SAP® AG (ISIN: DE0007164600; FWB: SAP; NYSE: SAP) is a world-wide operating Fortune 500 ERP-Software corporation, with German origins.
“SAP” is an acronym for the German words SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung (Software Analysis and Program development).
That acronym was later changed to mean "Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung" (Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing).SAP is the leader in the worldwide market for Enterprise Applications Software.
Its enterprise software packages are used by mid- to large-scale corporations to manage part or all of their business operations.
This may include, but not be limited to, Human Resources, Purchasing and Billing, Manufacturing, Plant Management and Quality Control.SAP’s Human Resources Management System is one of its largest modules, consisting of many sub-components that deal with the various tasks of human resource management.
On average it may consume up to a third of system resources, if heavily utilized.SAP’s most prominent software suites are:
? Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
? Business Information/Intelligence Warehouse (BiW)
? Business Objects and Java (BOJ)
? Sybase Mobile Products
? The in-memory DB system High Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA)
