SAP is the world's leading provider of business software. Today, more than 41,200 customers in more than 120 countries run SAP® applications – from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial services, healthcare and the public sector. 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."

Business and Corporate Overview

SAP AG: Key 2006 figures (financial figures in € millions)
Total revenue	9,402
Software revenue	3,071
Net income	1,866
Employees**	39,355 (FTE at Dec 31, 2006)
Customers	More than 38,000 in over 120 countries
Partners	More than 1,500
Industry-specific solutions	More than 25
Annual R&D investment	1,336

**Diversity at SAP

• In 2006, over 190 intercultural trainings were held for more than 2,600 employees worldwide
• SAP's worldwide workforce comprises more than 100 nationalities; the Walldorf headquarters alone employs more than 88 nationalities
• Top five nationalities (at headquarters in Walldorf): German, British, American, Indian, Russian

Strategy for Future Growth

SAP plans to realize its potential for growth through:

• Organic Growth – by supporting its growth strategy primarily through organic development of its product portfolio.
• Co-Innovation – by expanding its partner ecosystem to accelerate innovation by supporting solutions development and enterprise services based on the SAP NetWeaver® platform and to leverage sales forces to address various market and customer segments.
• Smart Acquisitions – by targeting strategic "fill in" acquisitions that add to its broad solution offerings within or across industries by gaining specific technologies and capabilities that meet the needs of its customers.

Rankings and Awards

Rankings:

• Barron's list of 30 best CEOs worldwide - Kagermann listed (2005, 2006 & 2007)
• Great Places to Work - "Germany's Best Employer" for the third year running as well as special recognition in the category "Health" (2007)
• Barron's World's Most Respected - SAP ranked 39 (first time award for SAP) (2006)
• Manager Magazine – SAP Top 10 Best Image (2006)
• Fortune's Global Most Admired - SAP ranks 7th in the computers/computer software categories (2006)
• Fortune America's Most Admired Companies - SAP ranked 3rd (2006)
• Business Week Best Global Brands (2005)
• Forbes Global 2000 (2005)
• Manager Magazine Europe's Good Company Listing (2005)
• FT Global 500 – ranked 85th (2004)
• FT – World's Most Respected Companies (2004)
• Business Week Best Global Brands (2004)
• Business Week Global 1000 – ranked 81st (2004)
• Forbes Global 2000 (2004)
• Wall Street Journal World's 100 Largest Public Companies – ranked 93rd (2004)
• CRN Business Top 25 Executives / Hall of Fame – Kagermann ranked 24th (2004)
• FT World's Most Respected Companies – ranked 94th overall and sixth n IT category (2004)

Awards:

• ComputerWorld Honors Program – five customers with Laureate status – Winners TBD (2007)
• China Economy in 21st Century Summit-Best Corporate Citizen (2006)
• Computer World - Horizon Awards - Duet Honored (2006)
• WSJE: Innovator of the Year (2005)
• Handelsblatt: Best Corporate Governance Award in Germany (2005)
• Kagermann named one of Business Week Europe's 25 Stars of Europe (2004)
• Institutional Investor: Europe's Best CEO – SAP's Henning Kagermann ranked as top CEO in the "technology/software" category (2004)
• Business Week: Kagermann honored as Best Manager (2004)
• Global Finance: SAP is selected as the Best Company in Europe in the Computer Software sector (2003)

Applications

For larger enterprises, there are more than 25 industry solutions comprising the SAP Business Suite family of business applications covering industry-specific business processes. The solutions are powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform. SAP Business Suite currently comprises:

