Library Discipline

Developer(s):
Hochschule Niederrhein: Birgit Lankes and Detlev Frick
California State University Chico: Gail Corbitt

Description
This course consists of modules for introduction to Project Management (PM), using Solution Manager as the PM Method. It takes two approaches. The first uses Solution Manager to implement/configure SAP ERP as a single project (Chico model) and the second uses multiple independent projects within the same course (Niederrhein model).

Developer(s): Ross Quarles and Fawzi Noman (Sam Houston State University) 

Course Description: This case is a "bottoms up" configuration case that requires students to complete the configuration of the FI, MM, CO, PP, and SD modules for the Quazi Computer Company. This configuration involves the completion of guided exercises to configure the specific elements of organizational structure and master data for each module in a specified order. At four milestones in the configuration, the student will complete a Business Case in which transactions will be processed through the configuration completed to that point that tests the actual configuration. Student submissions for these Business Cases consist of screen shots of the documents they have produced from processing transactions through their configured modules. The case is housed in the same UCC client as are the Flya Kite series of cases. This case will accommodate up to 999 student users.

Developer:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee:  Dave Haseman

Description:
This is an advanced course which will focus the integration of SAP NetWeaver Portals and Visual Composer with SAP NetWeaver BW and BI. The course focuses on the creation of business analytic applications using SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. The addition of the BI Kit to the Visual Composer provides developers with access to both OLTP and OLAP data systems. The BI Kit also provides a tool called the BI integration Wizard. Also covered will be Enterprise Portals iViews connected to Business Warehouse. Applications covered will include BW data related to Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Financial and Controlling (FI/CO).

Developer:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee:  Dave Haseman

Description:
This is an advanced module which focuses on the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE). Composite applications access existing functionality via service-enabled interfaces. The SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment 7.1 EhP1 provides a toolset and runtime for developing, running, and efficiently managing composite applications using SAP's enterprise SOA. It builds upon proven technologies that have been enhanced and integrated to provide greater functionality and flexibility, including: (1) Application Server for Java and Developer Studio, (2) Service Registry and repository, (3) Business Process Management and Business Rules Management, (4) Visual Composer for UI modeling and (5) Composite Application Framework. This module is based upon the preview version (7.1 EhP1) of SAP NetWeaver and provides an overview of the above concepts and demonstrates these concepts using the CE version of Visual Composer.

Developer(s):
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Dave Haseman

Description
SAP NetWeaver Portal unifies key information and applications to give users a single view that spans IT silos and organizational boundaries. It allows you to take full advantage of all your information resources - and maximize the return on your IT investments. And, its predefined business content accelerates implementation and reduces the cost of integrating your existing systems. With SAP NetWeaver Portal, you can quickly and effectively integrate SAP solutions, third-party applications, legacy systems, databases, unstructured documents, internal and external Web content, and collaboration tools. It uses open standards, Web services, and tight integration with other SAP NetWeaver components to support heterogeneous systems from all major technology providers. And it comes with built-in support for Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft .NET technology.

Developer(s):
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Dave Haseman

Description
This course provide students with essential knowledge and skills needed to effectively architect and integrate information systems used by an enterprise and its partners.  It familiarize students with key concepts, approaches related to information system integration, exposes students to technologies commonly used for information system integration and provides students with the skills needed to implement integration solutions with the SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI).

Developer: 
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee:  Dave Haseman 

Description:
Organizations find the need to develop custom "front end" web based applications to add functionality to and make their ERP systems more user friendly. This course will provide students with the conceptual foundation as well as hands on experience at developing these web based applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The course will assume students are familiar with developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio using either the VB or C# language. The course uses the PDK.Net plug-in developed jointly by Microsoft and SAP. Students will learn to use NetWeaver specific controls along with the existing .Net controls. Students will develop portals iViews, windows and web applications which access SAP backend systems. (FI/CO).

Developer(s):
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Dave Haseman

Description
Organizations find the need to develop custom "front end" web based applications to add functionality to and make their ERP systems more user friendly. This course will provide students with the conceptual foundation as well as hands on experience at developing these web based applications. The course teaches SAP Visual Composer, which focuses on the model oriented development approach. Visual Composer is a powerful design tool that facilitates the creation of portal content using a graphical user interface, rather than manually writing code. It provides sophisticated, yet simple-to-use tools for creating portal iViews that process data from back-end systems such as SAP ERP and SAP BI, as well as external sources such as relational databases and Web services.

Developer(s):
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee: Dave Haseman

Description
Organizations find the need to develop custom "front end" web based applications to add functionality to and make their ERP systems more user friendly. This course will provide students with the conceptual foundation as well as hands on experience at developing these web based applications. The course teaches SAP Web Dynpro for Java, which is directed towards the business application developer. Web Dynpro is SAP's development environment for creating professional web user interfaces for business applications. Its model-driven approach minimizes manual coding and uses visual tools to design and reuse UI components. Web Dynpro is based on a powerful and flexible Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture that ensures a clear separation of user interfaces and back-end services. Developers have full control of the generated code at all stages of the development process.

