1.
What is ‘SAP'?
2.
Tell Me More about (The History of)
SAP?
3. What are the ‘Solutions’ Currently Available from SAP?
4. What are the Components of the ‘SAP ERP’ Solution?
5.
What is the Significance of the ‘SAP
Net Weaver’ Platform?
6.
What are the Components of ‘Net Weaver’?
7.
What are the Components of the SAP
Business Suite?
8.
What are the Most Recent Releases of
the ‘SAP R/3' Solution?
9.
What ‘Industry Solutions’ (IS) are
Available from SAP?
10.
What is ‘SAP x Apps’?
11.
What are all the Components of SAP x
Apps?
12.
What is known as Duet?
13.
Explain the SAP Document Builder?
14.
Explain the SAP Solution Manager?
15.
Explain how my SAP ERP Financial’ is
Better/Different than ‘R/3 Financial Accounting?
16. What is an ‘SAP Solution Map’?
17. What is ‘SAP Business One’?
1. What is ‘SAP'?
SAP is an acronym for ‘Systeme, Anwendungen,
Produkte der Dataenverarbeitung,’ in German, meaning ‘Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing.’ Founded
in 1972, SAP with its headquarters in Walldorf, Germany—is the global market
leader in collaborative, inter enterprise business solutions (i.e., business
software). SAP employs close to 40,000 employees worldwide, with more than
100,000 installations in about 40,000 companies in 120 countries. More than 12
million people use SAP on a daily basis. There are more than 20
industry-specific ‘Industry Solutions,’ known commonly as ‘IS’ (IS-Oil,
IS-Retail, IS-Bank, etc.).
2. Tell Me More about (The History of)
SAP?
SAP was founded by five former IBM employees, in 1972, to develop
a standard business application software, with the goal of processing business
information in real-time. The company, SAP GmbH, was started in Mannheim,
Germany. During1973, the company released its first financial accounting
software, ‘R1’ (the letter ‘R’ stands for ‘Real-Time Processing).’ In the late
1970s, SAP ‘R/2’ was released with IBM’s database and a dialogue-oriented business
application. R/2 was further stabilized during the early 1980s and the company
came out with a version capable of processing business transactions in several
languages and currencies to meet the needs of its international clientele. SAP
GmbH became SAP AG in 1988. Later on, the company established subsidiaries in countries
such as the United States, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. The 1990s saw the
introduction of SAP ‘R/3,’ with client-server architecture and GUI, which ran
on almost any database, and on most operating systems. SAP R/3 heralded a new era
in enterprise computing, moving from a ‘main frame’ to a 3-tier architecture
(Database->Application->User interface), which became the new industry
standard. By1996, the company had more than 9,000 installations worldwide. By
the end of the 1990s, SAP had introduced the e-commerce enabled mySAPsuite of
products for leveraging ever-expanding web technology. SAP began the
twenty-first century with the Enterprise Portal and role-based access to business
information. SAP continues to evolve and innovate, bringing cutting-edge
technologies to business information processing. SAP has already introduced SAP
NetWeaver, which is based on Enterprise Services Architecture (ESS) with
application integration across diverse platforms for providing one-stop
end-to-end business processing. With NetWeaver, companies can now integrate
people, information, and processes.
3. What are the Solutions Currently
Available from SAP?
Currently,
SAP Solutions include the following:
1.
SAP ERP
2.
SAP
3.
SAP Business Suite
4.
SAP R/3 and R/3 Enterprise
5.
SAP for Industries
6.
SAP xApps
7.
SAP Solution Manager
4. What are the Components of the
‘SAP ERP’ Solution?
1.
SAP ERP Central Component (ECC 6.0)
2.
SAP SEM (Strategic Enterprise
Management) (SEM 6.0)
3.
SAP cProject Suite (Project and
Portfolio Management 4.0)
4.
SAP SRM for ERP (SRM 5.0)
5.
SAP Catalog Content Management (CCM
2.0 for ERP 2004)
6.