• The SAP ERP application
  • SAP is the undisputed worldwide market leader in ERP software and continues to make significant market share gains in multiple ERP categories such as financials and human capital management, according to 2006 reports from analyst firms Gartner and Forrester.
  • Customer adoption rate for SAP ERP is the fastest in the history of SAP – within seven months after product introduction over 1,000 customers were live on the new solution.
• The SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application
  • Forrester Research named SAP as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise CRM Suites, Q1 2007 report, indicating that the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application offers one of the most complete solutions.
  • SAP's strategy focuses on delivering strong standard CRM functionality with deep industry processes (for example, trade promotion management for consumer products and intellectual property management for media) enabled through unique SAP front-to-back-office integration.
• The SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) application
  • There are more than 14,500 SCM customers worldwide.
  • According to Gartner Dataquest, in 2005 SAP expanded its position as the largest market share holder in the worldwide SCM market with a 25 percent year-over-year growth.
  • AMR Research published in September 2006 that SAP emerged as the top SCM vendor in terms of revenue, and outpaced the market with growth of 6 percent for the third straight year.
• The SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) application
  • The SAP SRM application helps companies around the world reduce procurement costs, shorten sourcing cycle times and improve sourcing strategy.
  • According to AMR Research published in September 2006, SAP remains the top SRM vendor in terms of revenue, and continues to grow at a double digit rate.
  • There are more than 3,200 SRM customers worldwide.
• The SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) application
  • An AMR report published in 2006 ranks SAP as the #2 vendor worldwide in terms of total revenue share.
  • According to CIMdata, based on software license revenue SAP is the top vendor worldwide in the non-CAD PLM market.
  • There are more than 5,500 PLM customers worldwide.

On-demand solutions

• The SAP CRM on-demand solution
  • SAP solutions for CRM deliver quick time-to-value and enables strategic growth as the only enterprise CRM solutions that offer a flexible deployment model. As business needs evolve, organizations can transition from on-demand to hybrid and on-premise SAP CRM at any time, avoiding data losses or interruptions to productivity.
  • There are three specific on-demand solutions targeted for sales, marketing and service.
• The SAP E-Sourcing on-demand solution
  • The SAP E-Sourcing on-demand solution delivers easy adoption, rapid cost savings and a low subscription investment via a hosted delivery model. The solution comes with all components and supporting services to enable sustainable sourcing success.

Applicable to all industries, SAP xApps composite applications for mobile business extend the reach of SAP Business Suite applications beyond desktop PCs and wirebound networks, integrating mobile devices, notebooks and emerging technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID). Mobile offerings include:

SAP xApp Mobile Asset Management (SAP xMAM) SAP xApp Mobile Direct Store Delivery (SAP xMDSD)

SAP xApp Mobile Sales SAP xApp Mobile Service SAP xApp Mobile Time and Travel (SAP xMTT)

Industry-Specific Solution Portfolios
From local businesses to global industry leaders, SAP has been serving companies of all sizes and industries around the world for more than three decades, developing best practices and delivering software applications that target specific business needs. The result is a depth and breadth of industry expertise and tailored software functionality that is difficult to match. SAP solutions are tailored to industry-specific standards, best practices and processes to help companies optimize business processes and adapt quickly to changing market demands.

Through its industry solutions, SAP addresses the unique core processes of more than 25 distinct industries. And with its tailored offerings for small businesses and midsize companies developed by, and delivered through, a global network of 2,200 solution partners, SAP tightly narrows its industry focus to provide targeted support through a portfolio of 580 qualified SAP All-in-One partner solutions and 350 SAP Business One partner solutions.

SAP currently offers the following industry solutions:

Financial Services SAP for Banking SAP for Insurance Public Services SAP for Defense & Security SAP for Healthcare SAP for Higher Education & Research (SAP for HE&R) SAP for Public Sector & Security Service Industries SAP for Logistics Service Providers SAP for Media SAP for Postal Services SAP for Professional Services SAP for Retail SAP for Railways SAP for Telecommunications SAP for Utilities SAP for Wholesale Distribution

Manufacturing Industries SAP for Aerospace & Defense SAP for Automotive SAP for Chemicals SAP for Consumer Products SAP for Engineering, Construction & Operations (SAP for EC&O) SAP for High Tech SAP for Industrial Machinery & Components (SAP for IM&C) SAP for Mill Products SAP for Mining SAP for Oil & Gas (SAP for O&G) SAP for Life Sciences

SAP NetWeaver®

As the foundation for enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), the SAP NetWeaver platform enables IT departments to compose and orchestrate enterprise services using model-based development, helping organizations evolve their current IT landscape into a strategic environment that drives business change. With these enterprise services, companies can rapidly enhance their existing business processes or develop and deploy new business processes.

SAP NetWeaver unifies technology components into a single platform, allowing organizations to reduce IT complexity and obtain more business value from their IT investments. It provides the best way to integrate all systems running SAP or non-SAP software.

