UNIT 1
SAP’s milestones and history
SAP’s Company History
1972: Five former IBM employees – Hasso Plattner, Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hektor – launch a company called SAP (Systems Analysis and Program Development ). Their vision: to develop standard application software for real-time business processing.
SAP in 2004: Enterprise Services Architecture delivers the first version of SAP NetWeaver 04. The resonance from the new integration and application platform is overwhelming. By the end of 2004 the new product has more than 1000 customers.
Branch Offices and Subsidiaries of SAP AG
SAP has a network of development centers, training centers, and service subsidiaries.
SAP Hosting AG & Co. KG, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP AG, operates on a global scale, and is based in St. Leon-Rot, Germany. It also has branch offices in Walldorf, Philadelphia, Palo Alto, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, and Bangalore.
SAP Manage provides SAP Business One, a product developed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). SAP Manage also markets and supports the product in Israel.
SAP’s Employees
SAP’s distinctive atmosphere hits you the moment you arrive. Applicants that visit SAP for the first time soon see why the company is so popular.
An Exemplary Corporate Culture
New Employees are introduced to the SAP world through special orientation events, trainee programs, and a mentoring concept that ensures each employee has practical guidance during this time.
Training Through Personal Development
SAP employees know they need to be able to react flexibly to changes, and their knowledge always has to be up to date. The collaboration between SAP and providers of associated software ensures that SAP’s business solutions and other application systems can communicated smoothly.
SAP’s software partner program provides software providers with standard, defined interfaces. These interfaces can be used to integrated additional products seamlessly in to SAP solutions. Service partners support our customer during the selection, implementation, and operative use of SAP products.
Social Engagement
As the leading global provider of and enterprise software, SAP has responsibility to ensure that its business processes are smooth and transparent. For the reason, social engagement is an important component of SAP’s corporate strategy.
Explain SAP’s Product Offering
Product Overview
SAP offers a large palette of products for companies of all sizes. SAP provides scalable products that can be adjusted to the size and constantly changing processes of company. mySAP Business Suite offers a flexible software solution for larger companies that have a large number of users and processes that are constantly changing . Accounting, human resources, and logistics are the heart of every enterprise. mySAP ERP encompasses all these vital business processes within a company and provide function for both corporate headquarters and small subsidiaries. Every company can benefit form mySAP ERP .
SAP NetWeaver
SAP NetWeaver divided into four areas:
1. People Integration
2. Information Integration
3. Process Integration
4. Application Platform
mySAP ERP
It is imperative today more than ever to ensure that the business processes in an organization are integrated, streamlined, and transparent. mySAP ERP allows companies to gain better control of their administrative and operations environment and increase efficiency and profitability .
mySAP ERP is designed in such a way that companies can implement only the business functions they need when they need them, thus simplifying upgrades and reducing total cost of ownership.
mySAP ERP financials
The aim of this solution is to utilize a company’s funds effectively and, therefore, increase profitability in the long term.
mySAP ERP Human Capital Management
Every company has employees. They are importer resources, and mySAP ERP HCM enables you to utilize them effectively toward the success of your company. This solution covers all aspects of human resources, for recruitment and training through payroll.
mySAP Business Suite
mySAP Business Suite provides this flexibility in a complete package of open , integrated solutions for the entire value chain. Customers, employees, suppliers, and partners are brought together to form one unit in process that takes almost no time at all.
mySAP Customer Relationship Management
mySAP CRM is a solution that puts the costumer 1st. The costumer in contact companies through a number of communication channels.
mySAP Product Lifecycle Management
This solustion offers functions for product development, product safety, quality, and maintenance integrated.
mySAP Supply Chain Management
Supply chains do not end at the warehouse doors. You can use mySAP SCM to plan and optimize supply chains across company boundaries.
mySAP Suppliers Relationship Management
Procurement offer the Internet and marketplaces are only two ways to optimize purchasing. Employees can use this solution to provide procurement with information about demand directly form their work centers quickly, easily, effectively.
Industry Portfolios
Whereas the mySAP Business Suite is generally industry-independent, many industries require specialized functions and processes. SAP fulfills this requirement through industry-specific solutions.
More then 20 Industry solutions are available today. Among these are solutions for:
· Automotive
· Banking
· Chemicals
· Healthcare
· Logistics Services Provider
· Mining
· Oil and Gas
· Public Sector
· Retail
SAP xApps
SAP xApps are a new breed of applications that enable you to drive improvements and innovation in your company more easily. With their ability to combine existing heterogeneous systems to form cross- functional processes, SAP xApps bring people information and business processes together to make your company more dynamic and competitive. SAP xApps provide both continuity and discontinuity. Continuity is ensured by increasing effectiveness and improving productive business transaction; this continuity is provided in the sense that company can perform innovative change in an usually flexible manner. By using xApps a company can optimized a sales process across multiple systems.
The Defining Characteristics of SAP xApps are:
Ø Cross-functional
Ø Composite
Ø Cross-system
Ø Information-driven
Some examples of available xApps :
§ SAP xApp Cost and Quotation Management (SAP xCQM)
§ SAP xApp Resource and Portfolio Management (SAP xRPM)
§ SAP xApp Product Definition (SAP xPD)
§ SAP xApp Emissions Management (SAP xEM)
SAP Solution for Small and Midsize Business
mySAP All-in one
mySAP All-in one solution offer out-of-the-box flexibility combined with the power of SAP’s world-class business solutions.
mySAP All-in one provides the advantages :
1. Rapid Implementation and Transparent Cost
2. Increase Productivity and Cost Control
3. Reliable Partners
4. Scalability
SAP Business One
SAP Business One is an easy-to-use business and operational management solution for emerging and dynamic business ranging in size from 10 to several hundred employees.
SAP Business One provides the following advantages:
1. Rapid Implementation
2. Lower Costs
3. Increased Productivity and Cost Control
4. Sound Business Decision
5. Scalability
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