SAP, whose letters for "Systems, Applications and Products in the data "are available, known colloquially depending on the context both SAP AG and the products of SAP R / 2 ®, and SAP R / 3 (including version of SAP R / 3 Enterprise).
SAP is by far Germany's largest and world's third-largest independent software companies. In the economic history the last decades there are few companies with comparable tempo has been a global player. In the course of this development, the SAP AG on both the German and on the international market of software developers for business software applications for Leader develops.
The success story of SAP AG and its software products is now based on selected dates and events to be clarified.
SAP AG: Company data and events
The attempt to present updated figures of SAP AG in a book that is problematic precisely because this company such a rapid pace of development presented. The dynamics of that market processes, which also and are driven to a substantial part of the SAP solutions leave some figures on SAP AG and its products quickly become obsolete. But let us first consider the company's history:
• 1972: Company founded by five former IBM employees.
• 1980: 50 of the 100 largest German industrial companies are customer
of SAP AG.
• 1988: The SAP AG is a listed company.
• 1992: Delivery of the first SAP R / 3.
• 1993: The number of employees is approximately 3,500 employees.
• 1994: More than 2000 productive R / 2 SAP R / 3 installations, and some 1700
Customers (peak) to R/2-Installationen.
• 1995: Inclusion in the German stock index (DAX).
• 1996: Development of the first industry-specific solutions and presentation of ASAP ®
(Accelerated SAP) as the introduction of environment R/3-Projekte. The SAP release
3.1 is Internet-ready.
• 1998: Approx. 19,000 people are working for SAP AG. Redesign
the surface and the handling of EnjoySAP ®.
• 1999: Presentation of e-business platform mySAP.com ® (whose development
mySAP Business Suite ® today is called) as a total package of solutions
and services involving the Internet. Worldwide, over 24,000
Installations, and 5.11 billion euros in annual sales.
• 2000: increase in sales to 6.265 billion euros.
• 2001: Approx. 23,000 people are employed in the company.
• 2002: Delivery of the current SAP R / 3 version SAP R / 3 Enterprise to
Pilot customers. The turnover was 7.4 billion euros.
• 2003: SAP AG has more than 50,000 SAP installations at more than
18,000 customers in over 100 countries. SAP R / 3 Enterprise are for all customers
. Die employees rose during this period to over 28,000. SAP R / 3 are maintained in more than 30 languages, including in Japanese and Chinese.
In addition to the linguistic aspect of SAP is on the major currencies the world focused. The latest sales figures clearly show that the East Asian region after the United States and Germany an important economic region for the company.
The latest sales figures of SAP AG show that the distance to the competitors increases.
These success rates are based, that SAP R / 3 over 90 of the 100 largest German industrial companies and more than half of the Fortune 500 companies (in various configurations) is administered.
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