By delivering preconfigured, industry-oriented business content, SAP NetWeaver also solves companies' challenges of integration and reduces the need for extensive custom implementations, making enterprise applications simpler to implement, quicker to deploy, less expensive to own and more agile for future business growth and innovation.

SAP solutions for small businesses and SAP solutions for midsize companies
SAP and its channel partners offer flexible, scalable solutions tailored to company size as well as vertical industry demands:

• SAP All-in-One
  • Covers demands of midsize companies with in-depth industry requirements
  • Streamlined business management and configuration tools for rapid time to value and predictable costs
  • Approx. 9,500 customers worldwide
  • More than 580 micro-vertical industry solutions
  • Delivered through 940 partners in more than 50 countries
• SAP Business One
  • Easy-to-implement, affordable, integrated business management solution tailored to the demands of small businesses
  • Approx 12,800 customers worldwide
  • More than 1,300 business partners worldwide
  • 40 country versions
  • 350 Add-on solutions developed by partners

SAP Services
SAP Services help customer to maximize their success through a combination of SAP experts, methodologies, tools and certified partners–plus a comprehensive portfolio of service offerings.

These offerings span all phases of a solution life cycle, from planning to building to running, so that customers can align their IT and business strategies, get their software up and running fast and keep it operating at peak levels–ensuring that IT supports business goals.

Adopting Enterprise SOA Made Easy
SAP is offering a portfolio of services focused on the successful adoption and implementation of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). Services for enterprise SOA go beyond road maps and support companies in discussions on enterprise SOA and the various paths that customers take across their engagement life cycle.

Cost-Effective, Smooth, and Low-Risk Upgrades
SAP delivers comprehensive upgrade services, tools and content to support smooth, low-risk and cost-effective upgrade projects, providing offerings for all life cycle phases of an upgrade. Customers can tailor these offerings to their specific needs in line with their upgrade experience and the objective of the upgrade project, such as getting on the newest release, introducing new functionality or seeking a longer-term strategic advantage. Highlights are the SAP Quick Upgrade Analysis, SAP Quick Upgrade Evaluation, SAP Technical Upgrade, and SAP Safeguarding for Upgrade services.

Safe Passage
The Safe Passage program is a proven and comprehensive offering that delivers migration tools and services, support services and market-leading business applications to provide Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and Retek customers with a choice to a more secure IT future.

Reduce Complexity of Your Customer's IT Landscape
The SAP IT Excellence program helps customers reduce complexity and make the IT landscape less difficult and expensive to maintain. It delivers a comprehensive portfolio of services, methodologies and tools to meet the unique needs of the CIO and the IT team during the production phase.

Extended Maintenance – Protect Customers' IT Investments and Enable Planning Reliability
SAP enables protection of IT investments and planning reliability by following the maintenance strategy 5-1-2. It determines the length and conditions of the maintenance of SAP software releases: five years of mainstream maintenance, one year of extended maintenance at an additional 2 percent fee and two years of extended maintenance at an additional 4 percent fee per year.

SAP MaxAttention – Technical Account Management for the Entire Life Cycle
The SAP MaxAttention support option ensures customers a close partnership with SAP to reduce total cost of ownership and increase business benefits measured through a joint balanced scorecard. SAP MaxAttention provides technical account management for the entire life cycle.

SAP Safeguarding – Technical Quality Management on a Project Basis
SAP Safeguarding enables companies to leverage best practices for implementing solutions. It provides a project-based engagement that delivers technical quality management for an implementation and upgrade project. The SAP Safeguarding portfolio of services offers the assessments, tools and services a company needs to reduce the technical risk and cost associated with implementing new technology.

SAP Premium Support – Technical Quality Assessments for the Entire Life Cycle
SAP Premium Support supports mission-critical business for the entire solution life cycle. Available to all customers, SAP Premium Support enables SAP to play a more active role in establishing support operations for the customer's organization. The option proactively reduces risk and total cost of ownership while increasing the business value of a company's SAP solutions.

SAP Solution Manager – Enable SAP Solutions Operations
The SAP Solution Manager application management solution provides the integrated content, tools and methodologies that customers need to implement, support, operate and monitor their enterprise's solutions from SAP. SAP Solution Manager is included in the annual maintenance fee for SAP solutions. In addition, SAP offers the Solution Support Enablement package, HP Quality Center– adaptor and SAP Help Desk packaged solution.

