UNIT 1
SAP THE COMPANY
SAP’s company history 1972-2004
1972: Foundation: Five former IBM employees start a company they call SAP Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung (“System Analysis and Program Development”).
Vision: Standard application software for real-time data processing is developed.
Associations: Taking the initial form of a private partnership under the German Civil Code, the company establishes its headquarters in Weinheim, Germany, and opens an office in nearby Mannheim. However, SAP’s five founders spend most of their time in the data centers of their first customers, which include the German branch of Imperial Chemical Industries in ostringen.
Night owls: Development of the fledgling company’s first programs takes place mainly at night and on weekends.
Initial success: At the end of its first year in business, SAP employs nine people and generates DM 620.000.
2004: enterprise services architecture delivers the frist version of SAP netweaver 04.the resonance from the new integration and application platform in overhelming.by the endof 2004 the new product has more than 1000 customers .In total more then 24,000 customers in over 120 countries run 84,000 installation of SAP software.SAP announces the future of enterprise services architecture. It is planned that by mid-year all enterprise applications of SAP will be service-based and offer the customers the utmost flexibility.
Branch offices and subsidiaries of SAP AG
SAP has a network of development centers,training centers ,and service subsidiaries.for example,there are development centers (the SAP labs) in palo alto (U.S), Sophia Antipolis (France),Bangalore (India),and Tokyo(Japan). SAP has local subsidiaries in more then 50 countries that are responsible for sales,consulting,training,and service.
There are a number of training centers in the united states: Newton square (Philadelpia),Atlanta,San Francisco, and Dalas,just to name a few.In germany there are training and consulting centers in walldorf (baden),Berlin,Hamburg,and Ratingen (diisseldorf).
An exemplary Corporate Culture
New employees are introduced to the SAP word though special orientations events ,trainee programs,and a mentoring concept that ensures each employees has practical guidance during this time.
Achievement Orientation,Creativity,and Inovation
The SAP culture offers a large amount of personal freedom.This freedom motivates and inspires employees to the develop and realize their ideas.creativity and innovative concept are always welcome within the team and new ideas are supported.
Training throught personal development
SAP employees know they need to be able to react flexibly to changes ,and their knowledge always has to be up to date.personal initiative is there fore taken for granted,as is acting responsibly asa respentitative of the company.
Social Engagement
As the leading global provider of enterprise software,SAP has a responbility to ensure that its business processes are smooth and transparent.however ,SAP does not just have responbility to its customers and patners,but also to society in general.For this reason,social engagement is an important component of SAP’s comporate strategy.
Corporate citizenship
SAP wound like to play its part in the creations of a productive and transparent environment that is of benefit to everyone.SAP promotes partnership and cooperative with all socailorganizations that also respect this goal,and is actively engaged in social,scientific,and cultural activities.
Regional engagement
“promote development –seize future opportunities thought innovations” under this mooto,SAP supports organizations and institutes in the local area of its branch offices.
Government relations
We take seriously our responsibilities as a competens partner and adviser as a thought leader and development leader.
Sport Sponsorship
Speed,precisions,and tangible resoult are reasons behind SAP’s global leadership as a provider of enterprise software.there for SAP supports competitive sporting events and the desire to be best in a given discipline.
Internet portal
Most of the information in this lesson in taken from SAP’s internet portal.for more informations visit www.sap.com. You can find informtions about the company and its product,services,and patners.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Lesson overview
In this leason you will learn that SAP offter a numbers of product for a wide variety of companies and different solutions for companies of varying sizes.
Lesson objectives
After complenting this lesson,you will be able to:
-explain SAP’ product offerings
-name the centrals SAP solutions
-explain the concept and history of an ERP system
-explain the different between a soluction and a component
Products
History of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
In the 1972s,the concept of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system did not exist.with its R/1 system,SAP developd a software product that handled process data in real time and saved it to a central database.this meant that companies could access their own data quickly and have a high level of control and transparency.
SAP netweaver
SAP’s applications and integration platform is the technical foundation for mySAP business suite and SAP xapps. Its delivers a complete,opn,and flexible infrastructure that allows you to easily integrate SAP and non SAP applications.
SAP netweaver is dividen into four areas.
People integration
People integration ensures that your employees have the information and functions that they require to perfume their work as quickly and efficiently as possible.the funchtion of the SAP enterprise portal play a central rolre here.
