What is SAP IDES?

People who are interested in SAP training might often meet an acronym IDES. So what does these four mysterious letters actually stand for?


The truth is the IDES means Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System and is used as SAP internal system mainly for testing and training purposes. The IDES system is run in Walldorf, the headquater of SAP. This system has several SAP clients and contains a sample set of of master data for every SAP module of the IDES model company. The IDES model company represents an organization with standardized business processes and is ideal for the purpose of demonstration and explanation of the functionality of the various SAP solutions to potential customers, SAP students, and prospects.


There are also IDES demo systems and IDES demo landscapes that can be accessed by customers. These systems are in fact just copies of the IDES system in Walldorf. Among other functions, the IDES systems are able to facilitate demos, self-study of functional evaluation or functional tests based on the pre-configured data and (or) clients. According to SAP, the IDES in any case must not be used as production system!


In SAP training courses the IDES system is actually used, however initially the SAP IDES systems do not contain training data for the SAP training courses. The training data is loaded to SAP IDES system just before the start of SAP training course.


For any additional information about SAP IDES, please refer to the official IDES info site at the SAP Service Marketplace: 


https://service.sap.com/ides