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10,000 SAP customers run latest ERP release

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WALLDORF, GERMANY: SAP AG announced a historic landmark in its product release strategy: The latest release of its market-leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, SAP ERP, has been selected or installed by more than 10,000 customers, including Bank of America, Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem, and Kraft Foods.

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In addition, Gartner recently ranked SAP as the 2007 Market Share leader in the ERP category with a market share of 27.5 percent, surpassing the second-ranked vendor who was ranked at 13.9 percent.

As SAP ERP continues to gain industry-wide momentum, it has also become the No. 1 topic of interest for the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG), according to Chris Crone, director of Business Technology, Pentair Corp. and member of the ASUG Board of Directors.

"To keep pace with this demand, we created the ASUG SAP ERP Upgrades Program in 2007," said Crone. "Robust attendance at our face-to-face symposiums and Webcasts, in addition to the high volume of traffic on our online Upgrades Information Center, is proof that SAP ERP 6.0 is the IT enabler of choice for companies seeking to gain a competitive edge."

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Available since June 2006, SAP ERP 6.0 is the fastest adopted ERP release in SAP history and is the first step in enabling customers to take full advantage of the entire SAP(R) Business Suite family of business applications. The 10,000-customer milestone comes in the wake of general availability of the software's third enhancement package, a unique model in the software sector that enables customers to continuously add on new software features at no additional charge and without having to undergo complete upgrades.

Now available to SAP ERP 6.0 customers, the third enhancement package delivers 150 new business functions that include 400 new capabilities, 183 industry enhancements, 45 enterprise service bundles and 556 individual enterprise services-the essential building blocks of software applications that can be reused and combined to compose new business processes. Key business functions include new capabilities in the areas of general ledger, hedge management support, recruiting and unit maintenance for defense.

Since the release of SAP ERP in 2006, SAP has delivered more than 600 new capabilities and 97 enterprise service bundles to customers. Built upon the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, SAP ERP enables customers to take advantage of an enterprise SOA strategy. SAP NetWeaver, coupled with leading end-to-end business processes from SAP, provide a consolidated IT landscape, outfitted with the best tools to enable innovation and ultimately lead to differentiation and a competitive edge for businesses.