Getting started: Functional terms

Account determination System function that determines automatically the accounts in financial accounting to which the amount(s) in question should be posted for the user during any posting transaction. AM Asset Management Module Application Link Enabling Application Link Enabling (ALE) supports the creation and operation of distributed applications and application integration is achieved via synchronous and…

Getting started: Technical terms

Application Server: Term “Application server” refers in general to all non-database non-front-end computers. SAP AG uses the term for a family of processes: a dispatcher, some work processes, perhaps a SysLog sending daemon, a CPI-C-server, etc. “Instance” is used interchangeably in these cases. ABAP/4 (Advanced Business Application Programming/4), the Fourth generation programming language developed by…