- SAP stands for Systems, Applications & Products and was founded in 1972 in Germany by five former IBM employees. It provides enterprise software including ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, HCM and more.
- The core components of SAP include ECC for ERP, SAP HANA for analytics, SAP BW for data warehousing, and various other modules. Data can be provisioned between systems using tools like SLT, BODS, RFCs, and third-party options.
- SAP uses a multi-tiered landscape with the front-end applications interfacing with back-end databases and data provisioning technologies to integrate systems and enable analytics.