SAP History

[Former Member]

Hi everybody,

I am learning XI but i am really interested how SAP developed overtime. Are there any documents in which I can read about the past products and their properties.

Ex:

R/1 : How does it started, what did it do, how it was developed, new features etc.

R/2 : "

R/3 : "

SAP BASIS 4.6D : "

SAP Web AS 6.10 : "

SAP Web AS 6.20 : "

SAP Web AS 6.40 : "

SAP Netweaver 4.0

XI 2.0 : "

XI 3.0 : "

And of course the other application that I scipped.

[former_member181962 · Accepted solution]

http://www.sap.com/company/history.epx

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks, but I am searching for a much more detailed history.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_AG

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/9844428e9cbe30e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

Thanks,

Vijaya.

[Former Member]

The history I searched for is inside SAP01 document. Thanks for all the replies...

[Former Member]

Hi,

actual version of XI is PI 7.0 and PI 7.1 is in Ramp-up:

/people/daniel.bianchin/blog/2007/12/19/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-sap-netweaver-pi-71-and-more

Regards

Patrick

[former_member193376]

Hi

http://www.sapfans.com/sapfans/saphist.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_R/3

SAP HISTORY IN SCREEN SHOTS

http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/r3_history.asp

http://gleez.com/articles/management/sap/history-of-sap

Hope this clears your doubts

Thanks

Saiyog

[Former Member]

This site has a nice succinct history:

http://www.sapfans.com

http://www.sapfans.com/?page_id=2

History of SAP R/3

The first version of SAPu2019s flagship enterprise software was a financial Accounting system named R/1. (The u201CRu201D was for u201CReal-time data processingu201D). The pronunciation is often mistakenly referred to as u201Csapu201D, as in tree sap. The correct naming is the individual letters S-A-P. This was replaced by R/2 at the end of the 1970s. SAP R/2 was a mainframe based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was particularly popular with large multinational European companies who required soft-real-time business applications, with multi-currency and multi-language capabilities built in. With the advent of distributed client-server computing SAP AG brought out a client-server version of the software called SAP R/3 that was manageable on multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows or UNIX since 1999, which opened up SAP to a whole new customer base. SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. SAP came to dominate the large business applications market over the next 10 years.

This has a history of SAP in screenshots!

http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/r3_history.asp