im nanagement graduate in finance with 1 yr work experience, as a financial analyst. how sap course help me in my professional growth
2007-01-11 21:28:50 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
SAP R/3 is the former name of the main ERP software produced by SAP. Its new name is mySAP ERP.
History of SAP R/3
SAP R/2 was a mainframe based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was particularly popular with large multinational European companies who required soft-real-time business applications, with multi-currency and multi-language capabilities built in. With the advent of distributed client-server computing SAP AG brought out a client-server version of the software called SAP R/3 that was manageable on multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Linux since 1999, which opened up SAP to a whole new customer base. SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. SAP came to dominate the large business applications market over the next 10 years.
Reasons for success
From the late 1960s to the 1980s there was a concern that software development was too complex, and liable to go wrong. One of the solutions to this proposed by many people including Fred Brooks was the development of a modular approach in order to maximize software reuse and encapsulate common business processes within internal transactions. SAP introduced the object-oriented concept of "business objects"; for example, a customer in the system is actually an instantiation of a customer business object, and interacts with other objects in the system in a pre-defined, customizable way. In some ways, SAP can be almost thought of as an operating system for a business.
SAP software comes with customizable processes which a company uses in the modelling of its business. Traditionally, software purchases had provided tools for building applications, but these tools did not provide business processes. SAP provided standardized processes, which were termed best-practice solutions of processes. The implementation of SAP software commonly required the expertise of knowledgeable external consultants, who were familiar with these best-practices
2007-01-11 21:43:53 · answer #1 · answered by Lorene 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are the only Genuine ones and the best.
2007-01-11 23:19:33 · answer #2 · answered by Raghav 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