2006-08-17 05:46:02 · 5 answers · asked by mannu 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
SAP Introduction
SAP means Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung. This is german for System analysis and program development.
The name was later changed into Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung: Systems, application and products in the data processing.
The company is specialized in large application supporting large corporations.
SAP is well known for its ERP solution R/3. The modularity of the product allows a certain fexibility in the implementation and use.
The major components within R/3 are
Financial system (FI-Co)
Project system (PS)
Logistic system (LO)
Human ressource (HR)
Customer Relation Management (CRM)
Developpment system (ABAP)
The major components outside R/3 are :
Netweaver
SAP Business Warehouse and Strategic Entreprise Management
Others
2006-08-17 19:03:14 · answer #1 · answered by roy_s_jones 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“SAP stands for System Application Program.”
yes...it is also related to IT...., Politics, Medical...etc..
It's a question that haunts me. You see, people are troubled by acronyms they don't understand. Whether they need to know the answer is not relevant; their troubles will continue until their brains have a satisfactory definition. To this day, I receive frequent emails asking me to explain what SAP stands for. I guess I should be grateful for email; if it didn't exist, I'd get phone calls instead. The calls would go the same way, with me trying to decide whether to blurt out: “Don't say ‘sap’, say ‘S’ ‘A’ ‘P’.”
Correcting people over the phone always seems rude. Confession: I used to derive some petty satisfaction from showing people I knew more about pronouncing SAP than they did. But that was only on those “TGIF” days, and if you don't know what TGIF stands for, you will by the next phase of your SAP project.
Surprising factoid: over the years, many of the folks who asked me what SAP stands for were not even interested in the field of SAP. They were simply in the middle of conducting some online business and were annoyed to run into an acronym they could not decipher.
The most common member of the “what does SAP stand for” gang is the “I'm new to SAP” person, or, more accurately, the “I want to be new to SAP” person. Mean recruiters call these folks “wannabes”, but only because companies won't pay recruiting fees for them anymore. Back in the mid-90s, nobody was mocked as a “wannabe.” Everyone who had the word SAP on their resume was worth a $25,000 recruiting fee, whether they knew what SAP stood for or not. And if they had seen a live instance and configured a couple of screens, they could be as “sappy” as they wanted.
I've been writing and recruiting in SAP since 1995, and it's now time to reveal an unflattering secret. For the first three years, when someone asked me, “What does SAP stand for,” I gave them the wrong answer. “Structural Analysis Program,” I told them, with all the certainty of a world-class expert. This definition is, of course, patently and completely wrong. I will say, in my defense, that it sounds cooler than any official definition.
Say it aloud: “Structural Analysis Program” rolls off the tongue with an authority that suits one of the biggest software companies in the world. Unfortunately, we can't start a movement to turn this into the actual definition because it doesn't make any sense, and never did. In the mid-90s, SAP was much more operational than analytical. The rise of BW does give some (belated) credence to my assertion of “structural analysis”, but the release of Knowledge Management (KW) and the integration of unstructured data into SAP renders my so-called definition permanently irrelevant. I have no hard feelings about this, but if, at a future ASUG event, I happen to run into the consultants who originally gave me this bad definition, I will tie them to a chair and make them listen to Microsoft's presentation on Mendocino over and over again.
When I finally learned that “Structural Analysis Program” was not the real definition of SAP, I was more than a little chagrined – not to mention humbled – by the horrifying image of SAP consultants all over the globe being corrected when they confidently offered up the definition provided by “Jon Reed, SAP career expert”.
In my defense, I am not the only one to bungle this up. Recent terminology surfing found not one, but two incorrect explanations.
2006-08-17 10:38:37 · answer #2 · answered by girish4music 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
SAP does not have a full form it is 3rd largest software company in the world just after Microsoft and Oracle. SAP is the largest business application and ERP solutions provider in the world. For more go to the following sites
2006-08-17 05:56:15 · answer #3 · answered by imhm2004 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-20 19:15:02 · answer #4 · answered by siva krishna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SAP is related to Financial accounting as well as inventory accounting wheres MCA is related application of various softwares.
2016-03-17 00:15:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