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SAP is one of the largest software company in the world. Its ranking is after Microsoft,IBM and Oracle in terms of market capitalization. SAP is the largest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution software provider.SAP is the world's second largest business software company and the third-largest independent software provider in terms of revenues. SAP's products focus on ERP ( enter prise resource planning ), which it helped to pioneer. Its headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. SAP was founded in the year 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung ("System Analysis and Program Development") by five former IBM engineers.

In 1972 the SAP R/1 solution was launched. Seven years later, in 1979, SAP launched SAP R/2. In 1981, SAP brought a completely re-designed solution to market. With the change from R/2 to R/3 in 1992, SAP followed the trend from mainframe computing to client-server architectures. The company's main product is SAP R/3;the "R" stands for real time data processing and the number 3 relates to a three-tier application architecture: database, application server and client SAPgui ( presentation layer )

It operates in three geographic regions – EMEA, which represents Europe, Middle East and Africa; the Americas (SAP America, headquartered in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania), which represents both North America and Latin America; and Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), which represents Japan, Australia and parts of Asia. In addition,

SAP focuses on six industry sectors: process industries, discrete industries, consumer industries, service industries, financial services, and public services

SAP India is the fastest growing subsidiary of SAP AG, the world's leading provider of business software solutions. SAP India began its operations in 1996 with headquarters in Bangalore and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and a direct presence in nine cities across India, besides having marketing associates in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh