SAP
(1) (SAP Americas, Inc., Newtown Square, PA, www.sap.com) The U.S. branch of the German software company, SAP AG., which was founded in 1972 as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing. SAP's R/3 integrated suite of applications and its ABAP/4 Development Workbench became popular starting around 1993 and have gained significant market share in the ERP arena. See
R/3.
(2) (
Session
Announcement
Protocol) An IETF protocol for distributing session description messages to potential recipients. It is widely used to send SDP messages. See
SIP.
(3) (
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.
(4) (
Secondary
Audio
Program) An NTSC audio channel used for auxiliary transmission, such as foreign language broadcasting or teletext.