SAP

SAP stands for SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS and PRODUCTS in data processing,
[In German SAP stands for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung].                    

 SAP was founded in June 1972 by Five former IBM engineers.
 
    Dietmar Hopp,
    Klaus Tschira,
    Hans-Werner Hector,
    Hasspo Plantter,
    Claus Wellenreuther.

SAP by name itself stands for name of the ERP(ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING)
software as well as the name of the company. 

SAP AG is the name of the company located in Germany, where AG stands for incorporated              
in German language.

SAP is #1 product in ERP Market.

Competitive Products for SAP are

 

    Peoplesoft,
    JD Edwards,
    Oracle,
    BAAN,
    Microsoft Dynamics,
    IBM,
    Ramco.

Advantage of SAP are

 

    High Security.
    User Friendly.
    Rich set of Modules.
    Data integrity.
    Easy Administration.
    Only one side Database.
    SAP supports multi-languages.
    SAP support JAVA.
    Easy addons.
    SAP supports all database and Operating systems.
    Common programming language which supports OOPs and ABAP.
    Global support 7x24x365.