Dennis Barrett's SAP Web links

Some SAP links on the Internet

SAP Americas - Newtown Square PA, outside of Philadelphia
ASUG - Americas' SAP Users' Group

SAP Fans Home Page - The SAP Fan Club and User Forum
SAP Best Web Links - There are lots of collections of links to SAP pages on the web (including mine of course).
"SAP Best Web Links" is a good one.
ITtoolbox - Discussion community for SAP.
SAP FAQ - Frequently-asked questions about SAP
OpenITx - A peer-to-peer support network that features email-based discussion groups that focus on technology and vendor selection.
SearchSAP - "The Web's best SAP-specific information resource for enterprise IT professionals."

SAP training courses that I have heard or read about:

SAP Training Centers and SAP Academy were opened to the public in 2002. Telephone 888-777-1727
University of Phoenix offers credit for SAP classes.
ABAP computer-based training materials.

People are now starting to develop and offer programming tools for use with SAP:

ABAP Editor and Debug Simulator which allows testing ABAPs on any standard PC (single step, forward/backward, breakpoints...) without the help of an R/3 system.
G S Software - Tools and Techniques for faster Programming
SAPEdit External ABAP Editor from Inprise (nee Borland)
Synactive, LLC GUIxt allows you to adapt your GUI to your preferences

Books and News sources about SAP and other ERP suppliers

SAP Publications - publishers of SAP Professional Journal and SAP Insider magazines.
SAP Press
Information Week Magazine
CIO Magazine

There are a number of recruiting and contracting organizations that focus on SAP placements and have an Internet presence.
Here are some of them (no recommendation is implied).

Jon Reed is one of the premier SAP recruiters and publishes a very informative newsletter about SAP consulting and products.
Go to mySAPcareers to subscribe to "SAP eCareer Transitions Newsletter" - Jon’s Guide to SAP Careers in the e-Business Era featuring job opportunities in SAP, mySAP, and SAP e-Business.
SAP Resources "Dedicated to SAP jobs. Where will your next one be?"
SAP Careers "A global employment portal exclusively for SAP professionals worldwide."
erp-jobs An on-line service database that enables people and companies to advertise their career/contract opportunities and their availability
RFP Services erp-jobs is running this online Request-for-Proposal pool.
ERP-Consulting.com "designed by working ERP consultants in the fields of SAP, Baan, PeopleSoft, Oracle apps, JDE, and CRM - as a conduit for identifying qualified and real ERP project opportunities..."

(Remember, SAP is a German company; you'll run into German language material now and again.)

German - English On-line Dictionary
AltaVista's Babelfish language translator
FreeTranslation.com

List servers and newsgroups

Listserv: sap-r3-l@mitvma.mit.edu

To have this list server drop discussions in your e-mail box, send an email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
and type SUBSCRIBE SAP-R3-L into the subject line.

Newsgroup: de.alt.comp.sap-r3

Go to DejaNews if your news source doesn't include this German newsgroup.

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