Management

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Employees

With a reputation for providing outstanding career opportunities and a stimulating work environment, SAP is an employer of choice in the global software industry. In 2005, we added over 3,600 employees to our corporate family – chosen from a pool of more than 300,000 applicants. Our commitment to employees has also been recognized externally through several national best employer awards in Germany and Latin America in 2005, including those presented by the internationally renowned Great Place to Work Institutes. SAP was also recognized with the top award for fairness in the "Best Workplaces in Europe 2005" list.

For more than 33 years, SAP has been guided by deeply held corporate values, which have given our company the strength and longevity to help shape the path of our industry, while influencing the success of thousands of businesses worldwide.

SAP values include customer focus, quality, and the unwavering pursuit of product excellence. In addition, the values consist of integrity, commitment, and a passion for ever higher levels of achievement, with the knowledge that our actions today will help define our industry now and in the future. Our values are reflected in every aspect of our culture, and continue to guide our efforts to be a best-run business. And in 2005, they were reinforced by five new corporate requirements: agility, high performance, simplicity, co-innovation, and talent development.

In recent years, governments around the world have implemented a growing number of regulatory initiatives to ensure ethical corporate conduct. SAP seeks to comply with all of these statutes. And in 2003, we supplemented our compliance efforts with our own Code of Business Conduct, which defines the standards that each employee must meet in all business, legal, and ethical matters.

SAP's employee family includes people of virtually every culture, race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, age, disability, marital status, education, and sexual orientation. This diversity is among our greatest corporate assets and results in an organization that is rich in cultural wealth and open to a broad range of ideas and perspectives.

Key figures

Percentage of women: 30%

Average age: 37 years

Average seniority: 5.3 years

Represented nationalities by employees in Germany: 78