It has already been a bit more than 2 weeks of Internship so far, and I actually wanted to write something about my work. I even had something almost written. Well, here is the thing: I am not allowed to do it. Everything is confidential, everything is top secret.
The only facts I MAY be able to tell you, because I have already told everyone about it anyway, are:
- I work with SAP technology (is pronounced S.A.P. for those of you who have never heard about it before)
- I will probably learn some ABAP, the programming language which SAP is programmed in (this is called abap and not A.B.A.P.)
I guess now that you know that, I can tell you what SAP is all about.
SAP is a system used in companies to plan and organize the business process, and specially at the same time manage the financial aspect of the company. There are different areas of the system which can be implemented for a company, and inside this areas many different modules. These modules are already implemented in the original SAP version, but of course no two companies are the same. So that is when you have to call the consultants. They come and see how your business process works, write the requirements for the implementation and send the job to India to be done, what is called outsourcing.
Here in India, the modules get implemented, and sent to the client. To implement these modules you use ABAP (Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor) which is an object oriented programming language, with SQL queries in it, which is nothing more than the use of tables and information from these.
Well, this much I can tell you right now. I will come back later with some more information, just understand that things do not go as fast here as at university, and we specially do not get to normalize databases. Well at least I don’t :-)
Posted by conradoplano 
