For a newbie one of the tough thing is to stay up to date with the recent SAP versions and name changes. As a beginner, I also had some difficulty and been confused with the releases of the SAP. Do not feel yourself alone for this issue, as many complains arises for the naming scheme changes by users. I might still being  confused, so please correct me if the following list is wrong.

Note that the table above shows only name changes, not upgrade or updates. Besides i also want to point out that Netweaver 2004 and Netweaver 2004s are also not the same!

I should definitely suggest you reading A Guide to SAP Terms document written by Jon Reed , you can also follow Jon on Twitter

Sources:

• Important Name Change for BI
• SAP Solution Manager 4.0 Becomes SAP Solution Manager 7.0
• Confusion About SAP Netweaver 2004, SAP Netweaver 2004s, SAP Netweaver 2007
• SAP Netweaver 2004s Becomes SAP Netweaver 7.0

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Since i created a directory for SAP related blogs, i pay more attention on exploring and visiting new, fresh and frequently updated sites. But by time it becomes harder to keep all posts and inevitably you may miss some good posts.

Many of you know me personally, from my about page or from some talks i made in posts, I’m a self-taught SAP aspirant. And also because of being a blogger, i have to track other SAP blogs to improve my SAP knowledge and deliver them to you. At the beginning, yes it was too much time-consuming to follow updates of other sites but not anymore. So what is the solution ? [...]

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The International Demonstration and Education System (IDES) contains a fully-fledged model company that has been set up in an R/3 System. The IDES corporate group comprises a number of companies, each with predefined business tasks. All of these companies can be used individually, or in interaction with each other, to demonstrate how the R/3 System is integrated, and the range of functions that are available. [...]

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This e-book, written by an SAP Consultant who has worked for nineteen years as a freelancer, provides you most important strategies and behaviors to consider and implement in your daily consulting life. Some of highlights covered in book are as:

• Know the basics of the IT development process
• Be a Problem Solver
• Be Flexible
• Know Your Limitations
• Work Hard, Play Hard Too and so on…

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Below you will find some tips and tricks which are for commonly used procedures in SAP and that will save your time. Mainly the topics are;

• User File Capture of SAP Print Spool Output
• Determining Where a Field is Used
• System Access to Logical Databases
• Listing Standard SAP Reports Listing Reports by Group
• Listing the Reports Tree
• Make a Text File of an ABAP Program
• Exporting a Report Writer Report

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SAP Project Implementation is made simple by a methodology-package that is provided named ASAP (Accelerated SAP). This paper consists of three components: (1) ASAP Roadmap, (2) Tools, (3) R/3 Services & Training.
You will further explore what the three components consist of and how they help expedite the implementation process for each SAP Client.

ASAP ROADMAP:

• Project Preparation
• Business Blueprint
• Realization
• Final Preparation
• Go-live, support, and continuous improvement

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This is the most comprehensive Customization Guide i have ever met which consists of step step advise for each topics with screen prints and very clear definitions under:

• General Settings

Define Countries, Set Currencies, Set Calendar etc…

• Enterprise Structure

Define Company, Maintain Controlling Area, Define Location, Maintain Sales Office, Maintain Storage Location, Assign Company code to company/credit control area/controlling area, Assign Plant to Company code, Assign Sales Organization to Company code, Assign Purchasing Organization to Company code etc…

• Logistics-General

Configuring Material Master,Field Selection, Maintain Company Codes for Materials Management, Material Types, Define Material Groups/Divisions/Material Statuses/Number Ranges for EANs/UPCs (Barcode), Maintain Authorizations and Authorization Profiles etc…

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