What is SAP?

SAP is a software provided by SAP AG, which helps the big organizations to run their business in a structured way. For example, if you take a car manufacturing industry, SAP will take care of everything from getting the order for a new car from customers to the delivery of the order. If you have more questions, please contact me... read less

it is a ready made software package suitable for variety of enterprises (manufacturing, service, education,mining,real estate etc) to automate their business processes (like purchasing, production planning, inventory management, sales, HR, payroll ,fianancial management etc) bu automating the transactions used in these processes. SAP has lots of world class processes in built as their standard design, which can be customised for specific organisations (within limits). HKrishnan (CIO - retired (worked in BITS PIlani, Aditya birlagroup) read less

SAP SE (Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing) is a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with regional offices in 130 countries.[2] The company has over 293,500 customers in 190 countries.[2] The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.[3] refer below link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_SE read less

SAP, started in 1972 by five former 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. The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses. SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package. SAP has recently recast its product offerings under a comprehensive Web interface, called mySAP.com, and added new e-business applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). As of January 2007, SAP, a publicly traded company, had over 38,4000 employees in over 50 countries, and more than 36,200 customers around the world. SAP is turning its attention to small- and-medium sized businesses (SMB). A recent R/3 version was provided for IBM's AS/400 platform. read less