System Applications and Products

Contents:

 Introduction to SAP
 History of SAP
 Basic facts of SAP
 SAP market share
 ERP System of SAP
Advantages.
Disadvantages.
 General Areas of Application
 What makes SAP different?
 Verticals of SAP
 Reasons for implementing SAP
 SAP application Modules
 SAP solutions
 Benefits of SAP
 SAP-Security
 Our Advice to Company
SAP-Introduction

 SAP is the leading Enterprise Information and Management Package.

 There is n number of ERP software's in market today of which SAP is use in medium
to large enterprises.

 SAP is a neatly integrated business software to process all functionalities of an

organisation in order to obtain a Unifies Solution i.e., ERP software.

 SAP is a leader when it comes to easy integration among all the departments.
History of SAP

 SAP the company was founded in Waldorf, Germany in town of Heidelberg in 1972
by five Ex-IBM Engineers.

 The full name of the parent Company is SAP AG.

 SAP has subsidiaries in over 50 countries around the world from Argentina to
Venezuela.

 SAP stands for Systeme Andwendungen Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung

which means System Applications and Products in Data Processing in English.
Basic facts

 Worlds third largest Independent software provider

 Now 70-80% top companies in their respective fields have implemented SAP
 Serves More than 335,000 Global Customers world wide in more than 190
countries
 SAP customers include:
87% of the Forbes Global 2000 companies
98% of the 100 most valued brands
100% of the Dow Jones top scoring sustainability companies
SAP market share

 SAP is a leader in ERP industry

 According to a recent report of Forbes, SAP leads ERP market share with 25%
market share
 While Oracle is at 16%and Microsoft at 9% market share.
 Oracle is the biggest competitor of SAP in the field of ERP
 Oracle has strong base in data storage
 Sap is relatively new in data storage but its getting up to the speed with its own
data storage system SAP HANA
ERP-Enterprise Resource Planning

 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a software that is built to organizations

belonging to different industrial sectors, regardless of their size and strength.

 ERP is the term used for the software that controls the different departments of the
whole organisation.
For Ex:
SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamic, Saga, People Soft, JD Edwards are some of
the top ERP software Systems.
Advantages of ERP

By integrating the business processes, the ERP offers the following advantages −
 Saves time and expenses.
 Allows faster decision-making by the management, utilizing the data and reporting tools
designed in the systems.
 Single data source and sharing of data among all the units of an organization.
 Helps in tracking every transaction that takes place in an organization, from starting till
end.
 Supplies real-time information whenever required.
 Provides synchronized information transfer in between different functional areas such as
sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, human resource, logistics, etc.
Disadvantages of ERP

It is not always easy to incorporate ERP in an organization. ERP

suffers from the following drawbacks −
 Sometimes business processes critical to an organization are to be re-engineered
to align them with an ERP solution.
 Cost of complex integration can be very high.
 Switching from one ERP solution to another increases the implementation cost
even further.
 End-users are to be trained for their daily operations.
 Customization is not preferred.
ERP Market Share
Timeline of SAP
General areas of applications of SAP

 Financial Accounting − Deals with financial transactions and data.

 Human Resource − Deals with information related to employee of an
organization.
 Customer Relationship Management − Deals with capturing and managing
customer’s relationship, facilitating the use of customer experience to evaluate the
knowledge database.
 Sales and Distribution − Deals with order placement, delivery, shipment and
invoicing
 Logistics and Warehouse Management − Deals with storage of products and
shipment.

 Manufacturing and Material Management − Deals with the production and

production planning activities.

 Supply Change Management − Deals with the movement of products, storing,

managing, and controlling supplies.

 Business Intelligence − Analyses data and converts the same to information.

What makes SAP different?

 Traditional computer information systems used by many businesses today have

been developed to accomplish some specific tasks and provide reports and
analysis of events that have already taken place
 Occasionally, some systems operate in a real-time mode that is have up to date
information in them and can be used to actually control events
 SAP takes a different approach. All applications access common data.
 Real events in the business initiate transactions
 There is only one information system in an enterprise, SAP.
 Accounting is done automatically by events in sales and production
 Sales can see when products can be delivered
 Production schedules are driven by sales
 The whole system is designed to be real-time and not historical
Verticals Of SAP
Reasons for Implementing SAP
 For better decision making
 For Strategic planning
 For higher system performance
 To gain competitive advantage
 To meet key business goals
 To gain increased solution flexibility
 Enables a company to link its business functions
 Ties together different business processes
 Enables Business change
 Replacement of an outdated inefficient IT architecture
SAP Application Modules

 SAP has several layers.

 The Basis System is the heart of the data operations and should be not evident to
higher level or managerial users
 Other Customizing and implementation tools exist also
 The heart of the system from a manager’s viewpoint are the applications modules
 These modules may not all be implemented in a typical company but they are all
related
Business solutions Industry solutions Software products

Digital business Small/Mid-sized Platform and

solutions enterprises solutions technology solutions

Platforms and
frameworks
Benefits of SAP

 Improves Productivity
 Reduces cost by increasing flexibility
 Supports additional extensions in an organisation, if required
 Optimize IT spending
 Provide immediate access to enterprise information
 Simultaneously visibility across whole enterprise
 To choose best marketing strategy
 Offers good Understanding of current situation of company.

 Offers high security and info consistence.

 Offers coordination across the company.

 Enables to focus attention core process.

Business Ideas to Current Challenges

 Many Companies run into a number of challenges when coming up with solutions.
 First, companies are increasingly integrating SAP with cloud-based applications.
 Moreover, some business processes require SAP to be connected to multiple
systems, each of which may communicate with SAP using a different technology.
An integration layer is thus needed between SAP and these different systems.
 As business needs change, new cases will emerge. The challenge for companies is
to design a software architecture that will enable developers to quickly build
applications and integrate with SAP.
SAP is made for

 All range of companies

 Different suites are available for different range of companies
 Designed to satisfy the information needs for all business functions
 Different module section for different area of businesses
 Multilinguistic, Base Independent i.e., works on any operating System
SAP-Security

 There are three points to look in order to ensure security-

1.Confidentiality – Unauthorized disclosure of data
2. Integrity – Unauthorized modification of data
3. Availability – Denial of Service(Lack of availability of resources)
SAP authorizations control access to transactions by
1.Keeping Unauthorized persons out of system
2.Keeping people out of places where they should not be
3.Safegaurding the data from damage or loss
Safeguards
Classification of Security
Advice to Company

 The cost of product is too high for small business

and companies and implementation of the tools
is not easy.
 The products need more refinement (eg:- in the
business suite there is no option of payroll and
hence requiring a third party application to be
used in parallel).
Products should be made flexible
Thank You