Thursday 8 December 2011

SAP ERP

The SAP ERP application is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors. It allows for open communication within and between all company functions.

SAP - Systems Analysis and Programming 

AG is a German software corporation SAP was founded in June 1972 as Systems analysis and programming by five former IBM engineers.

SAP Solution was launched …

Year 1973:  SAP R / 1  
Year 1979:  SAP R / 2
Year 1992-95:  SAP R / 3 

R - Stood for real-time 
3 - Related to the 3-tier architecture: database, application server and client

The current version is SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 6.0

SAP Trend

SAP followed the trend from mainframe computing to client-server architectures.

SAP uses the concept of modules (individual programs that can be purchased, installed, and run separately, but that all extract data from the common database).

Key Functional Areas

SAP's ERP solution includes several modules that support key functional areas, including:
  • SAP ERP Financials
  • SAP ERP Operations
  • SAP ERP Human Capital Management

2 comments:

  1. Hi ! In short you have given a basic detail about SAP ERP. Using this information a fresher can easily get to know about this system. Thanks for sharing it.
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