SAP unit 1

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UNIT 1

SAP' Company History

• 1972: Five former IBM employess - Hasso Platner, Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hektor - launch a company called SAP (System Analysis and Program Development. their vision: to develop standard application software for real-time business processing. still a private corporation, the company is headquartered in Weinheim, Germany, with its main office in nearby mannheim. At the end of the first business year, SAP already had nine employess and a turnover of DM 620,000.
• 1973: The first financial accounting software is completed, the RF system. These new customer use IBM computeres and the DOS operating system.
• 1974: SAP demonstrates its flexibility for the first time. Within eight weeks, the RF system in converted from DOS to OS.
• 1976: Five years later in 1981, the private corporation established in 1972 (system Analysis and Program Development) dissolved, and its right are transferred to SAP GmbH, giving the company its current name (System, Appliication, and Products in Data Processing).
• 1977: The company moves from Weinheim to Walldorf. For the first time, SAP installs its system at customer sites outside Germany.
• 1979: SAP starts to use its first own server, a siemens 7738. previously employess carried out all development in the data centers of regional companies, such as ICI, Thermal, Knoll, Grunzwieg+Hartmann, and Freudenberg. SAP R/2 is brought into the world.
• 1980: SAP moves into the company's first building on Max-Planck-Strasse in Walldorf's industrial park. the software development area and its 50 computers are now finally under one roof.
• 1982: SAP celebrates its 10th birthday. Its offices are already too small and the first building extension is built in record time. Over 250 companies in Germany, Ausria, and Switzerland work SAp software.
• 1984: Sap takes on 48 new employess. SAP (international) AG is founded in Biel, Switzerland. The intention is to deal with foreign markets from this base in Switzerland. SAP has 163 employess and revenues of DM 46 million.
• 1986: SAP founds its firs country subsidiary in Austria. it Also opens its first branch office in Ratingen, near Dusseldof, Germany. The growing number of ememployess leads to the creation of smaller organizational units headed by departement managers.
• 1987: Work begins on SAP's training center in Walldorf's industrial park. Tje standarization of software production becomes an incentive for SAP to start developing a new generation of software: SAP R/3
• 1988: SAP GmbH becomes SAP AG. In October, 1.2 million shares are listed on the Frankfurt and Stuttgart stock exchanges. SAP's international business grows; country subsidiaries are estabilished in Denmark, Sweden, Italy and the United States.
• 1990: SAP stock reaches DM 85 million following the issue of preference shares. DM 110 million is made available for R&D, both for the further development of R/2 and the new development of R/3.
• 1991: SAP presents its R/3 system for the first time at the CeBIT in Hanover. At the end year, SAP has 2685 employess in Germany and its 14 subsidiaries, and has revenues of DM 707 million.
• 1992: As it celebrates 20th anniversary, SAP intensifies its partner strategy in accordance with the expected high installation figures for R/3/
• 1995: SAP in Germany increases its sales activities targeted at midsize companies by collaborating with system resellers. The American company BurgerKing, Inc. is the 1000th Human Resources customer. Microsoft also begins to use SAP.
• 1996: SAP and Microsoft present a joint Internet strategy. Coca-cola, the largest soft drinks manufacture in the world, decides to implement SAP R/3. SAP is named company of  the year for the third time by Manager-Magazin.
• 1997: SAP celebrates 25th anniversary. Among the guest at the official celebration is the German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl. SAP's earning before taxes exceeds the DM billion border for the first time.
• 1998: Dietmar Hopp and Klaus Tschira, two of teh founders of SAP, announce their decision to leave the board directors. From August, SAP shares can be bought on the New York Stock Exhange.
• 1999: In May, Co-Chairman and CEO Hasso Plattner announces the mySAP.com strategy, heralding the beginning of a new direction for the company and its product range. mySAP.com connect e-commerce solutions with existing ERP applications using up-to-date Web technology.
• 2000: 10 million users, 36,000 instalations, 1000 partner, and 22 industry solution: SAP is the leading global provider of the e_business software solutions that integrate processes within and beyond company boundaries.
• 2001: The new economy bubble has burst, but the trust in SAP and its solutions is not broken, the revenue reaches EUR 7.3 billion.
• 2002: While the success for SAP began with SAP R/2, in 1992 R/3 was responsible for the international breakthrough. The brand SAP represent high quality enterprise software.
• 2003: An era ends, Hasso Plattner, the last of the founders SAP, leaves the board of directors an is elected head of the supervisory board. In addition to the name change from mySAP.com to mySAP Business Suite, SAP introduction ERP solution: mySAP ERP.
• 2004: Enterprise Services Architecture delivers the first version of SAP NetWeaver 04. In total, more then 24,000 customer in over 120 countries rus 84,000 instalations of SAP software.

