sap financials and controlling books

SAP FINANCIALS & CONTROLLING TOP LIST SAP BOOKS FOR FINANCIALS, CONTROLLING, HANA, & MOBILITY

Prepared By: Ms. Pramila Nagaraj First Class MBA Finance Graduate (2010) - FRESHER Global Academy of Technology, Bangalore (VTU- Belgaum) SAP Financials Associate Certified Consultant – Trainee/Fresher SAP Certified Candidate @ Source One Management Services Pvt. Ltd Bangalore

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Hello Dear SAP Aspirants (Recent Graduates), I have prepared this document to avoid this question “Which are the Best book for SAP FICO?” All these books are really best for Newbie’s specially Graduates without any experiences. Investing in Books is not an expense. It’s an investment for your SAP Career with SAP Companies. I have covered all important books of SAP Financials and Controlling including SAP Certification Associate Level Reference books.

I have also included SAP HANA and SAP Mobility Reference books. SAP Companies are shifting to HANA, HANA CLOUD and SAP Mobility all these three technologies are also linked to SAP ERP Financials & Controlling. You all can choose the books, purchase or download via Google search and start learning SAP Financials, Controlling, HANA, and Mobility. SAP Financials/Controlling Consultants who have worked or working in SAP ERP Business Suite Version Projects EHP 5/6 for about 1 year or 2 years, Have the option of appearing for SAP HANA Training & Certification at the cost of SAP Company (Partners) which has SAP HANA Services. Even for SAP Mobility applies the same. SAP Financials/Controlling Consultants will have the option of shifting their career to HANA or MOBILITY. So have included SAP New Technology Books including Certification reference books. You can attend Basic Courses of HANA, MOBILITY, HANA CLOUD in OpenSAP – SAP AG

Online Courses. Visit http://open.sap.com HAPPY LEARNING!!! Thanks & Regards Pramila Nagaraj SAP Financials Associate Certified Consultant Fresher SAP Certified Candidate of SourceOne Management Services Pvt. Ltd Bangalore

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SAP FINANCIALS AND CONTROLLING BOOKS

Book Based on Configuration

Configuring SAP ERP Financials & Controlling – Author Peter Jones & John Burger

SAP is the world leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software; of the software?s modules, the FI (Finance) and CO

(Controlling) are by far the most popular and are widely implemented. This book has no competition?it is the only book on the

market on how to configure and implement SAP?s FI and CO modules to maximize functionality and features hands-on, step-

by-step instructions and real-world examples that provide immediate and practical solutions. Updated for SAP?s ECC 6.0, the

book covers FI enterprise structure, general ledger, substitutions and validations, automatic account assignments, accounts

payable and receivable, asset accounting, accrual engine, closing entries, credit management, lockbox, CO enterprise structure,

profitability analysis (CO-PA), and more.

SAP ERP Financials and FICO Handbook – Author S.N.Padhi

This up-to-date quick reference guide helps the reader through the most popular SAP module. It includes material

on SAP ERP Financials, SAP FICO, and SAP R/3. Unlike most books that only provide questions and answers for

certification or interview preparation, this book covers fifty common business situations related to ERP

Financials/FICO and provides practical solutions for them. In addition, the book begins with over 200 FAQs and

certification questions for those who need a quick review of the material. A CD-ROM with FICO templates, short

cuts, and color figures from the book is included with the text.

SAP FI: Financial Accounting: ERP ECC6, R/3 4.70 – Author V. Narayanan

The book explains the important concepts/terms used in FI, provides you with several consulting, configuration, and

usage tips on a variety of application components within FI. Separate chapters on SAP FI Tables and SAP FI

Transaction Codes will help you navigate this complex software! This book will be an invaluable guide to everyone in

the SAP community: beginners, end-users, programmers, and trainers.


