Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Today, more than 12 million people in 120 countries that work for 36,200 companies are using SAP® on a regular basis. This represents somewhere around 100,600 SAP installations, which had to be built, configured, and, after a while, upgraded to the next release. This process is known as “Upgrading SAP.”

“Upgrading SAP” provides a complete overview of the upgrade process from one SAP release to the next. In addition, it explains the use of all relevant SAP upgrade tools. Besides a technical description of the SAP NetWeaver® Application Server (AS), it also puts some attention on the people aspect of such upgrade project and the management of it. “Upgrading SAP” is not only about IT, it is also about the question of how ...

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