sap

[Former Member]

can anyone tell me what is the real meaning of SAP-SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTS(SAP).In this what is mean by systems ,applications and products.

[RichHeilman]

In german it stands for "SAP stands for Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung"

The english translation is Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing.

Its just a name.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

i feel there is real meaning behind SAP,i wish to know it . i hope it is not just a name there should be some purpose for it.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Got this from a link,

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What is SAP?</b>

SAP is the acronym for Systems, Applications, Products. It is a mainframe system that provides users with a soft real time business application. It contains a user interface and is extremely flexible.

<b>What is the history of SAP?</b>

Systems, Applications, Products in data processing or SAP was originally introduced in the 1980’s as SAP R/2 which was a mainframe system that provided users with a soft-real-time business application that could be used with multiple currencies and languages. Later when client servers were introduced SAP brought out a server based version of their software called SAP R/3, henceforth referred to as SAP, which was launched in 1992. They also developed a graphical user interface or GUI to make it more user friendly and to move away from the mainframe style user interface. For the next 10 years SAP dominated the large business applications market. It was successful primarily because it was extremely flexible. Because SAP was a modular system meaning that the various functions provided by it could be purchased piecemeal it was an extremely versatile system. All a company needed to do was purchase the modules they wanted and customize the processes to match the company’s business model. SAP’s flexibility, while one of its greatest strengths is also one of its greatest weaknesses. We will now turn to the audit issues surrounding SAP.

Thanks,

Ruthra