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SAP
SAP SE (; ) is a German Multinational corporation, multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg. It develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. The company is the world's leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor. Founded in 1972 as a private partnership named ''Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung'' (literally ''System Analysis and Software Development''). SAP GbR became in 1981 fully ''Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung'' abbreviated SAP GmbH after a five-year transition period beginning in 1976. In 2005, it further restructured itself as SAP AG. Since 7 July 2014, its corporate structure is that of a pan-European ''societas Europaea'' (SE); as such, its former German corporate identity is now a subsidiary, SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG''.'' It has regional offices in 180 countries and over 111,961 employees. SAP is a component of the DAX and Euro Stoxx 50 stock market i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP CRM
The SAP CRM applications have been initially an integrated on-premises customer relationship management ( CRM) software manufactured by SAP SE which targeted business software requirements for marketing, sales and service of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors. The first SAP CRM release 2.0 has been made generally available in November 2000. The current release 7.0 is being updated with quarterly enhancement packs (EHPs) since 2009. In 2007 SAP started to develop a cloud based CRM which has been renamed from SAP Business ByDesign CRM to Sales on Demand to SAP Cloud for Customer and finally to SAP Cloud for Sales. Since 2018 SAP has consolidated all of its cloud based marketing, sales, service and commerce applications as SAP C/4HANA suite. Overview After the acquisition of Hybris in 2013, SAP has gradually realigned their CRM strategy mainly to take on the market leader Salesforce.com which is a cloud-based software. In a bid to be more competitiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABAP
ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming, originally ''Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor'', German for "general report preparation processor") is a high-level programming language created by the German software company SAP SE. It is currently positioned, alongside Java, as the language for programming the SAP NetWeaver Application Server, which is part of the SAP NetWeaver platform for building business applications. Introduction ABAP is one of the many application-specific fourth-generation languages ( 4GLs) first developed in the 1980s. It was originally the report language for SAP R/2, a platform that enabled large corporations to build mainframe business applications for materials management and financial and management accounting. ABAP used to be an abbreviation of ''Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor'', German for "generic report preparation processor", but was later renamed to the English ''Advanced Business Application Programming''. ABAP wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP Ariba
SAP Ariba is an American software and information technology services company located in Palo Alto, California. It was acquired by German software maker SAP SE for $4.3 billion in 2012. Company beginnings Ariba (now SAP Ariba) was founded in 1996 by Bobby Lent, Boris Putanec, Paul Touw, Rob Desantis, Ed Kinsey, Paul Hegarty, and Keith Krach on the idea of using the Internet to enable companies to facilitate and improve the procurement process, which was paper-based, labor-intensive, and inefficient for large corporations. The name Ariba is a neologism, chosen by a branding company since it was easy to pronounce and spell. The pre-launch name was Procuresoft. Ariba went public in 1999 under Krach's leadership as CEO, and was one of the first business-to-business Internet companies to do an IPO. The company's stock more than tripled from the offering price on opening day, making the three-year-old company worth $4 billion. In 2000, the stock value continued to climb, and Ariba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP IQ
SAP IQ (formerly known as SAP Sybase IQ or Sybase IQ; IQ for Intelligent Query) is a column-based, petabyte scale, relational database software system used for business intelligence, data warehousing, and data marts. Produced by Sybase Inc., now an SAP company, its primary function is to analyze large amounts of data in a low-cost, highly available environment. SAP IQ is often creditedC-Store: A column-oriented DBMS , Stonebraker et al., Proceedings of the 31st VLDB Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 2005 with pioneering the commercialization of column-store technology. At the foundation of SAP IQ lies a column store technology that allows for speed compression and ad-hoc analysis. SAP IQ has an open interface approach towards its ecosystem. SAP IQ is also integrated with SAP's Business Intelligence portfolio of produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BusinessObjects
Business Objects (BO, BOBJ, or BObjects) was an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). Business Objects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP. Its flagship product was BusinessObjects XI (or BOXI), with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, as well as enterprise information management. Business Objects also offered consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects. Other toolsets enabled universes (the Business Objects name for a semantic layer between the physical data store and the front-end reporting tool) and ready-written reports to be stored centrally and made selectively available to communities of the users. History co-founded Business Objects in 1990 together with , and was chief until September 2005, when he became chairman a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business ByDesign (ByD) is a cloud enterprise resource planning software (Cloud ERP) that is sold and operated as software as a service by SAP SE. It is designed for small and medium-sized enterprises. The software is designed to provide business processes across application areas from financials to human resources with embedded business analytics, mobility, e-learning, and support. SAP Business ByDesign is built on the principles of a service oriented architecture (SOA). Integration between business capabilities is accomplished via messages. The underlying technology stack is a multi-tenancy enabled SAP NetWeaver stack, leveraging SAP's in-memory HANA database. SAP Business ByDesign is used by almost 10.000 companies in more than 140 countries and supports 41 languages (13 standard and 28 partner translated, including simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Hebrew). It is localized for 65 countries (standard localizations, pre-localizations and partner localizations). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP NetWeaver
