Introduction ABAP 2

Hi..
On this post I would like to continue my previous post, it is about introduction ABAP.
Before we get to know further about ABAP, first i want to give you a short overview about SAP.
As we know SAP is a very large Application system giving an Enterprise solution regarding their business objective. That is why SAP have a tag line " Best Runs Business, Run SAP".
Below i inserted description about SAP taken from wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_AG

SAP's products focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The company's main product is SAP ERP. The current version is SAP ERP 6.0 and is part of the SAP Business Suite. Its previous name was called R/3. The "R" of SAP R/3 stood for realtime - even though it is not a realtime solution. The number 3 related to the 3-tier architecture: database, application server and client (SAPgui). R/2, which ran on a Mainframe architecture, was the predecessor of R/3. Before R/2 came System RF, later dubbed R/1.

SAP ERP is one of five enterprise applications in SAP's Business Suite. The other four applications are:

• customer relationship management (CRM) - helps companies acquire and retain customers, gain marketing and customer insight
• product lifecycle management (PLM) - helps manufacturers with product-related information
• supply chain management (SCM) - helps companies with the process of resourcing its manufacturing and service processes
• supplier relationship management (SRM) - enables companies to procure from suppliers

Other major product offerings include: the NetWeaver platform, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions, Duet (joint offering with Microsoft), Performance Management solutions and RFID. SAP offers SOA capabilities (calling it Enterprise SOA) in the form of web services that are wrapped around its applications.

While its original products were typically used by Fortune 500 companies^{[citation needed]}, SAP is now also actively targeting small and medium sized enterprises (SME) with its SAP Business One and SAP Business All-in-One.
On 19 September 2007 SAP announced a new product named SAP Business ByDesign. SAP Business ByDesign is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, and provides a fully integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, On Demand. SAP Business ByDesign was previously known under the code name "A1S".^[23]

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When you already involved in SAP area, commonly you will know 3 main areas that you can work with or you can take as your expertise area. There are :

1. Basis, this area for SAP Administrator they are responsible ;

• Deploy /install the SAP System
• Administration includes user admin,client admin,backup
• Configuration includes Printer,RFC,STMS etc.
• Maintenance includes monitoring the servers,background jobs,system performance and avoiding bottlenecks.
• He is responsible for the system up and running with better performance.

2. Functional, responsible to implement SAP module at Enterprise define the busines process which suitable with Enterprise. There some business module in SAP that need at least one functional to handle and implement it for Enterprise business solution. Such as Sales Distribution Module, Material Management Module, Production Planing Module, Quality Management Module, HR Module etc.

3. ABAP, person who responsible in SAP development call ABAPer, some ABAPer role such as

• retrives the data from the database and show it to the end-user with the help of report
• Responsible for Modification, Enhancement and Customer Development in SAP.

Ok that is the basic knowledge that you have to know in SAP, i hope you get an overview when you want to start get close with SAP / ABAP.

Im running my time right now, will continue with next post OK.
Keep stick around. :)