Very general SAP Info

Hi All,
Can ne1 provide me a very general info abot SAP. I mean, how does SAP if employed in a firm, would help in its business.
Thanks,
Mohit Goel.

Implementation of SAP has Advantages and Disadvantages that are listed below.
Advantages:
Integration
Integration can be the highest benefit of them all. The only real project aim for implementing ERP is reducing data redudancy and redudant data entry. If this is set as a goal, to automate inventory posting to G/L, then it might be a successful project. Those companies where integration is not so important or even dangerous, tend to have a hard time with ERP. ERP does not improve the individual efficiency of users, so if they expect it, it will be a big disappointment. ERP improves the cooperation of users.
Efficiency
Generally, ERP software focuses on integration and tend to not care about the daily needs of people. I think individual efficiency can suffer by implementing ERP. the big question with ERP is whether the benefit of integration and cooperation can make up for the loss in personal efficiency or not.
Cost reduction
It reduces cost only if the company took accounting and reporting seriously even before implementation and had put a lot of manual effort in it. If they didn't care about it, if they just did some simple accounting to fill mandatory statements and if internal reporting did not exists of has not been fincancially-oriented, then no cost is reduced.
Less personnel
Same as above. Less reporting or accounting personnel, but more sales assistants etc.
Accuracy
No. People are accurate, not software. What ERP does is makes the lives of inaccurate people or organization a complete hell and maybe forces them to be accurate (which means hiring more people or distributing work better), or it falls.
Disadvantages:
Expensive
This entails software, hardware, implementation, consultants, training, etc. Or you can hire a programmer or two as an employee and only buy business consulting from an outside source, do all customization and end-user training inside. That can be cost-effective.
Not very flexible
It depends. SAP can be configured to almost anything. In Navision one can develop almost anything in days. Other software may not be flexible.
Check the link below:
http://www.sap.com/ecosystem/customers/customersuccess/index.epx
Reward Points if useful.
Sravan.

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2. Most importantly there is NO partial marks in the new pattern. If a question carries 2 right answers and if u answer one correct and other one is wrong; you will loose marks for the entire question.But the best part here is; if a question has 3 answers, by the side of the question they are mentioning that this question has 3 right answers and also mentioning weightage/marks for that question too.
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5.Almost entire questions are covered from THR10 1&2,THR 12 as usual and have a glance on other topics like SAP ERP, ERP empowered by HCM, Solution Manager and THR 14; as some 7-8 questions will be based on these stuffs.
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••• RAID 0, while fast, is risky because if one drive dies, everything is lost; good backup routines is essential in this scenario (unless it is only used for scratch disk purposes).
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pullman,
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I'm not sure I totally agree about mirrored arrays not being good for backup purposes. In this regard, one must make the distinction between using a RAID array to make a backup, versus using the array to store a backup. In the first case, the data is stored on the array and the built-in redundancy stands in place of a de facto backup strategy. In the second, the backup strategy includes the use of a RAIDed volume to further safeguard the already-redundant backup (which is made by other means).
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So, we get back to the age-old question: Is a single backup enough? Well, it really comes down to the critical nature of the data being backed up.
Scott

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