IDES stands for...
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Internet Demonstration and Evaluation system
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Internal Demonstration and evaluation system
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International Demonstration and evaluation system
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Interconnected Demonstration and evaluation system
IDES was launched by SAP in 1995 as a demo/training system for SAP R/3. It originally stood for "International Demonstration and Evaluation System." As internet adoption grew, SAP renamed it around 1999 to "Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System" to reflect its new role as an online demo/trial platform for mySAP.com — this is confirmed by SAP's own official history article (SAP News Center, 2024) and is the expansion used by most current SAP training references (stechies, technosap, kodyaz). Since the question gives no era qualifier and the modern/current official expansion is "Internet," the DB's marked answer is defensible as correct, not wrong. "International," "Internal," and "Interconnected" Demonstration and Evaluation System are either the superseded original name or fabricated distractors.