Does anyone know what SAP is and does anyone progam it (ABAP) is it hard? what is it similar to?

	Does anyone know what SAP is and does anyone progam it (ABAP) is it hard? what is it similar to? Asked By: jemmat18 - 9/2/2006

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SAP means Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung. This is german for System analysis and program development. The name was later changed into Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung: Systems, application and products in the data processing. The company is specialized in large application supporting large corporations. SAP is well known for its ERP solution R/3. The modularity of the product allows a certain fexibility in the implementation and use. The major components within R/3 are Financial system (FI-Co) Project system (PS) Logistic system (LO) Human ressource (HR) Customer Relation Management (CRM) Developpment system (ABAP) The major components outside R/3 are : Netweaver SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and Strategic Entreprise Management (SEM) xApps Others Great SAP sites http://help.sap.com/ a piece of the information there: Welcome to the SAP Help Portal The SAP Help Portal provides web-based documentation for all SAP Solutions. This enables you to search the online library for the right information where and when you need it. SAP Help Portal This website houses and makes available all online documentation (SAP Library) for SAP solutions. It also has additional information about documentation, education services, and information design at SAP. The SAP Library is a comprehensive collection of information about the relevant SAP products. Its contents can be accessed either from the SAP System via the help menu items SAP Library or Application Help or directly from the CD-ROM on which it is delivered. The SAP Library is created, translated, and managed using SAP's standard authoring and translation environment, SAP Knowledge Warehouse. http://www.allsaplinks.com a piece of the information there: Welcome to AllSapLinks.com. We have just started this web site with a great intension of helping sap abap job seekers and sap abap developers. In this web site you can get information regarding all sap abap. Areas we are trying to cover in this website includes: areas like reports, sapscripts, smartforms, sap abap faq, bdc, conversions, ale, edi, idoc, bapi, badi, alv, user exits, sox, lsmw, enhancements, customer exits, rfc, and modules like sd, mm, pp, pm, hr, fico and new technologies like netweaver, xi, scm, sem, crm, apo, sap abap faqs etc.. As we have just started this web site, we may not be able to cover all the topics specified , but we are sure that in due course of time we will publish all important information. We wish you all the best. http://www.sapabapfaqs.blogspot.com/ http://www.sapmodule.com/ http://www.geocities.com/rmtiwari/ http://omsapworld.blogspot.com/ http://shathees.blogspot.com/ http://www.thiagi.com/email-consulting101-tips.html a piece of the information there: 122. DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB YET. One day you are a drone, slaving away for an employer. The next day you are a glamorous free-lance pursued by affluent clients. No, it does not work that way. The best approach is for you to get some consulting engagements while working on a regular job that makes your mortgage payments. Gradually accumulate enough reputation and long-term projects to make a transition to full-time consulting. Don't be sneaky, though. Inform your employer and get permission. Some of my successful consultant-friends have a mutually-beneficial arrangement that enables them to work part-time both as an external consultant and as an internal consultant for their corporation. (ST) http://www.mrbra.com/sap_erp_abap_softwareinfo.ivnu A piece of the information there: SAP and ERP - Business Software Application information including ABAP - SAP Training in India and SAP Training in USA ERP stands for -Enterprise Resource Planning (in English) http://www.bergen.org/ABCT/2002/index.html Answered By: roy_s_jones - 9/3/2006

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SAP stands for System Application Program. Wikipedia defines ABAP as Advanced Business Application Programming, a high level programming language created by the German software company SAP. It is currently positioned as the language for programming SAP's Web Application Server, part of its NetWeaver platform for building business applications. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL. Since COBOL happened to be a programming language for business application which is not so difficult to use once you get used to it, I believe that ABAP too should not be that difficult. Source(s): http://www.saptips.com/SAPDefined.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP Answered By: future_mathematician - 9/5/2006

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Sap is a german sw company, largest in the world, they make systems for other very large multinational corporations Answered By: bow4bass - 9/3/2006

SAP is a huge database and planning program used by large organisations to control and monitor their activities. as for programming i dont know, i only use it. Answered By: Buzz84 - 9/2/2006

SAP stands for Secondary Audio , when you watch TV you'll sometimes see it say available in SAP , meaning when the signals are broadcast it is also done in a second language such as Spanish or what ever Secondary language is available, yes there are people that program it, from the same location of broadcast Answered By: back2skewl - 9/2/2006

We use SAP at work, think it stands for System Applications and Processing, but not totally sure. Not too sure about programming, but as it is a software system I would think that it does need programming. Why not look at WWW.SAP.COM to find outmore? Answered By: Jake159 - 9/2/2006

Hi Sap is a business management software tool used world wide in industries. it is a tool if used correctly is extremely useful to speed up a business. All of the big oil operators use it as a maintenance coordinating tool / operating system like the Microsoft soft ware. It can be used of the shelf, for things like stock control, control maintenance or expanded to cover every aspect of running a company . But it relies totally on proper input of all the desired functions that a particular company dictates to its staff. if this is not done or bogus info, is input ed it will give a false impression of what a companies is doing It is not difficult just requires the correct in putt of info, within a month you will be OK with the basics if you use every day (tip) try and use short cuts to get you into system quickly, Regards, Chris Answered By: chris - 9/2/2006

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