Overview
SAP AG is the world's leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. ERP systems run every aspect of a business, including accounting, sales, logistics etc, and are the source of business data. SAP customers include the likes of General Motors, Nissan, Colgate-Palmolive, Proctor & Gamble, 3COM Corporation, Raytheon and IBM.
A recent agreement between Microsoft and SAP makes Microsoft Visual Studio an acknowledged development environment for SAP. SAP have recently developed, and made available as open download, a set of ActiveX controls designed to be used with Visual Basic to extend SAP and integrate it into existing Microsoft tools and applications. Microsoft Visual Basic is being promoted by SAP as a suitable language to implement this new technology.