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The following SAP training tutorials guides you everything about SAP GUI and its importance in ERP systems. As things are currently, it is very evident that one of the most simple and realistic ways that a company can get to save money is by going digital and one of the platforms that is allowing the companies to do this and with ease is ERP SAP System.

Using one of the download links for SAP GUI 7.20, I download the executable file gui720c3.exe to my machine (I have Windows 7 operating system): and execute it when download is complete. I get the self-extracted folder. SAP GUI which is an integral part of the Presentation layer of SAP and stands for SAP Graphical User Interface. Normally, there are three different layers in SAP – Application, Database, and Presentation. It is to the latter layer that SAP GUI belongs to. In order to fully understand SAP GUI, you need to first understand its family.

Universal Clients for Accessing SAP Systems

SAP GUI is SAP's universal client for accessing SAP functionality in SAP applications such as - SAP ERP, SAP Business Suite (SAP CRM, SAP SCM and SAP PLM), SAP Business Intelligence and so on. SAP GUI functions like a browser. It gets information from the SAP server like what, where, when and how, to display contents in its window. All members of the SAP GUI family have unique attributes that make them especially suited for different user environments. SAP GUI comes in the following three different flavors:

SAP GUI for Windows
SAP GUI for Windows is an implementation especially designed for the Windows operating system, providing a Windows-like user experience and integration with other applications, based on OLE interfaces or ActiveX controls.

SAP GUI for the Java Environment
SAP GUI for the Java environment is a unified SAP frontend for multiple platforms. It is based on a platform-independent architecture and Java implementation. As a major benefit, it provides access to SAP applications that are based on Control-Enabling and therefore used to be reserved for Windows users in the past. Please, note that SAP GUI for Java is also available on Windows.

SAP GUI for HTML
SAP GUI for HTML automatically maps the screen elements in SAP transactions to HTML using HTML Business functions available within the SAP Internet Transaction Server. A web browser is sufficient to access almost all transactions. Please note: Since SAP GUI for HTML is an application running on the ITS, you find corresponding information on the ITS Wiki page. The SAP Screen Personas 3.0 editor is run in the SAP GUI for HTML after you install the SAP Screen Personas add-on.

You can find detailed information on the different SAP GUI types under the following links:

News

Date	Description
July, 2020	SAP GUI for Java 7.50 rev 11 is available for download on SAP Service Marketplace. Release notes can be found in SAP note 2511822. The Java runtime and the required OpenJFX UI framework are coming as part of the installer. A self contained application embedding SapMachine and OpenJFX is installed. For running the installer, Java SE 8 or newer is needed.
February, 2019	SAP GUI for Windows 7.60 is available for download on SAP Support Portal (see also Downloads section below). You find a feature overview in this blog.
July, 2018	It is now possible to import ALV grid data directly into Google Sheets. With this integration, there is no need any more to export data manually to CSVs and to upload them to Google Drive. For more information, see section Literature below.
May, 2017	SAP GUI for Windows 7.50 is available for download on SAP Service Marketplace (see also Downloads section below). You find a feature overview in the release notes.
September, 2016	As of patchlevel 10 SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 officially supports a subset of SAP Screen Personas 3.0 features. With this, the “beta phase” for SAP Screen Personas 3.0 in SAP GUI for Windows ends. See SAP Note 2080071 for more information.
November, 2015	SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 is now out of support. Please, upgrade to SAP GUI for Windows 7.40.
September, 2015	Support for Windows 10 starts with SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 patchlevel 4 (see SAP note 66971 for more information).
September, 2015	Support for SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 will end soon (31st of October 2015). See SAP note 147519 for more information. We strongly recommend starting the upgrade to release 7.40, if you are presently using 7.30 or an earlier release of SAP GUI for Windows.
October, 2014	As of October 8, SAP GUI for Windows 7.40 is available for download on SAP Service Marketplace. You find information on the new features and the maintenance strategy in note 2022335.

Installation

SAP GUI for Windows

SAP GUI Frontend Installation Guide 7.60
This documentation describes how to install and distribute the SAP frontend software on Windows.

SAP GUI Frontend Installation Guide 7.50
This documentation describes how to install and distribute the SAP frontend software on Windows.

This document provides an overview and further information about the frontend installation and distribution tool SAP Setup.

SAP GUI for Java

This archive contains among others the SAP GUI for Java installation information.

SAP GUI for HTML/ITS

You find corresponding information on the ITS Wikipage.

Platform Support and Maintenance Strategy

You find information on the supported platforms in the Support Matrix for SAP GUI for Windows, the Support Matrix for SAP GUI for Java or in SAP GUI section of the Product Availability Matrix (PAM).

Literature

General Information
Frontend Network Requirements (SAP Support Portal Login required!)
Distributed landscapes today lead to the fact that an increasing number of users connect to a central system from dispersed sites with varying degrees of available bandwidth. As a consequence, user access is through local area network (LAN) and wide area network WAN (dial-up, frame relay, Internet, etc.). This paper contains a description of SAP's frontend characteristics from both a LAN and a WAN perspective.
Please note that this paper does not discuss server-to-server traffic or printing.
SAP GUI Technical Infrastructure
The purpose of this guide is to give you an understanding of the different SAP GUI types, their specific properties and how they communicate with the SAP system. Also, it explains the performance requirements of the infrastructure and describes trouble-shooting options.

SAP GUI for Windows

This documentation describes the SAP GUI user functions.

This guide describes the SAP GUI security module which has been implemented to protect the user's local environment against undesired actions that a potentially corrupt SAP system could trigger on his or her PC.

Thisguide describes the SAP GUI security module which has been implemented to protect the user's local environment against undesired actions that a potentially corrupt SAP system could trigger on his or her PC.

This documentation

Sap Gui For Windows