Who Can Be SAP Certified and At What Levels?

The certification program is available for SAP employees, partner employees, independent consultants, and client employees. Already SAP is ahead of Oracle—Oracle’s certification programs for E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel are only available to Oracle employees and partner employees. About three years ago, after discussions with both clients and partners, SAP announced three levels of certification: Associate, Professional, and Master. Currently the associate level and professional level exams are available. The master level is still in development. The SAP website defines these levels as follows: Associate: “This...

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Seven Steps to Studying for an SAP Certification Exam

     If you are trying to get certified in an area that you actually know nothing about, this might also work, but I have real reservations about trying to pass yourself off to clients and employers as someone who ‘knows’ the area you are certified in. If you are a ‘fresher’ then a ‘certification’ is about the only way to separate yourself from the competition.       Read all the SAP implementation and training manuals and other published books you can. Highlight portions you need to remember, and take notes in the manuals as you read. If you don’t have access to SAP training manuals, there...

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SAP Basis and Security Technology

The term 'Basis' when used in the context of SAP technology refers to the application layer of the SAP system. When you think about the role a 'Basis Adminstrator' has, it should include system administration tasks such as managing the database, transporting development and configuration objects from one SAP system to another, monitoring system performance to ensure no interruption in system stability occurs in the SAP production environment, installing and upgrading the software on the servers, and system security. Security refers to both application security in the SAP Runtime environment and the system access outside the SAP Runtime environment....

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SAP Business Suite

SAP Business Suite is a bundle of business applications that provide integration of information and processes, collaboration, industry-specific functionality, and scalability. SAP Business Suite is based on SAP's technology platform called NetWeaver. SAP Business Suite has five constituents: SAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management) SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) SAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) SAP SCM (Supply...

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SAP CRM

The SAP CRM application is an integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors. SAP CRM solutions help integrate sales, service and marketing through business processes and enterprise applications. These solutions help organizations manage three important customer-focused issues: generating new growth, attaining operational excellence, and enhancing competitive agility. SAP's CRM solution includes several modules that support key functional areas including: SAP CRM Sales SAP CRM Marketing ...

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Why SAP?

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SALES PROCESS FLOW

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SAP R/3 Glossary

ALE (Application Link Enabling) It provides integration for separate R/3 systems, keeping full interaction. This makes possible distributed enterprise applications. Application server The application server is used to run the business application programs in the R/3 client/server concept. The application modules are loaded from the data base server to the application server as required. Thus the application server requires only storage capacity to accommodate UNIX, Swapping and the SAP runtime environment.Batch Input A technique to input data safely. It ensures application data integrity for background interfaces. It pretends to be...

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SAP GUI

SAPGUI is the GUI client in SAP R/3's 3-tier architecture of database, application server and client. It is software that runs on a Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh or Unix desktop, and allows a user to access SAP functionality in SAP applications such as mySAP ERP and SAP Business Information Warehouse (now called SAP Business Intelligence). It is the platform used for remote access to the SAP central server in a company netwo...

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SAP R/3 Structure

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SAP Solution Manager

The SAP Solution Manager is an integrated, customer platform that provides the procedures, tools and content needed to successfully and efficiently implement and operate their SAP solutions, regardless of the complexity of the system landsca...

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SAP Enterprise Portal

    SAP Enterprise Portal, also known as an Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) or corporate portal, is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface, and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets. One hallmark of enterprise portals is the de-centralized content contribution and content management, which keeps the information always updat...

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SAP NetWeaver Products

SAP is fostering relationships with system integrators and independent software vendors, many of the latter becoming "Powered by SAP NetWeaver".SAP NetWeaver is part of SAP's plan to transition to a more open, service-oriented architecture and to deliver the technical foundation of its applications on a single, integrated platform and common release cycle.ProductsThe core products that make up SAP NetWeaver include: SAP NetWeaver Application Server SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE) SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal (EP) SAP NetWeaver Identity Management (IdM) SAP NetWeaver Master Data...

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SAP NetWeaver

SAP NetWeaver is SAP's integrated technology platform and is the technical foundation for all SAP applications since the SAP Business Suite. SAP NetWeaver is marketed as a service-oriented application and integration platform. SAP NetWeaver provides the development and runtime environment for SAP applications and can be used for custom development and integration with other applications and systems. SAP NetWeaver is built using open standards and industry de facto standards and can be extended with, and inter operate with, technologies such as Microsoft .NET, Oracle Java EE, and IBM WebSphere.SAP NetWeaver's release is considered as a strategic...

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SAP GUI

SAPGUI is the GUI client in SAP R/3's 3-tier architecture of database, application server and client. It is software that runs on a Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh or Unix desktop, and allows a user to access SAP functionality in SAP applications such as mySAP ERP and SAP Business Information Warehouse (now called SAP Business Intelligence). It is the platform used for remote access to the SAP central server in a company netwo...

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SAP Business Solutions

Business Solutions SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO)SAP AnalyticsSAP Apparel and Footwear Solution (AFS)SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)SAP Business Intelligence (BI)SAP Catalog Content Management (CCM)SAP Convergent Charging (CC) SAP Enterprise Buyer Professional (EBP)SAP Enterprise LearningSAP Portal (EP)SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) (From release 7.0 onwards, SAP XI has been renamed as SAP Process Integration (SAP PI))Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)Enterprise Central Component (ECC)SAP Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS)SAP Incentive and Commission Management (ICM)SAP Knowledge...

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List of SAP products

This present a list of products of the enterprise software company SAP AG SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Product Life cycle Management (PLM)Supply Chain Management (SCM)Supplier Relationship Management (S...

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Major Enterprise Applications - SAP

SAP's products focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), which it helped to pioneer. The company's main product is SAP ERPSAP ERP is the one of five major enterprise applications that makes up SAP's Business Suite. The four other applications are:* customer relationship management (CRM) - helps companies acquire and retain customers, gain deep marketing and customer insight, and align organization on customer-focused strategies* product life cycle management (PLM) - helps manufacturers with a single source of all product-related information necessary for collaborating with business partners and supporting product lines* supply chain management...

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SAP

SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the German name (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package.started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall.The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte, German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive...

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