SAP NetWeaver is a software stack for many of SAP SE's applications. The SAP NetWeaver Application Server, sometimes referred to as WebAS, is the runtime environment for the SAP applications and all of the mySAP Business Suite runs on SAP WebAS: supplier relationship management (SRM), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), transportation management system (TMS). The product is marketed as a service-oriented architecture for enterprise application integration. It can be used for custom development and integration with other applications and systems, and is built primarily using the ABAP programming language, but also uses C, C++, and Java. It can also be extended with, and interoperate with, technologies such as Microsoft .NET, Java EE, and IBM WebSphere. History The NetWeaver platform was a portal technology developed by Israeli software company TopTier Software (founded in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP HANA
SAP HANA (HochleistungsANalyseAnwendung or High-performance ANalytic Application) is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP SE. Its primary function as the software running a database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications. In addition, it performs advanced analytics (predictive analytics, spatial data processing, text analytics, text search, streaming analytics, graph data processing) and includes extract, transform, load (ETL) capabilities as well as an application server. History During the early development of SAP HANA, a number of technologies were developed or acquired by SAP SE. These included TREX search engine ( in-memory column-oriented search engine), P*TIME (in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) Platform acquired by SAP in 2005), and MaxDB with its in-memory liveCache engine. The first major demonstration of the platform was in 2008: teams from SAP SE, the Hasso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise resource planning software for large enterprises developed by SAP SE. It is the successor to SAP R/3 and SAP ERP and is optimized for SAP's in-memory database SAP HANA. Purpose SAP S/4HANA is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software package meant to cover all day-to-day processes of an enterprise (for example, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-product, and request-to-service) and core capabilities. It integrates functions from lines of businesses as well as industry solutions, and also re-integrates portions of SAP Business Suite products such as SAP SRM, SAP CRM and SAP SCM. As SAP Business Suite 4 only runs on the SAP HANA database it is packaged as one product: SAP S/4HANA. SAP's classical R3, ERP and ECC based business suite and related products were designed to run on several database platforms, including those from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. History The SAP HANA platform has been available since 2010, and SAP applications like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP Business One
SAP Business One is a business management software ( ERP) designed for small and medium-sized enterprises, sold by the German company SAP SE. As an ERP solution, it aims to automate key business functions in financials, operations, and human resources. History SAP Business One was initially launched in Israel in 1996 under the name "Menahel" ("manager") or "TopManage", for countries out of Israel. The company was founded by Reuven Agassi (CEO) and Gadi Shamia (VP of sales, marketing and product). The product was designed by Gadi Shamia and the head developer was Hilla Mazinter. In its first years, TopManage was sold in the Israeli market only and was the first Windows/ Mac business management product to be offered in the Israeli market. In 2000 TopManage started its global expansion into markets in Europe and Latin America. In March 2002, SAP purchased "TopManage" financial systems and branded their system as SAP Business One. TopManage founders Reuven Agassi and Gadi Shami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP SuccessFactors
SAP SuccessFactors is an American multinational company headquartered in South San Francisco, California, providing cloud-based software for human capital management using the Software as a service (SaaS) model. Competitors include Workday, Oracle Cloud HCM, ADP, and Ceridian. Corporate history SuccessFactors was founded in 2001 by Lars Dalgaard. In November 2007, the company went public on the NASDAQ Global Market under the stock symbol SFSF. In July 2008, SuccessFactors moved its listing to the NYSE, NYSE Euronext, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Boerse). Acquisitions * Infohrm - In February, 2010, the firm acquired Infohrm, an Australian-based HR analytics business. *Cubetree - May, 2010 - it acquired CubeTree - social software. *Jambok - March, 2011 - it acquired Jambok, a small platform company with a solution for social learning and knowledge sharing. * YouCalc – On October 17, 2010, it announced its acquisition of this Denmark-based SaaS service. On O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAP SRM
SAP Business Suite is a bundle of business applications that provide integration of information and processes, collaboration, industry-specific functionality and scalability. SAP Business Suite is based on SAP's technology platform called NetWeaver. SAP Business Suite 7 has five constituents: *SAP ERP 6.0 (Enterprise Resource Planning) *SAP CRM 7.0 (Customer Relationship Management) *SAP SRM 7.0 ( Supplier Relationship Management) *SAP SCM 7.0 ( Supply Chain Management) *SAP PLM 7.0 (Product Lifecycle Management In industry, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products. PL ...) References External linksSAP Business Suite discussions, blogs, docu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
