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SAP functionality

SAP functionality . SAP Overview. Main character of SAP software is specialization. SPECIALIZATION means each component within the SAP software meets a particular need.

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SAP functionality

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  1. SAP functionality

  2. SAP Overview Main character of SAP software is specialization. SPECIALIZATIONmeans each component within the SAP software meets a particular need. For example one component is responsible for providing web-based access to other SAP systems. Another component is responsible for addressing product lifecycle planning requirements. Yet another component helps interconnecting different systems to ease integration headaches.

  3. Every company needs to manage its inventories, generate & track sales, deliver services, maximize revenue, and optimize its supply chains. SAP is used to satisfy these needs of the companies.

  4. Within a SAP component, a company's business processes are configured. SAP software reflects industry's best practices. By adopting proven practices, companies serve their stakeholders more efficiently. For example, in SAP you can configure business processes like "order to cash" and "credit check". Configurating a business processes within SAP may involve one or more modules.

  5. Within SAP software there are various components. A component can be broken down further into modules of functionality that are more discrete in nature. Each module is addresses a particular piece of the overall component pie. SAP software is comprised of modules like Financials, Sales & Distribution, Materials Management, Warehouse Management, and so on. Each of these modules serves to manage a functional area for which a particular department is responsible. Individual SAP modules combine to form an SAP component.

  6. SAP Brief History SAP is a product of Walldorf, Germany based company called SAP AG (pronounced ess-aye-pea aye-gee) the world's largest enterprise software company. Former IBM engineers formed a company called SAP AG in Mannheim, Germany in 1972. Originally the company was named: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte

  7. GOAL • To develop a software that integrates company's business functions in a manner that reflected best practices.

  8. The software was engineered on a multilingual and multinational platform. Only a few years after its core product hit the marketplace the SAP become Germany's top software vendor.

  9. SAP AG Today SAP AG company is a market leader in Enterprise Applications software. SAP is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol SAP. Nearly 30 industries are covered by SAP industry solutions. SAP AG has offices in more than 50 countries. It has more than 32,000 employees. Partners base exceeds 1,500. There are 12 million SAP users and over 91,000 SAP installations.

  10. SAP AG also offers comprehensive INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS besides regular SAP software (ECC products). • Aerospace & Defense • Automotive • Banking • Chemicals • Consumer Products • Engineering & Construction • Healthcare • High Tech • SAP Insurance • Media • Oil & Gas • Pharmaceuticals • Public Sector • Retail • Service Provider • Telecommunications • Utilities

  11. SAP System Architecture & WebAS Most SAP components are built on a powerful platform called Web Application Server (WebAS). WebASunderstand most popular computer languages including HTML, XML, Web Services, SAP ABAP/4, and Javato store back end date, many database versions and releases are supported.

  12. THREE-TIERED ARCHITECTURE The SAP system has THREE-TIERS. The *PRESENTATION LAYER (the user interface), *APPLICATION LAYER (the business logic), and *DATABASE LAYER are logically separate from one another. They can also be made to be physically separated.

  13. In a CLIENT/SERVERenvironment, a client machine requests information, via network, from the supplying machine, known as the server. SAP R/3 Client/Server Architecture • SAP R/3 (old version) was using an architecture called client/server. The newer version of SAP R/3 is called ECC: ERP Central Component. • ECC (ERP Central Component) is built around a different type of architecture. It uses SAP NetWeaver and Enterprise Services Architecture.

  14. The 3-tier solution is more scalable. Now upgrading application is easier as well. The application now resides one (or few) machine: middle tier, as oppose to hundreds of client PCs. SAP engineers also abstracted the database layer. Many different databases are supported.

  15. A central computer hosts the database. This computer is known as the DATABASE SERVER. The APPLICATION SERVER is responsible for the administrative functions including background processing and printing.

  16. These computers are also called FRONT-END clients. These computers display the SAP screens. SAP Graphical User Interface (GUI), or SAP GUI is installed on these computers.

  17. What is Graphical User Interface (GUI)? • A graphical user interface consists of graphic images called icons that include buttons, pull-down menus, dialog boxes, and scrollbars. • These images are typically manipulated with a mouse. The GUI makes computers user friendly.

  18. SAP introduced the four-tiered architectures when enterprise software vendors recognized the value that the Internet or company-internal intranets can provide to the end-users. • The fourth layer is called “ACCESIBILITY TIER" or “SERVICES TIER". This layer exists in between the application and presentation tiers` FOUR-TIERED Architectures

  19. SAP is building a solution around a new model. It involves various applications talking to each other via services. ENTERPRISE SERVICES ARCHITECTURE (ESA) SAP NetWeaver • It is a component of SAP software that provides the platform for integrating these application services.

  20. What is the original name of SAP? • What is the main goal of SAP? • Who formed the SAP AG company? • It means each component within the SAP software meets a particular need. • Give at least three (3) industry solutions that offers for. • What are the three (3) most common multinational platform of SAP software? • This layer is known to be the “business logic layer”. • It consists of graphic images called icons. • Give the Four-Tiered Architectures (in Ascending Order) • Give at least two (2) major companies here in the Philippines that you think uses SAP . • Presentation layer can be known as __________. QUIZ #1

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