SAP & Organizational Information Systems
Systems, Applications, Programs
Systeme, Anwendungen, Programme
(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/550/sap.html)
Introduction
- SAP Systems Integration GmbH
SAP SI umfassen alle relevanten Bereiche wie
Aerospace &
Defence, Automobilindustrie, Banken,
Chemie- und
Pharmaindustrie, Handel, Konsumg|ter,
vffentliche
Verwaltung und Versicherungen.
Horizontale
Fachschwerpunkte und IT-Schwerpunkte
runden das Angebot
ab.
- Sap E-Business Solutions
- "SAP AG, the parent company, was founded in 1972, and is based in
Walldorf, Germany. The company employs a work force of over 6600 people
worldwide. SAP America, the largest of the international subsidiaries, is
based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is responsible for sales and
support throughout North and South America and Australia."
"The company provides two
basic products—R/2 and R/3. R/2 is a mainframe set of software
modules, while R/3 is built for
the client/server market. More than 4000 companies worldwide
have installed R/3."
- An
Education
on
SAP; In today's business environment, information technology has
played a critical role in managing an organization's information
infrastructure.
-
It's A Wired, Wired World - Or Is
It?
SAP Hits Own Ecosystem In Push To Grow Business
By Kevin Jones - Inter@ctive Week
December 03, 1998
"Germany's SAP AG had $3.5 billion in revenue last year.
But its enterprise resource planning software has
become an industry unto itself, with an ecosystem of 500
software vendors and installers pulling in $32 billion all
told last year,...
... a new customer relations
management module begin to bring together Web-based
sales and marketing with existing sales and marketing functions in R3 and
automate the processes. Even less developed is SAP's Web storefront. Because
it's shipped as part of another module, the company has no idea how many or
which of its customers are using its software to run online stores...
- SAP: Questions and Answers:
- Sap Questions and Answers
- What is
SAP?
"This is an
unofficial Web site which I hope will be useful to SAP Consultants,
Contractors, and Clients. It is maintained by Adrian Bell who is an
independent I.T. consultant specialising in SAP systems and who is not
employed or otherwise related to the company SAP AG."
-
Implementing SAP/R3 (Bancroft)
Implementing SAP R/3 , 2nd edition, Nancy Bancroft with Henning Seip
and Andrea Sprengel. 1997, Hardbound, 334 pages
ISBN 013889213X.
Our price: $46.00
SAP AG (Walldorf, Germany):
SAP & the Internet:
-
SAP Canada to Resell iXOS Software's Imaging and
Archiving Products
SAP America's success with existing U.S. agreement
leads to expansion San Mateo, CA - SAP® Canada and iXOS® Software, Inc.
today jointly announced that
beginning immediately, SAP Canada joins SAP America
in re-selling iXOS-ARCHIVE for R/3 imaging and archiving products.
-
SAP goes Internet||
[Deutsch/German]
"Grasbrunn/München - Unter der Bezeichnung "SAP@Web" führt iXtrain, der
Schulungsbereich der iXOS Software GmbH, ein neues Seminar durch. Ziel des
eintägigen Kompakt-Workshops ist das Kennenlernen der Technologie der
SAP-Internet-Anwendungen und der Architektur des SAP Internet Transaction
Servers." (10. April, 1997)
SAP Consultants:
Clippings:
The Youngster Who's Out to Energize SAP
Shai Agassi is a 34-year-old Israeli software whiz/entrepreneur who hopes
to be "a contrarian" among the German giant's greybeards
Business Week, JUNE 26, 2002; CLOSEUP
By Steve Hamm
Agassi's vision: "to
create a new generation of software for corporations that he calls
"event-based" applications. Unlike SAP's core products, which automate
specific functions such as finance, human resources, and materials
planning, the new software is being designed to cut across many of these
functions at the same time."
County blew $38 million: Here's
what went wrong
Seattle Times, July 28, 2000
by Roberto Sanchez
The managers of King County's unfinished
$38
million financial computer system didn't
take into
account basic computer and business
procedures,
forced part of the system online before
it was
ready, and spent the rest of their budget
trying to fix
problems that followed, leading to the
cancellation
of the project last month....
In December 1997, county administrators chose a
software package from PeopleSoft, based
in
Pleasanton, Calif., to handle payroll for
both county
and Metro employees.
A year later, the county decided to buy
an
accounting package from SAP, based in
Walldorf,
Germany, to run general finances for both
Metro
and King County. In May 1999, the German
firm
BrightStar was hired to manage that side
of the
project.
Oracle-Chef: Microsoft zerschlagen; Rhein Zeitung, Sept.25, 1998
"Die Oracle Corp. ist mit Programmen für Unternehmens- Zentralcomputer zum
zweitgrößten US-Softwarehersteller emporgestiegen und tritt
nun mit Programmen
für billige Netzwerk-PC gegen Microsoft an. Mit seiner
Unternehmenssoftware ist
Oracle der Hauptkonkurrent der SAP AG (Walldorf). Ellison
erklärte zum Ziel,
den Weltmarktführer SAP binnen fünf Jahren zu überholen."
Microsoft, Arthur Andersen ally
Seattle Times, Thursday, Aug. 21, 1997,
by Reuters,
Arthur Andersen and Microsoft are
joining
forces to promote
computer systems for midsized businesses
based on the software
giant's Windows NT platform and BackOffice
applications.... Under the latest deal, Arthur Andersen will expand its
practice
dedicated to advising midsize businesses with
annual sales of $200
million to $2 billion on how to implement
complex software systems
from German giant SAP.
Literature:
- SAP Articles
(CIO)
-
Implementing SAP R/3;
by Nancy Bancroft;
1996, Hardbound, 284 pages, $42.00;
ISBN 0132621711
[from Ch.1] Manufacturing and Logistics:
"This is the largest and most complex of the module categories.
It can be divided into five major
components. They are materials management, plant maintenance,
quality management, production
planning and control, and a project management system. Each is
divided into a number of
subcomponents. Materials management covers all tasks within the
supply chain, including
consumption-based planning, purchasing, vendor evaluation, and
invoice verification. It also
includes inventory and warehouse management to manage stock
until usage dictates the cycle
should begin again. Electronic Kanban/Just-in-Time delivery is
supported."
Sales and Distribution:
"This set of modules provides prospect and customer management,
sales order management,
configuration management, distribution, export controls,
shipping, and transportation management,
as well as billing, invoicing, and rebate processing. Since
this, like the other modules, can be
implemented on a global basis, you can manage the sales process
globally. For example, an order
may be received in Hong Kong...."
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