Glossary of Data Communications TermsCourtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc. |
Term:
sap
Definition: (1) (Service Advertising Protocol) A NetWare protocol used to identify the services and addresses of servers attached to the network. The responses are used to update a table in the router known as the Server Information Table. (2) (Secondary Audio Program) An NTSC audio channel used for auxiliary transmission, such as foreign language broadcasting or teletext. (3) (SAP America, Inc., Lester, PA) The U.S. branch of the German software company, SAP AG. SAP's R/3 integrated suite of applications and its ABAP/4 Development Workbench became popular starting around 1993. |