2007: Spectacular year for SAP India

SAP is the world's frontline provider of business software. More than 41,200 customers across 120 countries run SAP applications and they range from specific solutions to meet the needs of small and midsize industries to suit offerings for global organizations. SAP software helps enterprises of all hues and sizes around the world to improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and impart efficiency to their supply chains and business operations

During 2007, SAP held one of its SAP Tech conferences in India in recognition of India's rapidly growing enterprise software market and as a mark of SAP's commitment to serving companies of all sizes in India and its neighborhood. In August 2007, SAP announced that it has accorded India the status of a strategic hub and has inaugurated a new office in Gurgaon in North India. SAP has more than 1,150 customers and 2,500 installations in India, which constitute 54 percent of the ERP market. SAP envisions further growth in many regions of the India. This has prompted SAP to invest $1 billion over the next five years in India to further expand its presence in the region. Sap has ambitious plans to utilize the extraordinary talent in India to increase the research activities of SAP Labs India.

At SAP ACE 2007, SAP India honored the best managed businesses that have been setting global benchmarks in excellence at SAP ACE 2007.

SAP ACE 2007 received overwhelming customer reaction across the Indian Subcontinent which was ample proof that Indian business houses were efficiently using technology for achieving business goals. Nominations included companies of all sizes, with revenues ranging from less than Rs.20 Crores to the largest companies in Indian Sub continent. SAP India announced the winners of SAP ACE 2007 (Awards for Customer Excellence) in recognition of customer excellence. A total of 38 winners were felicitated by the CEO and Chairman of the SAP AG Board, Henning Kagermann at an impressive awards ceremony held on 27th August, 2007 at Hyatt Regency, in New Delhi.

SAP announced that SAP India is now their fastest growing subsidiary for the company worldwide following a record-breaking performance during 2007. SAP India has registered an unprecedented growth of over 100% both in terms of license revenue and customer acquisition. SAP India was declared as the "Hub of the Year" in Asia Pacific Japan for its 2007 business performance.

During the last 11 years, SAP has been the market leader in the Indian enterprise software market. .In August 2006, the company was the first enterprise software vendor in India to cross the 1000-customer mark and the number of its Indian customers has risen to 3024 in 2007. SAP India witnessed growth across all aspects of business including education, software-related services, customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction.

The major highlights of SAP's performance in India during FY 2007: Over 100% growth in license revenue over FY 2006 More than doubled the number of customers - From 1350 to 3024 Triple digit growth in new customer acquisition over FY 2006 2.3 times growth in SME revenue year-on-year over FY 2006

Ranjan Das, President and CEO, SAP Indian Subcontinent "It is a matter of great pride for us to become the fastest growing geography for SAP worldwide," said Ranjan Das, President and CEO, SAP Indian Subcontinent. "This has been possible because of the trust our customers have placed in us, as they grow to global leadership positions in their own spheres. SAP is the clear partner of choice for government entities and Indian businesses, across industries and segments."

Sap India

SAP, the world's leading provider of business software solutions, started its operations in India in 1996. Headquartered in Bangalore, SAP India also has offices in Mumbai and New Delhi, and different marketing associates in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

With a staff strength of 450 supporting the Indian sub-continent, today SAP India is one of the fastest growing SAP subsidiaries with more than 650 customers across the region with strong footprints in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver™ platform to drive improvement and enable business change, mySAP™ Business Suite solutions are helping enterprises around the world develop customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP industry solutions support the unique business processes of more than 25 industry segments, including high tech, retail, public sector and financial services.

The company is listed on some exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP".

Its Asia Pacific headquarters is in Singapore, with APA offices in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand.

Sap Labs India

The High Energy Lab, Driving Innovation In Business Solutions

SAP Labs India is SAP's second largest Research & Development and Global Services & Support center in the world. Founded in November 1998, SAP Labs India is one of the four global development hubs (Germany, US and Israel being others) of SAP that donate to all areas of the SAP product value chain- Research & Breakthrough Innovation, Product Development, Global Services & Support and Customer Solutions & Operations.

SAP's eight Labs in different countries are industry role models for globally distributed development organizations and contribute heavily to the goals of SAP's business units. Bridging the gap between local market demands and SAP's development organization, SAP Labs set standards for excellence in innovation, efficiency, and reliability.

SAP Labs India researches, designs, and delivers leading-edge software applications that enhance and extend SAP® solutions, and is recognized within the SAP global organization as one of the prime contributors of innovation, quality and service. Of SAP Labs India's headcount, about 25? is committed to research and next generation product development. It is SAP's largest location for SRM development, instrumental in delivering SRM 6.0 as well as development of SRM 7.0. The Central Test Lab for Global Application Platform development, SAP Labs India also contributes to 2/5th of global ERP development as well as the development of newest CRM solutions. It has complete ownership of delivering solutions for industries such as Hi-Tech, Apparel and Footwear Solutions (AFS) and SAP CRM for Pharmaceuticals, along with a significant contribution to SAP's Oil and Gas Downstream solution. SAP Labs India is also the prime contributor to the global development for latest applications such as xApps and Duet.

As a Global Services and Support institute, Labs India boasts of the largest production team outside Germany providing assembly, validation and test services, and is credited as being the largest testing center within SAP. Accounting for close to 50? of SAP custom development, Labs India also provides remote maintenance services to roughly 8/10th of North American customers.