FACTS ABOUT SAP SERVICES:

• Local presence in more than 50 countries
• 77 training centers
• 6 Global Support Centers
• More than 6,000 employees in service and support
• 11,000 SAP consulting and education employees
• 185,000 certified partner employees
• Complete support coverage of all industries, solutions and life cycle phases
• More than 30 years' experience
• 9 custom development centers in Europe, Asia, and the Americas
• 4 custom data centers
• Genuine 24/7 support

SAP Ecosystem
As part of its platform strategy, SAP has built and continues to grow an open ecosystem to drive adoption of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA); foster co-innovation between SAP, customers and partners; and deliver value for all participants. Leveraging deep industry knowledge, a diverse community of partners and SAP NetWeaver as a platform for product and service innovation, SAP and its ecosystem are driving new dimensions of collaboration, turning breakthrough ideas into innovative solutions for customers.

• SAP NetWeaver partner community: The SAP NetWeaver community continues to gain momentum with more than 2,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) building software for the SAP NetWeaver platform. Hundreds of partners are also designing and building SAP® xApps™, composite applications that drive specialized business process. For more information, visit www.sap.com/platform/ecosystem/nwps.
• SAP's diverse ecosystem: The SAP ecosystem is comprised of a hugely diverse set of partners, including software solution providers or "build partners"; value-added resellers or "sell" partners; systems integrators or "service/implementation" partners; and technology infrastructure providers or "technology titans." Today, SAP has over 2,200 channel partners that serve the small to midsize enterprise (SME) community. Among the technology titans working with SAP are Adobe, Avaya, Cisco, Computer Associates, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Network Appliance, Novell, Research in Motion, RSA Security, Sun and Symantec.
• SAP Developer Network (SDN): With more than 728,000 registered users in more than 200 countries, SDN is the central resource for the SAP ecosystem to collaborate and co-innovate in developing solutions on the SAP NetWeaver platform and to contribute to the pool of shared knowledge among independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators (SIs), developers and consultants. SDN can be accessed free of charge at http://sdn.sap.com.
• Business Process Expert Community: Standing side-by-side with SDN as a resource and collaboration environment, Business Process Expert Community has enrolled more than 100,000 members in less than a year. The business process expert is an emerging role that encompasses business analysts, business consultants, process consultants, application consultants and process developers. Business Process Expert Community can be accessed free of charge at http://bpx.sap.com.
• Industry value networks: There are currently eight active industry value networks (IVNs), bringing together customers, partners and SAP to co-innovate and quickly develop solutions to solve industry-specific customer challenges in the banking, chemicals, consumer products, forest and paper, high-tech, oil and gas, public sector and retail industries.
• Enterprise Services Community: Introduced in April 2006, Enterprise Services Community (ES Community) currently has more than 170 members working collaboratively to define enterprise services. There are currently 12 community definition groups and 10 advisory groups focusing on topics such as: enterprise services for the banking industry; cross-industry applications of radio frequency identification (RFID); enterprise services for mobile; enterprise services for the healthcare industry; and tax and revenue management for the public sector industry. ES Community can be accessed at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/esa/esc.
• SAP NetWeaver Fund: SAP established the global SAP NetWeaver Fund in May 2006 to focus on strategic investments in companies building solutions on the SAP NetWeaver platform. To date, SAP has made minority investments in ArisGlobal Holdings LLC, Questra Corporation and Visiprise through the fund.

Additional information about the SAP ecosystem can be found at:
http://www.sap.com/platform/ecosystem/index.epx