SAP Internet Sales for ERP
5. What is the Significance of the
‘SAP NetWeaver’ Platform?
The SAP ‘NetWeaver’ platform allows organizations to build new business
solutions rapidly while realizing more business value from existing IT
investments. SAP NetWeaver supports new cross2009 functional business processes and
helps to lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reducing the need for
custom integration. It offers complete life cycle management for all of your applications.
It is also the foundation for Enterprise Services Architecture (EAS) and helps align
people, information, and business processes across organizational and
technological boundaries.
6. What are the Components of
‘NetWeaver’?
By providing an open integration and application platform and
permitting the integration of the
Enterprise Services Architecture, SAP NetWeaverhelps unify
business processes across technological boundaries, integrating applications
for employees as needed, and accessing/editing simple information easily in a
structured manner.
Components
include:
1. Security
2. People Integration
Multi-channel Access
Portal
Collaboration
3. Information Integration
Business Intelligence
4. BI (Business Intelligence) Content
Knowledge Management
Master Data Management
5. Process Integration
Integration Broker
Business Process Management
6. Application Platform
Java
ABAP
Business
Services
Connectivity
DB
and OS Abstraction
SAP
Knowledge Warehouse
7. Life Cycle Management
Customizing
Software
Change Management
System
Management
7. What are the Components of the SAP Business Suite?
1.SAP
Customer Relationship Management (CRM 5.0)
2.SAP
Supply Chain Management (SCM 5.0)
3.SAP
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
SAP SRM 2007
SAP Catalog Content Management (SRM-MDM 1.0)
4.SAP
Product Life Cycle Management
SAP
Product Life Cycle Management 4.00
SAP
Environment, Health, and Safety 2.7B
SAP
PLM Recipe Management 2.1
Audit
Management
5.SAP
Compliance Management for SOA
Management of Internal controls 1.0
6.SAP
Learning Solution 2.00
7.SAP
Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM)
8. What are the Most Recent Releases
of the ‘SAP R/3' Solution?
SAP
R/3 Enterprise Release 4.70
SAP
R/3 Release 4.6C/4.6B/4.5B/4.0B
9. What ‘Industry Solutions’ (IS)
are Available from SAP?
There
are 22 Industry Solutions available from SAP. They are:
1.
SAP for Aerospace and Defense
2.
SAP for Automotive
3.
SAP for Banking
4.
SAP for Consumer Products
5.
SAP Contract Accounts Receivable and
Payable
6.
SAP for Defense and Security
7.
SAP for Engineering, Construction
and Operations
8.
SAP for Financial Service Providers
9.
SAP for Healthcare
10.
SAP for Higher Education and
Research
11.
SAP for High Tech
12.
SAP for Insurance
13.
SAP for Media
14.
SAP for Mill Products
15.
SAP for Mining
16.
SAP for Oil and Gas
17.
SAP for Professional Services
18.
SAP for Public Sectors
19.
SAP for Retail
20.
SAP for Telecommunications
21.
SAP for Utilities
22.
SAP for Wholesale Distribution
10. What is ‘SAP xApps’?
The ‘SAP xApps’ family
of composite applications enables continuous business innovation and provides the flexibility necessary to respond quickly and
profitably to business changes. They extend the value of core business investments and maximize the
return on strategic assets: employees, knowledge, products, business relationships, and IT.SAP
and SAP certified partners deliver these composite applications that drive
specialized business processes, provide comprehensive business insights, and
focus on the needs of a variety of industries. All these applications combine
Web services and data from multiple systems in an application design made
possible by the SAP Composite Application Framework within the SAP NetWeaver technology
platform. This framework includes the methodology, tools, and run-time
environment to develop composite applications. It provides a consistent object
model and a rich user experience, and gives developers a productive way to
create composite applications on top of a set of heterogeneous applications.
11. What are all the Components of ‘SAP xApps’?
1.
Duet
2.
SAP Document Builder
3.
SAP Global Trade Services
4.
SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration
and Intelligence
5.
