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Understanding SAP ERP
13.1 INTRODUCTION TO SAP ERP
SAP has become the preeminent vendor of standard business applications software. Throughout the
last decade, it has reported sales and prot growth rates in excess of 40% every year. The sales for
2009 were reported to be $10 billion. As reported by SAP, there are more than 36,000 customers
with more than 100,000 installations of SAP across the world. And, worldwide, more than seven
million users work on SAP systems. By any standards, these are impressive numbers coming from a
company that has a great vision and is destined to play a signicant role even in the Internet-driven
markets of ...