SAP Introduction

SAP stands for System Application and Products in data Processing

Five former IBM employees start a company they call SAP Systemanalyse 
und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development").

        v SAP was released in 1972 – Head quarters is in Germany  by      

             Wellenreuther, Hopp, Hector, Plattner and Tschira.

        v Renamed in 1977

History of SAP

v 1972 - SAP R/1 – Real time data processing

v 1980 -SAP – R/2 Included no. of countries and no. of currencies

v 1990 – SAP R/3- R/3 stands for Data Structure

                    1.Application Server

                    2.Data based server

                    3.Presentation

      v 1999 – My SAP.com – Web based

      v 2004 – Net weaver – Integrates information, people and process.