SAP

Ever heard of ERP’s? ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning.And what does that do?

Apartment complexes these days are well connected aren’t they?You have 1000 apartments in one complex.And all these apartments are usually connected by a telephone system.Anyone can call anyone.Now all these connections are managed by one system aren’t they?Similarly imagine a very very large software company.They might have terabytes of data.The number of departments and cross functional teams are varied.Now all this data has to be integrated,managed,collected and stored for running the company.How is this done?This is where ERP’s come into place.They are a set of native applications that perform the above tasks.

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in data processing.And it is a widely used ERP software.SAP was created in 1972 by a set of IBM engineers.It has widely gained popularity since then and now SAP SE is the fourth largest software company in the world.!So what does SAP do?It integrates all the functions for data handling into one system that works as one unit by sharing information.SAP works as three tie architecture:

• Presentation:Has the SAP GUI which helps the user interact with the database layer via the application layer.
• Application Layer:Has the modules for carrying out the tasks.
• Database Layer: Has all the data needed for the ERP SAP systems.

SAP s not limited to one area of application.It provides solutions in the following areas:

• Supply chain management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Product Life Cycle Management
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Advanced Planning and Optimization

The technical modules of SAP deals with primarily ABAP(Advanced Business Applicaton Programming) is an object oriented programming language that helps develop applications in SAP,XI- Exchange Infrastructure,Net Viewer etc.SAP in short is a business application that is helping to bring technology and business together.

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