SAP Student Interest Group

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SAP Student Interest Group

• Pennsylvania State University

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Goals Purposes

• To educate students on the nature of ERP products
  (such as SAP)
• To impart to members a core set of marketable ERP
  skills
• To provide members with advice from industry
  professionals (through speakers)
• To provide students with resources to further
  their SAP/ERP education

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What is SAP?

• SAP stands for Systems, Applications, and
  Products in Data Processing.
• SAP is a type of Enterprise Resource Planning
  (ERP) system.
• ERP systems integrates all of the functional
  areas of business such as marketing,
  manufacturing, human resources, finance,
  logistics, and accounting.
• The functional areas are designed into modules
  that effectively manages an area of the
  organization.
• SAP was designed as a global software product
  engineered on a multilingual and multinational
  platform

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SAP Background

• SAP is based in Walldorf, Germany.
• SAP was founded in 1972 in Mannheim, Germany by
  five engineers.
• Originally named Systemanalyse und
  Programmentwicklung.
• Worlds largest enterprise software company
  79,800 installations, 1,500 partners, with 12
  million users.
• Employs about 30,000 people in more than 50
  countries
• Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
  under the symbol SAP.
• SAP website http//www.sap.com

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SAP R/3 System Architecture

• R/3 evolved from SAPs original SAP R/2 system,
  which is based on a mainframe.
• R/3 architecture allows for the distribution of
  the workload to multiple PCs linked together
  through a network.
• The R/3 system architecture contains the database
  servers, application servers, and presentation
  systems.
• The database server is the place where the data
  is stored.
• The application server is responsible for the
  administrative functions of the system
  background processing, printing (spool requests),
  and process request management.
• The presentation systems, or clients, display the
  software and screens that you will use when
  working with SAP.

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Three-Tier Hierarchy

• The three layers include
• The database layer
• The business logic layer
• The user interface layer

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Client/Server Environment

• The client/server environment is a standard in
  building any type of computer communication
  architecture.
• A client/server environment is one in which the
  client (an individual PC or workstation) is
  requesting information (via a connection) of the
  supplying machine, known as the server.
• The communication and interchange of data between
  the requesting and supplying machine is known as
  the client/server relationship.

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Featured Speakers

• 36 Billion in Sales
• 108,300 Employees
• 200 Operating Companies
• Located in 54 Countries around the World
• Sells Products in more than 175 Countries

• The world's most comprehensive and broadly based
  manufacturer of health care products

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SAP offers comprehensive industry solutions
including

• SAP Media
• SAP Oil and Gas
• SAP Pharmaceuticals
• SAP Public Sector Real Estate
• SAP Retail
• SAP Service Provider
• SAP Telecommunications and Transportation
• SAP Utilities

• SAP Aerospace and Defense
• SAP Automotive
• SAP Banking
• SAP Chemicals
• SAP Consumer Products
• SAP Engineering and Construction
• SAP Health Care
• SAP High Tech
• SAP Insurance

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SAP Operating Regions

• The Americas
• Argentina
  Mexico
• Brazil
  Peru
• Canada
  USA
• Chile
  Venezuela
• Columbia
• Asia Pacific
• China
  India
• Hong Kong
  Indonesia
• Japan
  Malaysia
• Korea
  New Zealand
• Taiwan
  Philippines
• Australia
  Thailand

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SAP Operating Regions

• Europe/ Africa/Middle East
• Austria
  Kazakhstan Ukraine
• Belgium
  Poland United Arab
  Emirates (through partners)
• Bulgaria (through partners)
  Portugal
• Croatia (through partners) Romania
  (through partners)
• Czech Republic
  Russian Federation
• Denmark
  Saudi Arabia (through partners)
• Finland
  Slovak republic
• France
  Slovenia
• Germany
  South Africa
• Greece (through partners) Spain
• Hungary
  Sweden
• Italy
  Switzerland
• Ireland
  Turkey (through partners)
• Israel (through partners) U.K.