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Healthcare
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Higher education and research
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Insurance
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Public sector
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Manufacturing
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Aerospace and defense
f
Automotive
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Consumer products
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Service
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Media
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Professional services
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For small companies that have neither the time nor the resources to undertake a
full business process reengineering project, SAP has a very well-researched and
well-designed implementation methodology that will help with business process
optimization eorts. is, along with the Industry Solutions (ISs), will allow for you
to utilize the soware to ensure a more eective and ecient company.
For smaller companies, there are precongured clients with many templates and
industry-standard reports.
SAP System Environment
It is very important for everyone on the implementation project team to understand
the SAP system environment used on the project. A system environment is referred
to by some as an instance. Others will sometimes refer to a client as an instance. In
this book, both environment and instance are used interchangeably to refer to dif-
ferent systems, such as development, quality assurance/testing environment, and
production. In some cases, an SAP term may have, or may seem to have, more than
one meaning, depending on which part of the system you are working in. One such
term is client. As dened in the enterprise structure, it means the organization for
which SAP is being congured (for example, the XYZ Corporation, or the example
corporation used throughout this book, Extreme Sports). When dened in Basis
terms (the SAP technical system), client means the dierent installations of SAP
used for a specied purpose. Really, these are the same things, but it is dicult to
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