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SAP AG - ERP software -
Category Directory
49-6227-74-7474
Neurottstrasse 16
69190 Walldorf
Federal Republic of Germany
www.sap.com
Sales
$8.8
billion
Business Description
SAP is a leading provider of ERP software and business software solutions,
with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany and over 30,000 employees in more
than 50 countries.
Our principal activities are the development, marketing, sales and support
of a variety of software solutions, primarily enterprise resource software
products for organizations including corporations, governmental agencies,
and educational institutions.
SAP solutions are designed to meet the demands of companies of all sizes —
from small via midsize businesses to global enterprises. The SAP NetWeaver
open integration and application platform aims at reducing the complexity
and total cost of ownership (TCO) of a customer’s information technology
landscape business process change and evolution. While SAP Business Suite
solutions are helping enterprises around the world improve customer
relationships, enhance partner collaboration, and create efficiencies across
their supply chains and business operations. The core business processes of
various industries, from aerospace to utilities, are supported by SAP’s
industry-specific solution portfolios. Today, more than 21,600 customers in
over 120 countries run more than 69,700 installations of SAP software. With
subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several
exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and NYSE under the symbol
“SAP.”
SAP’s total 2003 revenues decreased by 5.2% from 2002 to €7,024.6 million
(2002: €7,412.8 million). Net income for 2003 increased by 111.8% to
€1,077.1 million (2002: €508.6 million). In 2003, total revenues were
derived as follows: sales of software products €2,147.6 million (30.6%),
maintenance €2,568.8 million (36.5%), consulting services €1,953.5 million
(27.8%), training services €299.3 million (4.3%), and other revenue €55.4
million (0.8%).
SAP’s
strategy
SAP’s business and product strategy is designed to grow the value and the
size of our business including revenues, profitability and customer base by
extending the range of software applications and solutions that can bring
more value, be implemented faster, attain better integration, meet the needs
of core customers and reach new customer segments. Our business strategy is
to increase our profitability and market share by offering solutions,
comprised of software and services, to enable our large existing customer
base and new customer prospects to increase value. We expect to leverage our
large customer base to generate revenues through licenses of additional
software solutions, either individually by solution, or collectively as the
mySAP Business Suite. We believe we can increase our marketshare by
expanding footprint in ERP, such as basic finance, human resources and
logistics applications, and in other high value-added solutions such as
inter-enterprise integration and collaboration.
The SAP NetWeaver application and integration platform will play an
increasing role in this process by allowing integration of heterogeneous
systems at the user level through a portal, through information via the
business warehouse analytic application and through processes within the
exchange infrastructure levels. As discussed below, solutions for the small
and midsize business are another area of anticipated growth for SAP.
As described below, our Customer Service Network includes consulting,
education, active global support, hosting and global custom development
services. Our strategy is to derive 15%-20% of the overall SAP related
service market, the remainder to be provided by our partner network.
We intend to continue our growth primarily organically and through selected
acquisitions designed to enhance our range of products and increase our
installed customer base, our industry knowledge and our geographic
penetration.
Software Products
We license components of our software solutions on an individual user basis,
either for a single solution or as the mySAP Business Suite, as described
below. In addition to the user licenses for a solution, some specialized
functionality and software engines, which are not user specific, are
licensed separately.
mySAP Business Suite
The mySAP Business Suite is a suite of business software applications and an
application and integration platform designed to enable companies to manage
the entire value chain across business networks, allowing the company to
adapt quickly and remain flexible when faced with changing business
conditions. mySAP Business Suite, based on the SAP NetWeaver platform, is
designed to reduce the total cost of IT infrastructure ownership. The mySAP
Business Suite can be deployed on a variety of computer hardware types and
different operating systems.
mySAP Business Suite consists of the following SAP solutions:
• mySAP ERP software (Enterprise Resource Planning software), which includes
mySAP FIN (Financials) and mySAP HR (Human Resources);
• mySAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management);
• mySAP SCM (Supply Chain Management);
• mySAP PLM (Product Life Cycle Management);
• mySAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management); and
• mySAP Mobile Business.
These applications run on the SAP NetWeaver application platform, which
includes:
• SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW),
• SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP),
• SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI),
• SAP Mobile Infrastructure (SAP MI),
• SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) and
• SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS).
The mySAP Business Suite can be tailored to suit the requirements of most
industries. Industry solutions employ our substantial industry experience
acquired over years of providing industry-specific business solutions.
Tailored industry solutions use up to the entire scope of the mySAP Business
Suite. SAP’s industry solutions are packaged and configured with detailed
features based on industry best practices. We organized our industry
business units (IBUs), which develop our industry solutions, into two
industry business sectors (IBSs), named IBS Manufacturing and IBS Services,
in order to align them more closely with field operations and facilitate our
accumulation of industry expertise.
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