By Santosh Karkhanis
SAP will change everything. That’s the gospel according to everyone who knows anything about this integrated software system. What exactly is the beast? And why does the thought of it throw people into a dither?
Ask an information-technology specialist, and you’ll get something like: “SAP is a completely integrated, enterprisewide information system that replaces legacy systems with a series of software modules that communicate with each other seamlessly, replacing current business processes with best practices.”
In layperson’s terms, SAP software is a total information system that weaves together all the data from manufacturing with all the data from inventory with all the data from purchasing with all the data from accounting with all the data from sales……ad infinitum. If your company makes jars of glop, SAP allows you to find out how much glop you’ve made, how much you’ve got on hand, who bought it, when they are picking it up, when they intend to pay for it, how much more glop they may buy in the future and so on… until you run out of questions about glop.
Useful E-Book :
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SAP R/3 on DB2 UDB for OS/390: Application Servers on OS/390
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SAP R/3 on DB2 for OS/390: Implementing with AIX or Windows NT Applications
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SAP R/3 on DB2 for OS/390: Database Availability Considerations
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SAP on DB2 Universal Database for OS/390 and z/OS: Multiple Components in
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SAP on DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS: Implementing Application Servers on
Linux for zSeries -
SAP on DB2 UDB for OS/390 and z/OS: High Availability Solution Using System
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SAP on DB2 for z/OS and OS/390: High Availability and Performance Monitoring
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New Enterprise Integration Functions for Lotus Domino for AS/400
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Integrating WebSphere Commerce with SAP R/3 Using WebSphere InterChange
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Implementing SAP R/3 4.5B Using Microsoft Cluster Server on IBM Netfinity
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IBM Content Manager CommonStore Version 7 for Domino, Exchange, and SAP
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Enterprise Business Portals II with IBM Tivoli Access Manager
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End-to-End Scheduling with OPC and TWS Mainframe and Distributed
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DB2 UDB for z/OS V8: Through the Looking Glass and What SAP Found There
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Database Administration Experiences: SAP R/3 on DB2 for OS/390
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Building and Scaling SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 UDB ESE
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Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 for z/OS V8
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Backup Solutions for SAP R/3 4.5B on Netfinity Servers running Windows NT
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A Holistic Approach to a Reliable Infrastructure for SAP R/3 on AIX
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A B2B Solution using WebSphere Business Integration V4.1 and WebSphere
Business Connection V1.1