Erp Sap

What makes SAP different from their competitors is that they are the only European founded and run organization amongst this big four.

Renowned for their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution software of which they were amongst the pioneers, SAP also have developed a broad range of software products geared towards business applications and to date the company has installed around 100,000 versions of their products.

SAP boasts a client base approaching 30,000 companies based in 120 countries throughout the globe. Conservative estimates have it that more than 12 million businesses use a SAP product on a daily basis.

However the focus of SAP's products has always been based around ERP and their current market leader simply entitled R/3. However simple to title it has meaning. And the meaning applies to its three-tier architecture: application server, database access and client user interface.

Today SAP is recognized as the market leader in collaborative business software solutions, no matter the industry and no matter the market. Established in 1972 on the very first bloom of computer technology, Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP) was founded by five young and ambitious engineers who had worked together for IBM, in their German subsidiary.

SAP's headquarters are still located in Walldorf, Germany, from where they operates 50 wholly owned subsidiaries situated all over the globe. Their biggest subsidiary, SAP America is based on the periphery of Philadelphia, PA.

The employee list at SAP numbers over 27,000 employees, generating a global turnovers that ran close to $10 billion in 2006. The company's shares are traded in the German stock market as well as on Wall Street.

SAP's products have been in constant demand since the company was founded, largely on the back of their first ERP based software, which went by the even less frilly title of SAP R/2. In its early days, SAP sold their software in Germany with tremendous success. As they began to reach saturation point in the domestic market, SAP began to market their software throughout Europe, to a tremendous reception that brought with it immediate sales and considerable market presentation.

Recognizing the increased trend towards client server software, SAP made the switch form their mainframe based technology to cope with anticipated demand. This switch saw the launch of their SAP R/3 software in 1992, which enjoyed world wide success, especially in the United States to where SAP had expended in the late Nineteen Nineties.

There is no doubt that the launch of SAP R/3 and their expansion into the US market has been the driving force behind SAP's success in the last ten to fifteen years.

Turnover in the North American Market accounts for 44% of SAP's global sales. SAP customer list in the United States includes the leading companies in the Fortune 500.

SAP are a company who program and produce a variety of software system, the most prominent and in demand being their R/3 system, probably the best of its kind in the World.

The company proudly state their intention to maintain and even increase their hard-earned and well deserved share of the market. The name of their product is simple yet all-encompassing. By virtue of its flexibility and versatility there is no reason to fear that SAP will not be around for many years to come.