SAP R/3 History, it’s start in Walldorf
SAP AG was founded in 1972 by four former IBM employees. The company headquarters are based in Walldorf, a small German town close to Heidelberg, where the university is a continuous source of employees at SAP. Many of the gurus behind this phenomenal system known as R/3 come from this university.
Since its foundation, SAP has made significant development and marketing efforts on standard application software, being a global market player with its R/2 system for mainframe applications and its R/3 system for open client/server technologies.
The company name, SAP, stands for Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing. After the introduction of SAP R/3 in 1992, SAP AG has become the world’s leading vendor of standard application software. One of the reasons for SAP’s success is that since it is a standard package, it can be configured in multiple areas and adapted to the specific needs of a company. To support those needs, SAP includes a large number of business functions, leaving room for further functionality and enhancements or adaptability to business practice changes. More and more, corporations are deciding to use standard software systems that are highly flexible and configurable and able to support most of their business practices and information needs. This kind of package leaves the development of custom software only for exceptional cases.
The maturity and solid experience of SAP in solving the information management problems of businesses around the globe have made its R/3 system the clear market leader in the development of standard applications. [SAP R/3 Handbook, Jose Antonio Hernandez, McGrawHill]
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