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Definition SAP E-mail Print A AA AAA LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Share This RSS Reprints SAP, started in 1972 by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany, states that it is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's fourth-largest independent software supplier, overall. The original name for SAP was German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte , German for "Systems Applications and Products." The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft Learn More SAP ROI and TCO Evaluating ERP for small business and the midmarket Buying SAP-ERP software , are using SAP products to run their own businesses. SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 syste