SAP to Help Customers Ensure Critical Information Is Always Where They Need It To Be Across Distributed Enterprise Environments

WALLDORF, Germany, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the newest version of SAP® Sybase® Replication Server®, a core component of the SAP® Real-Time Data Platform that is planned to provide high-performance, secure and reliable delivery of data across the enterprise. From gathering real-time business intelligence (BI) to recovering from disaster, SAP Sybase Replication Server satisfies a host of mission-critical needs, enabling organizations to make decisions based on today's information and keep their distributed enterprise environments reliable and stable.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110126/AQ34470LOGO)

The latest version of SAP Sybase Replication Server is planned to replicate data in real time from multiple sources into multiple instances of SAP HANA® — without disrupting or slowing the production applications at the source — while transactional consistency is preserved. It also aims to provide real-time log-based changed data capture (CDC) for SAP® Data Services software, allowing customers to gain business insights in real time.

"Meeting the demands of the real-time enterprise requires a sophisticated data management strategy," said Shawn Rogers, vice president of Research at Enterprise Management Associates. "SAP Sybase Replication Server plays a critical role in the challenge to execute real-time workloads across diverse data landscapes. SAP has highly integrated the solution into its real-time data platform orchestrating data for optimal real-time effectiveness."

With data transaction volumes rapidly expanding and data availability requirements continuing to grow, enterprises need real-time data to make business decisions utilizing new sources and destinations for information that include in-memory databases, data warehouses, cloud services and more. SAP Sybase Replication Server aims to empower transactional replication, helping ensure that only consistent, accurate and reliable data is distributed to and synchronized between multiple locations. SAP Sybase Replication Server is a must-have mission-critical systems solution that is intended to supply business continuity, data migration and loading BI for organizations using the powerful SAP HANA database.

"SAP Sybase Replication Server is a critical component in delivering on our vision for a comprehensive real-time data platform," said Irfan Khan, chief technology officer and senior vice president, Database & Technology, SAP AG. "With SAP Sybase Replication Server, we plan to provide the capabilities to facilitate real-time data movement into SAP HANA as well as third-party databases to help ensure high availability and disaster recovery for SAP Business Suite on SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. These features are intended to allow businesses to leverage existing applications across multiple locations and geographies and make decisions based on today's information while feeling secure in the stability and reliability of their distributed enterprise environment."

To learn more, visit the SAP Sybase Replication Server page on SAP® Community Network. For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 232,000 customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend," "may," "plan," "project," "predict," "should" and "will" and similar expressions as they relate to SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect SAP's future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.

© 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark for additional trademark information and notices.

Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

For customers interested in learning more about SAP products:
Global Customer Center: +49 180 534-34-24
United States Only: 1 (800) 872-1SAP (1-800-872-1727)

For more information, press only:
Jeff Neal, +1 (925) 336-6203, [email protected], PDT
SAP Press Office, +49 (6227) 7-46315, CET; +1 (610) 661-3200, EDT; [email protected]

SOURCE SAP AG