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IntroductIon to SAP 3
conguration scenario you might encounter would be an impossible task, but aer
reading the book, you will be able to apply what you have learned and congure
your system based on your business requirements.
SAP has now introduced many areas of functionality from its data warehouse—
oen referred to as its business warehouse (BW) or, now more correctly, business
intelligence (BI)—which includes a host of reporting tools and functionality, not
limited to business objects.
SAP also oers the following soware suites:
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
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Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) f
Catalog Content Management f
Compliance Management for SOA f
Supply Chain Management (SCM) f
Product Lifecycle Management f
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) f
SAP Terms
Now that you understand how the dierent SAP products break down, you’ll need
to become familiar with some common terms that explain dierent parts of the
SAP system; you will see the following terms used throughout the book:
ABAP (ABAP/4) ABAP/4 stands for Advanced Business Application
Programming/4th Generation Language. SAP is coded in ABAP. ABAP is also
used for extensions and extra programs that are written for SAP. ABAP is similar
to other fourth-generation languages and is a rst cousin of COBOL, without
the JCL.
Basis Generally, SAP projects, and the folks who work on them, are lumped into
two groups—technical and functional. e technical system includes ABAP, data-
base administration, transport management, security, authorizations, and so on.
Basis is a subset of the technical group and consists of the folks who take care of
all technical components of the system except for ABAP. e Basis group, in more
common terms, consists of your project database administrators (DBAs) plus more.
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