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Key Facts

Headquarters

Neurottstrasse 16 69160
Walldorf Germany

U.S. Headquarters:
3999 W. Chester Pike
Newtown Square, PA 19073

Phone: 610-661-1000
Fax: 610-355-3106

Ticker Symbol

SAP (Frankfurt)

Staff

Population: 39,355
1 year change: 13.9 percent

Financial

2007 revenue: $14,957 million
1- Year Growth: 20.5 percent

SAP

Company Overview

Highlights

The name stands for “Systems, Applications, and Products,” the name of the project the four founders were working on at IBM when they left the company in 1972.

SAP is largest enterprise software company in the world, and third-largest software company overall.

Has operations in more than 50 countries.

Serves more than 34,600 customers around the world.

Since its founding in 1972 in Germany, SAP has become a world leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. In 1973, the company’s four founders released their first software, an automatic accounting and transaction-processing program. Growing steadily, SAP expanded into the United States in 1992, where its revenue soared. Today, SAP products include services in areas such as customer relationship management, supply chain management, supplier relationship management, product lifecycle management, business intelligence, financials, and human resources.