Overview of SAP

SAP is a German software company founded in 1972. SAP stands for:
 - Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (in German)
- Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing (in English)

History

1973 - SAP R/1 - Company’s first financial accounting software package

1979 - SAP R/2 - mainframe system

1992 - SAP R/3 - client server based system

2005 - SAP ERP Central Component (ECC)

SAP ECC Components

• SAP Financial 
• Financial Accounting : FI (AP, AR, GL)
• Controlling: CO (Mgt Accounting, Product Costing)
• SAP Logistics
• Materials Management: MM (PR, PO,GRN, Inventory Mgt)
• Sales & Distribution: SD 
• Production Planning: PP
• Quality Management : QM
• SAP BASIS
• ABAP report programming
• Security administration
• SAP HR