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you know SAP is ranked #1 in the ERP market today? But what is SAP?

SAP = "Systems Applications and Products in data processing".

The SAP Software system was developed in 1971 by five IBM engineers, Hopp, Wellenreuther, Hector,
Tschira and Plattner, who worked together on an internal project. In June 1972, they left IBM and
founded the SAP company. Today SAP, or SAP SE, is a multinational Software Corporation officially
Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. The well renown corporation has shares
traded on the public stock exchange with regional offices in 180 countries and serves over 425,000
customers around the world. «SAP is committed to supporting every customer to become a best-run
business» and is counting 80% of its market as SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises).

Supply Chain

With 47 years of presence, SAP is known as the world’s largest provider of Enterprise Application
Software. The SAP Software portfolio offers end to end solutions and covers most of its clients’ business
requirements whether it is a financial, operational, human resources or e-commerce concern. Although
SAP is well known for its ERP Solutions, its software portfolio consists of a broad product catalog.

SAP Definition of the SAP Company

So, what is SAP? In first place, it is its famous ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software which can be
referred to as a centralized System. Launched as a full financial accounting system, the first version of
SAP ERP was known as SAP/R1 for Real-Time data processing. The SAP R/1 software represented
advanced technological capabilities in which the one tier architecture included the three layers
(Presentation + Application + Database) in one system server.

Naturally, SAP continued to offer better products and upgraded R/2 to R/3, the client/server version of
the software in which the three layers Presentation, Application and Database were each installed in
separate servers.

In the 1990’s many new modules were added to the core system FI CO FInancial accounting and
COntrolling: MM Material Management (purchasing, inventory and master data), WM Warehouse
Management, PP Production Planning, SD Sales and Distribution, HR Human resources and several
others.
SAP further grew by creating several complements to the ERP software such as: an enterprise data
warehouse SAP BW Business Warehouse, a CRM (Customer Relationship Management), an SCM
application (Supply Chain Management), etc…

Starting in 2008, SAP expanded further its offer with the acquisitions of Business Objects, Ariba,
SuccessFactors, hybris and Concur solutions.

SAP HANA: The New In-Memory Database

In 2010, SAP released its game-changer in-memory database, SAP HANA, designed to support high
volume of data and allow real-time analytics. This SAP HANA database would also become the
foundation and technology platform for their cloud computing strategy with SAP Cloud Platform (SCP).

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SAP S/4HANA : Intelligent ERP

SAP HANA’s new abilities also led SAP to redesign completely it’s ERP to provide their customers with the
first ever Intelligent ERP: SAP S/4HANA.

S/4HANA was first released in 2015 and was designed to make SAP ERP users more efficient with better
and simpler processes, better user interface (SAP Fiori), real-time insight and analytics, automated tasks
and even predictive, machine learning, and AI features embedded.

The diagram below shows the SAP ERP evolution in time:

SAP ERP Evolution

First released on-premise, S/4HANA, which is considered as the “digital core” of SAP’s portfolio, is now
also available in the cloud (SaaS), either in a multi-tenant edition (public cloud) or single-tenant edition
(private cloud).

SAP S/4HANA delivers a next-generation ERP Software. Its platform includes modern technologies,
including Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), mobility and real time data which are easily accessible by all
users through tablets, smartphones and computers.

SAP has reached a new frontier with S/4HANA: The intelligent Enterprise

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