Newsbyte: SAP Named Worldwide Market Share Leader for Enterprise Resource Planning

WALLDORF, Germany, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced it has been named the overall market share leader in the worldwide enterprise resource planning (ERP) market. According to the April 24, 2012 report issued by Gartner Inc., "Market Share Analysis: ERP Software, Worldwide, 2011," SAP ranks No. 1 with 25.5 percent share of the worldwide market based on revenue for 2011, reflecting a 13.2 percent growth from 2010.(1)

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"Our continued success with helping customers execute on their business strategies has enabled us to outperform the ERP market growth rate," said Peter Maier, general manager, Line-of-Business Solutions, SAP. "Whether it's analytics, the cloud, in-memory technology, mobile or core applications, SAP is making significant investments to bring increased value to organizations in their quests to make sounder decisions and run their core business processes more efficiently. We believe our market leadership, as recognized by Gartner, affirms this momentum."

The SAP® ERP application, included in SAP® Business Suite software, provides solutions for finance, human capital management (HCM) and operations. Additionally, enhancement packages and rapid-deployment solutions enable customers to take advantage of new innovations whenever they need them, and to get up and running as quickly as possible. Catering to organizations of all sizes, the SAP® Business One application, SAP® Business All-in-One solution and SAP Business ByDesign® solution are flexible offerings capable of scaling along with the business.

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Media Contacts:
Susan Miller, SAP, +1 (610) 661-9225, [email protected], EDT
Janice Edman, SAP, +1 (650) 223-4817, [email protected], PDT
Jeff Shadid, Burson-Marsteller, +1 (214) 224-8419, [email protected], CDT

(1) Gartner "Market Share Analysis: ERP Software, Worldwide, 2011" April 24, 2012

SOURCE SAP AG