CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION TO SAP ERP AND ABAP
1. What is SAP ERP?
SAP is a German public company, System Applications and Products in Data Processing, that was founded in 1972 in Mannheim. SAP’s two main products are SAP Business Suite and SAP NetWeaver. The most important product in the business suite is SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
2. Explain the origin of SAP ERP.
The first version of SAP ERP was R/1, which came into existence in 1973. The SAP R/1 (R/1 also ran on a mainframe) version was used to perform financial accounting. In 1980, with the introduction of mainframe-based applications, SAP R/2 came into existence. SAP R/2 was helpful to multinational European companies that required business applications with soft real-time capability. ...
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