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CONTENTS
1. Reviewing the SAP Corporation
 Introducing SAP
 What is SAP
 The Goals
 History
 SAP’s markets

2. Interacting with the SAP systems

 Exploring the Interface between System and User
 Interpreting the Document Principle
 INTRODUCTION

Today, it's not enough to just access a vast quantity of information. You've got
to be able to take that information and do something productive with it.

People need information from business applications, databases, email, shared

documents, and the Internet. So you need a solution like mySAP Enterprise Portals that takes
advantage of unification technology -- bringing together every piece of critical information and
delivering it to your users. And once it's there, your people can swing into action, making better
decisions, collaborating, and increasing business speed and efficiency.

MySAP Enterprise Portals, which was formerly known as mySAP Workplace,

delivers the promise of true e-business by unifying every business process in the corporate
ecosystem for strategic advantage and profitability.

SAP was founded in 1972 and has grown to become the world’s fifth largest
software company. It is the name of the company as well as the computer system or what we
call software. The SAP software is written in ABAP/4, SAP’s fourth-generation Advanced
Business Programming Language. This is the system that consists of a number of fully
integrated modules that cover virtually every aspect of business management.
 Information Technology is now at the very core of major organizations around
the world, and its importance is beyond question. Market forces and customer expectations
continually pressure organizations to improve the performance of their systems. While many
software companies have looked at areas of business and have developments systems to support
those areas, SAP has looked toward the whole business. It offers a unique system that supports
nearly all areas of business on a global scale.

Being a German company, SAP still operates all over the world, with 28
subsidiaries and affiliates and six partner companies maintaining offices in 40 countries. It
operates in the major continents like America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and Middle
East.

 What is SAP?

SAP’s name is derived from Systems, Applications, and Products in Data

Processing.

 The Goals

SAP has defined its corporate goals as the following:

 Customer satisfaction
 Profitability
 Growth
 Employee satisfaction

 HISTORY

Five people founded SAP in 1972: Herbert Wellenreuther, Dietmar Hopp,

Haas-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Klaus Tschira. Initially working for IBM,
Wellenreuther developed a financial accounting package for its customer. But SAP bought the
rights from the customer and started to design and implement the real-time finance system as a
standard package based on his experience. Further they developed Materials Management
Systems. This was later converted to a Standard Package.

 SAP’s Market

SAP markets its products all over the world almost every industry imaginable,
as well as government and educational institutions and hospitals. Some of the industries served
by SAP:

 Automotive
 Building and heavy construction
 Building materials, clay and glass
 Chemicals
 Clothing and textiles
 Communications services and media
 Consulting and software
 Consumer packaged goods-food and nonfood
 Education institutions and research
 Electronic/optic and communications equipment
 Financial services, banks, and insurance
 Furniture
 Government, public administration, and utility services
 Healthcare and hospitals
 Industrial and commercial machinery
 Museums and associations
 Oil and gas
 Pharmaceuticals
 Primary metal, metal products, and steel
 Raw materials, mining, and agriculture
  Retail and wholesale
 Ship, aerospace, and train construction
 Storage, distribution, and shipping
 Transportation services and tourism
 Utilities
 Wood and paper

2. INTERACTING WITH THE SAP SYSTEMS

 EXPLORING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN SYSTEM AND USER

The user interface of the SAP system presents users with attractive and informative displays
and enables them to perform tasks easily and intuitively. It also allows users to streamline
repetitive tasks if those tasks cannot be automated altogether.
 A user is a person who has permission to use the system and an identification
code that tells the system which password to expect for that authorized user.

The system supervisor to give the user permission to user certain functions
establishes a user profile. For example: a user who has learned only to enter purchase orders is
not allowed to send them off to suppliers without supervisor authorization.

Using tables in SAP applications has enabled the customizations without

affecting SAP’s reliability and integrity.

The transaction concept has also been used in SAP systems. This helps in
business transaction while receiving and delivering of the consignments.

 INTERPRETING THE DOCUMENT PRINCIPLE

Posting of any account doesn’t succeed unless debit equals credit. The entries
for such a posting are not valid unless it passes the validation tests applied.

Successful posting to an account as a result of the transaction is regarded by

SAP as a self-contained and coherent unit of data.

The unit is defined as an SAP document because evidence of this posting

event and details of the transaction can be displayed in a standard document format. An SAP
document is a data object and must obey the rules of SAP objects.

A data object is a cluster of data items recorded as fields. Each field is

allowed a maximum size and type of content according to the defined data domain specification
assigned to it.