SAP ECC is the core component within the SAP's Business Suite (a collection of applications including SAP CRM, SAP SCM and others, alongside the ECC component). The newest version of the product is SAP ECC 6.0 Enhancement Pack 8.

SAP came to dominate the large business applications market. Various releases of the software were made through the 1990s.Ī newer version of the software, with revised technical architecture, was released in 2004, and renamed as SAP ERP Central Component (ECC). SAP R/3 was officially launched on 6 July 1992. This opened up SAP to a whole new customer base. This new architecture is compatible with multiple platforms and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows or UNIX. With the advent of distributed client–server computing, SAP SE brought out a client–server version of the software called SAP R/3 (the 'R' was for 'Real-time data processing' and '3' was for ' 3-tier': 1) database, 2) application server, and 3) client (SAPgui)). It was particularly popular with large multinational European companies that required soft-real-time business applications, with built-in multi-currency and multi-language capabilities. SAP R/2 was a mainframe-based business application software suite that was very successful in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The current successor software to SAP R/3 is known as SAP S/4HANA. It is an enterprise-wide information system designed to coordinate all the resources, information, and activities needed to complete business processes such as order fulfillment, billing, human resource management, and production planning. SAP R/3 is the former name of the enterprise resource planning software produced by the German corporation SAP AG (now SAP SE). German enterprise resource planning software

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