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—Jim Keogh

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About the Authors

José Antonio Hernandez is the Managing Director of Offilog in Spain, a subsidiary of

CIBER Novasoft. He is responsible for the SAP Technology Business Unit,

concentrating on SAP NetWeaver-related projects, and in one year built a highly

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Implementation Guide, and Roadmap to mySAP.com. The first of those books, now ready

for the third edition and translated into several languages, is one of the best-selling SAP

books in the world.

Jim Keogh is on the faculty of Columbia University and Saint Peter's College in Jersey

City, New Jersey. He developed the e-commerce track at Columbia University. Keogh

has spent decades developing applications for major Wall Street corporations and is the

author of more than 65 books, including J2EE: The Complete Reference, Java

Demystified, JavaScript Demystified, Data Structures Demystified, XML Demystified, and

others in the Demystified series.

Franklin Martinez is a partner in Effective Internet Solutions LLC, a nationally

recognized firm that provides custom solutions to enterprises that are re-engineering

mission-critical systems. Martinez has spent over a decade developing and implementing

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for major corporate clients and has been a

technical project manager responsible for hands-on integration of SAP and PeopleSoft

products

About the Contributing Writer

knowledge and leadership skills, he is considered a key advisor within SAP, and has been

an acclaimed speaker at SAP's TechEd forum.

About the Technical Editor

German Mesa is a NetWeaver technology consultant with SAP Spain. German received

his master's degree in science from the University of Madrid in 1994. From 1994 to 1997,

he was a researcher at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering in

Leuven, where his main research topics concerned new composite materials and

advanced numerical modeling. Back in Madrid he joined Telecinco Television where he

specialized in integration between SAP and non-SAP components and applications. Prior

to joining SAP in 2004, he worked with SAP-related technologies for seven years at the