SAP Course Manuals, scanning, op->digital txt conversion (and SAP KW)

[Former Member]

I'm posting this in Coffee Corner because I don't know where else to post the question.

Say a student pays for an SAP technical course and takes the course manual home, with the solution code examples in it.

With current scanning and op->digital text conversion technology, the student can scan in the manual, run the result thru an op->digitial text conversion program, and wind-up with a completely machine readable copy of the entire manual.

So since this is the case, why shouldn't SAP say: OK, if you've paid for the course, then you can request a machine-readable copy of the manual for a nominal processing fee?

Related question - I was recently told if your site has Knowledge Warehouse, then you not only have all the SAP course manuals but also all the actual sample objects used in the course, even for complex objects such as workflows, which involve a lot more than actual code.

Is this true?

Does KW have the manuals on-line?

Does it also have the sample objects on-line (I'm not sure I see how SAP could do this,but then again, SAP can do anything, so maybe it's true.)

djh

[Former Member]

Hi David

If you look at <a href="http://service.sap.com/trainingcontent">Service Marketplace</a> (S number required) you should find some details of what is shipped.

Cheers

[Former Member]

Hi Michael - Thanks very much for the tip. Much appreciated - will check first thing tomorrow.

Regards

djh

[Former Member]

Hi David

Once the student has taken the material home, technically they can copy it to all sorts of other media, but I'm fairly sure there are some copyright issues involved.

Yes, some customers can get access to the soft copy of the content, for a price of course.

However, attending SAP training is more than just the material. The exercises themselves often require quite complcated setup in the appropriate SAP system (ABAP, Java etc) and I don't believe these are available for anyone else.

Cheers

[Former Member]

Hi Michael -

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I myself didn't think it was possible for SAP to have all set-ups for all course "solution" code-examples in the Knowledge Warehouse, and that's why I raised the question. Perhaps the person who told me that the code "solution" examples were in KW just meant the code segments themselves, and not the necessary underpinning "set-ups".

Further clarification on this point would be appreciated, if anyone knows exactly what is/isn't in KW.

djh