Mastering SAP S/4hana 1709 - Strategies for Implementation and Migration


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Learn every aspect of SAP S/4HANA and develop the skills needed to migrate from SAP ECC Key Features Gain insight into the implementation and configuration of SAP S/4HANA Design business processes with SAP Central Finance Learn the available SAP S/4HANA deployment options in depth Book Description SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, and Central Finance are the key projects being employed across the globe, with millions of consultants working day and night to implement them. Mastering SAP S/4HANA 1709 - Strategies for Implementation and Migration will allow you to gain a virtual implementation experience, and you can follow the steps to configure the learning system as per your requirements. This book focuses on several topics; each topic is covered in detail to make you a successful SAP S/4HANA professional. You will begin by understanding SAP HANA and then move toward S/4HANA and the deployment options available to customers, including what suits various customer needs. You will then understand the impact of S/4HANA on General Ledger, Asset Accounting, and Profitability Analysis; SAP notes will also be listed when needed. As you progress through the book, you explore premigration, migration, and post-migration steps including the Near Zero Downtime strategy and learn how to implement Central Finance with and without MDG using SLT. In the concluding chapters, greenfield implementations using SAP Activate methodology will also be covered. By the end of this book, you will have learned to successfully implement SAP S/4HANA projects that are customized for your business needs. What you will learn Understand SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA Implement SAP S/4HANA as a greenfield implementation with SAP Activate methodology Discover the hidden challenges in SAP Central Finance Migrate from ECC to S/4HANA successfully in a non-disrupted roadmap Explore the change from Classic Asset Accounting to New Asset Accounting Learn to configure General Ledger, Profitability Analysis, and Controlling Apply the Near Zero Downtime strategy to migration projects Walk through Customer Vendor Integration (CVI) Who this book is for Mastering SAP S/4HANA 1709: Strategies for Implementation and Migration is for project managers, solution architects, and consultants who are planning to implement SAP S/4HANA for ERP solutions and are in the process of implementing it or are currently upgrading/migrating to it.




Predictive Analytics using R


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This book is about predictive analytics. Yet, each chapter could easily be handled by an entire volume of its own. So one might think of this a survey of predictive modeling. A predictive model is a statistical model or machine learning model used to predict future behavior based on past behavior. In order to use this book, one should have a basic understanding of mathematical statistics - it is an advanced book. Some theoretical foundations are laid out but not proven, but references are provided for additional coverage. Every chapter culminates in an example using R. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. You may download R, from a preferred CRAN mirror at http: //www.r-project.org/. The book is organized so that statistical models are presented first (hopefully in a logical order), followed by machine learning models, and then applications: uplift modeling and time series. One could use this a textbook with problem solving in R-but there are no "by-hand" exercises.




The Woman in the Zoot Suit


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The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts wore. With their striking attire, pachucos and pachucas represented a new generation of Mexican American youth, which arrived on the public scene in the 1940s. Yet while pachucos have often been the subject of literature, visual art, and scholarship, The Woman in the Zoot Suit is the first book focused on pachucas. Two events in wartime Los Angeles thrust young Mexican American zoot suiters into the media spotlight. In the Sleepy Lagoon incident, a man was murdered during a mass brawl in August 1942. Twenty-two young men, all but one of Mexican descent, were tried and convicted of the crime. In the Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943, white servicemen attacked young zoot suiters, particularly Mexican Americans, throughout Los Angeles. The Chicano movement of the 1960s–1980s cast these events as key moments in the political awakening of Mexican Americans and pachucos as exemplars of Chicano identity, resistance, and style. While pachucas and other Mexican American women figured in the two incidents, they were barely acknowledged in later Chicano movement narratives. Catherine S. Ramírez draws on interviews she conducted with Mexican American women who came of age in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s as she recovers the neglected stories of pachucas. Investigating their relative absence in scholarly and artistic works, she argues that both wartime U.S. culture and the Chicano movement rejected pachucas because they threatened traditional gender roles. Ramírez reveals how pachucas challenged dominant notions of Mexican American and Chicano identity, how feminists have reinterpreted la pachuca, and how attention to an overlooked figure can disclose much about history making, nationalism, and resistant identities.




