SAP
What is SAP all about ?
Being an acronym for Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing, SAP is one of the leading vendors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software and other related applications. SAP was developed by a group of five German Engineers in the year 1972 and ever since it was prevailed in the IT industry as evident in recent research that has shown that nine out of ten Fortune 500 companies make use of SAP.
As seen in the 2016 corporate fact sheet, SAP provides for more than 335,000 customers in over 190 countries, and the amazing fact is that 80% of them are small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). SAP is ranked third-largest programming and software company in Forbes 2016 list of "World Biggest Public Companies". Though recently the company has shifted its focus to encompass even the big businesses and larger enterprise organizations. Now 75% of the global business transactions have a certain contact with an SAP system. The company offers convenience to her customers in form of cloud and hybrid deployment models, their cloud computing options focus on the company's future.
This is achieved through its several modules that embodies a business procedure and has a total of such 19 modules, this goes to show the high applicability of SAP. There are various SAP companies that offer specific SAP courses. Through these courses, there is a clear understanding of the concepts of SAP; its extensive functionalities and how it works. These courses have been designed for anyone wanting to have a break into SAP. Organizations using SAP can use it to create their custom software that meets their organizational requirements and can carry out business processes with a high level of accuracy and efficiency.
SAP applications have been designed in such a way that every department in an organization can carry out its processes through it, and are integrated by it, such a seamless fashion. Due to this effective functionality, major software companies like Microsoft and IBM have to make use of SAP's products in order to carry out their business activities. This has made SAP the leading software provider in the world, as of today.
Big companies which have SAP system in their organization offers business and career opportunities to individuals that have an idea of its usage, ranging from SAP contractors to SAP consultants and aid individuals in other career fields like Accounting and Sales Executives.
SAP consultant can work directly with the company, or with a 3rd party umbrella company that would then employ the consultant or have direct contact with him/her. SAP consultants are vastly used, as HR services are such a short-term implementation, and as such it's much easier to contract a service provider than to hire somebody.