| Headquarters | Walldorf, Germany |
| Address | SAP Aktiengesellschaft
Postfach 1461, Neurottstrasse 16, D-69190 Walldorf Tel. (0 62 27) 34 - 0 Fax ++49 (6227) 7-43025 SAP America Inc. U.S. Corporate Headquarters, Chesterbrook, Corporate Center, 701 Lee Road, Suite 200, Wayne, PA 19087 USA. Tel. (610) 725 4500 Fax (610) 725 4555 |
| Number of employees | 17,000 in 50 countries |
| History | SAP was founded in 1972 by five people: Wellenreuther,
Hopp,Hector, Plattner and Tchira. Wellenreuther , while working at IBM
, developed a financial accounting package running in batch for an IBM
customer – Naturin.
SAP bought rights from Naturin and started to design and implement the real-time finance system as a standard package. They sold the first copy of the standard system to ICI. Simultaneously, they developed a Materials management system as a bespoke software for ICI by reserving all property rights. Now SAP stands for - Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung also called - Systems, Applications And Products in Data Processing). Released R/2 for mainframe applications in 1972 Released R/3 for Client /server applications in 1992 Went public in 1988. Software now available in 14 languages |
| Sales | 1997 $ 2.25 Billion 32.2% rise over previous
year
1996 $ 1.70 Billion |
| Products | R/2
R/3 Other products/brand names are SAPtronic, InterSAP, ABAP/4, SAPoffice, SAPscript, SAPfind, SAPfile, SAPaccess, SAP-EDI, SAP Archive Link, SAP Early watch, ALE/WEB, RIVA, SAP Business Workflow |
| Partnerships | Partnerships with all world class vendors of
Hardware & software
Implementation partnership with Big 6 Companies Hardware partners: Amdahl, Bull, Compaq, Data General, Dell, Digital, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intergraph, IBM, NCR, NEC, Sequent, Tandem, Siemens Nixdorf , Sun, Unisys Implementation partners: Andersen Consulting, CAP GEMINI, Coopers & Lybrand, CSC, Digital, EDS, Ernst & Young, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Deloitte & Touche / ICS, KPMG, ORIGIN, Plaut, Price Waterhouse, SNI |
| Customers | 16000 installations
More than 9000 customers in 90 countries
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