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gregee

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Hi

I am doing a paper on the business case of SAP.
Would you mind answering these questions for me?


Is SAP written in German?
Is it hard to program in and why is it hard?
What type of language should you have experience with before starting to learn SAP?

thanks greg
 
Is SAP written in German?
Is it hard to program in and why is it hard?
What type of language should you have experience with before starting to learn SAP?
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1. No. Its written in a programming language. The language end user programmers write in is ABAP.

2. This is a tough question. With application to a "business case", it is difficult to implement due to its need to be a pervasive part of your business processes in order to be effective.

3. Good question. I beleive ABAP is a 4G language based on COBOL, so you don't have to worry about the nitty gritty, but basic OOP experience would likely be of use.
 
What I meant by German is the syntax written in German. Like VB, a FOR statement is FOR and German is für. So do you have to be fluent in German so learn ABAP or SAP?


thanks
Greg
 
gregee said:
What I meant by German is the syntax written in German. Like VB, a FOR statement is FOR and German is für. So do you have to be fluent in German so learn ABAP or SAP?


thanks
Greg
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No. It works just fine with english, although, i wouldn't be surprised if its also available in german.

All the screens on the admin side of SAP are available in at least english and german, likely a few others by now.

This wiki link may help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_R/3
 
It will depend on what you mean by "programming".

SAP is notoriously difficult software to use, install, and set-up. If you're doing this, you're going to have a lot to learn in order to become familiar with SAP, all its features, and the best way to get it running for the customer.

If you mean you want to code against SAP's API to get to its database records directly, you'll similarly have a ton of work to do reasearching how their API works. They use a very difficult and opaque database model.

Or do you mean that you want to write extendible models for SAP, using their ABAP language? (I can't remember what they're called; "business unit plugins", or something goofy.)
 
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