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Agenda
Introduction
Evolution of SAP
SAP Architecture
System Landscape
Modules in SAP
Development Environment
SAP HANA
IMDB
Introduction
SAP stands for "Systems Applications and Products in data processing.
SAP is an ERP- Enterprise Resource Planning (business management
software - a suite of integrated applications).
Integrate people, data and business processes within and between
organizations.
Collaboration, non-redundancy, consistency and internal process optimization.
Facilitates information flow between all business functions, and manages
connections to outside stakeholders.
SAP is an R/3 system.
Easer Global integration
World-wide usage .
Designed to satisfy the information needs for all business sizes (international
to local) : Multi-lingual & Multi-currency.
Designed to satisfy the information needs for all industries (industry
solutions).
Enables a company to link its business processes.
Ties together disparate business functions (integrated business solution).
Helps the organization run smoothly.
Real-time environment.
Scalable and flexible.
Other ERP software in the market : Peoplesoft, J.D. Edwards, Oracle, Microsoft
Great Plains, MS Dynamics.
Evolution
SAP is the name of the biggest European software company and its product.
The head office in Walldorf, Germany.
SAP was founded in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim,
Germany.
Before 1977 : Systems Analysis and Program Development. (German :
Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung).
SAP was the first, Market Leader, to integrate a corporation's worldwide
functions tightly into one application.
With more than 56,000 installations serving 10 million users at 18,800
organizations in 120 countries across the globe.
Architecture
System Landscape
Modules in SAP
Functional Areas:
Technical Areas:
BASIS
ABAP
PI/XI
Modules Functionality
Material Management - MM
Production planning - PP
Development Environment
ABAP
Debugging
SAP Navigations
Few
Facts
SAP HANA
In Memory Storage
Multi Core
Architecture
Columnar Storage
Partitioning
Compression
Massive parallel
processing
For example:
OLTP-style: create sales order, invoice, accounting documents, display customer master data or sales
order
OLAP-style: dunning, available-to-promise, cross selling, operational reporting (list open sales orders)
But: Todays data management systems are optimized either for daily
transactional or analytical workloads storing their data along rows or columns
Parallel Processing
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