SAP

• SAP stands for SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS and PRODUCTS in data processing,
• [In German SAP stands for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der             Datenverarbeitung].  

 SAP was founded in June 1972 by Five former IBM enginners. 

1. Dietmar Hopp,
2. Klaus Tschira,
3. Hans-Werner Hector,
4. Hasspo Plantter,
5. Claus Wellenreuther.

• SAP by name itself stands for name of the ERP(ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING) software as well as the name of the company.

• SAP AG is the name of the company located in Germany, where AG stands for incorporated in German language.

• SAP is #1 product in ERP Market.

Competitive Products for SAP are

1. Peoplesoft,
2. JD Edwards,
3. Oracle,
4. BAAN,
5. Microsoft Dynamics,
6. IBM,
7. Ramco.

Advantage of SAP are

• High Security.
• User Friendly.
• Rich set of Modules.
• Data integrity.
• Easy Administration.
• Only one side Database.
• SAP supports multi-languages.
• SAP support JAVA.
• Easy addons.
• SAP supports all database and Operating systems.
• Common programming language which supports OOPs and ABAP.
• Global support 7x24x365.