SAP Drives Growth at MRF...

SAP India today announced that MRF Limited, India's leading tyre manufacturing company, has selected SAP for Automotive solutions to support efforts to drive operational excellence across its global organization. Following a detailed evaluation process, MRF opted to replace existing applications from Oracle in favour of SAP’s leading SAP ERP and SAP CRM solutions, based on the SAP NetWeaver platform. With global operations manufacturing and distributing tyres to more than 75 countries, MRF was faced with the need to improve visibility throughout its entire value chain from raw materials to finished-goods partners in order to better plan for and adapt to fluctuations in global supply and demand. With SAP the company will be able to seamlessly integrate data between logistics and finance, eliminating redundant work and saving time and operational costs. With this, all major tyre companies in India run SAP solutions. MRF has selected Siemens Information Systems (SIS) as the partner for implementation, HP Integrity servers and IBM DB2 as the database, on which this SAP deployment will happen.

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SAP Aspirants beware!

SAP has only two authorized providers in India - Genovate (Affiliated to SAP Singapore) and Siemens (Affiliated to SAP Germany) . No other institute can claim to provide authorized training other than these two. Some private institutes claiming to be authorized training centers can dope aspirants of their money still not provide the training as promised during admission. The SAP course from a genuine institute in India costs near about 3 lacs including the consultant exam fees. The course duration is 25 days and SAP has made it compulsory for the certification exam to be held on the last day of the course, if slots are not vacant then they will fix a date as per availability. Unauthorized institutes can also provide you the same course at a cheaper price, but for certification at least 2 years work experience in SAP required.

Its best to stick to authorized centers or else you could end up like this guy on Pune Diary forums
http://www.punediary.com/forum/TopicDetails.asp?Id=322&ForumId=11

SAP unveils on-demand ERP apps for small, midsize firms

SAP this week unveiled a set of integrated on-demand ERP applications, code-named A1S, for midsize companies that is due to ship next year.

Executives at the company's Sapphire 2007 user conference in Atlanta this week said the as-yet-unnamed service will be offered as an integrated suite of tools for running various business processes, such as order to cash. The tools for the hosted service set have been in development for three years so far, executives noted.

The service will target small and midsize firms that shy away from packaged ERP systems because of cost, complexity and other issues.

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SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader

"SAP CEO Henning Kagermann's Sapphire keynote (see ZDNet coverage of the event) didn't reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application with a new business suite aimed at the lower mid-market.Kagermann dismissed competitors with a wave of the hand."We are not arrogant, we are the market leader. We cannot learn from the competition, but we watch them. If you look at who is running the backbone of largest companies, it is us, so we are learning from customers. They give us best the possible knowledge of what is going on in the market," Kagermann said during an interview I attended with a group of fellow bloggers.“We believe we are in the lead,” he continued. “It’s not so much about how many clients we can take over from the competition. Enterprise software is pretty sticky. We have a clear indication of where we are heading.” Most SAP customers exist in heterogeneous environments, and have multiple, overlapping enterprise software providers. “Our first objective is to convince customers that SAP is the strategic vendor of choice,” he said. Without mentioning Oracle by name, he said, “SAP co-innovates the future while our competition consolidates the past.”“We know there are companies out there innovating faster than us. It’s OK with me. Over time we will enter these spaces, articularly with A1S we will have an entire on demand suite.” He noted that 65 percent of SAP's revenue ($12.8 billion US in 2006) comes from small- and medium-

sized businesses, what SAP calls SME (E for Enterprise)......"

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ABAP!

ABAP (Application Business Application Programming) is language developed by SAP to cater to the needs of business entities. Several Highly Scalable applications can be developed using ABAP Workbench and custom developed SAP standard applications can be "Modified'' and "Enhanced". SAP Web Application Server ABAP provides runtime environment for running ABAP programs and also support for Java programs are provided by SAP Application Server 6.20 SAP.The integrated Java Web Application Server is Java application server (J2EE) called SAP Web AS Java.

Client/Server Configuration for SAP Systems :

SAP runs on a three-tier configuration - with atleast three servers and each layer runs on its own host - Database, Application and Presentation. There can be only one Database server but multiple presentation and application servers are possible. atabase server stores data accessed by programs running on application server which are made available to users by Presentation Server with the help of GUI screens etc..

SAP Netweaver!

Netweaver can be considered a central tool for reducing the total cost of ownership(TCO) of complex system infrastructures. SAP Netweaver is the technical foundation on which almost all current mySAP solutions are based. An enhanced version of the SAP application platform and also fulfils flexibility and integration between systems, interfaces, users and processes requirement. One of the main aims of developing Netweaver was to facilitate connecting information, business processes and people without system and organisational boundaries. cross-application software, composite applications are also supported by SAP Netweaver.



Netweaver has Four Integration Levels :

• People Integration
• Information Integration
• Process Integration
• Application Platform

SAP!

SAP is the worlds leading provider of business software.SAP applications are today run by more than 120 countries with over 38000 customers.To map business processeses not only SAP systems used are but also other providers as well as business applications that have been developed internally.Solutions provided by SAP are nowadays not only implemented by big infrastructure companies but also mid size to small companies are finding them suitable for their organisations.SAP systems find its uses in high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector.