Wednesday, May 6, 2009

What is SAP Basis?

SAP Basis is a set of middleware programs and tools from SAP, the German company whose comprehensive R/3 product is used to help manage large corporations, that provides the underlying base (thus the name) that enables applications (such as FI, CO, and SD, for example) to be seamlessly interoperable and portable across operating systems and database products. SAP R/3 Basis includes client/server architecture and configuration, a relational database management system (RDBMS), and a graphical user interface (GUI).

The Basis System (BC) includes the ABAP programming language, and is the heart (i.e. the base) of operations and should not be visible to higher level or managerial users. Other customizing and implementation tools exist also. The heart of the system (from a manager's viewpoint) are the application modules. These modules may not all be implemented in a typical company but they are all related and are listed below:

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