SAP is a German software corporation known for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. It was founded in 1972 by five former IBM employees and is now one of the largest software companies in the world. SAP's products help companies manage business operations and customer relations across departments. Key products include SAP HANA, an in-memory database, and SAP Cloud Platform, which allows building applications in a cloud environment. SAP has over 100 development centers globally and invests heavily in research and development.
3. About SAP
SAP is a German multinational
software corporation based in
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that
develops enterprise software to
manage business operations and
customer relations. The company is
especially known for its ERP
software. SAP is the largest non-
American software company by
revenue as well as the world's third-
largest publicly-traded software
company.
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4. History of SAP
SAP was started in 1972 by
five former IBM employees
with a vision of creating a
standard application
software for real-time business
processing. SAP stands for
Systems Applications and
Products in Data Processing.
Since its inception SAP has issued
several releases, such as SAP R/1, SAP
R/2, and SAP R/3. The R in these
releases stands for “Real-Time” data
processing. The 3 in the R/3 stands for
three-tier client-server architecture.
The most current release of SAP is SAP
Business Suite 7.
5. Founder of SAP
Claus Wellenreuther (born 1935
in Mannheim is a German
entrepreneur and co-founder of
software company SAP SE.
Claus Wellenreutherh
is a German software engineer
and entrepreneur. He was one of
the founders of SAP SE in 1972
with other former IBM
employees Hans Werner Hector,
Klaus Tschira, Claus
Wellenreuther and Hasso
Plattner.
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Hans-Werner Hector (born January 17,
1940 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German
mathematician , entrepreneur and one
of the founders of the software company
SAP in Walldorf alongside.
Hans-Werner Hector
is a German businessman. A co-
founder of SAP SE software
company, he has been chairman
of the supervisory board of SAP
SE since May 2003. As of August
2020, Forbes reported that he
possessed a net worth of $17.9
billion.
Hasso Plattner
Klaus Tschira was a German
billionaire entrepreneur, and
the co-founder of the German
software company SAP AG.
Klaus Tschira
6. What is SAP HANA
SAP HANA
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SAP HANA stands for [High Performance Analytic
Appliance] is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational
database management system developed and marketed
by SAP SE. Its primary function as a database server is
to store and retrieve data as requested by the
applications.
In addition, it performs advanced analytics (predictive
analytics, spatial data processing, text analytics, text
search, streaming analytics, graph data processing) and
includes extract, transform, load (ETL) capabilities as well
as an application server.
7. What is ERP
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2. ERP is usually referred to as a
category of business management
software—typically a suite of
integrated applications—that an
organization can use to collect,
store, manage, and interpret data
from many business activities
1. Enterprise resource
planning (ERP) is the
integrated management of
main business processes,
often in real time and
mediated by software and
technology
ERP systems track business resources—cash, raw materials,
production capacity—and the status of business
commitments: orders, purchase orders, and payroll. The
applications that make up the system share data across
various departments (manufacturing, purchasing, sales,
accounting, etc.) that provide the data. ERP facilitates
information flow between all business functions and
manages connections to outside stakeholders
ERP provides an
integrated and
continuously updated
view of core business
processes using
common databases
maintained by a
database
management system.
8. SAP Cloud Platform is a
platform as a service
developed by SAP SE for
creating new applications or
extending existing
applications in a secure cloud
computing environment
managed by SAP. The SAP
Cloud Platform integrates
data and business processes.
SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Platform is SAP's platform-as-a-
service (PaaS) that is used to deliver in-memory
capabilities and micro services for building and
extending, mobile-enabled cloud applications.
SAP Cloud Platform is an open platform-as-a-
service, which includes the in-memory SAP
HANA database management system, connects to
both on premises and cloud-based systems
running SAP or other third-party software and
relies on open standards, like Java, JavaScript,
Node.js and Cloud Foundry for integration
9. ,
SAP has more than 100 development
centers globally and 16 SAP Labs.
SAP's spending in Research and
development was ~18% of its 2017
revenues at € 3,352 million, above the
industry average of 11.2%. The
company had 24,872 employees or 28%
of its total workforce who were
engaged in development work.
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10. Vision and Mission
SAP’s vision is to help the world run better and
improve people’s lives. Our mission is to help
every customer become a best-run business.
We do this by delivering technology
innovations that address the challenges of
today and tomorrow without disrupting our
customers’ business operations. For example,
enterprise mobility is transforming usage of
IT; in-memory technology is simplifying the IT
architecture in the enterprise and driving
high-value applications; and cloud delivery of
IT solutions is simplifying the consumption of
technology.
11. SAP has been recognized by CV Magazine as the Best
Business Software Company for the year 2018
SAP was given the gold for its “Autism at Work Program”
by the Employer Brand Management Awards.
SAP received an EDGE Certification in the Czech
Republic, in show of commitment to gender equality.
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