What is SAP?

Clarifications

You just have to Search for SAP to find it:

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=266510&messageID=2523339

Of course when you are lost in the forest, sometimes SAP gets stuck to you!

and want to contemplate the meaning of life and the big picture (any MBA needs to know the 'big picture' so as not to seem totally clueless)

here's some poems, fractured Haiku expounding on SAP's place in the universe of IT (not all exactly follow japanese haiku standards, but to me the zen of the meaning is more important).

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=250486&messageID=2401597

SAP is a database system, the firm that provides the system, and all the ancillary software that the firm provides. Go to sap.com for sales talk. I think they have a special sub-site for India.

SAP is a database system. you can learn more about it here :

http://www.sapdb.org/7.4/htmhelp/97/026b3ae886616ae10000000a114084/content.htm

Hope this helps and good luck with your future!! YAY~

sara

SAP isn't a database technology in and of itself. It actually used an Oracle engine (there is an open source version using MySQL).

SAP is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application. An ERP is an application designed to serve an entire enterprise needs for many IT functions such as accounting, manufacturing, supply chain, human resources etc. The advantage of an ERP is the integration between these modules is much higher thna if you bought sperate applications for each function.

SAP may be important to your future since it is by far the largest ERP vendor out there.

The idea behind SAP is that you can implement the applications in a modular fashion - start with accounting, add the others as you go.

But be warned, SAP is seen as cultish in some aspects in that there is the "SAP" way to implement processes, and the "wrong" way. In other words, you may be required to change your existing processes to make SAP work better for you, rather than the other way around. This contrasts with the Oracle Financials approach where you have an application and a tool kit and you can customize it to fit your business.

Hope that helps.

James