SAP CONTROLLING

SAP CO CONTROLLING SAP ERP ECC6, SAP R/3 4.70 – Author V.Narayanan

This bestselling author demystifies SAP Controlling (CO) through an innovative and “easy-to-understand” Q & A format, using 450 + questions and over 200 illustrations & screenshots (including ERP 6.0). The book explains the important concepts / terms used in CO, provides you with several consulting, configuration, and usage tips on a

variety of application components within CO. Separate chapters on SAP CO Tables and SAP CO Transaction Codes will help you navigate this complex software! This book will be an invaluable guide to everyone in the SAP

community: beginners, end-users, programmers, and trainers. FEATURES

• Uses over 450 questions, 200 screen shots and illustrations, 1300 CO transactions, and 70 SAP CO tables to help master this complex software

• Features an easy-to-understand “Q & A” format with configuration / consulting / using tips • Includes screen-shots from SAP ERP (ECC 6.0), separate chapters on SAP CO Transaction Codes and SAP CO Tables

• 4-color screen shots available at the companion Web sites

Configuring Financial Accounting in SAP - Author: Narayanan Veeriah

This comprehensive book teaches you how to configure Financial Accounting in SAP ERP for all of your unique business scenarios. Whether you want to change your screen layout for end users or need to define new process variants in any FI component, this book makes configuring your solution easy for any business requirement.

Practical Knowledge Acquire the knowledge behind the customizing actions. After reading this book, you’ll be able to take over an implementation in any stage, or start one of your own. Integration with SAP Modules Learn how to integrate FI with Controlling (CO), Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), and more. Learn How to Customize as You Read Discover step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, and see helpful screenshots to aid you in customizing your FI system. Comprehensive Coverage Find information on seldom-covered topics: Lease Accounting, Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable, and much more. Case-Study Approach Follow along with a fictitious global enterprise as the implementation team configures FI in SAP to meet business-specific needs and requirements.


SAP CONTROLLING

Configuring Controlling in SAP ERP - Author: Rogerio Faleiros and Alison Kreis Ryan

If you are involved in the initial implementation or the ongoing maintenance of a CO solution, this book delivers the hands-on advice you need to smooth the customizing process. By accessing the screenshots, detailed instructions, and technical background information offered here, you’ll be ready to give management the control over the business that it needs!

The Complete CO Picture

Understand the CO module in all its details and aspects—from Cost Element Accounting to Product Cost Controlling and Profit Center Accounting.

Practical Guidance

Take control of your customizing by referencing step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots that will guide you through the configuration process.

Assembling the Pieces

Learn how each part of the CO component interacts with the others, and plan how your overall CO structure should look.

Best Practices

Take advantage of best practices, tips, and tricks, and facilitate efficient management accounting, reporting, and analysis processes to maximize productivity.

Your Desktop Reference

Whether you are implementing CO for the first time or maintaining and extending an existing system, this book will be your companion in your daily tasks.

SAP FINANCIALS AND CONTROLLING

SAP FICO Covers SAP ECC 6.0 Black Book – Author – Bhushan Jairamdas Mamtani

This book, SAP FICO Black Book, brings to you a simple to the point non-technical jargon free discussion on SAP FICO along with comprehensive real life examples based on authors real life implementations. One of the first FICO books which cover business cycles rather than plain technical configuration. Targeting intermediate and advanced-level readers, this book discusses Implementation Tools; Enterprise Structure; New GL Configuration; Online Document Splitting; AR; AP; AA; Bank accounting; Integration of FI with Other Modules; Business Processes; Controlling; Cost Center Accounting; Product Costing; Material Ledger Configuration and Profit Center Accounting.


Implementing SAP ERP Financials: A Configuration Guide Books – Author V.Narayanan

Detailed instructions on configuring SAP ERP Financials module * Examples to clarify the tricky areas in a configuration * Supported by screenshots to explain configuration of SAP financial module

Administering SAP R/3: FI-Finance and CO-Control Modules [Hardcover] A.S.A.P.World Consultancy (Author)

Upgrading the financial and accounting systems to SAP can be one of the most taxing processes during the SAP implementation. Making changes to the accounting and financial systems can cause havoc in all areas of the business and in dealing with outside businesses and resources. The book is filled with practical examples of how to

structure your accounting department and processes to utilize the FI and CO modules to save time and money. In addition, this book also includes tips for accounting and business planning managers for coordinating financial data

with the corporate headquarters and other locations.


IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR SAP R/3 IN A MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZATION – Author Chetan S. Sankar and Karl-Heinz Rau

SAP R/3 Implementation Strategies adopted by a MNC Organization - Robert Bosch. This book has real time case study. This book is suitable for Fresh Graduates because Author is also a Graduate.

