Yet they also
recognize these are not the only key factors for success.

IFIP directs its research
efforts through a series of 12 technical committees and corresponding
working groups.

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"In pursuing answers, they hope to
better understand how technology and business process -driven agility
can be measured and improved to advance and support innovation and
competitiveness ," Mr. Mr. The Company focuses on delivering objective, in-depth
analysis and actionable advice to enable clients to make more informed
business and technology decisions.

New Master Data Management Capabilities From SAP Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Services-Oriented Architectures

By improving processes
such as collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment, it is helping
us to reduce costs and to optimize our supply chain operations. It is for exactly this reason that organizations are
choosing SAP NetWeaver MDM to address the ubiquitous master data challenge
today. National product
specifications may vary.

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IFIP's international conference on Agility is scheduled May 8 -11
in Atlanta on the campus of Georgia State University.
Gartner surveys also show that IT leaders increasingly realize that
how information technology is designed and integrated can make or
break their enterprise's ability to remain competitive." Gartner's involvement with the IFIP
conference comes through relationships established in Gartner's
Academic Roundtable, a research vehicle of the Gartner Fellows that
links academic and practitioner viewpoints. It introduces
capabilities that enable consolidation, aggregation and interactive
distribution of rich information using a newly developed syndicator module
that is tightly integrated with the messaging capabilities of SAP NetWeaver ."

About SAP
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions*. Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
NOTE: SAP, R/3, mySAP, mySAP.

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He is a primary analyst
in software infrastructure, and is responsible for research in Web
services, application integration and middleware, applications
development, emerging trends and technologies, and enterprise
architecture .dk/Atlanta/

About Gartner
Gartner, Inc.

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SAP's latest Unicode-enabled SAP NetWeaver MDM solution is used by a growing
number of companies as a key step on their way to evolve their IT
infrastructures into Enterprise Services Architectures. All
forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations.com, PDT

During SAPPHIRE (from May 17 to 19), to speak with press contacts on site,
please dial the SAP press room at +1 (617) 954-3953.

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"An enterprise's
cumulative collection of information technology investments can lead
to or hinder its agility.
In addition to providing the Tuesday keynote, Mr . For more information, visit
www.gartner.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of their dates.

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These steps include:

Sensing - Is the organization able to monitor and detect
significant changes in its business environment?

Strategizing - Is the organization able to develop alternative
potential plans and directives to respond to the change?

Deciding - Can the organization determine which of many
alternative plans is the most effective and commit to those
directives?

Communicating - Does the organization consistently and
comprehensively ensure the proper notification and
understanding of key directives to all relevant personnel
internal and external to the enterprise?

Acting - Does the organization produce results efficiently
that respond to business change and meet market demands
effectively?

IFIP was founded in 1960. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver(TM) platform to drive
innovation and enable business change, mySAP (TM) Business Suite solutions are
helping enterprises around the world improve customer relationships , enhance
partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and
business operations. All other product and service names
mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.held@sap.com, PDT
SAP Press Office, +1 (610) 661-3200, press@sap.

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itu. UCCnet is the
global leader in building the foundation for clean, secure and fast electronic
commerce and a provider of data pool services.

The Conferences category is a directory of
sites that are related to academic scholarships in
Management Information Systems, especially for
Conferences and Proceedings.

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Business Editors
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2005

STAMFORD, Conn. McCoy said .newscom. SAP NetWeaver MDM is pre-loaded with
best practices and embeds seamlessly into the customer 's business processes
while allowing customers to retain control and flexibility.

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"Most IT
leaders realize that architectures and infrastructures are only a
portion of the agility puzzle," Mr. "Agility also depends
on the risk level the enterprise is willing to bear, and on clearing a
number of inhibiting hurdles that others will not be willing or able
to clear.S. (NYSE: IT and ITB) is the leading provider of
research and analysis on the global information technology industry.
Today , more than 27,000 customers in over 120 countries run more than
91,500 installations of SAP(R) software -from distinct solutions addressing the
needs of small and midsize businesses to enterprise-scale suite solutions for
global organizations. SAP industry solutions support the unique business
processes of more than 25 industry segments, including high tech, retail,
public sector and financial services .bm.

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Leading
researchers are expected to examine how businesses can improve their
competitive posture through the agile use of information technologies
and practices across an enterprise. Mr.com

S.com, xApps, xApp, SAP NetWeaver 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 in several
other countries all over the world.

