CRESCENT BUSINESS

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SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

REPORT SUBMITTED ON SAP

BY
S.SATHYAVADANAM
0929144
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INTRODUCTION

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 fourth-largest
independent software supplier.

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, 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 the client/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 mySAP.com, 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's AS/400 platform.

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, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.

SAP is the world's largest business software company and the third-largest
independent software provider in terms of revenues.SAP's products focus on Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP), which it helped to pioneer. The company's main product is
SAP ERP.SAP ERP is the one of five major enterprise applications that makes up SAP's
Business Suite. The four other applications are:

* customer relationship management (CRM) - helps companies acquire and retain

customers, gain deep marketing and customer insight, and align organization on
customer-focused strategies.
* product lifecycle management (PLM) - helps manufacturers with a single source of all
product-related information necessary for collaborating with business partners and
supporting product lines

* supply chain management (SCM) - helps companies enhance operational flexibility

across global enterprises and provide real-time visibility for customers and suppliers

* supplier relationship management (SRM) - customers can collaborate closely with

suppliers and integrate sourcing processes with applications throughout the enterprise to
enhance transparency and lower costs

HISTORY OF SAP

MORE THAN 37 YEARS IN E-BUSINESS

SAP's story is one of a steady rise from a small, five-man operation headquartered in
southwest Germany's Rhine-Neckar region to one of the world's largest independent
software providers and an employer of more than 47,598 people in over 50 countries.

Read about SAP's exciting evolution and key milestones:

•1972 – 1981: The First 10 Years – "The First 10 Years" chronicles the highlights of
the company's beginnings and subsequent development – from SAP's foundation, its
first software modules, and the SAP R/2 system to the company's first-year revenues,
first customers outside of Germany, and first trade-show appearance.
•1982 – 1991: The SAP R/3 Era – Four servers with 64MB of memory. Employing
100 employees and signing its 1,000th customer. Reaching the DM100 million in
revenues, and expanding abroad. The development of the SAP R/3 product
generation. These and other landmark events are the subject of "The SAP R/3 Era."
•1992 – 2001: The Age of E-Business – Reaching €6 billion, and employing more
than 24,000 employees. Trade shows and conferences. Going public, and developing
new technologies and platforms. Learn more about SAP's meteoric rise in "The Age
of E-Business."
•2002 to Today: SAP Today – SAP's story continues with the SAP NetWeaver
platforms, whose technologies intertwine system landscapes and information flows,
integrate companies and their employee teams, and establish connections among
markets across virtually any perceived barrier. "SAP Today" describes the most
recent technological and entrepreneurial milestones in SAP's continuing
development.
FUNCTINAL AREAS OF SAP:

Financials
Human Resources
Customer Relationship Management
Supplier Relationship Management
Product Lifecycle Management
Supply Chain Management
Business Intelligence

Major module usually implemented are:

1. FICO - Finance and Control

2. MM - Materials Management
3. SD - Sales and Distribution
4. QM - Quality Management
5. HCM - Human Capital Management
6. PP - Production Planning
7. WM - Warehouse Mangement

apart from these there are others also

like
SM - Service Management
AA - Asset Accounting
PM - Plant Maintenance
PS - Project Systems
and moreover there are industry specific solutions like

IS - Mill - (industry solution for mills)

IS - Oil - (industry solution for petroleum related companies)
IS - Auto - (industry solution for Automobile Industries)
IS - Retail - (industry solution for retail organization)

More over there are new dimension products such as CRM, PLM, SRM, APO etc

CA Cross Application – these lie on top of the individual modules, and include
WF – workflow
BIW – business information warehouse
EP - Enterprise Portal

SAP--Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing.

IT's used in all the Global level Enterprise Resource planning Concerns.
It's been used in nearyly 44 % of the world's ERP software using companies.

It contains two versions

SAP/R2 -- MAIN FRAME EDITION
SAP/R3 -- CLIENT SERVER EDITION

FEATURES & FUNCTIONS

SAP ERP redefines enterprise resource planning – delivering role-based access to crucial
data, applications, and analytical tools. With SAP ERP, you can efficiently deal with
business challenges in the following areas:

• End-user service delivery – Ensure that your employees can readily access the
critical data, applications, and analytical tools they need to perform all their job
functions efficiently and effectively – while supporting a shared-services model for
human resources, finance, and other key processes. SAP ERP offers role-based
access and self-services. Plus, mobile applications from SAP enable employees in
the field to report time and expenses offline.
• SAP ERP Financials – Ensure compliance and predictability of business
performance – so your organization can gain a deeper financial insight across the
enterprise and tighten control of finances. SAP ERP Financials automates financial
and management accounting and financial supply chain management. The solution
also provides rigorous support for corporate-governance mandates such as Basel II
and Sarbanes-Oxley.
• SAP ERP Human Capital Management – Optimize your HR processes with a
complete, integrated, and global human capital management (HCM) solution. SAP
ERP provides this HCM solution for organizations of all sizes and in all industries.
You can maximize the potential of your workforce, while supporting innovation,
growth, and flexibility. The SAP ERP HCM solution automates talent management,
core HR processes, and workforce deployment – enabling increased efficiency and
better compliance with changing global and local regulations.
• SAP ERP Operations – Manage end-to-end procurement and logistics business
processes for complete business cycles – from self-service requisitioning to flexible
invoicing and payment – optimizing the flow of materials. SAP ERP Operations also
helps discrete and process manufacturers manage the entire life cycle of product
development and manufacturing. The solution automates the entire manufacturing
process and reduces costs by controlling and adapting the manufacturing process in
real time – and increases customer satisfaction by delivering higher-quality products.
• SAP ERP Corporate Services – Helps organizations manage their most cost-
intensive corporate functions by supporting and streamlining administrative
processes in the areas of real estate; enterprise assets; project portfolios; corporate
travel; environment, health, and safety compliance; quality; and global trade
services. SAP ERP Corporate Services is a complete and integrated solution that
 maximizes transparency and control, while reducing financial and environmental
risks and enhancing safety of employees.
• Performance management – Support the entire life cycle of performance
management, delivering real-time, personalized measurements and metrics to
improve business insight and decision making. SAP ERP supports financial
analytics, operations analytics, and workforce analytics, as well as consolidated
financial and statutory reporting; planning, budgeting, and forecasting, strategy
management and scorecards, and risk management.

