Know about "SAP"......System , Application and Products in Data processing

When I told to my brother that Our company is going to implement the SAP within my company, He asked me about the SAP.
SO, I feel I have to also tell to my readers some basic of SAP.
SAP is actually stands for " Systems, Application and Products" in data processing within an organisation. This is actually used to automize all the processess and system with in a company.
This is an ERP ( Enterprise Resource Planning) which has some advance features. SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany.
The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.
SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Win2000 and uses the Client/Server model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.
Many companies large or mid size are implementing the SAP to track their business. Today, we are at Intex Technologies is also going for the same and we call it " Project Parivartan" and it will be completed by November,08
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