SAP Implementation Unleashed: A Business and Technical Roadmap to Deploying SAP

SAP can help you capture better information and deliver it more quickly, allowing you to make better decisions and

maximize the business value of everything you do. However, SAP implementations require massive effort, total buy-in, and significant change throughout the organization. In SAP Implementation Unleashed, 10 expert SAP project

managers, functional consultants, and technologists guide you through the entire journey, helping you avoid pain and pitfalls and gain all the benefits of SAP.


SAP TESTING BOOK - Test SAP Solutions – Author (s) Markus Helfen and Hans Martin Trauthwein

• Learn to develop and perform functional and load tests and to build test systems with SAP TDMS • Detailed description of SAP Solution Manager, eCATT, SAP Quality Center by HP, SAP TAO, and more • Includes 13 comprehensive and in-depth customer case studies The test tools and services provided by SAP are numerous and rich in functionality. In this book, you will not only learn what these tools can do for you and how they work together, you will also benefit from detailed instructions on how to use them. Dedicated chapters on methodology for functional and performance tests as well as detailed reports from projects with renowned SAP customers make this book your ultimate guide for setting up and maintaining your QA processes.

Tools Whether you need information on SAP Solution Manager, eCATT, SAP TDMS, SAP TAO, SAP LoadRunner, or SAP Quality Center by HP, you will benefit from in-depth introductions on functional scope and usage of every tool. Functional and Performance Tests Test for both functionality and performance in your system. Learn about the basic differences of these test types, and find out how to reliably test the performance of your applications. Test Automation Are your test budgets notoriously tight? The authors show you how to leverage test automation to significantly reduce your testing costs. Methodology Design and scope of test data, scheduling, selecting the right tools, and staffing: all questions related to planning and organizing test projects are answered in detail. Customer Case Studies Benefit from existing experience. Numerous customer reports—including three 5-year sustain-ability reports—demonstrate how test managers in different industries deal with the specific challenges in test projects.

Sams Teach Yourself SAP in 24 Hours, 4th Edition

Thoroughly Updated and Expanded!

Includes New Coverage on Cloud Computing for SAP!

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll master the latest updates on SAP, and discover how to succeed with it in real business and technical

environments! Using this book straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll learn through practical hands-on examples and case studies based

on SAP’s free demonstration software. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation with both the

business and technical sides of SAP. Leading SAP architect and consultant George Anderson starts with the absolute basics thoroughly covers

core business, reporting, and administration tasks and takes you all the way to the cutting edge, including how the cloud might

be used to support SAP environments.

Step-by-Step instructions carefully walk you through the most common SAP tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.


By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to

1. Integrate various cloud resources into your current-day SAP environments

2. Understand SAP applications, components, and architecture

3. Obtain and install the trial version of SAP, step by step

4. Use NetWeaver, SAP ERP, the SAP Business Suite, and other SAP applications

5. Select an access method and create user roles and authorizations

6. Customize your user interface for maximum convenience and productivity

7. Transact day-to-day business, including sample sales order transactions, personnel updates, and more

8. Work through complex processes, such as Order to Cash

9. Query from SAP and third-party business productivity tools, such as SharePoint

10. Professionally tune, maintain, and monitor SAP systems

11. Plan and build new SAP applications

12. Prepare for SAP projects, including technical upgrades and enhancements

13. Develop your career as a SAP business or technology professional

SAP FINANCIALS AND CONTROLLING CERTIFICATION – ASSOCIATE LEVEL

SAP Certified Application Associate – Financial Accounting (FI) with SAP ERP 6.0 Some unique features of this book: - There is NO Other book in the market for the SAP FI Accounting (FI) ERP 6.0 Certification exam. - The authors have themselves cleared the exam. - All questions are multiple choice format, similar the questions you will get in the actual exam. - Over 200 authentic questions, testing the exact same concepts that will be tested in your exam!

SAP Certified Application Associate – Management Accounting (CO) with SAP ERP 6.0 Some unique features of this book: - There is NO Other book in the market for the SAP Management Accounting (CO) ERP 6.0 Certification exam. - The authors have themselves cleared the exam. - All questions are multiple choice format, similar the questions you will get in the actual exam. - Nearly 200 authentic questions, testing the exact same concepts that will be tested in your exam!


