From it’s origins in Walldorf, Germany in 1972, SAP has bloomed rapidly to the present state of getting 44,500 installations in one hundred twenty nations with a monumental 10 million users. 5 ex-IBM engineers convened to brainstorm and as good engineers enjoy the procedure of “dreaming up” and formulating the dream into a applied and functional concept, they produced and perfected SAP. Based in Germany it of course was presented the Germanic name, Systeme, Andwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung. To save you the strain of trying to pronounce that if you have no German language ability, the English translation is Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing.