Today’s SAP ERP was never like this since its origin. We can think of today’s SAP ERP as its purified form. In 1972 the SAP ERP R/1 solution was launched. In 1979, SAP ERP launched SAP ERP R/2. In 1981, SAP ERP brought a completely re-designed solution to market. With the change from R/2 to R/3 in 1992, SAP ERP followed the trend from Mainframe Computing to Client-/Server Architectures. The development of SAP ERP’s Internet strategy  redesigned the concept of business processes (integration via Internet).

In 2003 its technology platform  SAP ERP NetWeaver was launched in 2003 . followed by the development of a Business Process Platform in 2005.

Currently SAP ERP is active on 6 industries sectors –

• Consumer Industries
• Process Industries
• Service Industries
• Discrete Industries
• Public Services
• Financial Services

SAP ERP is ruling over today’s Business market by offering more than 25 industry solution portfolios for large enterprises and more than 550 micro-vertical solutions for midsize companies and small businesses. SAP ERP's products focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

SAP ERP ERP is one of five major enterprise applications in SAP ERP's Business Suite. The other four applications are:

• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) - customers can collaborate closely with suppliers and integrate sourcing processes with applications throughout the enterprise to enhance transparency and lower costs

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - helps companies acquire and retain customers, gain deep marketing and customer insight, and align organization on customer-focused strategies.

• Supply Chain Management (SCM) - helps companies enhance operational flexibility across global enterprises and provide real-time visibility for customers and suppliers

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) - helps manufacturers with a single source of all product-related information necessary for collaborating with business partners and supporting product lines

SAP ERP provides a technical standard through systamatic approach to enterprises which helps various enterprise software applications to exchange data effectively. SAP ERP is focusing on enabling more flexible business processes as well as creating technical connections between IT systems and building a common language for business.
SAP ERP is very well looking after small and medium sized enterprises (SME) with its SAP ERP Business One , SAP ERP Business All-in-One and SAP ERP Business ByDesign.
SAP ERP is celebrating its success by over 100,600 SAP ERP installations serving more than 41,200 companies in more than 25 industries in more than 120 countries.