RANGKUMAN SAP FUNDAMENTAL UNIT 1

UNIT 1
SAP THE COMPANY
SAP’s company history  1972-2004
1972: Foundation: Five former IBM employees start a company they call SAP Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung (“System Analysis and Program Development”).
Vision: Standard application software for real-time data processing is developed.
Associations: Taking the initial form of a private partnership under the German Civil Code, the company establishes its headquarters in Weinheim, Germany, and opens an office in nearby Mannheim. However, SAP’s five founders spend most of their time in the data centers of their first customers, which include the German branch of Imperial Chemical Industries in ostringen.
Night owls: Development of the fledgling company’s first programs takes place mainly at night and on weekends.
Initial success: At the end of its first year in business, SAP employs nine people and generates DM 620.000.
2004: enterprise services architecture delivers the frist version  of  SAP netweaver 04.the resonance from the new integration  and application platform in overhelming.by the endof 2004 the new product has more than 1000 customers .In total more then 24,000 customers in over 120 countries run 84,000 installation of SAP software.SAP announces the future of enterprise services architecture. It is planned that by mid-year all enterprise applications of  SAP will be service-based and offer the customers the utmost flexibility.
Branch offices and subsidiaries of SAP AG
SAP has a network of development centers,training centers ,and service subsidiaries.for example,there are development centers (the SAP labs) in palo alto (U.S), Sophia Antipolis (France),Bangalore (India),and Tokyo(Japan). SAP has local subsidiaries in more then 50 countries that are responsible for sales,consulting,training,and service.
There are a number of training centers in the united states: Newton square (Philadelpia),Atlanta,San Francisco, and Dalas,just to name a few.In germany there are training and consulting centers in walldorf (baden),Berlin,Hamburg,and Ratingen (diisseldorf).

An exemplary Corporate Culture
New employees are introduced to the SAP word though special orientations events ,trainee programs,and a mentoring  concept that ensures each employees has practical guidance during this time.
Achievement Orientation,Creativity,and Inovation
The SAP culture offers a large amount of personal freedom.This freedom motivates and inspires employees to the develop and realize their ideas.creativity and innovative concept are always welcome within the team and new ideas are supported.
Training throught 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.personal initiative is there fore taken for granted,as is acting responsibly asa respentitative of the company.
Social Engagement
As the leading global provider of enterprise software,SAP has a responbility to ensure that its business processes are smooth and transparent.however ,SAP does not just have responbility to its customers and patners,but also to society in general.For this reason,social engagement is an important component of SAP’s comporate strategy.
Corporate citizenship
SAP wound like to play its part in the creations of a productive and transparent environment that is of benefit to everyone.SAP promotes partnership and cooperative with all socailorganizations that also respect this goal,and is actively engaged in social,scientific,and cultural activities.
Regional engagement
“promote development –seize future opportunities thought innovations” under this mooto,SAP supports organizations and institutes in the local area of its branch offices.
Government relations
We take seriously our responsibilities as a competens partner and adviser as a thought leader and development leader.
Sport Sponsorship
Speed,precisions,and tangible resoult are reasons behind SAP’s global leadership as a provider of enterprise software.there for SAP supports competitive sporting events and the desire to be best in a given discipline.
Internet portal
Most of the information in this lesson in taken from SAP’s internet portal.for more informations visit www.sap.com. You can find informtions about the company and its product,services,and patners.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Lesson overview
In this leason you will learn that SAP offter a numbers of product for a wide variety of companies and different solutions for companies of varying sizes.
Lesson objectives
After complenting this lesson,you will be able to:
-explain SAP’ product offerings
-name the centrals SAP solutions
-explain the concept and history of an ERP system
-explain the different between a soluction and a component
Products
History of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
In the 1972s,the concept of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system did not exist.with its R/1 system,SAP developd a software product that handled process data in real time and saved it to a central database.this meant that companies could access their own data quickly and have a high level of control and transparency.
SAP netweaver
SAP’s applications and integration platform is the technical foundation for mySAP business suite and SAP xapps. Its delivers a complete,opn,and flexible infrastructure that allows you to easily integrate SAP and non SAP applications.
SAP netweaver is dividen into four areas.
People integration
People integration ensures that your employees have the information and functions that they require to perfume their work as quickly and efficiently as possible.the funchtion of the SAP enterprise portal play a central rolre here.
Information integration
Information integration is used to manage all data relevant to companies.this inchudes data for your own company and data relating to third parties.
Peocess integration
Process integration ensures that business processes run across system boundaries in a heterogeneous system landcape.this is achieved by using XML data packages and workflow scenarios for instance.SAP exchange infrastructure SAP XI plays a central role here.
 Application platform
The applications platform supports java 2 enterprise editions (J2EE) and ABAP (SAP’s  Programming language) in one environment.it guarantess the independence of database and operating system,the complete support of platform-independent web service and company applications,and an open environtment that is based on recognized standars.the central component of the applications platform is the SAP web applications server.
Industry portfolios
Whereasthe mySAP business suite is generally industry-independent,many industries require specialized functions and proceses.SAP fulfills this requiretment though industry specific soluctions.
More then 20 industry soluctions are available today.among these are soluctions for:
-Automotive
-Banking
-Chemicals
-Healthcare
-Logistics Service Providers
-Mining
-Oil and Gas
-Public Sector
-Retails
Sap xApps
The defining characteristic of SAP xApps are:
-cross functional
-composite
-cross system
-information driven
Some examples of available xApps:
-SAP xApps cost and quotation Management (SAP xCQM)
-SAP xApps Resource and portfolio Management (SAP xRPM)
-SAP xApps product definition (SAP xPD)
-SAP xApps emissions management (SAP xEM)