Saturday, May 21, 2011

SAP Terms

Now that you understand how the different SAP products break down, you’ll need to become familiar with some common terms that explain different parts of the SAP system you will see the following terms used throughout the below references.
ABAP [ABAP/4] ABAP/4 stands for Advanced Business Application programming/4th Generation language. SAP is coded in ABAP.ABAP is also used for extensions and extra programs that are written for SAP. ABAP is similar to other fourth-generation language and is a first cousin of COBOL, without the JCL.
Basis generally, SAP projects, and the folks who work on them, are lumped into two groups technical and functional. The technical system includes ABAP, Data base administration, transport management, security, authorizations, and so on. Basis is a subset of the technical group and consists of the folks who take care of all technical components of the system except for ABAP. The basis group, in more common terms, consists of your project database administration [DBA s] plus more.

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