Sunday, February 22, 2009

SAP In India - An Overview of Opportunities

By Victor Hayes

Back in the day when computers were infants, an engineer or IT tech (depending on which term more thoroughly describes the daunting challenge) was tasked with the logistics of juggling hundreds, at times thousands of computer systems entirely at once. All of these systems required to be dealt, kept, and looked after. And info coming from two different systems had to be coordinated, researched and utilised to the collective data in a way that made sense. It was a tedious task to say the least, and costly.

While organizations in the early 1970`s gladly opted for this bound mess of computer systems over old-fashioned hand written notes; they no doubt wished for a easier way. In 1972, a saviour was born in the average German town of Walldorf, that would anoint the industry with a result.

SAP or Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing, created a revolutionary system called SAP R/2 in 1979, just 7 yr after the enterprise began performances. This system was the 1st scalable solution to enterprise management that integrated core capabilities into a single system. The launch was a winner and was the impetus for a revision dubbed SAP R/3, just over a decade later, in 1992. It likewise, was a huge success.

Nowadays having been on the market for several 29 years, you would assume that it would have penetrated all of the major markets; and it has, except when you consider that India and China were far from major even only a few years ago. Industrialization has passed the torch of wealth to several seemingly unannounced nations and created new markets along the way.

China`s rise to wealth though, may not be so unexpected; dealing that for the past 30 years, 80% of all consumer goods came from this country. India, on the other hand has been just a blip on the map of worldwide trade; as yet. Walk down any main city, and you will in all likelihood discover a merchandise made in India. The widest steel maker in the world, Arcelor-Mittal, is a native Indian. Don`t forget that most outsourced jobs end up in India, not to mention that numerous of the greatest enterprises in the globe, have satellite offices in here. This large inundation of wealth comes from plain supply and demand; price drives demand and India can produce volume on the cheap.

All this fresh found wealth brings with it the prospect for opportunity. Inside that framework, entrepreneurs will reach to start businesses. And every last one of these businesses will become reliant on the need to manage data effectively. This realization has led the aforementioned firm, SAP, to open it's individual satellite office to supervise the main requirement.

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