Inside SAP: Fact file

Read Tony Hallett's analysis of SAP in our vendor dossier

Key financials (since 1999 in line with US GAAP accounting rules):
2000/2001/2002/2003 Revenues: €6.265bn, €7.340bn, 7.413bn, €7.024bn
Net profit: €615.7m, €581.1m, €508.6m, €1,077.1m

The executives:
Henning Kagermann, chairman and CEO (was co-chairman and CEO since 1997)
Shai Agassi, SAP NetWeaver development, mySAP SRM, SAP xApps
Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP Americas
Léo Apotheker, global field operations
Werner Brandt, CFO
Claus Heinrich, Business Solutions Group
Gerhard Oswald, global support and IT infrastructure
Peter Zenke, coordination of global R&D, SAP Enterprise Services Architecture development
(all the above on executive board)

Leslie Hayman, global HR
Karl-Heinz Hess, SAP NetWeaver
Martin Homlish, global marketing
Wolfgang Kemna, global initiatives
Peter Kirschbauer, business solutions group, Services Industries
Klaus Kreplin, technology platform, SAP NetWeaver

The main products and technology:
mySAP Business Suite
SAP NetWeaver - to integrate all applications, including non-SAP software
SAP xApps - to pull together various applications, old and new, to meet a specific business requirement
SAP Business One - for SMEs
SAP Solutions for Mobile Business
25 industry specific modules - or 'business specific solutions', as SAP puts it
Huge installed base of R/3 ERP client-server software

High-profile customers:
Too many to list but 80,000+ installations worldwide, 25,000+ customers in 120+ countries (though SME rollouts bump that up more than in the past)