SAP Business Object  is similar to real-world business objects such as Sales Order, Invoice, Employee, etc., which consist of various tables/programs that are related to each other in a business context. All the business objects are maintained in the BOR (Business Object Repository).

The various characteristics of an object are called Attributes.  For example, the business object Sales Order is characterized by the following attributes:

• Date of the order
• Items of the order
• Prices of various items of the order
• Name of the customer to whom the order belongs to

The application program or programs used by the system to change or manipulate a business object are known as Method(s).

For example, a program could be used to

(a) check the availability of stock to deliver,
(b) trace the shipment route,
(c) check the item prices,
(d) validate the order date, etc.

So, attributes and methods collectively represent business objects in SAP.

The ‘Data Dictionary’ is a collection of logical structures of various objects (Tables, Views, or Structures) used in application development in SAP, which shows how they are mapped to the underlying RDBMS in Tables/Views.

The ‘System Landscape,’ in SAP, refers to a number of systems and their deployment within an SAP installation. The various systems may be designated as Development, Test, and Production Clients.

An ‘Instance’ is an administrative unit that groups together components of an SAP R/3 system or simply an Application Server, which has its own set of work processes. A Client can contain many instances.  Loosely defined, an instance refers to a server.

Sometimes the database is also referred to as an ‘instance.’ In this case it is called the ‘Central Instance.’

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