Internet Business Framework
One of the success factors for SAP was the seamless integration between applications. In SAP you can see the whole business process, no matter if it has interaction with Finances (FI), Controlling (CO), Asset Management (AM), Sales and Distribution (SD), or Human Resource (HR) modules.
The ALE allows integration between applications in distributed systems. The Internet will increase the integration between processes not only inside one company but between companies, as the common media to exchange data and information. SAP evolution is the integration between systems via the Internet, and this is mainly what mySAP is for.
SAP supports all the Internet standards, as we will see, and participates actively in all Internet ...
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