SAP Basics For Beginners
A Quick History of SAP
Started in 1972 by 5 former IBM employees
One year later, in 1973 released first accounting software which was called the RF which subsequently was named R1 release
In 1979, released the R/2 System as a result of new hardware and software from IBM
In 1991 SAP released R/3 was presented in the annual summit in Hannover, Germany. Due to its uniformity in GUIs, Client Server Architecture and better utilization of Databases, this release gained a wide acceptance. I was also possible to run this software in multiple operating systems.
In 1999, SAP announced mySAP connecting the back end ERP solution with front end ecommerce like systems.
In 2004 launched Netweaver, a new application integration platform which provided capabilities to integrate Enterprise wide solutions to SAP.
Current SAP focus is on real time data and introduced HANA Platform an in memory solution to deal with multiple modules/products of SAP to attain a greater performance when dealing with huge volume of data.