SAP xApp Resource and Portfolio
Management
6.
SAP xApp Product Definition
7.
SAP xApp Cost and Quotation
Management
8.
SAP xApp Integrated Exploration and
Production
9.
SAP xApp Sales and Operations
Planning
12. What is known as ‘Duet’?
A component under SAP xApps, ‘Duet’
is a first-of-its-kind software solution from SAP and Microsoft that enables users to easily and quickly interact with
SAP business processes and data via their familiar Microsoft Office
environment. The result of a groundbreaking collaboration between SAP and Microsoft, it is the first joint product created
by these two industry leaders and is designed to revolutionize how IT workers interact with
enterprise applications.
Duet enables:
1. Budget Monitoring: Schedule time-critical alerts and notifications to monitor cost centers or internal orders, which are delivered directly to
Microsoft Outlook.
2. Demand Planning: Create and use planning sheets, as well as analyze and manage demand planning data from the SAP System using Microsoft Excel.
3. Duet Reporting: Schedule reports to be delivered regularly to Microsoft Outlook, receive
individual reports on an as-needed basis, and view reports in Microsoft Excel.
4. Leave Management: Add leave requests as Microsoft Outlook calendar items that integrate approval guidelines in the SAP System and
enterprise-defined processes.
5. Sales Management: Manage CRM accounts and contacts, create business activities, and access sales analytics information using Microsoft Outlook.
6. Team Management: Access up-to-date information about yourself and employees, open positions,
and organizational structures that are integrated from the SAP System into the Microsoft
Outlook contacts area.
7. Time Management: Record time in the Microsoft Outlook calendar, streamlining time
entry while ensuring time-reporting compliance in the SAP System.
8. Travel Management: Create a travel request and a travel expense report in the SAP
System using Microsoft Outlook.
13. Explain the SAP Document Builder?
‘SAP Document Builder’ (CA-GTF-DOB) is a content-driven and
cross-application solution for building and authoring complex documents. As a generic tool, it
can be deployed within international organizations and large corporations to generate
contract and bid invitation documents, banking-related documents, auto insurance policies,
real estate contracts, and corporate employment policies. You can deploy SAP Document Builder
as a standalone application or integrate it with other SAP or non-SAP
components. For example, you can generate business documents required in a procurement
system and store them in an electronic data storage system.
The
SAP Document Builder supports you by:
1.
Automating and streamlining the
document-creation process.
2.
Enforcing best practices.
3.
Building documents that reflect
company-specific styles and formats from one or more
regulation sets.
4.
Determining inclusion or exclusion
of clauses based on legal regulations by means of
rules.
14. Explain the SAP Solution
Manager?
Providing
central access to Tools, Methods, and Pre-Configured Content, the SAP Solution Manager
provides support throughout the life cycle of solutions—from Business Blueprint
to Configuration
to Support.
The
features include:
1. Implementation/Upgrade of SAP
Solutions
1.
Central access to Project Tools
(Project Administration, Business Blueprint,
Configuration, Test Workbench, Group Rollout Templates)
2.
Central management of Project
Information (Roadmap, System Landscape,
Documentation, etc.)
3.
Enables comparing/synchronizing
customizing in several SAP components
2. Solution Monitoring
1.
Central System Administration
2.
System Landscape Analysis with
System Level Reporting
3.
Real-time System Monitoring
4.
Business Process Monitoring
3. Services and Support
1.Access to programs/services for
monitoring and optimizing system performance
and availability to minimize risks.
4. Service Desk
1.Solution Support through Work Flow
to create and manage Process/Problem
Messages.
5. Change Management
1.Trace and audit system changes
and transports through Change Request
Management.
15. Explain how ‘mySAP ERP
Financial’ is Better/Different than ‘R/3 Financial Accounting?
‘mySAP ERP Financials’ is built on the NetWeaver platform, which
is the foundation for service oriented business solutions, for deploying
financial processes at a faster pace. Irrespective of the business type, mySAP
ERP Financials is designed to support financial accounting requirements to
provide a single complete platform to achieve excellence in accounting,
performance management, financial supply chain, and corporate governance.
