SAP Introduction

SAP History

The first version of SAP's enterprise software was a financial Accounting system named R/1. (The "R" was for "Realtime data processing"). This was replaced by R/2 at the end of the 1970s. SAP R/2 was a mainframe based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s. With the advent of distributed client server computing SAP AG brought out a client-server version of the software called SAP R/3 that was manageable on multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows or UNIX since 1999, which opened up SAP to a whole new customer base. SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. SAP came to dominate the large business applications market over the next 10 years.

ENVIRONMENTS FOR SAP

1.   Supported Hardware for SAP ERP

SAP can be installed on the following systems. The functionality and programming technique is same for all systems.

1.1.           HP
1.2.           IBM
1.3.           Sun
1.4.           AT&T
1.5.           AS400
1.6.           Bull
1.7.           Sequent
1.8.           SNI
1.9.           Compaq Digital

2.   Supported Database for SAP ERP

SAP is a back-end-free ERP system. That means the following Database can be used in SAP software. The functionality/programming technique is same for all database system.

2.1.           Oracle
2.2.           MS SQL
2.3.           Informix
2.4.           Sybase
2.5.           Adabas D
2.6.           DB2 for AIX
2.7.           DB2/400

3.   Supported Operating System for SAP

SAP can be installed on the following platforms (Operating systems):

3.1.           MS Windows NT
3.2.           OS/400
3.3.           Unix
3.4.           Solaris
3.5.           AIX
3.6.           HP UX
3.7.           Sinux

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