underpinnings of each of the topics. They pick both simple and advanced topics and it is structured to allow you to either go through the book end-to-end or to use it as a reference. I think this is a great compliment to the existing documentation and a handy reference for any BizTalk developer.

Though this book covers basics, it is a good reference book to learn what some of the real world scenarios are and how to solve them.

However, if you assume this a 1-2-3 type "recipes", you may find challenges in following the instructions. To name a few, just try out Recipe 5-2 from the Sample Chapter of this book, I wonder how many people can get it working. You will also need good enough of background to jump right into some topics such as BRE and BAM, or you will be left with a lot of "Why" and "How" while reading some talk-through descriptions (Yes, you are reading right, not step 1-2-3 at all). "Related Activities" in Recipe 9-1 is one of many examples.

You may be questioning yourself and try to look for sample codes/project download from the publisher Apress official site. You will be very disappointed how many key subjects out there. This may be the nature of the BizTalk implementation, unlike other subjects such as C# coding sample which author can just zip and ship the sample codes out for download.

Overall, this book is fine. To me, it seems this book came out rush. More proof-reading can make this book better.

I find that the examples given in this book cover the basics well. There is nothing about the EDI subsystem or the Sharepoint Adapter.

This is a piece of the review I wrote on my blog (putting the URL would be against the policies here so I'm leaving it out).

The book format: It is a recipe book so is written in a "Problem, Solution, How it works" style format with each chapter being given an introductory page or two preface. This book will be a great one to have around as a reference book, but I have to say that I also enjoyed reading it cover to cover (well almost... honestly I skimmed chapter 10, this chapter probably could have been done away with and the contents moved to other chapters).

The book is fairly comprehensive in covering BizTalk soup to nuts; there is a chapter on Schemas, one on Business Rules engine (more on this one later in the post), one on BAM and one talking about HAT. The writing styles of the various authors were not too apparent, but rather fairly subtle; sometimes in code samples they were apparent however; one chapter has code that uses both hungarian notation on variables, but also on function parameters. That should be done away with in this persnickety developers opinion. I have to say that from still fairly green knowledge of BizTalk, it appears that at least some of the authors have implemented a fair amount of BT solutions in their careers; to me this was evidenced by the "NOTE" sections that were lusciously littered throughout the text that included well thought out pitfulls and other tips to assist in your BizTalk solutions. In my opinion the one chapter that stuck out (and obviously I could be wrong) as one that wasn't written from experience but rather written from a "I just learned this" kind of perspective was the business rules engine chapter 5 (which ironically is available for free download from Apress).

Overall, I would give this book 3 tivo thumbs up, 4.5 stars out of 5 rating. Get this book if you need assistance with BizTalk 2006.

Other side notes, the authors created a blog site just for the book, but thus far only posted one comment and apparently aren't interested in doing much blogging, I'd love to see that change.

One other note I forgot to include; there was a couple spots that made reference to BizTalk 2004; one of the spots was more of a "if you are used to doing it this way, here is what you will have to do now" kind of reference; I found that appropriate; the other one was "here is how to do it in 2004 and here is how to do it in 2006". That one the book could do without. I don't recall where in the book they were; but for the authors knowledge it was the first 2004 reference in the book that could go and the 2nd one could stay :) I gave them the full 5 stars since they are first to market; I think 4.5 stars would be an appropriate rating on this book. Great job to the authors!

I like this book since it explains EDI in a very simple way. This is a book I would recommend for those trying to grasp what EDI is all about.

I bought this book two days ago in an effort to learn more about EDI and how I can get started. I received it this morning, and was finished by noon.

It's great if you want a sales pitch for EDI, but there's no real useful information contained. I figured there would at least be a section near the end where I could "Get more information on EDI" or "Where to go from here".

If you're looking for a little technical information, don't look here. There's not a morsel of techno info.

I've now wasted money and half a workday, and still have no idea where to go from here.

Of course there don't seem to be too many viable alternatives short of hiring a consulting firm...

This book is very well written. It is an excellent source for anyone who plans to get involved in the world of EDI. It provides all the basics, but there are some other useful topics for the advanced readers. I would recommend this book for anyone who plans to be involved in an EDI project.

Our company is an EDI Systems Integrator for the Book Publishing Industry. We are now recommending this book as a good non-technical introduction for our customers new to EDI. Rich Vettel, president Unitech EDI Systems

It is suitable for every EDI/EC beginner. Not to difficult to understand, even you are not a technical person. IS manager must read this book.

