1st of all let me make this clear because so many people make this mistake. The program we are about to learn is called S.A.P., coded by a German company SAP. The name of the software is pronounced as S-A-P, means each alphabet individually. this is because it stands for acronym for Systems, Applications and Products in data processing. Most of the people i met pronounce it as sap as in sapling which is wrong.
now that it is clear lets know more about SAP
SAP is a software (and very expensive at that), the company was founded by 5 German engineers in 1972 (yes just 5). the initial products were dud, in the sense they were not very successful and very super expensive to implement. the latest architecture on which SAP is based on is R/3 (what the hell is that? i will tell you later) this architecture was the reason that SAP hit the market like a flood is now the world's number 1 ERP (now what is ERP?)software. approximately 75% of the ERP's marketshare is in SAP's hand and all the fortune 500 companies use them. thus a career in SAP is said to be very rewarding .
now please tell me what is an ERP? what is hell is a software anyway?
now this difficult to explain in a lay man's term, A software is a program which is used to do things for the user. for eg. in order to listen to the music, you will use a music playing program like winamp, VLC etc
ERP - again its an acronym and simply put it stand for Enterprise Resource Planning
confused? well for that i will have to tell you a story and describe what is database (oh god) . a huge topic for the next time :)
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