SAP, started in 1972 by five IBM employees in Germany, it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest software supplier.
The original SAP provide help to customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a wide range of applications.today many companies implement the sap in their organization to manage all their branches.
today the latest SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the ability to manage financial, asset, and management, 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.
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. recently R/3 version was provided for IBM's as/400 platform.
