S.A.P.

Basics / Essentials

SYSTEME, ANDWENDUNGEN AND PRODUKTE

IN DER DATENVERARBEITUNG

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 S.A.P. Basics / Essentials

 Systems, Applications, Products in Data processing

 SAP was started by former IBM employees in 1970
and a financial accounting software called as R1
system was formulated
 R stands for real time data processing
 By end of decade SAP R2 was born

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 S.A.P. Basics / Essentials

 S.A.P. R3 was unleashed in to market in 1990

 SAP R3 is an integrated business software

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 S.A.P.

 Sap is a fully integrated system in where activities in

one area generate activities in another area
 This results in simplified business process and value
addition in areas
 Doubling of work and coordination is reduced. Data
is to be entered once and related information is
updated
 Reconciliation is not needed

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 Master Data

 Master Data – Collection of information about

object, persons or companies
 This data is used when the object or the person is
used in the reference list
 Normally does not change
 Example – Name, address, bank, Tax registration
number of vendor or a customer
 Example – List of products used in a BOM

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 Master Data

 Examples – Customer Master, Vendor Master, Asset

Master, Material Master , Bank master

 Contents of each data may differ and who can

discuss the same

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 Transactional Data

 This data is specific to a business activity

 Example – Purchase to be made by project
department,
 We enter this data in SAP on day to day basis
 Changes every day
 Example – Invoices, purchase requisition, journal
entry

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 Architecture of S.A.P.

 R3 Architecture allows distribution of workloads to

multiple PC linked together through a network
 SAP runtime system is designed in such a way that it
distributes the presentation, application logic and
data management to different computers

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 Architecture of S.A.P.

Presentation Components

ABAP
Work Bench R3 Application R3 application

Kernel and Basis Services

Database Management System

Database
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 Kernel and Basis

 These are run time envoirment for all R3

applications
 These run time envoirment are written in C and C++
and ABAP
 Task performed by kernel and basis are as follows
 Running Applications – All R3 applications run on
software processors (virtual machines)

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 Kernel and Basis

 User and Process Administration – An R/3 system

is a multi user envoirment. Each user can run
several independent applications. Users do not
come in to actual contact with the actual operating
system
 Database Access – Each R/3 system is linked to
database with DBMS (database management
system). The applications use basis services for
communication. There is no direct communication

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 Kernel and Basis

 Communication – R/3 systems can communicate

with each other and non SAP systems. It is possible
to access R/3 applications from external systems
using a BAPI interface
 System Monitoring and Administration – The
component contains programs to monitor and
control R/3 system

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 A.B.A.P. Workbench

 Advanced Business Application Programming is a

development envoirment
 It helps to create, organize, edit and test application
developments
 ABAP is fully integrated in R/3 Basis system

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 BAPI Interface

 Business Application Programming Interface

 BAPI is a standard SAP application interface that
helps to integrate non SAP applications with the SAP
business process and enables providing the data
entry in to the SAP system
 SAP BAPI is a remotely enabled system fore remote
programs like web interfaces, programs and mobile
apps. Business Application Programming
Interface consists set of input & output parameters
and set of tables.

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