Is there any place where I may find a free no-nags tutorial or lecture on Enterprise Resource Planing or SAP. I want to just study for self interest, and am not looking for credit or a certification so spending *any* money on it is out of the question.
SAP dis, SAP is a monster, so first you'd have to figure out what part of SAP you'd like to learn. They are many modules, such as FI, SD, etc. Then there is the programming side (ABAP), the admin. side (BASIS), etc. There are some books out there that have a functioning version of SAP on CD (one of my ABAP books does, at least).
Will this help? Would any of these links (some of which are now probably broken) help? Free SAP Training and Tutorials http://134.198.33.115/sap/saptutorial.htm SAP Tutorial http://searchsap.techtarget.com/ searchSAP.com - a SAP-Specific Portal for IT professionals focused on SAP. Site features include, Fast and focused search capabilities Links to relevant content, editorial insight and summaries, Daily industry news and weekly technology tips delivered via email. http://freebooks.by.ru/view/Abap4in21day/index.htm Sams Teach Yourself ABAP/4 in 21 Days - free book http://www.antarcon.com/ Antarcon - Free SAP & ABAP community http://www.intelligenterp.com/resources.shtml SAP Resources http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/training/ http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/docs/webdocs/getstarted/gs.html SAP Training - online training and learning material available http://sap.mis.cmich.edu/sap-ual.htm SAP University Alliance Links http://sap.mis.cmich.edu/sap-esoft00.htm SAP Introductory Course Lessons and Other Course Support http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/docs/webdocs/paperdocs.html Downloading paper SAP documents http://www.bus.utexas.edu/dept/msis/courses/syllabi_spring/MIS%20382N.4%20scott.htm http://www.bus.utexas.edu/dept/msis/courses/syllabi_spring/MIS%20373.3%20scott.htm University of Texas Course - The University of Texas has one of the premier SAP courses, and has some of its course information on the web, including student projects. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/solutions/sap.html SAP R/3 Redbooks - Here are several free books from IBM on SAP R/3 http://www.sapfaq.com SAP Frequently Asked Questions http://www.workflowing.com/id35.htm Frequentaly Asked Questions about SAP Business Workflow http://src.thehub.com.au/ SAP Resource Center http://www.sapfans.com SAP Fans SAP Fans site http://www.sapfans.com/sapfans/repos/saprep.htm SAP Repository page from sapfans.com http://www.brabandt.de/html/sap_tips___tricks.htm SAP Tips and Tricks http://sap.ittoolbox.com/ ITToolbox Portal for SAP http://sap.ittoolbox.com/newsletter/selectlist.asp 2 Free SAP Newsletters http://www.prima-tech.com/custom/sap/ More How-To SAP Books http://198.112.59.30/home/print9497.nsf/all/SL10sapwrk Computer World Aritcle, "Cashing in on SAP skills isn't so easy" http://www.sap-professional.org/ SAP Professional Organization, has forum archives and links http://help.sap.com/ SAP Help Portal, a great site for all SAP Documentation online for free http://www.sap.com SAP Home Page - Official home page of SAP http://www.sap.com/education/index.htm SAP Education - these courses cost money http://sap.ittoolbox.com/ http://academic.uofs.edu/faculty/gramborw/sap/saptutorial.htm http://www.controller.cmich.edu/SAP/saphelp.htm http://www.originet.com.br/users/miranda/ http://www.solutions-gmbh.de/hr/defaltEB.stm http://ifr.sap.com/ http://www.geocities.com/santosh_karkhanis/index.html ABAP Central Information, help, source code, tutorials http://www.scott.net/~solomon/ ABAP Reference Online ABAP programming language reference http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/teaching/sap_r3/ABAP4/abapindx.htm Allen Davis & Associates SAP Career Center - Tips & comments on SAP trends http://www.softwarejobs.com/sap.html Bill's page Bill Bradford's page (resources & consultants contact) http://home.earthlink.net/~thebradfords/ Cambridge Publications MIT - SAP Mailing list archives (search engine) http://www.documentation.com/saplist/saplist.htm CT-Softwareberatungs GmbH Tools and Training in the field of standard software R/3 & ABAP programming (tips & tricks, sample reports) http://www.ct-software.com Finnish User Group SAP Finnish User Group http://www.sapfinug.fi Group of MM Consultants Sap's MM module information and links http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/6345/ Imre & Kinga Kabai's homepage Helpful ABAP programs for system administrators http://www.kabai.com/abaps/q.htm LOGOS Consulting Experts in interface development using IDocs, ALE, RFC and Desktop Integration http://www.logosworld.de/logos/index.htm PrimeStaff IT & SAP Recruiting Specialists (resources & opportunities) http://www.primestaff.net RealTime-USA SAP newsgroup archive and other services http://www.realtime-usa.com SAP Labs, Inc. Sap's research and development teams http://www.saplabs.com/ Sap R/3 consultants network SAP R/3 and ABAP4 Knowledge Server http://www.bgs.dk/ SAP Resource Centre SAP related information, products, links. http://src.thehub.com.au Sapiens Melanie Kovarik SAP page (links and other references) http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/1635/ Sapient es, Inc. Specializing in the placement of ABAP/4 programmers http://www.sap-abap-jobs.com SAPProJournal Electronic version of SAP Professional Journal http://www.sappro.com CIO.COM / ERP ERP/Supply Chain Research Center http://www.cio.com/forums/erp/ SAP Info Indian SAP Info site (Ramesh Kumar) http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Park/5407/sapinfo.html Kabai's homepage Imre & Kinga Kabai's homepage http://www.kabai.com/ Siemens AG SAP R/3 live & run (Siemens solutions) http://www.siemens.de/sap/index_en.shtml Siam-ease Simmonds and Associates Product for SAP R/3 http://home.global.co.za/~simmonds/siamease.html SAP Club SAP Club site http://www.sapclub.com/content/mainframe.html SAP Resources The specialist SAP recruiter service http://www.sap-resources.com/saprhome.htm SAP Assist IT Toolbox Portal for SAP http://www.sapassist.com HelpS@P The Knowledge Resource for SAP Professionals http://www.helpsap.com Foro ABAP Foro de discusión sobre ABAP/4 en español http://members.es.tripod.de/abap4/ SAPiT Consulting Consulting firm specialized in SAP R/3 http://www.sapit.net/ SAR Consultants Project implementation and specialist service http://www.sar-consultants.com/ Zoption Third-party software for SAP R/3 http://zoption.com/ Phase Two Consulting Consulting firm specialized in SAP R/3 http://www.phasetwoconsulting.com/ Abapers.com Online information service for ABAP programmers http://www.abapers.com/ ABAP Efficient Efficiencie Guidelines http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/6338/abapp.html German Intro An Introduction to German for ABAP/4 Programmer http://www.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/sap-germ.html Popey.com Alan Popes Website http://www.popey.com/ Wong Matt Wong's SAP Basis Site http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Grid/4858/sap/ ASUG American SAP User's Group http://www.asug.com Hope that helps!