The title of this book is very accurate. If you buy it you will learn just a few basic things about the UN, and its various departments and that's pretty much it...

The UN founded after the end of WWII is the most important global organization, with fifty-one members in 1945, formed to protect and promote national interests. It had grown to 185 members in 1999. Others like OPEC, NAFTA, NATO, UNESCO, sprang from the original United Nations.

UN's purpose was to promote international peach, security and cooperation among states (as the colonies in Africa, South Africa, other small countried reached state status) and to protect human rights.

Cordell Hull from Tennessee was the pivotal person in charge, wtih Alger Hill close behind. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt played a major role representing her husband; Gladys Irwin also was a delegate while her husband was a federal judge. I knew there was a Cordell Hull Dam near Nashville, but she showed her pride in working with "your" Cordell Hull. At CWU meetings, she told all newcomers how much it meant to her.

Based in New York City, the headquarters are something to see. It is taller than the World Trade Center was. Except for Switzerland, all states on Earth are members of the UN Interpol, the Inernational Criminal Police Organization. It is truly a globel membership, thanks to the iniative and hard work of Mrs. Roosevelt. Stephen Schlesinger worked at the U. N. in the mid-1990s and relates in his book, "Act of Creation," that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the desire to become the Secretary-General of the UN and would have resigned his presidency to do so at the San Francisco Conference. On April 12, just 13 days before the Conference, FDR died. It fell to Harry Truman to address the UN Conference on opening day.

Alger Hiss was the acting SG and shared the platform with Earl Warren, then Governor of California. The four freedoms espoused were from want and fear, of speech and worship. Archibald MacLeish served as advisor to the U.S. delegation. He and his aide, Adlai Stevenson, dispensed information about UN in radio broadcasts, speeches, forums and meetings (also lectures for NBC radio). Stevenson, from Chicago, was the grandson of Grover Cleveland's Vice President and worked in the State Department. Later, he would run for the President of the United States.

The UN replaced the League of Nations. Roosevelt convinced Winston Churchill the name should be "United Nations." The UN Declaration was signed by representatives from twenty-six nations. The SG had more power than the League whcih was mostly clerical and administrative. He had to be a linguist to speak the language of the various nations.

One of the best known Secretary Generals was the legenday Dag Hammamskjold from Sweden who served from 1953-1961. In Linda Fasulo's "An Insider's Guide to the UN" is a photo of Eleanor Roosevelt holding the Universal Declaration of Rights poster in November, 1949, which was replaced later by the Universal Declaration's International Bill of Rights. Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash and a beautiful stained glass window by Marc Chagall is at the UN in his memory. At the headquarters in Manhattan, flags of all the members fly from 48th Street to 42nd (191 arranged alphabetically like a grand boulevard).

For twenty years, the unwritten agreement had been tha tthe SG should rotate among regions of the world. Seven have served: Norway, Sweden, Burma, Austria, Peru, Egypt, and Ghana. Fasulo was UN corrospondent and had a weekly NPR report. She explores the founding of UNESCO (UN Educational, Scienfitic, and Cultural Organization) a failure because of favoritism, nepotism, corruption and poor management, like Knox County government's appointing twelve commissioners instead of a special election. On the other side, UNICEF (UN Children's Fund) has lasted and served its purpose successfully. Bureaucracy abounds as in any organization, but the peacekeeping operations supersede all criticism. Different cultures, different opinions. What is good for some is bad for others. You can't please all the people all the time. It's good to remember that manners reflect one's self.

Detailed books with precise well written information. A must have for who's interested.

The chief cause of opposition to the United Nations is lack of knowledge about what it is, what it does, what it can do and what it cannot do. If I were to pick one volume to help both supporters and critics understand what the United Nations is, this book would be it.

This book failed to provide deep level explainations for how BizTalk Server processes EDI formatted data. Many topics are glossed over and in some cases he simply states that a topic is beyond the scope of the book. At less than 200 pages this book serves as a primer for EDI message processing using BizTalk Server. I found the product documentation much more helpful than most of the rubish found in this book.

Also, a fair number of the "Examples" failed to work. In the case of the AS2 configuration (one of the highest priority topics for me), the book shows properties that don't even exist.

