This opened up SAP to a whole new customer base.

SAP AG (,, ) is a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.

Functional units of SAP are split across different organizational units for R & D needs, field activities and customer support.

User Groups are independent, not-for-profit organizations of SAP customer companies and partners within the SAP Ecosystem that provide education to their members, influence SAP product releases and direction, exchange best practices, and provide insight into the market needs.

In January 2010 SAP did a U-turn ( reversed its direction ) on Enterprise Support and reintroduced its standard support package for customers, saying the move was “ a demonstration of its commitment to customer satisfaction ”.

Also in May 2008 the Company announced that it would offshore more of its activities including SAP support and HR and payroll administration to Makati City in the Philippines and has seen a subsequent increase in its outsourced HR and payroll services business to more than 850 customer organisations.

The name ' Casspir ' is an anagram of the abbreviations of the customer, the South African Police ( SAP ), and the design authority, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ( CSIR ).

Gartner interprets the lower ratings given in " customer experience " for IBM Cognos and SAP Business Objects as a result of post-acquisition issues.

1998 sees SAS introduce a customer relationship management ( CRM ) solution, and an ERP access interface — SAS / ACCESS interface for SAP R / 3.

Produced by SAP, the solution is intended to assist companies by providing support for sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.

In other words, the IMF's support was conditional on a series of drastic economic reforms influenced by neoliberal economic principles called a " structural adjustment package " ( SAP ).

According to a press fact sheet from SAP, " SAP is the only enterprise applications software vendor that is both building service-orientation directly into its solutions and providing a technology platform SAP NetWeaver and guidance to support companies in the development of their own service-oriented architectures spanning both SAP and non-SAP solutions.

SAP partners include Global Services Partners with cross-industry multinational consulting capabilities, Global Software Partners providing integrated products that complement SAP Business Suite solutions, and Global Technology Partners providing user companies with a wide range of products to support SAP technology, including vendors of hardware, database, storage systems, networks, and mobile computing technology.

In Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG Oracle alleged that a Texas subsidiary, SAP TN ( formerly TomorrowNow before purchase by SAP ), which provided discount support for legacy Oracle product lines, used the accounts of former Oracle customers to systematically download patches and support documents from Oracle's website and appropriated them for SAP's use.

The resulting pressure saw SAP and SUGEN ( SAP User Group Executive Network ) agree to a major benchmarking exercise to prove the value of the new support pricing policy to customers.

A category begun in 2004 with support from SAP ( and a separate ceremony in New York City two months before the main Ars Electronica ceremony ) to celebrate the 25th birthday of Ars Electronica.

SAP NetWeaver is built using primarily the ABAP programming language, but also uses C ( programming language ), C ++, and Java EE.

A Spanish audio track was available on Toon Disney through the SAP option ; some cable and satellite systems also offered the Spanish feed as a separate channel.

This system is also available in enterprise resource planning software such as Infor ERP LN, SAP ERP or Microsoft Dynamics AX.

SAP filed post-trial motions to lower the damage awarded to Oracle and stated it may also file an appeal.

SAP PartnerEdge has also signed with Enfos Inc, a software as a service company, to develop their EcoHub Partner Sustainability Solution platform.

SAP also competes in the Customer Relationship Management, Marketing & Sales Software, Manufacturing, Warehousing & Industrial Software, and Supply Chain Management & Logistics Software sectors.

SAP has also announced that it is freezing prices for existing SAP Enterprise Support contracts at 2009 level.

Second audio program ( SAP ), also known as secondary audio programming, is an auxiliary audio channel for analog television that can be broadcast or transmitted both over the air and by cable TV.

SAP is also used for student radio stations that cannot otherwise get on the air due to crowded FM broadcasting bands.

Though not technically an SAP channel, television stations can also broadcast a " PRO " ( professional ) audio subcarrier which is used to communicate with station personnel, particularly those engaged in electronic news gathering.

The second audio program ( SAP ) also is part of the standard, providing another language, a video description service like DVS, or a completely separate service like a campus radio station or weatheradio.

On the other hand, Document Warehouse for SAP is also a FileNet's commercial software that enables SAP's business applications to access document images stored by FileNet.

There are also tools that generate EPC diagrams from operational data, such as SAP logs.

It also operates the domestic intelligence service ( Service for Analysis and Prevention SAP ), and the Federal Criminal Police ( FCP ), which investigates crimes subject to federal jurisdiction.

For example, Bulgaria is now considered to be a viable outsourcing destination for such companies as German software company SAP, where labor costs are low, and the skills available, but which is also closer to home ..

It is also the venue for the annual SAP Open men's tennis tournament.

It also co-developed ArchiveLink with SAP and the first standard ArchiveLink product for SAP.

Walldorf is currently probably best known as the city that headquarters the world's fourth largest software company SAP, but it is also the birthplace of the millionaire John Jacob Astor, at the time of his death the wealthiest man in the United States.

TCM is also a major backer of WGBH's Descriptive Video Service program, and many of the films aired on the network have visual description for the blind and visually impaired, which are accessible through the SAP option through a television or cable / satellite receiver.

Bull has also developed close R & D partnerships with leading-edge partners such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Novell-Suse, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, EMC-VMWare and other corporations, as well as Open Source communities ( Linux Foundation, OW2, JBoss …), European R & D programs ( ITEA, Qualipso ...) and European competitiveness clusters ( Cap Digital, System @ tic ...).

The acquisition allowed SAP to reach out to the midmarket through its partners and also to gain additional business from the smaller subsidiaries of its enterprise customers.

The 802. 2 header includes two eight-bit address fields, called service access points or SAPs in OSI terminology ; they are the destination SAP ( DSAP ), and the source SAP ( SSAP ).

With the advent of distributed client – server computing SAP AG brought out a client – server version of the software called SAP R / 3 ( The " R " was for " Real-time data processing " and 3 was for 3-tier ).

In 1985, TV station WGBH, the Boston, Massachusetts, member of the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ), began investigating uses for the new technology of stereophonic television broadcasting, particularly multichannel television sound ( MTS ), which allowed for a third audio channel, called the Secondary Audio Program ( SAP ).

As a result SAP introduced new reporting and budgeting capabilities in SAP Business One called XL Reporter.

In March 1999 the company entered into a major partnership with SAP AG to create an SAP-focused integration product called the SAP Business Connector.

Other components of SAP NetWeaver include SAP Enterprise Portal ( EP, called SAP NetWeaver Portal as of Release 7. 0 ), Web Application Server ( WAS ), SAP Process Integration ( PI, or previously XI, i. e. eXchange Infrastructure ) and Master Data Management ( MDM ).

As client – server systems began to be introduced, SAP brought out a server based version of their software called SAP R / 3, henceforth referred to as SAP, which was launched in 1992.

SAP R / 2 followed the company's first product, a materials management module called RM / 1.