4.0 Technical Specification of SAP Enterprise Core
The functionality of SAP R/3 Enterprise Core is based on the previous SAP R/3 release SAP R/3 4.6C. Its functionality has been enhanced in SAP 4.7 by optimizing and stabilizing of existing processes as well as legal changes and limited functional developments. Also, SAP R/3 Enterprise Core supports the packaging concept, business configuration sets, and Unicode-compliance. Moreover, it comes with five encapsulated extensions. These Extensions along with the enterprise core are maintained through scheduled support package tracks:
- SAP R/3 Enterprise Core: Non-HR Core Support Package
- SAP R/3 Enterprise Core: HR Core Support Package
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| The five encapsulated extensions that are delivered along with SAP R/3 Enterprise Core are: FIN (FI/CO), HR, PLM, TRVL, and SCM (WM, PP, MM). Again, no functionality upgrades are planned for Enterprise Core. Rather, all functionality will be applied to these Enterprise Extensions – and they will each have their own release schedules. |
In addition, SAP Enterprise Core features Accrual Accounting Engines. These enable Accrual Accountings, allowing users to automatically calculate and post accruals, such as license fees, rent costs, or revenues, in the general ledger accounting functionality of SAP R/3 Enterprise Core. Also, the users can calculate and post the accruals according to as many accounting principles as desired.
Other features of SAP Enterprise core are:
- Native Internet
- Support (SOAP/XML)
- Open Integration
- Web Services
- Java and J2EE
- Web Flow
- Security Enhancements
- New Upgrade Tools
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