What SAP and SOAP stand for ?

[slinetz]

in engineer term ?

 

[MrChad]

SAP = Personnel software?
SOAP = Simple Object Access Protocol - a protocol that most web services are built off of

 

[Martin]

SAP is an application - "customer relationship management" and many other things.

SOAP is programming concept tied to web services IIRC.

 

[Ranger X]

Just a thought but Google might help.

 

[DT4K]

SAP = Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte (Systems, Applications, Products)
But they don't really use that name any more.
It is an Enterprise Resource Planning system. Basically a collection of a whole lot of different applications to help run a huge corporation's business. You can pick and choose which modules you want to implement. It can do everything from managing inventory to shipping to production planning to handling all the HR stuff (payroll, etc.).

EDIT: I should correct myself and say that SAP is the company name, but when someone in IT says SAP, they are usually talking about the application itself.