SAP AG

• subsidiaries

1)SAP Germany
2)SAP America
3)SAP Japan
4)SAP France
5)SAP Brazil
6)SAP.......


Reference Customers and Partners

History of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System

1970: ERP? No definiation
      SAP invents and establishes an ERP system
1980: ERP the business sortware.
      ERP becomes standard software. The first competitors appear
      in the market place.
1990: Dotcom hype: ERP= old
                   E-business= new
      ERP software is regarded as obsolete. The first "new 
      dimension" products conquer the market.
2000: Integrated Business Suite & xApss
      E-business is defined as an extension of ERP software. SAP
      sets a new standard.



mySAP Solutions

    mySAP BUsiness Suite consist of individual SAP solutions. Each solution has it own focus area and provides functions to map this area in a flexible and comprehensive way. All solutions are based on SAP NetWeaver technology.


mySAP ERP


    Is designed in such a way that campanies can implement only the business functions they need when they need them, thus simplifying upgrades and reducing total cost of ownership.
    mySAP ERP allows companies to gain better control of their administrative and operations environment and increase afficiency and probability.


mySAP ERP financials


    The aim of this solution is to utilize a company's funds effectively and, therefore, increase profitability in the long term.


mySAP ERP Human Capital Management


    Every company has employess. They are important resources, and mySAP ERP HCM enables you to utilize them effectively toward the success of your company. With SAP, an ERP system is now a combination of components that integrate people, information, and processes in a comprehensive and flexible way.


mySAP Business Suite


    mySAP ERP is also the core solution of the mySAP Business Suite. mySAP Business Suite provides this flexibility in a complete package of open, integrated solution for the entire value chain. Customers, employess, suppliers, and partners are brought together to form one unit in a process that takes almost no time at all.


mySAP Customer Relationship Management


    mySAP CRM is a solution that puts the customer first. the customer can contact companies throught a number of communication channel.


mySAP Product Life Management


    This solution offers function for product development, product safety, quality and maintenance.


mySAP Supply Chain Management


    Supply chains do not end at the warehouse doors. You can use mySAP SCM to plan and optimize supply chains across company boundaries.


mySAP Supplier Relationship Management


    Employess can use this solution to provide procurement with information about demand directly from their work centers quickly, easily, and effectively.



SAP Solutions for Small and Midsize Businesses:
mySAP All-in-one


    Each qualified mySAP All-in-one Solution is a prepackaged, industry-specific version of mySAP Business Suite with built-in content, tools, and methodologies for a cost-effective, turnkey implementation.


mySAP All-in-one provides the following advantages:
1) Rapid implementation and transparent cost
mySAP All-in-one is provided by selected, qualified partners
The software is implemented using a special implementation method that is based on experience gained from more than 15,000 customer installations in more than 20 industris.
2) Increased productivity and cost control
The comperhensive, preconfigured mySAP all-in-one industry solutions integrate financial, human resouces, logistics, and customer relationship.
3) Reliable partners
The mySAP All-in-one industry solutions reflect this valuable experience. SAP partners offer comperhensive solutions consisting of hardware, software and consulting all of which are tailored to small and midsize businesses needs.
4) Scalability.
The reason for this is simple: mySAP All-in-one can be easily adapted to changing business requirements.


SAP Business One
     SAP Business One is an easy-to-use business and operational management solution for emerging and dynamic businesses ranging in size from 10 to several hundred employess.


SAP Business One provides the following advantages:
1) Rapid implementation
SAP Business One can be implemented within a few days and can be easily maintained.
2) Lower cost
Because it is cost effective, SAP Business One offers a wide range of functions for an integrated data processing.
3) Increased productivity and cost control
As the user interface of SAP Business One is simple and easy to understand, users will quickly learn how to work with the system. This will increase their productivity and help reduce the cost. This technology relates different data to each other.
4)Sound business decisions
SAP Business One allows managers to quickly and effectively access strategic information from all enterprise areas and gives them full control of the relevant information and activities.
5)Scalability
When a company grows, processes usually become more complex and software requirements change. SAP Business One flexible and efficient system technology can easily keep pace with the company growth.