What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by gadders on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:39AM (#32776450)

I worked on a SAP project for a Legal Entity Creation/Staff Migration in the HR piece.

Technology wise, it's weird. It reminds me a bit of Lotus Notes, in that everything including the screen layouts are stored in the database.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by quickthrower2 on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:28AM (#32776785)

Chuck some modern CSS on it, and you could call it "no-code", right?

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by dagw on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:41AM (#32776872)

Lotus Notes/Domino was actually a pretty good "no-code" application development platform back in the day.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by carstenhag on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:06AM (#32776630)

Afaik all ABAP code is stored in the database and run from there as well.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by taway19920706 on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:09AM (#32777087)

Indeed it is. Even when using other development tools (eg, ABAP in Eclipse or the third-party addons for VS Code), the code is still stored in the database and executed from there by the ABAP VM. There's no such thing as "offline development" with SAP ABAP, although people are working on it...

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