Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

With 12 million users, 79,800 installations, and 1,500 partners, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's third-largest independent software supplier overall. We have a rich history of innovation and growth that has made us a true industry leader. Today, SAP employs nearly 51,400 people in more than 50 countries. Our professionals are dedicated to providing high-level customer support and services.

Experience, Knowledge, and Technology for Maximizing Business

SAP has leveraged our extensive experience to deliver SAP Business Suite, the definitive family of business solutions for today's economy. SAP Business Suite allows employees, customers, and business partners to work together successfully -- anywhere, anytime. SAP Business Suite is open and flexible, supporting databases, applications, operating systems, and hardware from almost every major vendor.

By deploying the best technology, services, and development resources, SAP has delivered a business platform that unlocks valuable information resources, improves supply chain efficiencies, and builds strong customer relationships. To ensure SAP's position as a technology thought leader, SAP Ventures invests in emerging entrepreneurial companies that are developing and advancing exciting new technologies. And through SAP Research, we introduce new ideas for future solutions.

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol "SAP."

SAP Africa

For companies to compete in the emerging net economy they need business software solutions that integrate the processes within and among enterprises and business communities, providing a co-ordinated view of information. This is why SAP AG has been working with companies world-wide, assisting them to make the transition to the Internet business model while focusing on customer-centric processes.

mySAP.com equals e-business

The ability of SAP, based in Germany but a global player, to deliver customer-centric, personalised and collaborative inter-enterprise solutions on demand is embodied in mySAP.com. This business and Internet solution connects employees, customers, suppliers and business partners as if they were all in one company.

SAP business solutions have already enabled integration within thousands of single organisations: now mySAP.com delivers collaboration to entire markets by spanning enterprise boundaries. This reflects the SAP commitment to e-business - a significant step beyond e-commerce. The flexible mySAP.com offering can be implemented to fully integrate an organisation's operational business processes from finance, human resources and manufacturing to sales, and distribution; while enabling the company to reach out to its customers and business partners along the value and supply chain.

Africa and Innovation

Within Africa, SAP has been highly successful in providing the benefits of its business application software. Over 200 customers, including many of Africa's prominent enterprises, effectively run their operations on the SAP software, using best business practices from around the globe. The success of these installations is primarily due to the partnerships that SAP Africa has enjoyed with its customers, partnerships that will continue as these customers move to take advantage of the Internet age.

SAP Africa has become synonymous with innovation within the SAP world, with several key global initiatives being driven from the African continent.

Perhaps the most critical of these is the role based education initiative, a core education project focusing on enabling continuous leveraging of business benefits following implementation of the SAP solution. Indeed, the concept of role based education was established through the joint efforts of SAP Africa and its customers, with the subsidiary being named as official SAP curriculum development factory for the initiative. In addition, SAP's first role based education partner world-wide was South African firm, CS Computer Services - a move which demonstrates SAP Africa's commitment to develop and drive new SAP education initiatives through the deployment of enhanced educational solutions.

SAP Africa is also heavily involved in SAP's Continuous Business Improvement (CBI) initiative, forming part of the ValueSAP/CBI review committee. This initiative seeks to provide organisations with a framework for continuous value delivery, enabling true value generation in the e-community while leveraging off existing business solutions investments.