SAP ERP

BUSINESS BENEFITS

SAP ERP delivers a comprehensive set of integrated, cross-functional business processes.

With SAP ERP, you can gain the following benefits:

Improve alignment of strategies and operations

o Run your enterprise in accordance with strategy and plans, accessing the
right information in real time to identify concerns early.
o Pursue opportunities proactively.
o Achieve corporate objectives by aligning workforce and organizational
objectives.
o Find the best people and leverage their talent in the right job at the right
time.

Improve productivity and insight

o Leverage self-services and analytics across your organization.

o Improve operational efficiency and productivity within and beyond your
enterprise.

Reduce costs through increased flexibility

o Use enterprise services architecture to improve process standardization,

efficiency, and adaptability.
o Extend transactions, information, and collaboration functions to a broad
business community.

Support changing industry requirements

 o Take advantage of the SAP NetWeaver platform's latest open, Web-based
technology to integrate your end-to-end processes seamlessly.

Reduce risk

o Solve complex business challenges today with SAP, your trusted partner
for long-term growth, with 30 years of experience working with organizations
of all sizes in more countries than any other vendor.
o Join SAP's world-class partner network, uniquely qualified to support the
best business practices in more than 25 industries.

Improve financial management and corporate governance

o Gain deep visibility into your organization with financial and management
accounting functionality combined with business analytics.
o Increase profitability, improve financial control, and manage risk.

Optimize IT spending

o Integrate and optimize business processes.

o Eliminate high integration costs and the need to purchase third-party
software.
o Deploy other SAP Business Suite applications incrementally to improve
cash flow and reduce costly borrowing.

Gain higher ROI faster

o Install SAP ERP using rapid-implementation techniques that cost less than
half what traditional approaches cost.
o Leverage preset defaults and prepackaged versions available for specific
industries.

Retain top performers

o Retain your top performers through clearly defined career and

development plans.
o Link employees' performance to compensation programs such as variable
pay plans and long-term incentives.

Provide immediate access to enterprise information

o Give employees new ways to access the enterprise information required

for their daily activities.
PLATFORM: IMPROVING FLEXIBILITY AND RESPONSIVENESS

SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

THE BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN IT ARCHITECTURE

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible, and open IT

architecture for developing services-based, modular business solutions. SAP makes it

easy to adopt SOA – enabling companies in diverse industries to quickly differentiate

their businesses and optimize processes in their business networks. SAP enables
businesses to adopt SOA at their own pace as part of their SAP solutions.

SAP's open-standards approach to SOA improves IT productivity and business value at

the same time. At the heart of our approach to SOA is the concept of enterprise services –
highly integrated Web services, combined with business logic and harmonized semantics,
that can be accessed and used repeatedly to enable end-to-end business processes.

Using enterprise services, you can leverage SAP solutions in conjunction with partner
solutions and homegrown solution landscapes to build new, flexible, and innovative
solutions based on a consistent integration concept.

SAP and our partners can help your IT organization adopt SOA in a low-risk manner by
delivering SOA-based technology, service-enabled applications, and prepackaged
enterprise services grouped as business scenarios. SAP delivers SOA seamlessly via the
service-enabled software (SAP Business Suite) and SOA-based, open technology
platform (SAP NetWeaver). SAP consultants deliver services that complement SAP
applications and accelerate SOA adoption.

We offer comprehensive methodology for design and development as well as operational

SOA governance. This helps ensure high service reuse, reliable execution, efficient IT
operations – and a reduction in cost. Modeling and implementation guidelines for service
developers increase development efficiency. Moreover, SAP's enterprise services follow
the enhancement package concept, so you can add new functionality continuously,
without extended upgrade cycles.

SAP NETWEAVER
YOUR FOUNDATION FOR ENABLING AND MANAGING CHANGE

With SAP NetWeaver technology platform, you can align IT with business requirements.
As the technical foundation for a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and SAP Business
Suite, SAP NetWeaver helps you evolve your existing IT infrastructure into a more cost-
effective platform that improves efficiency, insight, and flexibility. The platform enables
you to consolidate heterogeneous systems, applications, and data to simplify the IT
environment and reduce operational costs, freeing resources to focus on strategic,
innovative solutions.

CONCLUSION

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marketing and also compete with the competitive business affairs. Using the information
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profit effectively using the recruitment process and job search, more number of people
started installing different sap products. The main purpose of using the application is
maximize the investment and also for the company development. When adequate
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of the organization.

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