Learn HANA in 24 Hours


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SAP Hana is popular due to its large main memories and massive parallel job processing capabilities. It makes SAP Hana real fast. The motive of this book is to develop a good understanding of how SAP Hana is used. The book doesn't need any experience with SAP HANA or software development. It’s a self-learning guide that even beginners can use. Everything about SAP HANA is explained like architecture, modeling, reporting, SQL script, and so on. This book is full of information, hands-on and real life project experience learning. In this edition, you will identify various components of SAP HANA and its working process. Though the book size is small, it tried to justify almost all important topics of SAP HANA with examples and images. These includes SLT, the connection between SAP system and HANA, Data services, etc. You will also learn how to use SQL script in HANA. By the end of this book, you will be able to integrate SAP HANA pretty much with any platform. Over a time you can use this edition as a handbook and harness your SAP Hana skills. So all and above this edition will save a lot of your expenses spend behind other courses and learning resources. Table Content Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Introduction SAP HANA 2. Why to choose SAP HANA? 3. SAP HANA In-Memory Strategy 4. SAP HANA Advantages 5. SAP HANA Compare to BWA (Business Warehouse Accelerator) Chapter 2: Hana Architecture 1. SAP HANA Architecture 2. SAP HANA Landscape 3. SAP HANA Sizing Chapter 3: SAP HANA Studio 1. Pre-Requisite for SAP HANA Studio 2. Supported Platform 3. Download & Install SAP HANA Studio 4. Add System in SAP HANA Studio 5. Work With SAP HANA Studio Chapter 4: SQL Script, Data Type, Trigger, Sequence, Operator, Function, Expression, Identifiers 1. What is SAP HANA SQL 2. SAP HANA Identifiers 3. SAP HANA Data Type 4. SAP HANA Operator 5. SAP HANA SQL FUNCTIONS 6. SAP HANA SQL EXPRESSIONS 7. SAP HANA SQL Stored Procedure 8. SAP HANA Create Sequence 9. SAP HANA Create Trigger Chapter 5: Data Provisioning 1. Overview of Replication Technology 2. SLT (SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server) 3. SAP DS (SAP DATA Services) 4. SAP HANA Direct Extractor Connection (DXC) 5. Flat file Upload to SAP HANA Chapter 6: Modeling 1. SAP HANA Modelling Overview 2. Join Method in SAP HANA 3. SAP HANA Best Practices for Creating Information Models 4. SAP HANA Attribute View 5. SAP HANA Analytic View 6. SAP HANA Calculation View 7. SAP HANA Analytic Privileges 8. SAP HANA Information Composer 9. SAP HANA Import and Export 10. SAP HANA Performance Optimization Technique Chapter 7: Security 1. SAP HANA Security Overview 2. SAP HANA Authentication 3. SAP HANA Authorization 4. SAP HANA User and Role Administration 5. SAP HANA License Management 6. SAP HANA Auditing Chapter 8: Reporting 1. Reporting In SAP BI (Business Intelligence) Overview 2. Reporting In Webi of SAP Business Objects (BO) on HANA 3. Reporting In Crystal Report 4. Reporting In SAP Lumira 5. Reporting In Microsoft Excel




From Out of the Shadows


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An anniversary edition of the first full study of Mexican American women in the twentieth century, with new preface




New York Activity Book


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The New York Activity Book will entertain children on a visit to the vibrant city known as the Big Apple. Complete the Empire State Building, design your own advertising billboard in Times Square or doodle zoo animals in Central Park. Draw an iconic landmark statue or a favourite painting in a gallery. Complete and personalise the eight perforated postcards and send them to friends and family. These are just a few of the many activities you'll find that are all centred around the sights of New York, alongside fun facts and questions to engage. On the reverse of the pages you'll find more fun activity suggestions plus plenty of space for drawing. Fun and educational, New York Activity Book will help children to develop a wide range of skills, including observational, conversational and motor skills, and will make sure they get the most out of their visit to New York.