SAP Timeline

1972	SAP founded as "Systems Analysis and Program Development" in Mannheim, Germany;
	SAP R system launched (later called R/1)
1976	SAP organizes as a limited-liability corporation by the name of "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing"
1977	SAP moves its headquarters from Mannheim to Walldorf; gains first international customers by partnering with two companies in Austria
1979	SAP R/2 solution launched
1980	50 of the 100 largest industrial companies in Germany are SAP clients
1982	SAP revenues increase to EUR 12.27 million for the year and more than 250 companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are using SAP-developed programs
1985	SAP systems are being used throughout Europe as well as South Africa, Kuwait, Trinidad, Canada and the United States; first U.S. headquarters established in Wayne, Pennsylvania
1988	SAP gains its 1,000th customer: Dow Chemical; Subscribed capital stock increases from EUR 2.55 million to EUR 30.67 million, company goes public (Frankfurt and Stuttgart); International training center founded in Walldorf
1989	SAP named "Company of the Year" by Manager Magazine; SAP stock is traded on the Zurich stock exchange; now more than 1,000 employees
1991	SAP enters Russian market and begins development of a Russian version of the R/2 system
1992	SAP R/3 system launched
1993	Customer base grows to 3,500; SAP introduces an R/3 version for the Japanese market
1995	Customer base grows to 6,000; SAP share included in the German stock index (DAX)
1996	System R/3 Release 3.1 is Internet-enabled
1997	SAP begins developing industry-specific solutions
1998	Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange; launches new solutions for business information warehouse, business-to-business procurement and supply chain management;
1999	SAP delivers mySAP.com; receives Industry Week's "Best Managed Companies" award
2000	More than 10 million users work with SAP solutions every day. Now 36,000 installations worldwide, 1,000 partners, 22 industry solutions and 13,500 customers in 120 countries; named "Most Successful Company Over the Long-term in the 90's" (Jury of 40 CEO's: Wiesbaden 3/10/2000)
2001	Revenues for SAP in 2001 top EUR 7.3 billion
2002	SAP celebrates 30th Anniversary; now with 17,500 customers and 27,800 employees; acquires TopManage Software Solutions for its SME offering;
2003	Launch of SAP NetWeaver platform
2004	SAP announces a timeline for the service-enablement of its own solutions. By 2007 all SAP solutions will be Enterprise Services Architecture compliant.
2005	SAP announces development of its Business Process Platform
2006	SAP introduces SAP CRM on-demand and an enhanced road map for SAP ERP, delivering innovation without disruption

SAP's Research & Development Strategy

• SAP Labs
  By creating knowledge, encouraging innovation and investing in people and technology, SAP Labs in Germany, North America, Canada, China, Hungary India, Israel and Bulgaria focus on R&D and solutions development.

  SAP's strategy for organic growth builds on leveraging the individual strengths of various locations and workforce, thus working with SAP standards and guidelines for development to ensure consistent quality, each lab location is run autonomously, responsible for its own organizational growth. The synergies gained enable SAP to profit from higher flexibility and stronger innovation.

  The main purpose of SAP Labs is to discover and understand new technology trends around the world. The focus is on short-term innovation projects that are closely aligned with current SAP products and customer requirements. SAP Labs have taken a trend-setting role in areas such as SAP xApps, voice-recognition technology, double-byte language, mobile business and collaborative CRM.

• SAP Research
  SAP Research focuses on longer-term innovation projects that will drive the development of new products and technologies. Through research, creativity and forward thinking, and in close collaboration with a network of industrial and academic research partners and pilot customers, the team introduces new ideas for future solutions that are likely to be of strategic importance to SAP customers over the next three to five years. In its exploration of current trends, SAP Research focuses its activities on a dozen research fields, touching upon different aspects of technological, societal, and business change:

  Research Fields
  

• SAP University Alliances
  
  • The SAP University Alliances program works with educational institutions around the world to create, capture, organize and disseminate intellectual capital, helping to establish SAP as an educational force around the globe. The program gives educational institutions access to SAP business solutions to support the development of a highly skilled and educated workforce to fuel future innovation potential and thus contribute to economic development on a grand scale.
  • Number of Member Institutions – 700
    • Americas – 149
    • Asia Pacific – 115
    • EMEA/EMEA NEWS – 436 (220 in Germany alone).
  • Number of Countries with UA Programs – 30.
  • In Kind Software Donation Valuation (based on retail license value per user) – €363 million
    • Americas – €108 million
    • Asia Pacific – €51 million
    • EMEA/EMEA NEWS – €204.
  • Number of students accessing SAP solutions annually - > 100,000.

Corporate Social Responsibility

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions. As such, SAP played a role in shaping the business world and the way it operates today. Its solutions support the transparency and governance that companies need by freeing senior management to focus on their customers, innovate, execute efficiently and drive economic growth.

As a global information technology leader, SAP recognizes and embraces its responsibility to contribute actively to society. The company's leadership believes the private sector plays a vital role in creating a level playing field, one that builds an environment that embraces education, technology and innovation.

