SAP AG and SAP Software Products.

SAP AG is a Germanmultinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.
Headquartered inWalldorf, Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the leader in the market of enterprise
applications in terms of software and software-related service.
The company's best-known software products are its Enterprise Resource Planning application systems and management (SAP ERP), its
enterprise data warehouse product SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Objects software, and most recently, Sybase mobile
products and in-memory computing appliance SAP HANA. SAP is one of the largest software companies in the world.
SAP R/3 through version 4.6c consisted of various applications on top of SAP Basis, SAP's set of middleware programs and tools. When SAP R/3
Enterprise was launched in 2002, all applications were built on top of the SAP Web Application Server. Extension sets were used to deliver new
features and keep the core as stable as possible. The Web Application Server contained all the capabilities of SAP Basis.
As a result of marketing changes and changes in the industry, other versions of SAP have been released that address these changes. The first
edition of mySAP ERP was launched in 2003 and bundled previously separate products, including SAP R/3 Enterprise, SAP Strategic Enterprise
Management (SEM) and extension sets. The SAP Web Application Server was wrapped into NetWeaver, which was also introduced in 2003.
A complete architecture change took place with the introduction of mySAP ERP edition 2004. R/3 Enterprise was replaced with the introduction of
ERP Central Component (SAP ECC). The SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Strategic Enterprise Management and Internet Transaction Server
were also merged into SAP ECC, allowing users to run them under one instance. Architectural changes were also made to support an enterprise
services architecture to transition customers to a services-oriented architecture. SAP HANA which is a combination of In-memory software and
hardware can improve data processing at extremely high speeds.
History of SAP R/3
The first version of SAP's flagship enterprise software was a financial Accounting system named R/1 called as NTR. This was replaced by R/2 at
the end of the 1970s. SAP R/2 was in 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 clientserver computing SAP AG brought out a clientserver
version of the software called SAP R/3 (The "R" was for "Real-time data processing" and 3 was for 3-tier). This new architecture is compatible with
multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows or UNIX. This opened up SAP to a whole new customer base.
SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 J uly 1992. It was renamed SAP ERP and later again renamed SAP ECC (ERP Central Component). SAP
came to dominate the large business applications market over the next 10 years.
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SAP ECC 5.0 ERP is the successor of SAP R/3 4.70. The
newest version of the suite is SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement Pack 7.
SAP based the architecture of R/3 on a three-ti er client/server structure:
1. Presentation Layer (GUI) Graphical User Interface
2. Application Layer
3. Database Layer
SAP R/3 was arranged into distinct functional modules, covering the typical functions in place in an organization. The most widely used modules
were Financial s and Controlling (FICO), Human Resources (HR), Materials Management (MM), Sales & Distribution (SD), and Production
Planning (PP)
Each module handled specific business tasks on its own, but was linked to the others where applicable. For instance, an invoice from the billing
transaction of Sales & Distribution would pass through to accounting, where it will appear in accounts receivable and cost of goods sold.
SAP typically focused on best practice methodologies for driving its software processes, but more recently expanded into vertical markets. In
these situations, SAP produced specialized modules (referred to as IS or Industry Specific) geared toward a particular market segment, such as
utilities or retail.
SAP ERP or SAP ECC is SAP AG's enterprise resource planning software (System Analysis and Program development), an integrated solution
that incorporates the key business functions of an organization (Enterprise Resource Planning) or (ERP Central Component)
SAP ERP is, in the SAP Business Suite and SAP Business All-In-One software, the name for the modules comprising the former SAP R/3. It
contains the following solutions.
SAP ERP Financials:
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Accounting andFinancial reporting
Risk management
Regulatory Compliance
Cash Flow Monitoring
Travel Management
SAP ERP Human Capital Management:
End-user Maintenance
HR and Payroll
HR Process Management Software
HR Reporting
Labor Force Analysis
J ob placement
Recruitment and Training
Talent Management
SAP ERP Operations:
Procurement andlogistics
Product development andmanufacturing
Sales and service
Operations analytics
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