The
features include:
1. Industry-Specific Financial
Management
mySAP ERP Financials provides a comprehensive and robust
analytical framework to consolidate and/or dissect business information generated in
industry solutions or core enterprise processes: all managers in all operations have an
improved visibility with a single integrated solution.
2. Performance Management
mySAP ERP Financials provides a single solution for the entire
life cycle of Corporate
Performance Management by delivering real-time, personalized
measurements and metrics to improve business insight and productivity of non-technical
users. Executives, managers, and business workers will now have access to information such as
business statistics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
presented in the context of business tasks for better insight and faster decision making.
mySAP
ERP Financials encompasses:
1.
Consolidated financial and statutory
reporting
2.
Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
3.
Strategy management and scorecards
4.
Risk management
5.
Financial analytics
3. Financial and Management Accounting
mySAP ERP Financials helps companies comply with global accounting
standards (such as the United States’ Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). With the ‘New
FI-GL’ functionality (Refer to Q.181 for more details) you will now have the
ability to generate financial statements of any dimension of the business
(unit, profit center, geographical location, etc.). This offers greater
flexibility to extend a chart of accounts and allows an easier method of reporting
by individual management units and segments. This feature helps companies reduce
the complexity and costs associated with parallel accounting or managing a set
of books by region, industry, or regulatory reporting statute.
4. Corporate Governance
With
a set of applications and tools, mySAP ERP Financials assists in meeting the
specific requirements
of today’s financial regulations such as the SarbanesOxley Act. You now have
an intuitive mechanism to collect, document, assess, remediate, and attest to
internal control
processes and safeguards to ensure transparent business activity. By
configuring controls
and defining rules and tolerances for your business, you can easily customize internal
processes for security, reporting, and error prevention. In addition, you can
now document
all your internal control processes and make them visible to corporate
executives, auditors,
and regulators.
5. Financial Supply Chain Management
Provides
the tools to help you manage your financial supply chain and cash-flow cycle
more
effectively,
through end-to-end process support of:
1.
Credit Management
2.
Electronic Bill Presentment and
Payment
3.
Collections Management
4.
Dispute Management
5.
In-house Cash Management
6.
Cash and Liquidity Management
7.
Bank Relationship
8.
Treasury and Risk Management Processes
16. What is an ‘SAP Solution Map’?
mySAP ERP, besides supporting your most important business
processes, also provides tools to help you understand how these processes work.
One such tool is the ‘SAP Solution Map,’ a multi-level blueprint of processes, which helps you visualize,
plan, and implement a coherent, integrated, and comprehensive IT solution. SAP Solution Maps also
show how various processes are covered, including the processes that SAP and
its partners support. With solution maps, you quickly understand business
solutions and the business value they can bring.
17. What is ‘SAP Business One’?
‘SAP Business One’ is the low-cost, easy-to-implement business
management solution from SAP for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). Unlike
regular ERP software from SAP, this solution gives managers on-demand access to
critical real-time information through ‘one single system’ containing
financial, customer relationship management, manufacturing, and management
control capabilities. As a result, the solution enables rapid employee
productivity, while empowering managers to make better business decisions to
stay ahead of the competition. Equipped with a user-friendly interface, SAP
Business One serves as your central ERP hub with standard interfaces to
internal and external data sources, handheld computers, CRM applications, and other
leading analysis tools. SAP Business One is based on the Microsoft Windows
platform making it easier to comprehend and use. The application comes with a
‘demo company,’ which can be used by the implementing company to become
familiar with functionalities.
The
modules of SAP Business One include:
1.
Administration
2.
Financials
3.
Sales Opportunities
4.
Sales—A/R
5.
Purchasing—A/P
6.
Business Partners
7.
Banking
8.
Inventory
9.
Production
10.
MRP
11.
Service
12.
Human Resources
13. Reporting
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