Industry-Specific Midmarket Solutions from SAP Deliver Innovation and Value to Customers

ORLANDO, Fla. - May 12, 2009 - Dedicated to providing midsize companies with innovative business software products, services and solutions that meet the demands to better manage their businesses, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced that a rising number of midsize companies are deploying its comprehensive SAP® Business All-in-One solution. By addressing industry- and company-specific business challenges, SAP Business All-in-One is designed to support customers in getting up and running quickly, helping them to achieve a faster return on investment (ROI) and by serving as a springboard for long-term growth. The latest customers to identify SAP Business All-in-One as a primary growth enabler include CorePharma; Endeca Technologies, Inc.; Evergreen Solar, Inc.; GFI Genfare; GT Solar; tng worldwide; and Universal Blanchers. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2009, being held in Orlando, Florida, May 11–14.

With SAP Business All-in-One, customers are able to utilize the solutions in as quickly as eight to 16 weeks. Customers depend on SAP Business All-in-One as a scalable and flexible foundation for managing their industry-specific business processes end-to-end, and rely on it for the agility it provides to respond quickly to changing business conditions. These customers have the advantage of one integrated solution to provide a single source of business insight to improve decisions, control costs and manage risk.

Controlling Costs While Supporting Business Growth
CorePharma, a company that develops, manufactures and markets generic pharmaceuticals, was running its entire core business processes manually. A successful business, it was growing rapidly and needed a capable, integrated business management system to ensure data integrity, inventory accuracy and customer satisfaction. CorePharma selected SAP Business All-in-One because it offered the capabilities the company needed. In addition, with best practices from SAP built into SAP Business All-in-One, CorePharma did not have to do customizations for its specific industry needs, enabling the company to be up and running on SAP software in a matter of four months.

“Without an integrated system, CorePharma took over a month to collect our business results. Now with SAP, we close our books in two days,” said Don Allen, senior vice president, Operations, CorePharma. “With SAP Business All-in-One, we have already realized a reduction of inventories by 20 percent. In addition, SAP Business All-in-One provides us with the confidence to make better and faster decisions.”

Real-Time Visibility Into the Business
To support the demanding needs of a growing business, Endeca Technologies, Inc. required a robust and intuitive business platform that would scale along with its business. Endeca is a leading provider of search applications that deliver visibility into information, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue for more than 600 customers. With SAP Business All-in-One, Endeca has realized improved data consolidation and real-time insight into its business to streamline operations, allowing the company to remain focused on delivering value to its customers and partners.

“As a growing company, we knew our existing business systems couldn’t effectively scale to support our growing business,” said John Komola, vice president of Finance and chief accounting officer, Endeca Technologies, Inc. “We selected SAP because of its extensive, scalable solutions that are tailored to our industry. The implementation was smooth and we met the goals for the project, including the elimination of manual processes, consolidation of multiple systems onto one powerful, integrated system and the automation of a complex revenue recognition process. We now have a world-class platform to support our continued growth.”

Streamline Business Processes
The leading manufacturer of bus fare collection systems in North America, GFI Genfare recently went live on the SAP Business All-in-One solution. With the SAP solution, GFI will streamline many of its business processes, including automating pricing and billing, enabling correct purchasing by automating the planning system, tracking and capturing serial numbers and warranty information, providing visibility across the enterprise and delivering enhanced inventory tracking.

“GFI prides itself on meeting aggressive deadlines for delivering fare boxes on time, which is what we also expect from our solution provider,” said Scott Netzley, CFO, GFI Genfare. “With SAP Business All-in-One, we expect to streamline all our business operations, control costs and ensure clear through processing via better visibility across the enterprise.”

Keeping Pace With Customer Demand
GT Solar is a global market leader in the process design and equipment essential for the production of polysilicon and multi-crystalline ingots, the key materials used to produce solar cells and panels. As the demand for its technology increased, GT Solar needed a system that would evolve with the company.

“GT Solar business was rapidly growing and to continue to satisfy our customers, we needed a system to support our future growth,” said Tom Doyle, director of Information Technology, GT Solar. “We selected SAP because we were confident that the robust solution could be implemented in a short time frame, as little as 16 weeks. Our business is now more integrated and we are able to scale for growth.”

SAP Business All-in-One Makes Businesses Best-Run
SAP Business All-in-One SAP is a comprehensive and flexible business management software solution with best practices built in. It best fits the needs of midsize companies looking for a comprehensive, integrated industry solution to power their businesses end-to-end. The solution includes functionality to support all business operational needs, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence, as well as underlying capabilities such as financials, human resources, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, logistics, product development and sales and marketing in one configurable solution. SAP Business All-in-One solutions are available from SAP and SAP partners in 50 countries and can be configured to meet the business requirements of midsize companies in any industry. Thousands of customers around the globe use SAP Business All-in-One to improve financial management, maintain operational excellence and enhance competitive agility.

“Our extensive list of customers using SAP Business All-in-One demonstrates that SAP has the solutions our customers need,” said Robert Vetter, senior vice president, SME Global Business Development and SAP Business All-in-One Go-to-Market, SAP AG. “Helping our customers control costs with a solution that can be implemented quickly enables them to not lose business operation traction while they are gearing up on a new solution.”

Customers leveraging the SAP® Business All-in-One fast-start program can achieve rapid business results at lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The program was designed to provide midsize companies an easy and fast way to access an integrated, configurable and extensible business management solution. It comprises the SAP Business All-in-One solution based on proven SAP® ERP and SAP® Best Practices packages that have been preconfigured for midsize companies in the manufacturing, services and wholesale industries. The solution can be easily configured to individual needs using the solution configurator for SAP Business All-in-One solutions, an online tool that provides an instant cost estimate for greater transparency. The tool is available directly via SAP, as well as from select partners. SAP channel partners supporting the fast-start program are providing additional industry-specific and local knowledge. As of today, customers in nearly 50 countries can benefit from the fast-start program.

SAPPHIRE® 2009 Orlando
More than 10,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE® 2009 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that help today’s best-run businesses achieve clarity in every area of their operations. SAP’s premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE 2009 is being held in Orlando, Florida, May 11-14. For more information, please visit www.sap.com/sapphire. Join the conversation via Twitter at #sapphire09.

Based on the success of last year’s events, SAP and the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) are co-locating their premier events in Orlando, where the 2009 ASUG Annual Conference takes place May 11-14.

In addition to SAPPHIRE 2009, SAP is also hosting SAP® World Tour 2009, a series of local events in more than 70 cities through Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. For more information, visit the SAP World Tour event page on sap.com.

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