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Sap in Erp - A Bird's Eye View: Department of Information Systems and Analysis College of Business Lamar University

This document provides an overview of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and SAP. It discusses how ERP systems address business needs like global operations and heterogeneous solutions through integrated applications. The document outlines SAP's scope and market leadership in ERP. It also describes the large ERP services market and notes that SAP implementation projects typically involve package configuration, customization, integration, and change management. Finally, it discusses how SAP is evolving and provides tips for learning about and pursuing a career related to SAP.

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Sap in Erp - A Bird's Eye View: Department of Information Systems and Analysis College of Business Lamar University

This document provides an overview of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and SAP. It discusses how ERP systems address business needs like global operations and heterogeneous solutions through integrated applications. The document outlines SAP's scope and market leadership in ERP. It also describes the large ERP services market and notes that SAP implementation projects typically involve package configuration, customization, integration, and change management. Finally, it discusses how SAP is evolving and provides tips for learning about and pursuing a career related to SAP.

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SAP in ERP A Birds Eye View

Department of Information Systems and Analysis College of Business Lamar University

Business Needs
Global Operations
Heterogeneous Solutions Business Processes

Different locations Different countries Different languages

Different time zones


Central vs. distributed

Business Needs contd.


Global Operations
Heterogeneous Solutions Business Processes

Different applications Different technologies Different vendors

Point-to-point integration
Custom-made solutions

Business Needs contd.


Global Operations
Heterogeneous Solutions Business Processes

An Introduction to ERP
Financials

Distribution

Manufacturing

ERP ERP

E-Commerce

CRM

Human Resources

Workflow

Scope of ERP

ERP scope has expanded dramatically and usually includes: Manufacturing Supply Chain Management Financials Projects Human Resources Customer Relationship Management Data Warehouse Large organisations want to implement standard processes and systems across divisions and subsidiaries ERP offers attractive, integrated solutions The market for these solutions is huge.

The ERP Market

ERP market dominated by SAP, Oracle, Microsoft worth USD 40 billion SAP is the biggest and most popular Founded in 1972 by five ex-IBM employees, by 2005, there were 100,600 installations worldwide, with over 25 industry-specific modules in the SAP portfolio. SAP is the world's third-largest independent software vendor Founded in 1977, Oracle were first to market a reliable relational database The second largest software company after Microsoft Since the 1990s, they have marketed Financial, HR and other solutions and through a series of acquisitions, including PeopleSoft and Siebel is now the second largest ERP vendor after SAP. [3] Microsoft, also started in 1977 dominate the proprietary software market on the desktop and small to medium servers. Microsoft were a big Siebel software user but since Oracle acquired Siebel, they have worked hard to build an ERP product suite of their own and are now probably in third place in ERP

SAP Services Market

ERP services market possibly worth more than USD 100 billion Accenture, IBM, CapGemini, Deloitte, CSC, HP and others have substantial ERP practices ERP services include

Projects tend to be large, long term, business critical and big-budget. USD 30m implementation projects are not unusual.

Consultancy Configuration Application hosting Integration Implementation and deployment Training Full-process outsourcing

The Nature of ERP Implementation Projects

ERP implementation projects typically have a mix of the following disciplines:

Most projects are large scale and critical. Travel may be required on the job.

Package configuration and/or parameterisation Package customisation (including programming) Infrastructure development/upgrading Integration with legacy systems Data migration Business change (process design and training) Testing (typically unit, sub-system integration, system-system integration, acceptance)

Ever Evolving SAP

SAP NetWeaver

Enterprise Service Architecture (ESA) & Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)


SAP and Microsoft Duet project integrates SAP back office data with the ubiquitous Office suite from Microsoft SAP for small and mid sized business ( SAP BusinessOne)

Business ByDesign based on Software as a service (SaaS) model.

How to learn

SAP educational alliance ( get access to SAP system first!!!) Take right courses (Functional areas, BI, ...etc) Student projects & Research projects SAP Developer Network(http://sdn.sap.com) ASUG (American SAP Users Group http://www.asug.com) Service Market Place (http://service.sap.com) SAP Internship & other

Career tracks

Wrap-up

SAP is one of the dominant player SAP Service industry is huge Take right courses Be part of the community to learn

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