What SAP means?

[JozsefSzikszai]

hi all Indians in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and all other places!

once I heard that SAP stands for <b>S</b>oftware <b>A</b>us <b>P</b>akistan ('aus' means from in German). Do you think this is true? Is this software really from Pakistan?

funny answers will surely be rewarded

ec

[Former Member]

OK, I didn't see it there so I'll give it to all:

During our implementation project, 2001-02, it seemed that the project budget gave us license to order out a lot for lunchtime meetings, training sessions, and late night work sessions to get caught up. Therefore we all said it meant <b>Stealthly Adding Pounds</b>. And that we did.

Myron

[Former Member]

Hi Eric,

Some funny abbs..................:)

<b>Salary Advance Program

Stop All Production (Offshore (oil) workers)

Submit And Pray (ABAP Programmers)

Suffering And Pain

Suffer And Pay (Someone who paid the License fees

Shai Agassi Products.

State of Andhra Pradesh</b>

Regards

Gokul

[Former Member]

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

SAP

Applied to stealthy or insidious methods of attacking or destroying something.

or

Short for sapskull. A simpleton, a fool

(Judging by many of the forum questions, I'm not sure everyone is over 18.)

Rob

[Former Member]

Ah .... you youngsters are making me feel young again, by reminding me of the days when IMS was called ...

<i>... It MustBe Somewhere</i>

Thank you! Better than a sitz-bath,

Regards

djh

[Former Member]

<i>Sleepless and Perplexed

Smile Always Please

Sleep After Project

See America Plan

Slow And Painful

Slaves And Prisoners

Spend All Profits

Say A Prayer

</i>

[Former Member]

Sod All Programmers

[Former Member]

a lot of funny ones at http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:SJL07RM_0lIJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/SAP/Q_206566...SAPshutupandpay&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca&client=firefox-a

[Former Member]

Software Aus Pakistan isn't compatible with IE, or Mozilla; you gotta do Al-Jazeera

No offense.:)

ps : Mario Herger would surely know what SAP means, too bad he stopped doing humor.

[Former Member]

Hi Eric!

You have a nice hungarian name btw

What about

- Slow And Painful

- Szeretjük A Problémákat (We love problems)

Regards

Tamá

[JozsefSzikszai]

szia Tamas,

thanks for your input, unfortunately I cannot assign points in this thread...

regards

ec

[markus_doehr2]

lol - great thread!

I have some more (we're all over 18):

Sand Am **** (sand on ****)

Selektieren, Auswählen, Pause (select, mark, pause)

Schrecken, Angst und Panik (Scare, Fear and Panic)

Shut'up and Pay

Stops All Production

Sklaven Arbeiten Pausenlos (Slaves work restless)

and many many more you will find here:

ttp://www.lan-ks.de/~jochen/sap-r3/sap-kuerzel.html (site in German)

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Markus

[Former Member]

Great sense of humor !!!

i wish it Should have been rewarded with points...

[Former Member]

SAP actually represents THE three steps in any implementation:

When a customer decides to implement SAP, it hires a partner to do the job. The partner hires lots of technical consultants that will work between 16-20 hours a day, 5 days per week, to do the job. That's the "S" phase: Suffering.

Then, as the go-live approaches, the "incredible" team starts working 22-26 hours a day (yes, 26), 7 days per week... No one sleeps, psychiatrists get called, and the only food they get is pizza, twice a day. They have reached the "A" phase: Agony

And then it arrives, the long-awaited day: GO-LIVE.... All users are waiting to do all tests they couldn't do during implementation, and, suddenly, the system halts because an emergency transport file was transported out of order. Yes, my fellows, we have finnaly reached the "P" phase, the one everybody tries to avoid, but it's unavoidable: Panic.

Hope this clarifies things out.

Andre

[Former Member]

Hi Eric,

well not from india or pakistan but from germany:

Ständig andere Probleme = always other problems

Sammelbecken arbeitsloser Physiker = collecting basin for unemployed physicists

Sanduhr AnzeigeProgramm = sand glass (hourglass) display program

There are tons of such expressions out there.

regards

Siggi