2006-09-10 18:16:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
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 (BW) and Strategic Entreprise Management (SEM)
xApps
Others
2006-09-11 04:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by roy_s_jones 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a type of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software which has accounting & inventory modules. The other similar software are Hyperion, Sun, Oracle.
You can't get it for free & it's very expensive (at least US$100k) & it's practical if you have a medium to large corporation to run.
If you're seriously interested, look up www.sap.com
2006-09-11 01:26:41 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