TIPS and TRICKS 100 Things You Should Know About Financial Accounting with SAP - Paul Ovigele (Author)

This book provides 100 practical of Financial Accounting, little-known tips, tricks, and workarounds to help you get the most out of your SAP system. Whether you’re a user, super-user, or consultant, you’ll find useful information to help you: Save Time and Money With the time-saving shortcuts and workarounds provided, users of all levels will get the most out of their daily interaction with the system. Increase Efficiency Use these insightful tips to configure screens to your personal needs, to significantly reduce the number of IT trouble tickets, and to work more efficiently. The books’ hands-on approach and easy-to-follow layout will help you to pick up new skills in no time.

Work Smarter Your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even find yourself saying, “I had no idea you could do this that way!” or “I wish I had known how to do this a long time ago!”

100 Things You Should Know About Controlling with SAP - Author - John Jordan

This book provides 100 practical of Controlling, little-known tips, tricks, and workarounds to help you get the most out of your SAP system. Whether you’re a user, super-user, or consultant, you’ll find useful information to help you: Save Time and Money With the time-saving shortcuts and workarounds provided, users of all levels will get the most out of their daily interaction with the system. Increase Efficiency Use these insightful tips to configure screens to your personal needs, to significantly reduce the number of IT trouble tickets, and to work more efficiently. The books’ hands-on approach and easy-to-follow layout will help you to pick up new skills in no time.

Work Smarter Your SAP user experience will be friendlier and easier, and you may even find yourself saying, “I had no idea you could do this that way!” or “I wish I had known how to do this a long time ago!”


SAP SOLUTION MANAGER 7.X Author: Marc Schäfer and Matthias Melich

• Provides a complete overview of the solution for the management of business applications • Explains the processes and functions in release 7.1 clearly • Shows all tools in day-to-day use What’s new in SAP Solution Manager 7.1? In this book, you'll find much more than the answer to this question. Discover all of the platform’s functions and learn how to support and improve the planning, operation, and optimization of your solution with SAP Solution Manager. Comprehensive and up to date, this definitive book leaves no questions unanswered! All Concepts Explained Concisely Whether it’s the new Monitoring and Alerting Infrastructure, Custom Code Management, or Change Impact Analysis that you are interested in, you can take a look “under the hood” of SAP Solution Manager and understand its concepts. Every Phase, Every Process Find out how SAP Solution Manager supports you in all project phases—from the creation of the Business Blueprint, to the continuous optimization of your solution. Tools in Action Find comprehensive descriptions and screenshots that show the essential functional areas of SAP Solution Manager in use. Customer Cases Become inspired for your own project! Ten articles will show you how other customers use the new features included in SAP Solution Manager. New in This Edition Discover the management of non-SAP software, Monitoring and Alerting, Landscape Management Database, and much more. This

completely revised edition brings you right up to date.

SAP FICO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS REFERENCE BOOKS

SAP FICO Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations: SAP FICO Certification Review - Author –Stuart Lee

The Ultimate Reference & Learning Guide for FICO Consultants SAP FI/CO Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations! It' s clear that FICO is one of the most important areas in SAP -- and finding answers can be difficult. SAP FICO Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations guide you through your learning process. From helping you to assess your FICO skills to evaluating candidates for a job, SAP FICO Interview Questions & Answers will help you understand what you really need to know. The book is organized around several areas of SAP FICO: AP, AR, General Ledger, Document Posting, Controlling, Assets. Each question includes everything you need to know to master the interview or properly evaluate a candidate. More than just a rehash of SAP documentation and sales presentations, each question is based on project knowledge and experience gained on successful high-profile SAP FICO implementations. Key certification and interview topics include: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Document Posting, Controlling, Fixed Assets, Organizational Structure, Integration with MM and SD Modules, Everything a FICO Resource Needs to know before an Interview


SAP FI/ CO Demystified: Questions and Answers by V. Narayanan (Author)

Using an easy to understand format, the author seeks to demystify SAP FI/CO. OR

SAP FI/CO Questions & Answers [Hardcover] V. Narayanan (Author)

This up-to-date quick reference guide is an easy, fast, and convenient way of learning SAP FI CO (including SAP R/3 4.70 Enterprise and SAP ERP(ECC)6.0); it also covers ABAP and Basis on the technical side, and MM, SD, and PP on

the functional side to provide a thorough understanding of the SAP system. Separate sections on SAP Tables and SAP Transaction Codes guide you through the intricacies of the SAP modules and the 100-page section of SAP Terminology provides an excellent reference for mastering acronyms, codes, and definitions of the multiple

components of this popular software.


