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SAP was founded in 1972 in Germany by five former IBM employees and is now the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and fourth largest independent software supplier. The original name was Systems Applications and Products in German. SAP provides customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for applications. Many large corporations now use SAP products to run their businesses, including financial, production, personnel, and other operations. As of 2007, SAP had over 38,000 employees in over 50 countries serving more than 36,000 customers worldwide.

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SAP was founded in 1972 in Germany by five former IBM employees and is now the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and fourth largest independent software supplier. The original name was Systems Applications and Products in German. SAP provides customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for applications. Many large corporations now use SAP products to run their businesses, including financial, production, personnel, and other operations. As of 2007, SAP had over 38,000 employees in over 50 countries serving more than 36,000 customers worldwide.

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SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise

software company and the world's fourthlargest independent software supplier, overall. The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft
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, are using SAP products to run their own businesses. SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses theclient/server model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package. SAP has recently recast its product offerings under a comprehensive Web interface, called [Link], and added new e-business applications, including customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). As of January 2007, SAP, a publicly traded company, had over 38,4000 employees in over 50 countries, and more than 36,200 customers around the world. SAP is turning its attention to small- and-medium sized businesses (SMB). A recent R/3 version was provided for IBM'sAS/400 platform.

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RP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is enterprise wide information system which consolidate information from various functions/departments of an organisation.

Here function means Supply chain Management, Manufacturing, Operations, Customer relationship management,Human resource,Payroll, accounts, finance,Warehouse Management,etc. Whereas SAP (Systems,Applications and Products) is a name of a company which offers ERP solution for various industries to integrate information from various functions of that industry under one system.

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