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SAP AG is the largest European software producer with head office in barrier village (Rhine-Neckar-region).
Five former coworkers of IBM (Claus Wellenreuther, Hans Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Dietmar Hopp and Hasso Plattner) created 1972 "SAP systems analysis and program development "in Weinheim (mountain route). The first office was in Mannheim. Today SAP stands for "systems, applications and products in the data processing "and/or "system, Applications, and Products in DATA processing ". However a resolution of the general meeting erased this dissolution of the firm contraction 2005 from the statute of the enterprise. Thus "SAP AG is "the official company of the enterprise and not their abbreviation. 1976 had been created SAP GmbH, which moved one year later from Mannheim to barrier village.
SAP has world-wide approximately 35,000 persons employed (conditions 2005, of it about 10,600 coworkers in the software development) and gained 2004 a conversion of 7,514 billion EUR and a yearly surplus of 1,311 billion EUR. The share belonged to the DAX and is acted among other things at the Frankfurt one (since 1988) and the New Yorker stock exchange (since 1998).
The enterprise operates still further level of development places in the USA, France, Canada, Israel, India, Australia, Japan, the People's Republic of China, Bulgaria, the Slowakei and Hungary apart from the development center at the enterprise seat in barrier village.
With approximately 14,000 coworkers in Germany the employees SAP have the possibility according to industrial democracy act of selecting a work council. Such is missing so far. Some parts of the tasks of the work council transfer the workers' delegates in the supervisory board. Information, regulation and penetration rights are regulated in a contract with the executive committee, remain however under the legal defaults for a work council and are on the sympathetic consideration SAP executive committee dependent. A probably singular model, which in several tunings under the staff in past years several times confirmed and to which choice of a work council was preferred.
Three persons employed intended with relevant support of the industrial union metal on a workshop meeting to 2. To let select March 2006 a Wahlvorstand for a work council choice. The staff with a majority rejected the suggestion for the Wahlvorstand of the voices delivered of 91 %. Over 500 persons employed were for it. To 5. March 2006 became by three employees and likewise industrial union metal - members, with the Mannheimer labor court those as a substitute appointment of a Wahlvorstands with SAP by the court requests. In order to forestall the judicial order of the Wahlvorstands, the workers' delegates in the supervisory board decided to 14. March 2006 on suggestion of the management to start an own approach for the choice of a Wahlvorstands for the work council choice.
On the workshop meeting to 30. 3233 persons employed a Wahlvorstand of nine persons selected March 2006. To the industrial democracy act the trade unions represented in the enterprise can send additionally each the enterprise belonging assigned one as a not enfranchised member into the Wahlvorstand. The trade unions industrial union metal and ver.di send one assigned one for observation each. The Wahlvorstand has thus eleven persons, with nine voters members. The Wahlvorstand has the task to prepare and accomplish the work council choice.
After the choice writing of the Wahlvorstands out of 9. May 2006 are the first work council elections with SAP AG on 21 June 2006. 10,770 woman employees and coworker are entitled to vote. 37 work councils are to be selected.
At present SAP with the product "SAP NetWeaver offers "a platform, with whose assistance different Business applications can be integrated. Technically it concerns a EJB Application server by means of that SAP of the competition of BEA and IBM (among other things), around the possibility for the combination of the business processes to meet wants. Here the Web Application servers ("Web AS ") are, to call the Business information Warehouse (a DATA Warehouse solution), SAP NetWeaver portal and SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI). Beyond that also external "Non SAP so mentioned can "- products to be tied up.
With NetWeaver is to be considered to the increasing complexity of the systems installed by enterprises. Where it some years ago gave only a quasi monolithic ERP software with different modules (SAP R/3), gives it today a broad pallet at different products - which so-called "mySAP Businesses Suite", which covers ERP, CRM, SCM, SRM and PLM systems and other one. In order with one another to let the different SAP products and non--SAP-products communicate, the NetWeaver technology was developed. Beyond that offers SAP for a set of industry-specific solutions, which are imported as industrial solutions (e.g. "SAP for Retail ").
SAP offers further also for middle class enterprises CRM and ERP solutions. The product designations for these middle class solutions read SAP Businesses One and SAP universe in one.
SAP Business One is a solution for small to medium-size enterprises (approx. 5-150 coworkers, whereby not all users must be, to approx. $10 million conversion). It was introduced 2002 by SAP and be based on the software TopManage of the Israeli manufacturer TopManage Financial Solutions Ltd. . TopManage was one of the enterprises, those the current SAP member of the board Shai Agassi as well as its father Reuven Agassi 1993 had based and in the first quarter 2001 by SAP was transferred. Thus SAP AG increased also into competition to offerers, who are specialized in small and medium-sized enterprises, as oxaion, with B2, Lexware, legend and in particular Microsoft with Navision steps.
The other Smart Solution, SAP universe in One, is quasi a before-configured small R/3 for "larger or subsidiary companies of large companies, which starting from approx. 200,000 euro the advantages of a ERP system with full compatibility to "the large "SAP of the company nut/mother offers.
Under the term SAP the possibility offers OSS (on-line service system) to its customers of dealing with problems of the software. In "references "(English SAP Notes) error descriptions and the appropriate solutions are made available. In addition the customers can service messages over this system seize and work on.
Parallel to the OSS SAP offers for several years the service to Marketplace. Concerning this the customer can likewise access the SAP Notes and seize messages. Additionally information is offered such as White PAPER, presentations, to software Downloads etc. here. Meanwhile the locking of the OSS for for instance in the middle of is planned 2006. After the service Marketplace - now under its new name "SAP support portal" (SSP) - over the years to a matured alternative developed, whose use is only up-to-date over a simple Internet Browser, leaves SAP also on this area the reduced world of the R/3 and carries for the natural use of the Internet on global level calculation.
There the SAPNet - R/3 front-end on 3 April 2006 as user surface for SAP OSS one switched off, the service Marketplace these tasks completely took over.
Since 1999 SAP the Linux lab SAP coworker, Distributoren and hardware manufacturer are concerned together with the production of SAP products particularly for Linux in. To the conditions SuSE, supported center 2005 and talking flag. Other Linux derivatives are not certified by SAP.
The functions SAP R/3-Software are programmed in the SAP own programming language ABAP. The core was developed in C/C++ and assembler. This language constantly developed further since R/2 (1979). In newer release status (starting from approx. 2000) can be programmed also in Java. With these programming languages individual changes at the delivered standard software can be made by the customer.
A majority of NetWeaver based applications over the graphic user surface SAPGUI developed by SAP are served. Depending upon component however various further Clients is possible: Web Browser, WAP, Java Web start. Business One has likewise its own presentation technology. At present also the possibilities are tested, to what extent itself OpenOffice.org as if front-end for R/3-generierte of reports use lets.
Under the project name Mendocino began SAP 2005 together with Microsoft the development of a software, which connects both worlds. Redundant work procedures, which must be transacted momentarily still in each case in Desktop and applications of business, can be avoided by the integration by SAP and Microsoft products: For example entries, which are transacted in the Outlook calendar, without additional interaction of the user can become into the SAP Exactly both companies the distribution of the software announced one year after project start, which carries now the name Duet. First four integration scenarios are delivered. Further scenarios were announced still for the year 2006.
Computing center management system (CCMS) is a management often commodity of SAP. It offers tools as a check and for the monitoring of a computing centre in R/3.
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