SAP AG

Type	Public (FSE: SAP)
Founded	Weinheim (1972)
Location	Walldorf, Germany
Key people	Henning Kagermann, CEO Shai Agassi, Development
Industry	Computer software
Products	ERP
Revenue	7,514,000,000 EUR (2004)
Employees	32,205
Website	www.sap.com

SAP (Xetra: DE0007164600) is the biggest European software company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. SAP was founded in 1972 as Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung by five former IBM employees in Mannheim, Germany. The acronym was later changed to mean Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications And Products in Data Processing") but since the Annual General Meeting of 2005, the companies official name is just SAP AG. SAP logo, claiming fair use This work is copyrighted. ... The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB, German: Deutsche Börse) is located in Frankfurt, Germany and is owned by Deutsche Börse Group. ... Weinheim (Bergstrasse) is a town in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Walldorf is a town in the Baden part of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. ... A screenshot of a computer software. ... Enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) are management information systems that integrate and automate many of the business practices associated with the operations or production aspects of a company. ... In business, revenue is the amount of money that a company actually receives from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, collectively known as the Eurozone. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ... Xetra (Exchange Electronic Trading) is a worldwide electronic securities trading system based in Germany. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Walldorf is a town in the Baden part of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... Basic information Country: Germany Federal state: Land Baden-Württemberg Regions: Rhein-Neckar District: Independent municipality Population: 324,787 (Mai 2005) Additional information Area: 144. ... An Annual General Meeting, commonly abbreviated as AGM, also known as the annual meeting, is a meeting that official bodies and associations involving the public are often required by law (In what country?) to hold. ...

Reputation

Although relatively unknown to general consumers, SAP is the fourth-largest software company in the world. It ranks after Microsoft, IBM and Oracle in terms of market capitalization. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company, with over sixty thousand employees and headquarters in various countries as of May 2004. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), one of the major companies developing database management systems, tools for database development, and enterprise resource planning software, dates from 1977 and has offices in more than 145 countries around the world. ... Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a business term that refers to the overall value of a companys stock. ...

Products

SAP's products are in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business sector. The company's main product is SAP R/3, where the "R" stands for real-time data processing, the number 3 relates to the three tier application architecture: database, application server and client. The predecessor to R/3 was R/2. Other major offerings include Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO), Business Information Warehouse (BW), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Knowledge Warehouse (KW). The company also offers a new technology platform, named SAP NetWeaver. While its original products are mostly used by larger companies, SAP is now also offering products for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) with SAP Business One and mySAP All-in-One. Enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) are management information systems that integrate and automate many of the business practices associated with the operations or production aspects of a company. ... SAP R/3 is the name of the main ERP software produced by the SAP company. ... SAP R/2 was created by a team of ex-IBM software engineers and is a real-time Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application. ... Business Information Warehouse (abbr. ... The generally accepted purpose of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is to enable organizations to better serve their customers through the introduction of reliable processes and procedures for interacting with those customers. ... Supply chain management (SCM) deals with the planning and execution issues involved in managing a supply chain. ... Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), or also called HR modules, shape an intersection in between human resource management and information technology. ... Product Lifecycle Management or PLM is a term used for the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture to service and disposal. ... A data warehouse is, primarily, a record of an enterprises past transactional and operational information, stored in a database designed to favour efficient data analysis and reporting (especially OLAP). ... SAP NetWeaver is an application builder from SAP for integrating business processes and databases from a number of sources. ... Small and Medium-sized Enterprises or SMEs are companies whose headcount or turnover falls below certain limits. ... SAP Business One is SAPs business intelligence software for small and medium sized enterprises (SME). ...

More than 27,000 companies run SAP, at over 91,500 locations. SAP users number over 12 million people in more than 120 countries.

External links

• SAP.com official site.
  • SAP Service Marketplace is SAP's platform for customers and partners and offers target-group specific content in various portals
  • SAP Help Portal provides you with web-based documentation for all SAP solutions.
  • The SAP Developer Network an online community for SAP developers, consultants, and integrators.
  • Jobs at SAP
  • SAP Design Guild SAP's resource & forum for people-centric design

Users

• Americas' SAP Users' Group

Data

• Yahoo! - SAP Aktiengesellschaft Company Profile