The history of SAP: how an idea from the 70s became a global reference in business management

Have you ever stopped to think about where SAP, one of the most widely used business management systems in the world, came from? Well, this story is as interesting as the impact that technology has had on companies.

Back in the 1970s, a group of German engineers noticed a common problem: companies were using several disconnected systems and spreadsheets, which made integrated business management difficult. They wanted a solution that would allow them to monitor all areas of the company — finance, sales, inventory, production — in real time and in a single system.

That's how SAP (Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung, or Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing) was born. At the time, this idea was revolutionary and represented a major change in the way companies operated.

Since then, SAP has evolved a lot, keeping up with technological advances and market demands. Today, in addition to integration, it offers resources for data analysis, automation, artificial intelligence and much more.

But the secret to SAP's success remains the same: understanding the business, mapping processes correctly and using technology to make people's lives easier — from employees to managers.

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