SAP Nation


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From its humble beginnings in Germany, SAP skyrocketed to become a global powerhouse and the technology backbone for tens of thousands of enterprises. The economy around it grew even faster, and "SAP Nation" now approaches the GDP of Ireland in size. This book documents both trajectories, based on decades of research and interviews of hundreds of customers, market analysts and competitors. SAP's influence has declined in the last decade, as enterprises invest in cloud, social, analytical and mobile technologies and in custom development of "systems of advantage" in their products, channels and business models. Yet, shockingly, customer spending in SAP Nation remains stubbornly high. The model in the book estimates post-recession investment at more than one trillion dollars (yes ). This book brings out loudly the voice of SAP customers as they cope with this runaway economy. Twenty-five case studies showcase a spectrum of strategies - some are "ring fencing" SAP with Workday, others are switching maintenance to Rimini Street, yet others are in-sourcing, while still others are evaluating newer SAP products like HANA and acquisitions like Concur. Part root cause analysis and part strategy manual, this book is a must-read for anyone with interest in SAP - as customer, employee, partner, investor or competitor. It is a fast-paced look at decades of what SAP has done well, and what it could have done better. Executives everywhere, even those in non-SAP settings, will benefit from the strategies described in the book to migrate inefficient back-office IT dollars to front-office innovation.




Digital Enterprise Transformation


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The integration of technological innovations, such as In-Memory Analytics, Cloud Computing, Mobile Connectivity, and Social Media, with business practice can enable significant competitive advantage. In order to embrace recent challenges and changes in the governance of IT strategies, SAP and its think tank - the Business Transformation Academy (BTA) - have jointly developed the Digital Capability Framework (DCF). Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT by Axel Uhl and Lars Alexander Gollenia outlines the DCF which comprises six specific capabilities: Innovation Management, Transformation Management, IT Excellence, Customer Centricity, Effective Knowledge Worker, and Operational Excellence. In cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Queensland University of Technology (Australia), University of Liechtenstein (Principality of Liechtenstein), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), SAP and the BTA have been validating each capability and the corresponding maturity models based on analyzing several ’lighthouse’ case studies comprising: SAMSUNG, IBM, Finanz Informatik, The Walt Disney Company, Google Inc., HILTI AG. Digital Enterprise Transformation presents how these companies take advantage of innovative IT and how they develop their digital capabilities. On top the authors also develop and present a range of novel yet hands-on Digital Use Cases for a number of different industries which have emerged from innovative technological trends such as: Big Data, Cloud Computing, 3D Printing and Internet of Things.




The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media


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The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media offers original insights into the complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media, and in doing so, showcases new research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. Brings together a collection of new, cutting-edge research exploring a number of different facets of the broad relationship between gender and media Moves beyond associating gender with man/woman and instead considers the relationship between the construction of gender norms, biological sex and the mediation of sex and sexuality Offers genuinely new insights into the complicated and complex set of relations which exist between gender, sex, sexualities and the media Essay topics range from the continuing sexism of TV advertising to ways in which the internet is facilitating the (re)invention of our sexual selves.




Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python


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Frank Kane's hands-on Spark training course, based on his bestselling Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python video, now available in a book. Understand and analyze large data sets using Spark on a single system or on a cluster. About This Book Understand how Spark can be distributed across computing clusters Develop and run Spark jobs efficiently using Python A hands-on tutorial by Frank Kane with over 15 real-world examples teaching you Big Data processing with Spark Who This Book Is For If you are a data scientist or data analyst who wants to learn Big Data processing using Apache Spark and Python, this book is for you. If you have some programming experience in Python, and want to learn how to process large amounts of data using Apache Spark, Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python will also help you. What You Will Learn Find out how you can identify Big Data problems as Spark problems Install and run Apache Spark on your computer or on a cluster Analyze large data sets across many CPUs using Spark's Resilient Distributed Datasets Implement machine learning on Spark using the MLlib library Process continuous streams of data in real time using the Spark streaming module Perform complex network analysis using Spark's GraphX library Use Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service to run your Spark jobs on a cluster In Detail Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is your companion to learning Apache Spark in a hands-on manner. Frank will start you off by teaching you how to set up Spark on a single system or on a cluster, and you'll soon move on to analyzing large data sets using Spark RDD, and developing and running effective Spark jobs quickly using Python. Apache Spark has emerged as the next big thing in the Big Data domain – quickly rising from an ascending technology to an established superstar in just a matter of years. Spark allows you to quickly extract actionable insights from large amounts of data, on a real-time basis, making it an essential tool in many modern businesses. Frank has packed this book with over 15 interactive, fun-filled examples relevant to the real world, and he will empower you to understand the Spark ecosystem and implement production-grade real-time Spark projects with ease. Style and approach Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is a hands-on tutorial with over 15 real-world examples carefully explained by Frank in a step-by-step manner. The examples vary in complexity, and you can move through them at your own pace.