Saturday, July 14, 2018

SAP Overview

5 IBM employees founded SAP in 1972 in Weinhein, Germany, they call "SAP Systemanalyse und Programentwicklung" (System Analysis and Program Development) as a private partnership under the German CivilCode.

5 IBM Employees are:
- Deitmar Hopp
- Hasso Plattner
- Klaus Tschira
- Claus Wellenreuther
- Hans-Werner Hector

Their first client was the German branch of "Impherial Chemical Industries" in Ostringen.

SAP stands for "System, Application and Products in Data Processing."

As of 2016, SAP is the third world largest ERP softwarr.

In 1973, the first commercial product was launched. It was called SAP R/98 and offered a common system for multiple tasks, this permitted the use of centralized data storage, improving the maintenance of data. From the technical point of view, a database.

In 1976, the limited-liability company SAP GmbH Systeme, Andwedugn und Produkte in der DAtenverarbeitung (System, Applications and Products in data processing) is founded as a sales and support subsidiary.

In 1977, SAP moves it headquaters from Weinheim to nearby Walldrof, Germany

In 1979, SAP launched R/2, expanding the capabilities of the system to other areas, such as material management and production planning.

SAP released the new SAP R/3 in 1992. SAP developed and released several version of R/3 through 1995.

In 2004, R/3 was replaced with the introduction of SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 5.0.

In 2006, SAP ERP 6.0 released as latest version.
SAP ERP 6.0 has since then updated through SAP enhancement packs, the most recent SAP enhancement package 8 for SAP ERP 6.0 in 2016.

In 1988, SAP GmbH became SAP AG.
In 2014, SAP changed from an AG to a European Company SAP SE (Societas Europea or SE)

Since 2014, SAP focused on Cloud.

In 2014, IBM and SAP began a partnership to sell cloud-based services.

In 2015, SAP also partnered with HPE to provide secure hybrid cloud-based services running the SAP platform. Both HPE and IBM provide infrastructure services of SAP and SAP run its SAP HANA cloud solution on top.

SAP exceeded its revenue projections due to the expansion in its cloud business and the success of SAP HANA.

In 2015, the company launched SAP S/4 HANA,  the newest generation of the SAP Business Suite. It was written natively for the SAP HANA Platform. It offers cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployment options to customers, with its benefits including a smaller data footprint, higher throughput, faster analytics and faster access of data. It also allows existing SAP Business Suite customers to upgrade to this product from SAP Business Suite.

In 2016, SAP introduced SAP HANA, Express Edition which is meant to run an personal computers or an cloud computing platforms for students and other small-scale developers.

Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, compared the release of SAP S/4 HANA to a "moonshot", describing it as the most important launch in the company history.

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