After the internet, SAP R/3 is one of the hottest topics in
the computer industry, and the company that developed it, SAP AG, has becone
one of the most successful in the software market.
The SAP R/3 system is targeted to most industries: manufacturing
, retail, oil and gas, electrocity,health care, pharmaceutical, banking,
insurance, telecommunications, transport, automotive, chemical, and so on. The
costumer list includes most of the U.S. Fortune 100 companies, 97 percent of
the most profitable German companies, and other impressive figures from
companies around the world.
All major hardware vendors, without exception, are fully
engaged to partner with SAP: in 1999, ACER, Amdahl, Bull, Compaq, Comparex,
Data general, Dell, Fujitsu, Hawlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intergraph,NCR,
Sequent, Siemens, SUN, Unisys, and others have supported and certified SAP R/3
platforms.
The biggest international consulting firms, numerous smaller
ones, and most of the hardware vendors system integration departements have
built an impressive army of experts around SAP-related business: Andersen
Consulting, Arthur Andersen, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Ernst & Young, KPMG,
Deloitte Consulting, Cap Gemini, Origin, CSC-Ploenzke, EDS, Sema Group, and
others. Additionaly, SAP has a growing group of first-order technological
partners including Microsoft, Unformix, Oracle, Apple, Next, Adobe, iXOS,
Software AG,, and many others that have participated in the complementary
Software Certification program.
With this presentation card, it is well assumed that SAP R/3
is not something that can be learned at home or in universities with the aid of
a PC and Standard PC software.
SAP AG: The
Company Behind R/3
SAP AG was founded in 1972 by four former IBM employees, the
company headquarters are based in walldorf, a small German town close to
Heideberg, where the university is a continuous source of employees at SAP.
Many of the gurus behind this phenomenal system known as R/3 come from this
University.
Since it’s foundation, SAP has made significant development
and marketing efforts on standard application software, being a global market
player with it’s R/2 System for mainframe applications and it’s R/3 system for
open client/server technologies.
The company name, SAP, stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. After the
introduction of SAP R/3 in 1992, SAP AG has become the world’s leading vendor
of standard application software. One
of the reasons for SAP’s success is that since it is a standard package, it can
be configured in multiple areas and adapted to the specific needs of a company.
To support those needs, SAP includes a large number of business functions,
leaving room for turther funcionality and enhancements or adaptability to
business practice changes. More and more, corporations are deciding to use
standards software systems that are highly flexible and configurable and able
to support most their business practices and information needs. This kind of
package leaves the development of custom software only for exceptional case.
The maturity and solid experience of SAP in solving the information management
problems of businesses around the globe have made it’s R/3 system the clear
market leader in the development of standard applications.
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