SAP ABAP-Advanced Business Application Programming

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP):
ERP is a package which provides solution for departmental functionalities of
an organization.

SAP ADVANTAGES:
* SAP can support any database at the back end.
* Platform independent.
* Supports multiple languages.
* Faster b/w networks.
* Can support any database in the backend.
* Transaction failure is very less comparing 2 other erp packages(0.03%).

SAP life cycle implementation.
* Package evaluation.
* Project planning and designing.
* Proto type.
* Gap analysis.
* Business process re-engineering.
* s/w installation and testing.
* End user training.
* Application transportation.
* Go live.
* Support and maintenance.

SAP landscape:
* Development server (functional).
* Quality server( testing).
* Production server (end-user uses the system).

Role of ABAPer:
* Screen creation.
* Table creation.
* Data migration.
* Reporting.
* Redirecting SAP data from d-base to o/p devices.(scripts & forms).

R/3 – real time data processing.

ABAP/4 – advanced business application programming. If a language
provides a d-base by default is called 4th generation language.