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SAP recognized early on that this must be a service-oriented architecture, allowing companies to easily create and change business applications to support their strategy. Our vision is Enterprise Services Architecture, introduced in 2003 along with an ambitious road map. Enterprise Services Architecture provides a flexible IT framework that combines our business expertise with the power of Web services. We are focused on delivering this new architecture because we believe it will not only help our customers be much more flexible and deploy technology more strategically, but it will mean we are better positioned for the road ahead.

To be able to create Enterprise Services Architecture, however, requires the right platform. SAP NetWeaver is the enabler of Enterprise Services Architecture that allows us to take our applications and infrastructure to the next level, and we are right in the middle of that journey.

In 2004, we hit several milestones and reiterated our commitment. We now have more than 1,500 SAP NetWeaver reference customers, including companies such as Intel, Johnson & Johnson, and Siemens. We also have 1,300 mySAP ERP customer contracts. This is significantly ahead of our own expectations.

In 2005 and beyond, SAP NetWeaver will be continuing its evolutionary course to a business process platform. Customers and industry experts acknowledge that the combination of a composition platform and service-enabled components creates the ideal business platform for an economy that is driven by the need for growth through innovation. SAP’s business process platform supports operational processes that enable efficiency and business integrity, while also providing tools that allow customers to compose highly differentiating business scenarios that can evolve in real time along with their strategies. With a business process platform, companies can easily reuse existing software capabilities without having to write customized software code. By 2007, our goal is to deliver all of mySAP Business Suite and all industry solutions on this industry-leading business process platform.