What is System Application Process (SAP)

SAP is one of the world’s leading producers of software for managing business processes

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SAP ERP is enterprise resource planning software developed by the company SAP SE

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SAP was started in 1972 in Mannheim, Germany, by five former IBM employees

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In 1973, SAP released the R/1, a financial accounting system

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The original name of SAP, translated from German, was Systems Analysis and Program Development

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SAP is a multinational software vendor and the market-share leader in ERP

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How Does the SAP ERP System function

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SAP ECC is typically deployed in a three-tier, client-server architecture

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There are three tiers: the presentation tier, the application tier, and the database tier

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The presentation tier provides the user with the SAP graphical user interface

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The application tier is the core of ECC

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The database tier is where transaction records and other data are stored

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