SAP ERP Evolution
Lots of SAP new comers are confused by the version of SAP ERP(R/3). This post will clarify this question.
The first version of SAP’s flagship enterprise software was a financial Accounting system named R/1. This product is launched in 1973.
SAP R/2 was in a mainframe based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s.
SAP R/3 was released in 1992. SAP R/3 is SAP’s integrated software solution for client/server and distributed open systems. SAP’s R/3 is the world’s most-used standard business software for client/server computing. R/3 meets the needs of a customer from the small grocer with 3 users to the multi-billion dollar companies The software is highly customizable using SAP’s proprietary programming language, ABAP/4.
SAP R/3 is supported up to 4.6c. After that the product was renamed to SAP R/3 Enterprise and the platform was change from SAP Basis to SAP Web Application Server 6.20.
In 2004, SAP provide renamed its product name to mySAP ERP 2004 with application set name SAP ECC 5.0. At the same time the technical platform has changed from web AS to SAP Netweaver 2004. Netweaver 2004 support both Java and ABAP environment.
The latest version is SAP ERP 6.0 with application set version SAP ECC 6.0. The technical platform is SAP Netweaver 7.0. Please refer to below picture for a straight forward view of SAP ERP revolution.