Information integration
Information integration is used to manage all data relevant to companies.this inchudes data for your own company and data relating to third parties.
Peocess integration
Process integration ensures that business processes run across system boundaries in a heterogeneous system landcape.this is achieved by using XML data packages and workflow scenarios for instance.SAP exchange infrastructure SAP XI plays a central role here.
Application platform
The applications platform supports java 2 enterprise editions (J2EE) and ABAP (SAP’s Programming language) in one environment.it guarantess the independence of database and operating system,the complete support of platform-independent web service and company applications,and an open environtment that is based on recognized standars.the central component of the applications platform is the SAP web applications server.
Industry portfolios
Whereasthe mySAP business suite is generally industry-independent,many industries require specialized functions and proceses.SAP fulfills this requiretment though industry specific soluctions.
More then 20 industry soluctions are available today.among these are soluctions for:
-Automotive
-Banking
-Chemicals
-Healthcare
-Logistics Service Providers
-Mining
-Oil and Gas
-Public Sector
-Retails
Sap xApps
The defining characteristic of SAP xApps are:
-cross functional
-composite
-cross system
-information driven
Some examples of available xApps:
-SAP xApps cost and quotation Management (SAP xCQM)
-SAP xApps Resource and portfolio Management (SAP xRPM)
-SAP xApps product definition (SAP xPD)
-SAP xApps emissions management (SAP xEM)
UNIT 2
You can access SAP system using front end program with a variety of designs.all SAP component are.however,accessible using a general front end program,the SAP graphical use interface (SAP GUI).the SAP GUI is the standard program the accesing almost all SAP soluction.
Multiple logons and multiple sessions
The SAP system tracks multiple logons as of SAP R/3.4.6. the primary reasons for tracking multiple logons are security and licensing.if the same user logs on more than once,then for each subsequent logon,the system display a warning message the ofters the user the folloeing three options:
-continue with this logon and end any other logons of this user in the system
-continue with this logons without ending any other logon in the system
-terminate this logon
Methods for personalizing the user interface
Some of the many things you can do are:
-change the layout of the SAP easy access screen
-track your input history to provide input help
-display status messages in a pop-up window instead of the status bar
-set preferences for how data display
-adjust the color and behavior of the screens and fields
Execise objective
After completing this exercise you will be able to:
-create a logon entry
-log on to an SAP system
-personalize your user interface
Navigating in the SAP system
Screen structure
The SAP easy aces screen in the default initial screen in SAP system,the leaf side of the screen contains are a tree hieracy of the menus available to you in the Sap system.
An SAP screen can contain the following simple screen elements:
-command field
-menu bar
-standar tool bar
-title bar
-aplications tool bar
-check boxes
-radio buttons
-tab
-status bar
Navigations options
You have several options for navigating in an SAP system:
-enter transactions codes in the command field
-choose items from menus in the menu bar
-choose items the favorites list or from the role based user menus
Using favorites
In SAP easy access,you can create s favorites list containing:
-transaction
-link to files
-internet addresses
Status Bar
The status bar provider general informations on the SAP system and transaction or task on wich you are working.At the left on the status bar,system messages are diaplayed. The right end of the status bar contains three fields: one with server informations,and two with ststus informations.
At the far left,the status bar:
-indentifies error messages
-indentifies other system messages
To display the following system information,choose each in the firs status field:
-system
-client
-user
-program
-transaction
-response time
The second status display the server to whice you are connected. The third status field specifies you data entry mode.by choosing this field,you can toggle between the insert (INS) and overwrite (OVR) modes.
Business example
You are in the process of entering new data into the system.you encounter a field that you have never used before.you need to find out what type of data you nedd to provide,and if there are possible values that already exist for that field.
Help features
The SAP system provides comprehensive online help.you can display the help from any screen in the system.you can always request help using the help menu or using the relevant icon.the help menu contains the following options:
Applications help
Applications help display comprehensive help for the cureen appliacation.selecting this menu options in the initial screen display help on getting started ith SAP.
SAP library
All online documentations can be found here
Glossary
You can search for definitions of terms in the glossary
Release notes
This display notes that describle functional changes that occur between SAP system release.
SAPnet
This enables you to log on to SAPnet
Feedback
Feedback enebles you to sand a messages to the SAPnet front end,the SAP service system.
Settings
Settings eneble tou to select for help.
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