What is the defination of SAP?

Question

"S A P " Managment related

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

What is SAP?

Systems, Applications, Products in data processing or SAP was originally introduced in the 1980’s as SAP R/2, which was a system that provided users with a soft-real-time business application that could be used with multiple currencies and languages. As Client-servers began to be 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. SAP also developed a graphical user interface, or GUI, to make the system 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. A company could simply purchase modules that 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 that lead to the SAP audit.

There are three main enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems used in today’s larger businesses: SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft. ERP's are specifically designed to help with the accounting function and the control over various other aspects of the companies business such as sales, delivery, production, human resources, and inventory management. Despite the benefits of ERP’s, there are also many potential pitfalls that companies who turn to ERP’s occasionally fall into.

Answer 3

On this special education site, it means Student Assistance Program.

Answer 4

I thought SAP was "Secondary Audio Programing" which is available on most television shows. I've never used it, but it would broadcast an alternate language of the show in place of English.

Answer 5

"Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing"

Answer 6

Does it have anything to do with Special needs (autism, mental retardation, etc) because that is what this section (Special education) is supposed to be about - not higher learning or higher education.

Answer 7

Answer: The original meaning (which is German) is: “Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung'.

When SAP came to America, it changed to Systems, Applications and Products. In the 1980s it was Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing, a literal translation of the German wording.

So there you have it, straight from Kentucky, the correct answer to the hardest (and easiest) question your SAP project team will ever face.

But there's one more question on my mind. Once this piece is published, will I still get emails asking me “What does SAP stand for?”

Now there's one question I already know the answer to.

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