SAP Questions and Answers - 1

What is sap and when the sap founded?

SAP stands for: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and
Products." and was founded in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany. SAP provides the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations
and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents.

What is ERP?

ERP is a package with the techniques and concepts for the integrated management of business as a whole, for effective use of management resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise. Initially, ERP was targeted for manufacturing industry mainly for planning and managing core business like production and financial market. As the growth and merits of ERP package ERP software is designed for basic process of a company from manufacturing to small shops with a target of integrating information across the company.

Different types of ERP?

SAP, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Siebel, PeopleSoft . Among all the ERPs most of the companies implemented or trying to implement SAP because of number of advantages over other ERP packages.

Why do you usually choose to implement SAP?

There are number of technical reasons numbers of companies are planning to implement SAP. It’s highly configurable, highly secure data handling, min data redundancy, max data consistency you can capitalize on economics of sales like purchasing, tight integration-cross function.

What is IDES?

International Demonstration and Education System. A sample application provided for faster learning and implementation.

What is SAP R/3?

A third generation set of highly integrated software modules that perform common business function based on multinational leading practice. Takes care of any enterprise however diverse in operation, spread over the world. In R/3 system all the three servers like presentation, application server and database server are located at different system.

What are presentation, application and database servers in SAP R/3?

The application layer of an R/3 System is made up of the application servers and the message server. Application programs in an R/3 System are run on application servers. The application servers communicate with the presentation components, the database, and also with each other, using the message server. All the data are stored in a centralized server. This server is called database server.

How can an ERP such as SAP help a business owner learn more about how business operates?

In order to use an ERP system, a business person must understand the business processes and how they work together from one functional area to the other. This knowledge gives the student a much deeper understanding of how a business operates. Using SAP as a tool to learn about ERP systems will require that the people understand the business processes and how they integrate.

What is SAPS?

The SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) is a hardware-independent unit that
describes the performance of a system configuration in the SAP environment.
SAP standard application workbench which is used to measure CPU . Like a standard CPU of 1.6ghz produces 800 to 1000 SAPS.