Saturday, November 22, 2014

SAP R3, SAP ERP, SAP Netweaver

SAP R/3 is an integrated, branch-neutral standard software covering almost all business purposes exist in a company


SAP R/3 was the most successful product from the history of SAP. Dominating the market since 1990s.

SAP ERP is a standard software package that covers all vital business processes within a company and provides functions for both corporate headquarters and small subsidiaries. SAP ERP is a combination of components that integrate people, information and processes com-prehensively and flexibly. Thereby, it is designed in such a way that companies can imple-ment only the business functions they need when they need them, thus, simplifying upgrades and reducing total cost of ownership. SAP ERP is embedded in SAP Netweaver.

SAP Business Suite, which is powered by SAP Netweaver as a technical platform, is a complete package of enterprise solutions that link people, infor-mation and processes and, therefore, improve the effectiveness of business relationships.


It consists of :

- SAP ERP – SAP Enterprise Resource Planning
- SAP CRM – SAP Customer Relationship Management
- SAP PLM – SAP Product Life-Cycle Management
- SAP SRM – SAP Supplier Relationship Management
- SAP SCM – SAP Supply Chain Management

Currently SAP Solutions are based on the new Service-Oriented Architecture paradigm.

SOA is a design pattern based on distinct pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications via a protocol aiming at supporting business process.


SAP NetWeaver is the primary technology computing platform of the software company SAP AG (Web based, open integration), and the technical foundation for many SAP applications. It is a solution stack of SAP's technology products. The SAP Web Application Server (sometimes referred to as WebAS) is the runtime environment for the SAP applications, and all of the mySAP Business Suite solutions (SRM, CRM, SCM, PLM, ERP) run on SAP WebAS.


Resources :
1.ERP4Students Script 0: Introduction to SAP ERP
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/

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