What is SAP ERP?
This website is dedicated to SAP ERP. But what is SAP ERP?
SAP ERP is the Enterprise Resource Planning software developed by SAP. It has been delivered by SAP in different versions with different names (R/2, R/3, ECC6) but pursues always the same objective: to provide enterprises with a software package that covers almost all their core IT needs in order to support their operational cycle. SAP ERP supports all the core activities of the multi-national companies including such domains as Finance, Controlling, Logistics, Human Resources, … as well as the technical integration aspects of these functional domains. This focus on the core IT components of the latest version of SAP ERP (ECC6) is reflected in the version name of the product as ECC stands for Enterprise Central Components.
It is easily understandable from the broad functional domains covered by such software package that the quantity of programs and settings delivered and later on to be maintained is huge. Implementation projects with SAP ERP are often long term projects with many specialized consultants which makes them very important IT investments financially speaking. On the other hand, the benefits brought by such software are extremely appealing: standardization of the IT processes, online integration of the different IT modules with reduced interfaces, reduced overall maintenance costs (if the initial implementation has been done right!), …
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