COMPENDIT Team Authors Comprehensive SAP BW 3.0 Book: 516-Page Book, Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse, Receives Praise Upon Release

Business Wire, Sept 3, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2002

COMPENDIT, Inc. announces the publication of a comprehensive book on the SAP Business Information Warehouse software component. Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse (Wiley), written by COMPENDIT team members and William H. Inmon, the acknowledged father of data warehousing, provides readers with a comprehensive yet concise reference book for the SAP data warehousing and analytic application platform - a centerpiece for nearly every mySAP solution. The book is now available.

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse provides users of all experience levels with an all-in-one guide to SAP BW. The 516-page book covers everything from the basics to the most sophisticated implementations. "This book is insightful, educational, and thought provoking for even the most seasoned SAP BI individual. The authors did an excellent job of incorporating historical business data warehousing into an up-to-date guide to SAP BW and business intelligence that will be very valuable to readers for years to come," said Richard M. Dunning, Chair of the American SAP Users Group's BI & Analytics Interest Group.

The book's authors include, Kevin McDonald, the CEO of COMPENDIT, Inc. a consulting organization that specializes in Business Intelligence and SAP. Prior to working at COMPENDIT he was a corporate spokesperson for SAP throughout the launch of the SAP BW. He was also the author of the first SAP BW product map. Andreas Wilmsmeier was a member of the SAP BW development team prior to becoming a managing director of COMPENDIT Deutschland GmbH. David C. Dixon is a Director of Business Intelligence at COMPENDIT, Inc. and a former SAP `platinum consultant,' Bill Inmon is acknowledged as the father of data warehousing and is a partner in billinmon.com, a website for information on data warehousing and related technologies.

"This book should be a standard reference for every SAP BW architect and implementer. It effectively walks the tightrope between high-level background information and technical details. The authors lay out the SAP Business Information Warehouse options for designing a collaborative, closed loop analytic application based upon the Business Content building blocks," said Dr. Wolfgang Martin, Independent Analyst and META Group Research Fellow.

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse is the first title in Wiley's highly regarded series on data warehousing to focus on SAP.

About the book:

Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Kevin McDonald, Andreas Wilmsmeier, David C. Dixon, and William H.
Inmon
$60.00
ISBN: 0-471-29171-1
516 pages

More information about the book and its authors is also available on the World Wide Web at the URL http://www.compendit.com

About COMPENDIT

COMPENDIT offers premiere, industry leading Business Intelligence services that allow SAP customers to strategically analyze information and accurately forecast for optimized operations, better customer service and improved bottom line performance. By applying analytics solutions and innovative technologies such as portals across the enterprise and in specific business areas such as Customer Relationship and Supply Chain Management, COMPENDIT's unparalleled service offerings help companies "unlock" their information across both SAP and other applications, and integrate external data sources. COMPENDIT, Inc. is a privately held company with office locations in the United States and Germany and was recently named to Dun & Bradstreet and Entrepreneur Magazine's 8th annual "HOT 100" list of America's fastest-growing new businesses.