What is SAP?How many type of SAP ?  

Hi Tejas

SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software*. More than 41,200 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP® applications—from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize enterprises to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol “SAP"

SAP offers a wide range of suites such as SAP, R/3, mySAP, mySAP.com, xApps, xApp, SAP NetWeaver etc.

Source site: www.sap.com

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Answered by Suparna at 1:03 AM on October 30, 2008

Well Tejas! SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products.

SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software which specialises in industry specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

It can be quite rewarding if you learn SAP and become good at it. The courses are quite expensive (well over 1000 USD and depends on your country).

As for career scope, already there are so many SAP qualified people, that employers are in a position to pick and choose only the very best for their companies. In other words if you do SAP you've got to be really good at it to get a job.

My advice is, don't do SAP or anything else just because everyone else is doing it or because they pay well. You need to get in to something that you are passionate about in order to make a successful career out of it.

Answered by Kumaar at 4:49 PM on October 29, 2008

As mentioned before SAP is an acronym for "System Application & Products" which creates a common centralised database for all the applications running in an organization. The application has been assembled in such a versatile way that it handles all the functional department within an organisation. Today major companies including Microsoft and IBM are using SAP's Products to run their own businesses.

R/2, which ran on a Mainframe architecture, was the first SAP version. Sap's products are generally focused on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Sap's applications are built around R/3 system which provide the functionality to manage product operations, cost accounting, assets, materials and personnel. The R/3 system of SAP runs on majority of platforms including windows 2000 and it uses the client/sever model.

Answered by Sandeep at 3:33 PM on October 29, 2008

SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software which specialises in industry specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

It can be quite rewarding if you learn SAP and become good at it. The courses are quite expensive (well over 1000 USD and depends on your country).

As for career scope, already there are so many SAP qualified people, that employers are in a position to pick and choose only the very best for their companies. In other words if you do SAP you've got to be really good at it to get a job.

SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the German name (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package.

Answered by Hem@nt .... at 3:10 PM on October 29, 2008

SAP AG (ISIN: DE0007164600, FWB: SAP, NYSE: SAP) is the largest European software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.[2] It is best known for its SAP ERP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) softwareSAP was founded in the year 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development")[3] by five former IBM engineers in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg (Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, Klaus E. Tschira, and Claus Wellenreuther).[4]
As part of the Xerox exit strategy from the computer industry, Xerox retained IBM to migrate their business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM acquired the SDS/SAPE software, reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000. The SAPE software was given by IBM to the founding ex-IBM employees in exchange for founding stock provided to IBM, reportedly 8%. It may be noted that, at the time they left IBM, the ex-employees were quite senior engineers in IBM Germany rather than founding engineers in the sense of Hewlett-Packard's founders.

Answered by raj u at 2:57 PM on October 29, 2008

SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software which specialises in industry specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

SAP is an acronym for "System Application & Products" which creates a common centralised database for all the applications running in an organization. The application has been assembled in such a versatile way that it handles all the functional department within an organisation. Today major companies including Microsoft and IBM are using SAP's Products to run their own businesses.

R/2, which ran on a Mainframe architecture, was the first SAP version. Sap's products are generally focused on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Sap's applications are built around R/3 system which provide the functionality to manage product operations, cost accounting, assets, materials and personnel. The R/3 system of SAP runs on majority of platforms including windows 2000 and it uses the client/sever model.

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Answered by NIVEDITA at 2:57 PM on October 29, 2008