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What is SAP ?

Former Member — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:10:06 GMT

I want the professional answer and everyone will understand who knows SAP.

Re: What is SAP ?

Former Member — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:12:28 GMT

Hi,

SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall.

The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.

SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.

SAP has recently recast its product offerings under a comprehensive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new e-business applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM).

As of January 2007, SAP, a publicly traded company, had over 38,4000 employees in over 50 countries, and more than 36,200 customers around the world. SAP is turning its attention to small- and-medium sized businesses (SMB). A recent R/3 version was provided for IBM's AS/400 platform.

Regards

Sudheer

Re: What is SAP ?

Former Member — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:12:49 GMT

it was nothing but systems applications and products for bussiness processing, it was kind of ERP which serves almost every functionality in an organization.

Thanks

Ram

Re: What is SAP ?

RichHeilman — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:13:11 GMT

Ok..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_AG

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Rich Heilman

Re: What is SAP ?

Former Member — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:13:12 GMT

SAP is an enterprise solution package which interlinks several modules viz FI, MM, CO, SD, PP, QM, PM & helps the management in planning, optimizing data which eventually helps in better handling of Company.

Re: What is SAP ?

RichHeilman — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:14:29 GMT

Sudheer, you could have just linked to it, you didn't have to copy/paste it.

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Rich Heilman

Re: What is SAP ?

Former Member — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:27:35 GMT

<a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-enterprise-resource-planning.htm">first, what is ERP?</a>

<a href="http://www.sapfans.com/sapfans/saphist.htm">about SAP</a>

<a href="http://www.sap.com/company/history.epx">growth of SAP</a>

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srinivas

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