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What Is Sap
By: Ron Victor
SAP, started in 1972 by five ex-IBM employees in Mannheim,
Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise
software company and the world's fourth-largest independent
software supplier, overall. To have a comprehensive range of
applications the tangible SAP idea was to provide customers with
the capacity to cooperate with a common corporate database and so
the applications have been assembled gradually and today the
number of corporations such as IBM and Microsoft are also using
SAP products for running their own businesses.
SAP applications,
built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to
deal with financial, asset, and cost accounting, production
operations and materials, personnel, plants, as well as archived
documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including
Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. The most recent
version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.
In recent times SAP has recast its product offerings under an
inclusive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new
e-business applications, with customer relationship management
(CRM) and supply chain management (SCM).
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