• • • • • • • SAP SE is one of the largest vendors of enterprise resource planning () software and related enterprise applications. The company's ERP system enables its customers to run their, including accounting, sales, production, human resources and finance, in an integrated environment.

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The integration ensures that information flows from one SAP component to another without the need for redundant data entry and helps enforce financial, process and legal controls. It also facilitates the effective use of resources, including manpower, machines and production capacities. Itr v acknowledgement 2013 14.

According to its 2018 corporate fact sheet, SAP serves more than 404,000 customers in 180 countries, of which 80% are small- and-medium sized businesses (). The latter fact is a more recent departure from the company's previous focus on large enterprise organizations. It's estimated that 77% of all global business transactions come in contact with an SAP system. The company offers on-premises, and hybrid deployment models, with options being the focus for the company's future. On the Forbes 2018 list of 'The World's Largest Public Companies,' SAP was ranked the 12th-largest technology company, with 2017 revenue of $27.4 billion. SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. In 2011, the company launched, an in-memory database platform that is at the forefront of the company's future strategy.

HANA was a major development project for SAP, which has said it intends HANA to take the place of the traditional databases SAP has used for its business applications. SAP has offered HANA as a deployment option for Business Suite, and, in 2015, released, an ambitious rewrite of Business Suite optimized for the HANA platform. As of this writing, Bill McDermott is CEO of SAP, a position he has held since May 2014. Meanwhile, company co-founder Hasso Plattner is a member of the SAP Supervisory Board and continues to help lead the technology strategy for the company. List of SAP modules and developing products The SAP ERP software system, called, is the collective term for SAP's functional and technical modules that enable enterprises to manage business processes through a unified system.

ECC is the on-premises version of SAP, and it is usually implemented in medium and large-sized companies. For smaller companies, SAP offers its Business One ERP platform. SAP ERP software has different main modules, which are separated into functional modules and technical modules, each of which has submodules. SAP's functional modules include: • Human Capital Management () • Production Planning (PP) • Materials Management (MM) • Project System (PS) • Sales and Distribution (SD) • Plant Maintenance (PM) • Financial Accounting (FI) • Quality Management (QM) • Controlling (CO) SAP also has cross-application components, which can be implemented with any of the main modules.

Some of the cross-application components are: • Document Management System • Classification • SAP technical modules include: • • • SAP NetWeaver • IS () Management • XI () • Business Intelligence () • Business Warehouse () • SAP HANA Further, SAP also has industry-specific applications that support business processes unique to a particular industry. Some of these applications are: • SAP for Utilities • SAP for Insurance • SAP for Oil and Gas • SAP Healthcare SAP Business Suite is a bundle of business applications that provides integration of business and processes, as well as industry-focused functionality. It has SAP ERP software as its foundation, plus modules for, product lifecycle management, and supplier relationship management. SAP customers can choose to run Business Suite on SAP HANA. S/4HANA is the vendor's in-memory version of the Business Suite ERP platform, and it is run on HANA. S/4HANA is meant to reduce complexity, according to SAP, and to replace SAP ECC, eventually. Is a cloud-based customer experience and e-commerce platform introduced in June 2018.

It consists of five component applications: SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Customer Cloud, SAP Sales Cloud, SAP Service Cloud and SAP Customer Data Cloud. Is an integrated system of software and services that encompasses next-generation technologies that include Internet of Things (), machine learning (), artificial intelligence (), big data,, 3-D printing (), and under the. Is a line of SAP apps -- the first 25 were released in 2013 -- that the company intends to use as its predominant user experience and user interface model going forward. Fiori is meant to address criticisms of SAP's and complexity. A number of Fiori apps run exclusively on S/4HANA, and the two are intended to more closely intertwine as they evolve. A note about the term: In ECC, the correct term is. However, due to the continued prevalence of R/3, the term module is still in widespread use.