Developer(s):
Widener University: Yvonne Lederer-Antonucci

Description
These labs walk the student through creating a simple workflow in SAP. Workflow in SAP integrates people, process and technology. These labs demonstrate the underlying process logic for business practices in SAP. Business Processes in SAP are represented based on a company's organization structure. In defining the organization, the people and roles are identified. Therefore the organization structure must be defined first. The process is represented by a set of tasks integrated with organizational objects such as roles, technologies, data, methods, forms, etc... After the organizational plan has been created, the student is instructed on how to create the standard tasks needed for the workflow in addition to assigning appropriate organizational agents and technologies to each task. Once the tasks are created, then these tasks are integrated to create the workflow definition. Process logic is stressed within the labs. The final lab shows the student how to test a workflow that has already been completed and introduces the student to various methods of reporting and analyzing a workflow instance.

Developer(s):
Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen am Rhein: Klaus Freyburger
Hochschule der Meiden: Peter Lehmann
California State University Chico: Lorraine Gardiner
Victoria University: Paul Hawking and Robert Jovanovic
Fachhochschule Ansbach: Bernd Heesen

Description
The business intelligence course consists of modules designed for flexible use in a variety of courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Modules labeled BI1 contain introductory, user-focused content while those with a BI2 prefix are intended for a more technical audience.

Developer(s):
Bellevue College: Linda Rumans, IT & CS
NWCET: Michele Royer

Description:
The Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE) was awarded a grant by the Center for Homeland Security to create IT and Cyber Security Curriculum. This curricula material available is the Cyber Security Background powerpoint.

To see what other publicly available materials were created via the Center for Homeland Security's grant, click to visit the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) site HERE.

NWCET is affiliated and co-located with the Washington State Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE), a statewide resource for community and technical colleges, the K-20 educational system, and the information technology (IT) industry.

Developer(s):
Bellevue College: Linda Rumans, IT & CS
NWCET: Michele Royer

Description:
The Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE) was awarded a grant by the Center for Homeland Security to create IT and Cyber Security Curriculum. This curricula material available is the Cyber Security Case Studies.

To see what other publicly available materials were created via the Center for Homeland Security's grant, click to visit the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) site HERE.

NWCET is affiliated and co-located with the Washington State Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE), a statewide resource for community and technical colleges, the K-20 educational system, and the information technology (IT) industry.

Developer(s):
Bellevue College: Linda Rumans, IT & CS
NWCET: Michele Royer

Description:
The Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE) was awarded a grant by the Center for Homeland Security to create IT and Cyber Security Curriculum. This curricula material available is the Cyber Security Project.

To see what other publicly available materials were created via the Center for Homeland Security's grant, click to visit the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) site HERE.

NWCET is affiliated and co-located with the Washington State Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE), a statewide resource for community and technical colleges, the K-20 educational system, and the information technology (IT) industry.

Developer(s):
Bellevue College: Linda Rumans, IT & CS
NWCET: Michele Royer

Description:
The Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE) was awarded a grant by the Center for Homeland Security to create IT and Cyber Security Curriculum. This curricula material available is the Cyber Security Job Examples.

To see what other publicly available materials were created via the Center for Homeland Security's grant, click to visit the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET) site HERE.

NWCET is affiliated and co-located with the Washington State Center for Information Technology Excellence (CITE), a statewide resource for community and technical colleges, the K-20 educational system, and the information technology (IT) industry.

SAP has a large library of materials that are relevant to Computer Science and Information Technology. We have gathered a number of them here for your use. We also encourage you to explore other articles available from the entire SCN Community through the SCN article repository.

Running and Optimizing the Business of IT: The SAP Best Practices Approach (Whitepaper) 

SAP Services: Bringing Your IT Investments to Life

Alto Parana (SAP Customer Success Story)

Carlsberg Polska (Customer Success Story)

Carter Holt Harvey (Solution Manager Success Story)

Making Life Cycle Assessment Practical for Business

SAP ERP Solution Map

Under the Spotlight: The Transition of Environmental Risk Management (Economic Intelligence Unit)

Driving Effective Quality for Enterprise Applications

Border States Industries - SAP Software Empowers Wholesale Distributor

We have created a bibliography of academic articles that are relevant to both Computer Science and Information Technology. The first few of these articles are listed below. The complete list can be accessed by clicking here.

It is our intention to keep this bibliography current, and we would welcome your suggestions for articles that should be included. You can post your suggestions in the UA Library Reference Desk Forum.

Vogels on architecture, his role as CTO. (2008). InformationWeek (pp. 20-21).

Baghdadi, Y. (2006). Architecture for deploying e-business: Business processes, web services-business interactions manager, and information systems. International Journal of Electronic Business, 4(1), 18-39.

Bell, A. E. (2008). From the front lines DOA with SOA. Communications of the ACM, 51(10), 27-28.

Booch, G. (2006). The accidental architecture. IEEE Software, 23(3), 9-11.

Casola, V., Mancini, E. P., Mazzocca, N., Rak, M., & Villano, U. (2008). Self-optimization of secure web services. Computer Communications, 31(18), 4312-4323.

View the full bibliography by clicking here.