SAP

SAP: Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing

Company Overview
SAP was founded in 1972 in Germany, is a global leader in business softwaremarket, according to market capitalization ranked the world's third-largestindependent software maker. More than 120 countries around the world has109,000 corporate clients, and in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region in 50 countries employing 52,921 employees. Headquartered inWalldorf, Germany. SAP's core business is the sale of its research and development of business software solutions and services to the user license. SAP solutions including standard business software and technology, and industry-specific applications, the main purpose is to help companies establish or improve their business processes, making it more efficient and flexible, and constantlycreate new value for the enterprise. In addition, SAP also offers its software-relatedconsulting, maintenance and training services. SAP has always adhered to an independent business with customers and partners to work closely with software development. SAP is a publicly traded company whose stock, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext and other global number listed.


In 1972, it is popular IBM mainframe era. At that time, the so-called application software markets, such as financial management software used by businesses, justthe initial stage. While IBM will sell out super computer "bundled" the software, butsoftware development is usually the customer's own work. Each customer had toredesign the same software, no money to hire a computer consultant. Therefore, the programming time for business development is a huge duplication of effort. Fivefounders of SAP, the German subsidiary of IBM was a software engineer for IBM for large companies they recommend ready-made software program written for the useof free enterprise, but IBM rejected the offer and insisted on the use of custom software. In his "Minority Report" is ignored, the five decided to leave IBM's ownbusiness, software development standards. April 1, 1972, SAP was founded. At the time, no one would think that one day it will become the world's largest enterprise application software vendors. SAP
Five founders (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther) in Mannheim, Germany start-up company calledSystemalyse und Programmentwicklung, later under the Systeme, Anwendungen and Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing ") the company name was abbreviated as SAP.


History
1972--1981: 10 years
SAP's established and in subsequent years of rapid development. SAP's underlying architecture, the initial number of software modules, as well as SAP R / 2 system constitutes the first year of the company's income. Outside of Germany won the first customer, and for the first time took part in the exhibition.
1982 - 1991: SAP R / 3 times
The company has four 64MB storage server. Employing 100 employees, signed the first 1000 customers. Income of 100 million German marks, business continues toexpand abroad. The company developed the SAP R / 3. All of these landmarkevents of the achievements of the SAP R / 3 times.
1992--2001: E-Commerce Times
SAP annual sales income reached 60 billion U.S. dollars, and employs more than24,000 employees. Appeared in a variety of exhibitions and summits. Completed the company's overall market, and developed new technologies and platforms. SAPunmatched e-commerce era.
2002 to Today: SAP today
SAP's story continues. SAP NetWeaver platform developed, this is a river basininformation system architecture across the platform, fully integrated enterprise and its workforce, and to establish a market barrier to inter-connect. At this stage, SAP'sinnovation and entrepreneurship continue to be a great development. May 12, 2010, SAP announced a 58 billion cash acquisition of commercial software developerSybase. December 26, 2010, SAP announced in Beijing, SAP has completed theworld's largest independent software vendors, one of Sybase's acquisition, and also announced the completion of the acquisition of the first phase of the developments chedule.


