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I have heard many times that SAP has a great career and SAP jobs have very good packages. I want to know what is SAP. Is it a framework like DotNet or a language or what ? Can I learn SAP on my own without any training from any institutions ?

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It is software for businesses. It can do accounting, planning, and all sorts of things that are done in a company.

It is especially interesting as a career path because the default SAP installation often has to be extended or changed, so that it fits that particular company. This is done by SAP specialist consultants, which are very expensive.

Sjoerd
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SAP is what one calls an Enterprise Resource Planner or ERP system. It does everything from payroll to make you coffee :-)

HarveySaayman
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SAP is a company. Technically, talking about "the software SAP" should trigger a syntax error. What people mean in most cases is the SAP R/3 system and one of the applications built on top of it. See this question for more information.

vwegert
SAP is mostly about ERP systems when people talk about it, but this is the best answer of the 3.