Foreword: Planning an SAP Deployment

Implementing SAP is all about embracing change—letting go of an old stovepipe way of doing things in favor of an enterprise-wide and holistic approach.

What A. J. Cronin said many years ago still holds true today:

“...if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us.”

So it is with an SAP implementation. At the end of the project, an integrated enterprise system will be in place that allows a company to realize improved communications goals, data sharing, and ultimately—increased return on information (an old SAP adage that can be validated by thousands of customers today).

But the really amazing thing that ...

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