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SAP ECC and Modules Explained in Simpler Terms

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SAP is the German company that owns these products which were started in the early 70s, roughly translated to systems, applications and products (in data processing). SAP is the global leader in Enterprise Resources Planning - the main system designed to store all data for across most (if not all) departments for any (large) corporation. An example is a retail store - has inventory, has product descriptions/prices/discounts, etc. vendors where product bought from, customers, sales for the day etc. now apply that to 1000s of products, millions of sales, hundreds of stores, multiples of vendors per product, 1000s of customers, etc etc. it generates an extremely large amount of data across various areas of the business - many accountants to look after the sales, a lot of HR/payroll to manage and schedule stuff, staff to manage inventory and delivery etc. And that's just one industry, SAPs core product, its ERP system, is called ECC6 and was previously called R/3 and some outda

YouTube Tips and Tricks

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Awesome Progress Bar Select the video and click type out "awesome" without quotes. The progress bar blinks vibgyor. Play in HTML Format Add /html5 at the end of any YouTube video URL to make it load as HTML5 which is fast and effective as compared to Flash You can also navigate to  https://www.youtube.com/html5 to select it as the default. Watch in Window Mode If you replace watch ?v= in the URL with v/ , you can watch the video in windowed mode and skip having to sign in. Keyboard Shortcuts Don't use the Space Bar to pause a YouTube video. Hit "K" instead to instantly pause it! Similarly use "J" and "L" to jump back and forth by 10 sec respectively in the video. There are the mid-right keys on the keyboard. J-K-L are the standard keys in a video editor software. L will also skip the ads. If your YouTube video take a long time to load, press the down arrow to turn the loading symbol into a game of Tetr