SAP ERP

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Includes:

• accounts receivable
• account payable
• accounting and financial reporting
• HR and payroll
• manufacturing
• procurement and logistics

A three-tier system separating database, applications and presentation - each can reside on different systems. Although a z/OS port of the SAP application server was released by SAP in 2000, z/OS systems today are used only for the database portion using DB2. SAP Central Services for communication and synchronization can also optionally run on z/OS.

First released on UNIX platforms in 1992. z/OS port released in the late 1990s.