SAP Event Management - SAP's Best Kept Secret

by Kevin Wilson

This book reveals the secret of SAP Event Management by describing exactly what it is and what it can do for your company.
As a very powerful module of SAP, SAP Event Management provides companies with the functionality to track and monitor their business processes and allowing them to expose processes that have exceptions raised against them. i.e. SAP Event Management allows companies to manage their process by exception.

This book is intended for the following

- Executives looking for ways of reducing their costs through process optimization, status management and process visibility

- Project team members using SAP EM related functionality

- System and Solution Architects who need to know about the best kept secret at SAP in order to possibly utilize it in future designs

Highlights
1 - Executive overview of SAP EM describing what it is, what it comprises of, where the benefits lie and ultimately what value it brings to the table. This is a must read for the executives and system architects of companies.

2- Technical architecture covering its core services, deployment options and the differences between the various releases.

3 - Application system and SAP Event Management functionality

4 - An implementation methodology showing the steps required to implement SAP EM at your organization successfully.

5 - Troubleshooting guide.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2010

About the author

Kevin Wilson is an Associate Partner and Sr. SAP Solution Architect at Q Data USA Inc. with a primary focus of facilitating solutions for companies experiencing SAP process and technical integration pains. His solutions cover the various applicable toolsets provided by SAP to accomplish real value, whether it be SAP Workflow, SAP NetWeaver PI, EDI, ALE, ABAP or SAP Event Management.

For the past 13 years he has utilized these skill sets to help many companies automate their processes and bring the visibility of their statuses to the end users through SAP Event Management.

He is very actively involved in the SAP Event Management community as the Influence Council representative, working with fellow users and SAP to help better the product. Kevin speaks regularly at user group meetings and conferences and has spoken in Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Philadelphia, Illinois, Nevada and Nice, France. He regularly gives webinars and training sessions to users on all topics in his area of expertise including SAP Event Management, SAP Workflow, EDI, ABAP, XI BPM and ALE.

Kevin runs several SAP related on-line communities including ERPGenie, WorkflowGenie, EDIGenie, myPIGenie and 2 SAP Event Management Forums.

Kevin holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and a diploma in Project Management (Cum Laude).

Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the author of the first book on SAP Event Management I am proud to be a part of it. I've been working with SAP Event Management since 2006 and it's one of those products that immediately struck me as being invaluable. So many of my previous clients have asked me questions like "What's the count of my order going through my process fully automated?" or "What % of my products are shipped on time?" or "Where are the issues in my process?". As an SAP Solution Architect, I deal with just these types of concerns and have always needed to come up with the processes to minimize the exceptions... Now I add SAP Event Management on top to monitor these processes to uncover and report on these exceptions which allows the customer to manage their processes by exception. This is HUGE!!! This saves time and expense.
The book is aligned to address the high level executive reader down to those already involved in the SAP EM world. Enjoy the read and let me know what you think.