Friday, July 12, 2013

ABOUT SAP BW/BI

In this Blog  a  short overview  of  SAP history and evolution of SAP BW/BI
SAP Enterprise Resource Planning is a product of SAP AG, which is a German based company headquartered  at  Walldorf. The mainly objective is to develop standard application software for real-time business processing
In 1972, the SAP was founded by five former IBM employees.
Dietmar Hopp,
 Hans-Werner Hector,
 Hasso Plattner,
Klaus E. Tschira,
Claus Wellenreuther

The SAP is an  initialism. of German language description, Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung which means System Analysis and Program Development. After some time the initialism was changed as Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung which means Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing.
In 1973, the first product SAP R/1 solution based on Mainframe was launched. 'R' stands for real-time data processing. In 1979, SAP launched SAP R/2 as a result of intensive examination of SAP's IBM database and dialog control system.In 1992, SAP followed the trend from mainframe (R/2) computing to client-server architectures (R/3). The development of SAP's internet strategy with mySAP.com redesigned the concept of business processes.