What is SAP?

Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing

SAP R/3 software has the following functions and main features:

Functionality: R/3 provides a set of business measures in a modular form, in which the modules include all the required business functions, and connect users with technical application software to form an all-encompassing system for strategic and operational management of companies or enterprises.

Integration: R/3 connects logically related parts together. Repetitive work and redundant data are completely cancelled, process optimization and comprehensive business processing replace traditional manual operations.

Flexibility: The convenient cutting method in R/3 system makes it flexible and adaptable, thus meeting the needs of various users and the requirements of specific industries. R/3 is also equipped with an appropriate interface, which can integrate users' own software or foreign software.

Openness: The architecture of R/3 conforms to internationally recognized standards, enabling customers to break through the limitations of special hardware platforms and special system technologies. At the same time, the open interface provided by SAP can conveniently and effectively integrate the third-party software products into the R/3 system.

User-friendly: Icons and graphical symbols simplify the operation of human-computer interaction. The unified design of the user interface ensures that the staff can use the same familiar technology to complete unreasonable work.

Modularization: The modular structure of R/3 enables users to select new utility programs one by one, or switch to the new organizational structure system completely.

Reliability: As a business partner of users, SAP constantly sets more and more international standards for the quality of integrated software.

Low cost and high benefit: information processing is one of the key points to gain competitive advantage. When competition intensifies, enterprises must work harder to gain market share. This requires the use of highly integrated data processing software, and R/3 is an excellent example of this software.

International application: R/3 supports multiple languages and is designed for transnational operation. R/3 can flexibly adapt to the monetary and tax requirements of various countries.

Services: During the implementation of R/3 system, users will receive comprehensive support and services from SAP technical experts, including organizational structure and technical consultation, project planning and implementation assistance and training courses.

1972, IBM, Mannheim, Germany. Hasso Plattner, a sales consultant, is waiting for the company's reply to his suggestion. His suggestion is to develop financial software packages and replace expensive customized applications with ready-made software packages.

When IBM rejected his suggestion, he and four colleagues of software engineers left IBM and started SAP software company from scratch.

Now, every morning, 80% of the Fortune 500 companies will enter the management and collaborative business platform provided by SAP to work efficiently. Plattner, the co-chairman and CEO of SAP, who has always been aggressive, opinionated and brave to accept challenges, has experienced many storms of SAP. When he saw that SAP was depressed in the software market, he still achieved the profit forecast of 200 1 third quarter. Revenue in the first three months reached 5 billion euros, with a revenue growth rate of 23%. He happily commented: "Although the software market, especially the American market, has undergone tremendous changes recently, customers have postponed it. More and more enterprises are turning to SAP because they believe that SAP can bring them higher return on investment, better functions and convenient integration. "

Headquartered in Waldorf, Germany, this software giant is known as "the world's largest enterprise management solution provider, the world's third largest independent software provider and the world's leading collaborative e-commerce solution provider". At present, it has more than 1.65 million customers in more than 1.20 countries and regions around the world, providing products based on the "five pillars" strategy to the world. They are mySAP SCM (Supply Chain Management), mySAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), mySAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Enterprise Portal of SAP Portal and Exchange of SAPMarkets. Globally, SAP has more than 25,000 employees. At headquarters, SAP has more than 5,000 developers, and its development laboratories and development centers are all over the world.