Introducing SAP

Founded in 1972 as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

SAP has 24% market share, while Oracle has 18%, and Microsoft has 11% in ERP global market.

• SAP can adopt various business processes in various industries. SAP can adopt business processes in areas such as: sales, purchasing, inventory management, maintenance, accounting, production planning, Human Resources, etc. It can be applied in various industries such as: manufacturing, retail, oil and gas, banking, Service Company, telecommunication, etc.

• Modular but well-integrated. SAP has several modules which can be implemented independently to each other so the company can choose what modules it will implement first, according its priority. All the modules are well-integrated to each other since they’re on the same platform and database. SAP can also integrate all the business units of a company, even a multinational one.

• Flexibility. SAP has very good flexibility. We can change the SAP configuration to adopt new change or update in the business processes or organizational structure of a company. The changes are on the SAP configuration (means that we only have to add or update the data in the SAP configuration tables); we don’t need to change any programming code of SAP.

SAP R/3 The "R" was for "Real-time data processing" and 3 was for 3-tier. SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. It was renamed SAP ERP and later again renamed ECC (ERP Central Component).

R/3 4.7 is based on Web AS 6.20. ECC 5(is part of SAP ERP 2004) is based on Web AS 6.40 (Netweaver 04) .ECC 6(is part of SAP ERP 6.0 (2005)) is based on Netweaver 7.0
as their technology platform which provide complete administration, development and runtime environment for SAP applications.