SAP NEW TECHNOLOGIES REFERENCE BOOKS

SAP HANA: SAP HANA STARTER Author(s) : Mark Walker

Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.

Understand key principles behind SAP HANA

Discover the main features of the SAP HANA Studio for application design

Create a reporting application on the SAP HANA platform

Visualize your reporting data in Microsoft Excel

The SAP HANA Project Guide

Ingo Brenckmann (Author), Mathias Pöhling (Author)

SAP HANA is the SAP product for in-memory computing. It streamlines transactions, analytics, planning, and data processing on a single in-memory database allowing businesses to operate in real-time. Over the course of the last

few years, the authors have led many diverse SAP HANA projects with extraordinary success resulting in 10,000, or in some cases even 100,000, times improvement of system performance.

In this book, the authors share their findings from SAP HANA projects to help ensure the success of your SAP HANA

project. The SAP HANA project guide will also help you identify suitable scenarios for your company to get started with in-memory computing, while sketching out a long term plan to provide innovation to your entire business using SAP HANA. We’ll cover the following key topics:

• Delivering innovation with SAP HANA

• Creating a business case for SAP HANA • Thinking in-memory • Managing SAP HANA projects


SAP® HANA for ERP Financials (First Steps)

Ulrich Schlüter (Author), Jörg Siebert (Author)

No matter if online transactions or evaluations are concerned, speed has been a key success factor since the

invention of information technology. R/2 and R/3 were the first systems to process data in realtime. Increasing data volume is the main reason why nowadays, extensive reports still require background jobs to process the data.

With their latest database technology “High Performance Analytic Appliance” (HANA), SAP is trying no less than to revolutionize the database market by speeding up reports and transactions dramatically, changing business

processes fundamentally.

This book will provide a compact and competent introduction to: • Understanding the basics of SAP HANA

• Identify the potential of this technology • Examine already existing HANA applications in SAP Financials

A decision was made in Walldorf – the new proprietary in-memory database SAP HANA is to be the future of SAP’s solution portfolio. Ulrich Schlueter is an expert directly from SAP Germany and will describe existing as well as

future showcases in a structured, precise and easily understandable manner.

SAP HANA: An Introduction (2nd Edition)- Author: Dr Bjarne Berg and Penny Silvia

• For the executive: what SAP HANA is and how it can help you • For the practitioner: details on data modeling, data provisioning, and the SAP HANA client tools • For everyone: the latest and greatest developments—Suite on SAP HANA, advanced applications for SAP HANA, and more • 2nd edition updated and expanded HANA is shifting SAP into high gear—don’t get left in the dust. In this updated edition of our best-selling book, explore the what, why, when, and how of SAP HANA. From building a business strategy to administering a system (and all the pit stops in between), you'll have the big picture you need to get started. Buckle up, because this is one car that doesn’t travel in the slow lane. Business Strategy Learn how big data, in-memory computing, and SAP HANA come together to influence your business strategies, from trend reporting to predictive analysis. Implementation Options Which type of SAP HANA implementation is right for you? Learn what you need to know about your different options, and get started planning an implementation: technical requirements, sizing, and migration considerations. Data Modeling and Provisioning Introduce yourself to Studio and Information Composer, SAP HANA’s data modeling tools. Then get information about data provisioning in SAP HANA, including step-by- step instructions for SAP Data Services. SAP BusinessObjects BI Understand how the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform hooks up to SAP HANA, including information on SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP Visual Intelligence. Administration Take a look into the SAP HANA Administration Console and understand the most important administrative tasks in an SAP HANA system.


SAP HANA Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked (Job Interview Questions Series)

SAP HANA Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked is a perfect companion to stand ahead above the rest in

today’s competitive job market. Rather than going through comprehensive, textbook-sized reference guides, this book includes only the information required immediately for job search to build an IT career. This book puts the

interviewee in the driver's seat and helps them steer their way to impress the interviewer. Includes:

a) 250 SAP HANA Interview Questions, Answers and Proven Strategies for getting hired as an IT professional

b) Dozens of examples to respond to interview questions c) 51 HR Questions with Answers and Proven strategies to give specific, impressive, answers that help nail the interviews d) 2 Aptitude Tests download available on www.vibrantpublishers.com

