SAP was initially developed by a few IBM employees to resolve the problems arising in a software application. After some time, SAP came up with application software, i.e., SAP R/3 where R means real-time data processing and 3 represents Application, Presentation, and database leaders.
Eventually, it gained popularity among many huge enterprises which resulted in adding so many other SAP modules to cover certain areas in a business. A few of those modules are Finance and accounting, controlling, production and planning, materials management, etc.
