ABOUT SAP

• SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing.

• Designed and developed by 5 IBM engineers during the 1970s as standards based software alternative to ERP software.

• SAP has been in the forefront of ERP software ever since.• SAP develops ERP products to be used by companies to

manage their enterprise. Which includes managing their day to day operations, logistics, finances, month end, quarter end and yearly activities, reporting, HR etc.

Difference between SAP ERP and other ERP(s)

• The key differentiator of SAP is the way in which SAP integrates all these operations and makes a seamless system

• That is both easy to use and at the same time sophisticated enough to include all kinds of complex activities that are needed for any kind of enterprise.

• Examples : running Material resource planning, recruiting and managing an employee’s lifecycle, disbursing payrolls, recording all financial transactions and drawing balance sheets and P/L statements of the company etc

SAP Architecture

• SAP was initially designed to be run on the mainframe and was called that release was called R/2 (Release 2).

• SAP quickly caught on to the client server model with a later release called R/3, and this was the most popular version of SAP.

• After R/3, later versions of their core software were launched called Enterprise Central Component (ECC).

SAP Updates• SAP soon realized that corporations needed business

intelligence to mine data from their daily operational data and extract meaningful trends that could enable further business opportunities.

• Thus SAP BW was born and morphed into BI after buying out Business Objects (BO).

• SAP created more and more niche software like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), SRM, XI (now called Process Integration or PI).

• SAP has slowly moved from standard client server architecture to web-based architecture. These new dimension products developed on the web based framework (NetWeaver) and are all under new umbrella called mySAP.

Job Categories in SAP

1. Functional Consultants: Persons who have tremendous industry experience in their respective area (Like HR, Finance, Logistics modules like Sales, Procurement etc)– An example would be a hard-core sales manager with extensive

Sales domain experience, working as an SAP SD functional consultant.

2. Technical Consultants: Persons who have very good engineering or other academic backgrounds and have a very strong understanding of programming languages. SAP’s own 4th General Programming language is called ABAP. ( Advanced Business Application Programming).

3. SYSTEM Administration: This is managing the SAP software itself (The Netweaver Core ). These persons are called SAP Basis consultants and they come from some kind of System Administration background (*NIX, Windows or Database Administrators). The job includes, installation, upgrades, patching and general maintenance of the SAP system. They also take care of maintaining the entire system landscape

What’s in it for me?

• Roughly more than 70% of all Fortune 100 and more than 50% of all Fortune 500 companies use SAP as their core ERP software.

• These companies have enormous appetite for qualified IT consultants in the field of SAP.

• What this gives you is tremendous job opportunities with these companies. These companies have enormous appetite for qualified IT consultants in the field of SAP.

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