Enterprise Solutions

Business Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions provide comprehensive business intelligence capabilities, giving users based on solid data and analysis to develop effective and informed decision-making. From high-end analyst to the general business user accessible to all users the information they need, as far as possible without relying on IT resources and developers.
Customer Relationship Management
SAP CRM can not only help you to solve the immediate problem (ie, reduce costs and improve decision-making capacity), can help your company realize the difference, in order to obtain long-term competitive advantage. SAP CRM is the only complete, customer-centric, e-commerce solutions. The solution is designed to provide customers with satisfaction, loyalty services. It helps to improve the competitive advantage, lead to higher profits.
Enterprise Information Management
SAP BusinessObjects Information Management provides comprehensive information management capabilities, contribute to timely and accurate delivery of integrated enterprise data, including both structured data, including unstructured data. These powerful solutions can help a business transaction processing, business intelligence, data warehousing, data migration and master data management and other key action plans to provide reliable data.
Enterprise Performance Management
To help businesses to performance-driven transformation, and data need to be able to link the process of solution to provide a common view of the business. SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions help companies to play the value of data, by improving coordination, insight and confidence, allow enterprises to become more flexible and competitive.
Enterprise Resource Planning
SAP Business Suite SAP ERP is one of the five packages, SAP is the most powerful market-core package. It as a good business to provide a basic platform to help enterprises to participate in the necessary competition to win the global market. In the SAP ERP application software to support enterprise business processes and operational efficiency of the basic functions, and specifically for industry-specific business needs.
Governance, risk management and compliance
SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk management and compliance solutions (SAP's BusinessObjects GRC solutions) and close the gap between strategy and execution, across heterogeneous environments to establish a preventive, a real-time method GRC clear path to long-term value.
Human Capital Management
SAP HR support for the recruitment, deployment, potential to develop, motivate and ultimately valuable employees to leave the process, from start to finish to improve these processes. SAP HR to provide you with a complete, enterprise-wide functions.
Manufacture
SAP Manufacturing is a powerful software integration with your other manufacturing companies - the only comprehensive solution for production management. Large manufacturing companies have many complex, interdependent relationship must be addressed to promote lower costs, improve quality, increase responsiveness. Companies can use SAP's discrete and process manufacturers to improve their software processes.
Mobile
With SAP's mobile business solutions, enterprises can achieve the maximum return on IT investments, and take advantage of already implemented solutions. SAP's mobile business solutions can be seamlessly integrated with SAP Business Suite. All solutions supported by the SAP NetWeaver platform, and supports common connections or connection mode mobile devices.
Product Lifecycle Management
SAP PLM - SAP Business Suite in one of the core package - provides products and assets throughout the life cycle of collaborative engineering, custom development, project management, financial management, quality management and other functions. It is an entirely new concepts, technologies and methods to make the entire product life cycle under control!
Service and Asset Management
SAP Service and Asset Management can help companies manage end to end service operations, allowing you to development, marketing, sale and delivery of services more profitable products. This solution provides the key service management processes to support the software.
Supply Chain Management
SAP SCM is a member of SAP Business Suite. The suite is modular software, with other SAP and non-SAP software with the use, enabling organizations in a unique way to complete the basic business processes. Organizations in all areas and departments can be deployed according to their schedule SAP Business Suite software, to address specific business challenges, and without costly upgrades.
Supplier Relationship Management
SAP SRM SAP Business Suite business applications is a member of family. This integrated suite of goods and services can be automated from procurement to payment process, expanding the value of SAP Business Suite. See SAP Business Maps, SAP SRM can truly understand how your company can add value.
Sustainability
Whether it is the beginning of sustainable development plan or strategic adjustment already in place, sustainable development requires companies to rethink their approach, and consider a new set of overall health risks and opportunities for socio-economic, environmental, safety. SAP can easily manage the overall business strategy of sustainable development, to achieve new levels of business excellence.

Classification of the SAP system modules


SAP is the world's largest enterprise information management solutions provider, isthe largest producer of ERP products. Its full name is the Systems Applications and Products in data processing, it is one of its "enterprise management solutions," thesoftware name. SAP's functional classification [2] are: FI payables and receivables,general ledger, consolidation, investment, funds, cash, etc.; CO profit center, cost center, product cost, project accounting, profitability analysis; AM fixed assets,technology assets, investment control; SD sales plans, inquiry quotation, order management, transportation, shipments, invoices, etc.; MM purchasing, warehousemanagement, inventory management, MRP, vendor evaluation; PP plant data, production planning, MRP, capacity planning, cost accounting, etc.; QM quality planning, quality inspection, quality control, quality documentation; PM maintenance and testing program, document processing, historical data, reporting analysis; HRpayroll, travel, working hours, recruitment, development plans, personnel costs; PSproject plan, budget, capacity planning, resource management, the results ofanalysis; WF working definition, process management, e-mail, messaging and automation; PI SAP integration with other systems; IS special applications for different industries . BW data warehouse-based part: R / 3 system kernel, database,interface to support various platforms, ABAP / 4 language tool