SAP Community Network ( SCN ) is a community of SAP customers, partners, employees, and influencers -- typically in roles such as: developers, consultants, integrators, and business analysts -- who gain and share knowledge about ABAP, Java,. NET, SOA, and other technologies, plus analytics and dashboards, business process best practices, cloud, mobile, big data, and a range of other topics via expert blogs, discussion forums, exclusive downloads and code samples, training materials, and a technical library.

An associated one-day Unconference event, Community Day, was initiated in 2006 for the SAP Developer Network ( SDN ).

* SAP Community Network ( SAP Communities Gateway Page )

* SAP Community Network, an online community for SAP ERP users worldwide

* SAP Netweaver Capabilities discussions, blogs, documents and videos on the SAP Community Network ( SCN )

A Network Service Access Point address ( NSAP address ), defined in ISO / IEC 8348, is an identifying label for a Service Access Point ( SAP ) used in OSI networking.

* SAP Developer Network: How to solve the business standards dilemma

With the recent acquisition of relevant parts of SECUDE, SAP can now provide cryptography libraries with SAP R / 3 for Secure Network Communications and Secure Socket Layer.

In 2007, the SAP User Group Executive Network ( SUGEN ) has been established to foster the information exchange and best practice sharing among SAP User Groups and to coordinate the collaboration with SAP for strategic topics.

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.

Developers that use the SDK can share their knowledge and experience on the SAP Development Network.

In order to encrypt RFC communications, the SAP environment must use Secure Network Communications ( SNC ) or the SAP Cryptographic Library.

Located inside the campus of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, it is adjacent to SIM HQ and houses a total of 20 lecture theatres and tutorial rooms, Electronic Labs, Multimedia ( PC & Mac ) Labs, Interpretation Labs, Bio-Medical Lab, Bio-Mechanical Lab, ICT Network Lab, SAP Training Lab and Audio Presentation Lab.

* Federated Portal Network, allows organizations with multiple portals, SAP and non-SAP, to share content between the portals.

Some protocols, or families of protocols, have one or more SAPs assigned to them ; for example, IPv4 has a SAP value of hex 06.

In June 2012, Disney Channel now presents this on-screen mark at the beginning of certain programming on their schedule to refer that the program has audio description .. Certain episodes of Gravity Falls, Austin and Ally, Good Luck Charlie, and Phineas and Ferb show this AD ))) mark at the intro of the episode to notice the audio description track available SAP feed.

Vendors often allocate their own code page number to a character encoding, even if it is better known by another name ( for example UTF-8 character encoding has code page numbers 1208 at IBM, 65001 at Microsoft, 4110 at SAP ).

The curriculum has developed, with the Institute becoming a SUN and Microsoft authorised training centre in 1998, a SAP University Alliance Partner in 1999, and a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centre in 2001.

In addition, SAP operates a network of 115 subsidiaries, and has R & D ( Research & Development ) facilities around the globe in Germany, India, US, Canada, France, Brazil, Turkey, China, Hungary, Israel, Ireland and Bulgaria.

SAP will only be using the company ’ s technology as an internal resource and has no plans to offer Coghead ’ s products to its customers.

SAP Press has published a book on SAP Enterprise Learning.

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

Gartner states that SAP PartnerEdge has " set a new standard for innovation in channel development for the small and midsize business application market.

SAP has its development organization spread across the globe.

Each SAP Lab has prominent area of expertise and focus.

SAP Labs Latin America has just received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) Gold certification for the building.

SAP has two annual conferences: SAPPHIRE and SAP TechEd.

It is generally where SAP has announced major product changes and strategic direction.

SAP TechEd has been held since 1995, and it usually held in four locations around the world every year in the fall.

SAP has admitted to inappropriate downloads ; however the company denies the theft of any intellectual property.

SAP claims to grow organically in contrast to its main rival, Oracle, which has spent close to USD 40 billion during 2004 – 2010 acquiring many competitors.

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

He left the SPD to join the more left wing Socialist Workers Party ( SAP ), which was allied to the POUM in Spain and the Independent Labour Party in Britain.

" I need a little more pop ... I need it if I'm going to play some tennis ," he said after playing Gael Monfils in an exhibition at the SAP Open.

SAP typically focused on best practice methodologies for driving its software processes, but more recently expanded into vertical markets.

In December 2011, SAP AG agreed to buy SuccessFactors Inc. for $ 3. 4 billion in cash or 52 percent more than the share closing price on 2 December 2011.

With the acquisition, SAP AG will become more competitive with Oracle Corp. in the Cloud computing market.

Currently more than 250, 000 students around the world have access to an SAP system through the SAP University Alliances.

SAP officials say there are over 100, 600 SAP installations serving more than 41, 200 companies in more than 25 industries in more than 120 countries.

SAP TechEd is the more technical conference, aimed at SAP's ecosystem of consultants and software development partners.

Businesses use EPC diagrams to lay out business process work flows, originally in conjunction with SAP R / 3 modeling, but now more widely.

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.

MaxDB is provided for use with SAP, as an alternative to other more costly RDBMS systems.

SAP Business One provides integration technologies for these purposes and more.

It provides all needed connectivity for ftp, SQL, the new web 2. 0 technologies and native support for SAP R / 3, SAP Business One, SAP XI, and more.

According to SAP, more than 21, 000 installations of SAP's BW solution exist.