SAP may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for System Analysis and Program, SAP is a global software company that develops enterprise software and software-related services. For more information, see our SAP company information page.

  2. Short for service advertising protocol, servers use SAP to inform clients of availability on the network in a Novell NetWare environment. SAP messages are broadcast every 60 seconds. If a SAP packet is not received for three minutes, that server is presumed down.

  3. An acronym for Session Announcement Protocol, SAP provides session setup details to users engaged in a multicast session. It often utilizes SDP (Session Description Protocol) as a format for RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) sessions.

  • Network and network card help and support.

Computer acronyms, Network terms, Protocol