Apress let me down again. :(

There is not much material out there on the subject of EDI and BizTalk. Considering that, this is a very useful book. It has several useful exercises. It is definitely helpful if you have a working knowledge of BizTalk Server to get the most benefit from this book.

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While EDI is straight forward in concept to understand it can be difficult to implement. This book is targeted towards the developer and architect tasked with crafting a B2B EDI solution and does a great job at detailing what needs to happen to make this task possible on the BizTalk 2006 R2 platform.

This book does not focus on the business specifics around EDI, but rather immediately jumps into detailed and concrete examples that can easily be extended into the real world. There are many EDI features with BizTalk 2006 R2 that can only be understood after working with the product across many projects. This book will reduce the time required experimenting with the tool just to understand the new features. I recommend this book to anyone working with EDI and BizTalk 2006 R2.

For understanding EDI processing in 2006 R2 this is a great material. It has all forms for processing like EDI, AS2 etc. The Book gives a brief description about all these Architectures and then comes the good part, the samples created and Tested which you can test at your machine.

The samples are so easy to deploy with minimum pre-requisites and test them thoroughly along with a book to understand what we have done. We can download the samples from a web page directed in the Book.

Even if you are newly introduced to EDI processing through Biztalk, there is no worry. All you need is a little hands on how Biztalk translates the EDI data. From there the book has all the techniques involved in resolving the data, retrieving and mapping the information and Orchestrate the message for processing as you wish.

The Book also briefs about the deployment and production support considerations and reporting updates with the new Server. In a nutshell this is the perfect material for understanding EDI processing in 2006 R2 environment.

Marsiti, the Juma woman, continues from the previous book by the team of Sen and Edi. Although this small book tells a separate ghostly story, the authors have connected it neatly to the ending of "Garlands of Moonlight," without making the previous book into required reading for this one.

Local legend tells of a girl's spirit locked into a cliff face, and of the mysterious deaths that drove the rapacious Dutch from their island. Mariti's otherwordly sense detects something, but no evil presences. Her sense must be wrong, somehow, because people die in the horrific ways predicted by local legend. Even Hidayat, her assistant, is attacked, but survives because of Marsiti's intervention. Still, she detects no evil spirit, even when she sees the glowing black form for herself. And still, she detects something ...

To say more would give away the story. I want you to experience the pleasure of seeing it through, though. In part, I want you to see the distinctive printing of this book. The artwork is good, a cut above the usual, but an unusual half-tone process preserves more of the art's detail, and overprinting in silver creates a jewel-like luster. It's an outstanding effort, and I'm looking forward to the third installment in the series.

//wiredweird

Avid readers like myself know the feeling......You're bored, something catches your eye....You decide to pick it up, despite the fact that you've never heard of the Author. There's just something about it that makes you want to give it a try....

Most times, there's a good reason why you've never heard of the Author. But once in a while...Very rarely, just rarely enough to make such occasions special....You stumble onto a real gem. That was the case with my first brush with Shoto Press, "Garlands of Moonlight", by Jai Sen and Rizky Wasisto Edi, a smashing debut that told the story of a small village in the grip of an unspeakable evil. Great writing, great art, great production values....Garlands had it all! I had both high hopes and worry about being let down when I heard about the follow-up, "The Ghost of Silver Cliff". Shouldn't have worried...

I was expecting a story in a similar vein, and was happily surprised to see Ghost is a sequel/continuation to Garlands of Moonlight. The book starts off with the two main characters from Garlands confronting the evil that is terrorizing their village, and from there goes off in a totally new direction, making these two characters a kind of Malay Scully/Mulder team; Their adventure this time is more of a mystery than Garlands, and the final revelation of the identity of the killer is just superb. I understand that there are supposed to be 10 volumes in the Malay Mysteries series. That's 9 more than I was expecting, but it still won't be enough to satisfy me if all involved keep up this level of quality. Highly recommended!

"Pusaka," meaning a cultural or spiritual heritage, is a 1992 catalogue that showcases many of the best artifacts from Indonesia's National Museum in Jakarta. Currently (2007) out of print, it is fortunately still available, although at very high prices, from several of Amazon's resellers. I recommend the book, if you can find it at a more reasonable price, both for its excellent photographs and for its insightful essays. For a comparison with the most recent (2007) Museum catalogue, that is less expensive and equally recommended, see my review of: "Icons Of Art: The Collections Of The National Museum Of Indonesia."