Saturday, 2 May 2015

What Is SAP Access?

SAP is basically a software provider that generates the third- highest revenue among software service providers the world over. It stands for "Systems, Products and Applications in Data Processing". It provides business solutions to six industrial sectors like process industries, discrete industries, service industries, financial services, consumer industries and public services. It has dedicated more than 25 industry solution portfolios that deals with huge business concerns and greater than 550 solutions for smaller businesses.

SAP owes its success to the fact that it is more flexible, open and adaptable to different web-based and software-related business activities compared to many other counterparts. As reliable sources say, it comes out as the only software service provider that not only provides solutions to complex business issues but help businesses develop their own solutions too, by supplying them the required technology.

The major products in SAP include SAP ECC (used in Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Products like the Netweaver platform, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions and Performance Management solutions are also popular.

SAP IDES (Internet Demo and Educational System) is a type of SAP system that guides the users about SAP implementations as it has already been configured. IDES has been developed for a large number of SAP applications like APO IDES, CRM IDES, and BW IDES. It also provides insight about the SAP system integrated applications. IDES takes care of many facets of a business concern including Overhead Management, Product Cost Analysis, Profitability Analysis, Human Resource, Planning and Production. Third party CAD systems have also been integrated within the IDES, which means that CAD drawings can also be accessed within the system.

SAP training is provided online to help the consultants improve their existing expertise or learn the software if they have not done so as yet. Online training is quickly getting popularity so much so that many universities have also opted to get these services for their students.

In order to get online training, SAP access to SAP's educational environment (IDES) is required. Since the SAP software uses TCPIP as the network communication protocol, the SAP can be accessed over both LAN and WAN with equal ease. While accessing SAP software, there are some technical requirements as well. The prime among these is that SAP GUI is most compatible with Microsoft Windows 32-bit Operating Systems (Windows NT, Windows 2k, Windows XP and Windows Vista). Minimum requirements are 1GB RAM along with 3GB Hard Drive space. Virtual ports of different types are used for communication over the internet, such as port number 80- allocated for browsing, email clients use port number 127 and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol uses port number 25. The configuration of most common virtual ports is already done in firewalls, but for SAP GUI, the virtual ports need to be opened manually, owing to its uncommon nature.

After SAP access has been ordered, an automatically generated email is received that gives SAP connection and SAP GUI download information. While the SAP GUI is installed, the SAP user ID is being set up. After that, you would receive user ID and password via email.

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