SAP was founded in 1972 by 5 German engineers as a company specializing in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. ERP systems integrate various business functions like finance, sales, human resources, manufacturing and project management to share data across the entire enterprise. SAP has evolved from mainframe to client server systems and is now a modular and integrated ERP solution, with core modules like finance, sales and distribution that share data and automatically create transactions between different business functions.

1. HandsonSAP.com Introduction to SAP

2. SAP =

3. S-A-P

4. Inception Founded in 1972

5. Inception Founded in 1972 By 5 German Engineers

6. ERP ERP

7. ERP ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning

8. Enterprise Enterprise Finance Sales Human Resources Sales & Distribution Manufac- turing Project Mgmt ..

9. Information Management Enterprise Finance Sales Human Resources Sales & Distribution Manufac- turing Project Mgmt ..

10. ERP Enterprise Finance Sales Human Resources Sales & Distribution Manufac- turing Project Mgmt ..

11. Modules Enterprise Finance Sales Human Resources Sales & Distribution Manufac- turing Project Mgmt ..

12. Modular And Integrated ERP Data is shared

13. Modular And Integrated ERP Transactions are automatically created

14. ERP Leader 2009 Numbers

15. Evolution

16. Evolution Mainframe Client Server ERP Central Component

17. FICO mySAP ECC FI and CO are modules within mySAP

18. mySAP MySAP

19. mySAP ` MySAP