SAP employees also believe that societies flourish where economies are strong and every person has a fair chance of active participation. By enabling individuals to develop their own skills, creativity and solutions, they will be better equipped to help themselves and take an active rewarding role in their communities. Corporate citizenship at SAP does not take place in a vacuum. SAP cooperates with other corporations, social agencies and institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the public sector, believing that by learning together, creating together and working together, SAP and other organizations can build a better platform for society's development together.

This commitment has been recognized by leading sustainability indices such as Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good among others.

UN Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is a forum in which business and labor work together with government organizations to define responsible strategies for global economic growth. Global Compact partners are committed to respecting human rights, supporting internationally defined labor standards, and environmental protection. SAP has been a UN Global Compact partner since former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan launched the initiative in 2000 at Davos. It is more important than ever for public and private sectors to work together to create a sustainable global society. SAP believes that Internet-based technologies can help emerging markets quickly advance into the global marketplace. And by making management processes more accountable and transparent, e-business can help private and public organizations improve environmental monitoring, while fighting fraud and corruption.

Global Reporting Initiative
In 2005, SAP became an organizational stakeholder of the Global Reporting Initiative.

SAP Solidarity Fund
After the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, SAP employees in Germany were keen to help victims quickly and without undue bureaucracy. The SAP Solidarity Fund e.V. was established for this reason and, since then, this nonprofit association has taken action whenever SAP employees want to donate after a disaster.

Through the SAP Solidarity Fund, SAP employees are able to provide immediate support to those who cannot help themselves – whether victims of the tsunami in South East Asia, the famine in Niger or the earthquake in Kashmir/Pakistan. The SAP Solidarity Fund's mission is to help victims of disasters such as these – quickly and without excessive paperwork – by supporting specific projects with financial donations. The fund's project work focuses on educational measures, particularly for children and young people, as this group needs to get a semblance of normality back in their lives as quickly as possible after a disaster. The fund cooperates with organizations that ensure aid is used both professionally and efficiently. Such organizations include UNICEF, the United Nations World Food Programme, Caritas, Bread for the World and the International Red Cross/Red Crescent.

One aspect is particularly important to the fund: All monetary donations must benefit specific, self-contained and verifiable projects. This transparency allows those employees making donations to see exactly how their money is being used to help people.

SAP focus areas:

1. Education
   

   SAP recognizes the value of education as a key driving force for innovation and revitalization of communities and economies. Access to education builds intellectual capital and is vital in creating flourishing economies. SAP believes it is critical that people have the opportunity to reach their full potential and create their own future. The company's own history is proof of what can happen with one idea and the power of an entrepreneurial spirit.

   A global company, SAP needs both an educated workforce and stable open economies. These factors make education one of the cornerstones of SAP's engagement with society. SAP is dedicated to educating today's students so they can play an active role in tomorrow's economies. The company does this primarily through the University Alliance program on a global level and through national and local education programs where SAP employees live and work.

   SAP also seeks to recognize and cultivate the innovative spirit of children through its participation in and support of the FIRST LEGO League competition. FIRST LEGO League provides an opportunity for employees worldwide to engage with their communities as team leaders and mentors to help children recognize their own creativity while building teamwork skills.

   Together with FIRST LEGO League, SAP initiated its first worldwide employee volunteering initiative to help children explore their innovative spirit and skills. In 2006, in 19 countries with over 700 kids participating, more than 170 SAP colleagues engaged as coaches and mentors. In total, SAP employees enabled 85 teams;. 6 of those teams made it to the international finals in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Atlanta, USA.

2. Governance
   

   SAP believes in integrity and transparency, which are reflected in its products and in the way it conducts business. Internationally, SAP has built a reputation for its open financial reporting and business practices and has created its own Code of Business Conduct. SAP solutions intrinsically improve governance because they improve transparency.

   Governance and transparency also help fight corruption, which obstructs the development of healthy and stable economies. But corruption does not stop at geographical borders. It increases costs, stunts development and, as a result, affects everyone. By harnessing its expertise as a company, through its product offerings and by its education programs, SAP works to significantly contribute to the global fight against corruption in alliance with other partners.

   Our Partner: Transparency International
   Transparency International (TI) is the leading organization in the fight against corruption. SAP is one of the major partners in their "Global Corporations for Transparency" initiative.