SAP APJ Fuels Continued Expansion in the Region by Adding more than 3300 People

SAP Asia Pacific Japan continued to outperform the business software market across the region in 2007.

SAP APJ finished the year strongly with outstanding fourth quarter software revenue sales growth of 44% in constant currencies, compared with the previous corresponding period, to €.18 billion. SAP APJ finished the year strongly with outstanding fourth quarter software revenue sales growth of 44% in constant currencies2, compared with the previous corresponding period, to €.18 billion.

On a full year basis, SAP APJ remained SAP AG’s fastest growing region with software revenue rising 32% year-on-year in constant currencies to €.482 billion.

Total revenues for SAP APJ grew 20% year-on-year in constant currencies to €1.275 billion.

For the full year of 2007, SAP APJ’s software and software related service revenue³ grew 24% in constant currencies to €.959 billion, while Q4 software and software related service revenues grew 32% in constant currencies to €.304 billion.

SAP continued to gain share in the fourth quarter of 2007, marking the eighth consecutive quarter of market share gains. Based on software and software related service revenues on a rolling four quarter basis, SAP’s worldwide share of Core Enterprise Applications vendors⁴, which account for approximately $36.7 billion in software and software related service revenues as defined by the Company based on industry analyst research, increased to 28.5% for the four quarter period ended December 31, 2007. This compares with 27.0% for the four quarter period ended September 30, 2007 and 24.5% for the four quarter period ended December 31, 2006. For SAP, this represents a year-over-year share gain of 4.0 percentage points in market share.

SAP Continues to Invest in Asia Pacific Japan Customer Growth

SAP continues to invest in maintaining its leadership position in the fast growing Asia Pacific Japan region, adding 3384 full time employees in 2007, bringing the regional total to more than 9500 full-time equivalent employees. SAP APJ is widely regarded as an employer of choice across the region.

In Q4, SAP also established its first sales operations in Cambodia working with an SAP Business All-in-One partner in Phnom Penh. This follows SAP APJ’s expansion into Vietnam in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh earlier in 2007.

SAP India, the fastest growing country for SAP globally, continued to expand operations in 2007 with the acquisition of YASU Technologies and the SAP Executive Board’s continued commitment to invest US$1 billion in the country by 2010.

Venkatesh Raman, ITvoir Network