SAP HANA ESSENTIALS

CONTENTS

1 SAP HANA Overview

Updated scale out and release date details 2 SAP HANA Architecture

3 SAP HANA Business Cases New Chapter

4 SAP HANA Applications

5 SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse on SAP 6 Data Provisioning with SAP HANA

7 Data Modeling with SAP HANA 8 Application Development with SAP HANA

9 SAP HANA Administration & Operations

10 SAP HANA Hardware Updated PAM, Dell, Hitachi, HP sections

11 SAP HANA Projects & Implementation Updated RDS section and new advice section

12 SAP HANA Resources

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SAP HANA Certification

SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HANA 1.0

There is NO Other material in the market for the SAP HANA Certification exam. - The authors have themselves cleared the exam. - All questions are multiple choice format, similar the questions you will get in the actual exam. - Over 110 authentic questions, testing the exact same concepts that will be tested in Your exam!

SAP Certified Support Associate - SAP HANA

The certification test "SAP Certified Support Associate - SAP HANA" verifies proven skills and fundamental knowledge of troubleshooting SAP HANA implementations. This exam will measure your knowledge of SAP HANA troubleshooting starting with understanding of the user authorizations followed by configuration, DB Administration(operations), Monitoring, Performance (incl. system reports), trace cababilities, backup/recovery (incl. High Availability) and Installation/Patching and Updates.

SAP Certified Application Associate (Edition 2013) - SAP HANA

Some UNIQUE features of this Book: - There is NO Other material in the market for the SAP HANA (Edition 2013) Certification exam. - The authors are known HANA experts and have themselves cleared the exam. - All questions are multiple choice format, similar the questions you will get in the actual exam. - Nearly 200 authentic questions, testing the exact same concepts that will be tested in Your exam!


SAP MOBILITY Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP Author: Sanjeet Mall, Tzanko Stefanov and Stanley Stadelman

• Get practical advice on how to build your own mobile strategy

• Learn about the different types of mobile applications offered by SAP

• Explore the concepts and first steps in developing mobile applications

If you’re holding this book in your hands—whether in print form or on a mobile device—you’ve got your ticket to SAP mobility. Learn how to develop a mobile strategy, and then learn how you can use the SAP Mobile Platform to put it in action. Manager, developer, or just kind of curious, you’re officially on your way to unwiring your world with SAP. Move forward!

Mobile Strategy

Benefit from expert guidance and practical recommendations for developing a mobile enterprise strategy.

SAP Mobile Platform

Understand the main components of the SAP Mobile Platform, including Sybase Unwired Platform, SAP Afaria, and SAP NetWeaver Gateway.

SAP Mobile Applications in Action

Familiarize yourself with some of SAP’s key mobile applications, and learn how their features can help your business.

SAP Mobile Application Development

Get an introduction to the world of SAP mobile development: mobile business objects, OData, and more.

Hybrid and Native Applications

Explore your options for hybrid versus native applications, and get specific examples of how to build both.

“The first book to successfully cover the full enterprise mobility landscape.” —Kevin Benedict

Mobile Development for SAP Author: Dave Haseman and Ross Hightower

• Develop hybrid apps using MBOs and SAP Mobile Platform tools • Learn how to customize hybrid app functionality and user interfaces • Build native apps for Android and iOS Developing mobile apps is one thing—developing mobile apps for SAP is quite another. In this book, you’ll learn how to use the SAP Mobile Platform to design and connect hybrid and native apps to SAP. From installing the Hybrid Web Container to building Mobile Business Objects (MBOs) to designing and customizing hybrid app user interfaces and functionality, this book will get you up and running in no time. Types of Apps Hybrid, native, and web apps…client-initiated and server-initiated apps…offline and online apps. If your head is swimming with all the possibilities, this book will straighten you out. Sybase Unwired Platform and the Sybase Mobile SDK You’ve got all the pieces—now put them together. Learn how to install and configure the various parts of the SAP Mobile Platform. Mobile Business Objects MBOs are a key piece of the SAP mobile puzzle. Get detailed information and examples about how to create them, customize them, and connect them to each other. Designing Apps The design is what makes a mobile app. With step-by-step instructions and screenshots, build and customize screen flow, user interfaces, and app functionality to suit your needs. Advanced Topics Once you know the basics, it’s time to take your knowledge a step further. Understand SAP’s partnerships with third-party platforms, and explore the Mobile Analytics Kit (MAKit).