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 650,000 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: TStanding side-by-side with SDN as a resource and collaboration environment, Business Process Expert Community has enrolled more than 80,000 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 150 members working collaboratively to define enterprise services. There are currently 10 community definition groups and eight 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 free of charge at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/esoa/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 News

• SAP Ecosystem Powers Collaboration and Innovation Among Oil and Gas Industry Customers and Partners
  (January 30, 2007)
• SAP Ecosystem Comes Together to Drive Collaboration and Innovation Across Mill Products Industry
  (December 04, 2006)
• SAP NetWeaver® Fund Makes Strategic Investment in Visiprise
  (November 08, 2006)
• SAP’s Business Process Expert Community Doubles Membership in Less than Two Months to 60,000
  (November 08, 2006)
• SAP Ecosystem Continues to Show Strong Global Momentum
  (October 17, 2006)
• SAP NetWeaver® Fund Makes Strategic Investment in ArisGlobal
  (October 17, 2006)
• SAP Announces Strategic Investment in Questra Corporation
  (August 15, 2006)
• SAP Establishes $125 Million Global SAP NetWeaver® Fund
  (May 17, 2006)
• Partners, Customers and SAP Unite to Co-Innovate For the Public Sector and Consumer Products, High-Tech and Retail Industries
  (May 16, 2006)
• SAP Ecosystem Unites to Bring Innovation to Chemicals Industry
  (May 08, 2006)
• SAP Launches Enterprise Services Community to Fuel Co-Innovation with Customers and Partners
  (April 18, 2006)
• SAP Leads Industry Collaboration in Support of Enterprise Services
  (September 27, 2005)
• Independent Software Vendors Continue Rapid Adoption of SAP NetWeaver®
  (September 12, 2005)

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