WHAT IS ERP? WHAT IS SAP ALL ABOUT?

SAP AG is the sixth largest software company in the world!

                               ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. ERP is a company wide software,I mean it is a software used by all departments,used by all people of a company.ERP helps company in its every activity.We know that every organisation uses some sort of software in almost all of its activities, that is we have softwares to communicating through emails,To write letters,we have spreadsheets,we have payroll software,we have project management software suits and the list is endless.What if we combine these all software and sell it as a package? that is what SAP is doing since 1972.

                               All the information,resources,business intelligence(BI) are managed through ERP.It uses one central database to store all the data and it limits the access by each individual based on the permissions they have.ERP supports an integrated software system for the entire organisation.So there are no more individual isles of information in company since everything is connected and stored in a central database.So this leads to cost reductions.

                               ERP helps in sales,manufacturing,inventory management,quality control,customer relationship management,supply chain management etc.SAP(Systems,Applications and Products in data processing) is a leading vendor of ERP software system.Oracle also offers E-Business suite which is essentially an ERP.

Lets see what SAP Business Suite offers

                               Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP)
                               Supply Chain Management(SCM)
                               Customer Relationship Management(CRM)
                               Supplier Relationship Management(SRM)
                               Product Life Cycle Management(PLM)

Oracle E-Business offers
                               Oracle CRM
                               Oracle Financials
                               Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications
                               Oracle Order Management
                               Oracle Procurement
                               Oracle Project Portfolio Management
                               Oracle Warehouse Management Systems
                               Oracle InventoryOracle Enterprise Asset Management

Microsoft offers four different software which fall under ERP:
                              Microsoft ERP Navision Software
                              Great Plains
                              Solomon
                               Axapta
(However none of these have supply chain management functionality.)

                             ERP will play a crucial role in every company in future.There is a lots of scope for a career in ERP.You can gain a certification in SAP or any other ERP.And the opportunities are endless since all companies will be using ERPs.

The list of ten biggest software companies in the world is as following
                         1.Oracle Corporation
                         2.IBM
                         3.Microsoft
                         4.Google
                         5. Accenture
                         6.SAP AG
                         7.Hewlett Packard
                         8.Computer Sciences Corporation
                         9.Yahoo!
                         10.CA