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What is SAP?
SAP (pronounced S-A-P) is emerging as a worldwide standard in the software applications
that automate and link critical business processes, such as accounting, billing, human resource
management, logistics, material management, purchasing and manufacturing control. The
company, which started in 1972 in Mannheim, Germany, has expanded into a worldwide
presence,
controlling one-third of the $5.2 billion client-server enterprise applications business.
They are the industry
leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
SAP offers the following products:
1. SAP R/2 - mainframe based
2. SAP R/3 - client/server based
3. R/3 version 4.0 - object-oriented upgrade
SAP provides a real-time database update for integrated applications. It supports organizations
with multiple companies in different locations, and is suitable to a wide range of industries and
organizations.
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