1. SAP BEx Simplified: Business Explorer for End-Users
Naeem Hashmi (Chief Research Officer, Information Frameworks): A comprehensive book on SAP Business Explorer (BEx). Novice and expert BW consultants will find step-by-step instruction on BEx how-to reporting very helpful anytime when question like - how BEx does that? - comes to mind. A must read for BW consultants interested in learning BEx reporting.
Keenan Malinich (Strategic Projects Manager, DaimlerChrysler): The best and most realistic work on using Business Warehouse that I have ever read."
2. SAP and BW Data Warehousing: How to plan and implement
S. Bennett: Best BW treatise available on the market today. After having scoured the market for instructive books on the BW, I can now finally say I found one that takes a matter-of-fact approach to unraveling the mysteries of the Business Warehouse. This is an excellent book for all members of an organization's BW team - all the way from the Chief Information Technology Officer (probably the most important but the least likely to read the book) down to the developers working in the trenches.
Having come to the Business Warehouse project with a background in both Inmon- and Kimball-based data warehousing, I especially like the way Mr. Kahn explains BW theory from a traditional point of view. The SAP classes that I have attended and the other BW books that I have read make very little attempt to explain the BW architecture from the perspective of traditional data warehousing theory. Until reading this book, I often felt that I would have been better off coming to the BW table with no prior knowledge of data warehousing. Also, I have spent the last 8 years working on 3 different data warehousing projects and can assure you that Mr. Kahn's advice on pitfalls to avoid are right on the money. This book is a must read for anyone involved in or about to embark upon a SAP Business Warehouse project.