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SAP NetWeaver MDM allows business applications to work
from a common master data foundation, leading to superior business decisions
based on clean, synchronized and integrated master data across the globe.
"SAP NetWeaver MDM is a key step in an organization 's evolution toward
Enterprise Services Architecture," said Peter Graf, executive vice president
of Solution Marketing, SAP AG. As such, SAP NetWeaver paves the way
to better business decisions, no matter which enterprise system or database
you are leveraging.

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McCoy's three primary
research topics are: advanced software infrastructure and agility,
emerging trends and technologies, and Business Process Management
skills and education.

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Each is devoted to topics of critical interest to
advance understanding of information systems.sap. SAP undertakes no
obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.

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Academic Working Sessions of International Federation for
Information Processing Scheduled May 8-11 in Atlanta

In a keynote presentation next Tuesday before the conference of
the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP ),
Gartner Fellows Daryl Plummer and David McCoy will analyze the latest
technologies and processes that leading enterprises are embracing to
identify and respond to changing competitive and market forces.
For more information on the conference, or IFIP, please see
http://ifiptc8.com/cgi-bin /prnh/20050310/SFTH009LOGO-a )
Whirlpool Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of
major home appliances, has successfully deployed SAP NetWeaver MDM for global
data synchronization (GDS) across and beyond technical and organizational
boundaries. Data contained in
this document serve informational purposes only.

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Plummer. McCoy is vice president and Gartner Fellow, and
founder of the Gartner Academic Roundtable.
In addition, SAP has delivered on its promise of providing high -performance
parametric search capabilities that dramatically reduce the time needed to
locate records.

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Approximately 60 leading scholars
and researchers are expected to attend the meetings from a worldwide
network of universities and research centers.
In their presentation , "Measuring Agility: Business Agility
Delivered through IT," the Gartner analysts first will explain how
agility and enterprise effectiveness can be improved over time by
selective technology investments that enhance enterprise
infrastructure flexibility.
Mr.
They collaborate with 600 Gartner research analysts worldwide to
identify and examine emerging trends and technologies. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE(R) '05, SAP's
international customer conference being held in Boston, Massachusetts ,
May 17 - 19.
(Logo: http://www.com, EDT
Rachel Allen, +1 (415) 591-4041, rachel_allen@sfo .

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"
Mr. Plummer, who will also be presenting in the track entitled
"Applications Development - Architecting for Agility" at Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco May 15-19, is group vice president
for emerging trends and Chief Gartner Fellow.com)

(*) SAP defines business software solutions as comprising enterprise
resource planning and related software solutions such as supply chain
management , customer relationship management, product life-cycle management
and supplier relationship management .

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts
are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.

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Gartner has taken an
active role in research innovation, including involvement with peer
researchers in academic settings. The Company's businesses consist of
Research and Events for IT professionals; Gartner Executive Programs,
membership programs and peer networking services; and Gartner
Consulting, customized engagements with a specific emphasis on
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"estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intend ," "may," "plan," "project,"
"predict," "should" and "will" and similar expressions as they relate to SAP
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including SAP's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC.

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"Equally important is a focus on
higher -level assets such as business processes, application
portfolios, and delivery services," said Mr .
The Gartner Fellows include 15 Gartner research analysts,
distinguished by their reputations as innovators and thought leaders.

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The inability to effectively deliver a consistent
view of critical data indirectly affects many other business processes, from
purchasing, marketing and sales to human resource management, new product
development and introduction and inventory management.

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McCoy said Gartner surveys consistently confirm that most
enterprises desire flexible and efficient technology architectures." One concept behind successful improvement is the agility
cycle - a set of processes or steps that all organizations must go
through to effectively identify and respond to changing business
conditions. McCoy said,
Gartner is underwriting a portion of the conference as a corporate
sponsor "in recognition of the importance of linking academic research
with Gartner's research agendas.
Gartner serves more than 10,000 clients, including chief information
officers and other senior IT executives in corporations and government
agencies, as well as technology companies and the investment
community . Founded in 1979, Gartner is
headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and has over 3,900 associates ,
including more than 1,100 research analysts and consultants, in more
than 75 locations worldwide . Point products only
manage specific master data object types or data that does not reflect a deep
understanding of the customer's business.S.

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Gartner Fellows to Address International Conference on Use of Technologies and Processes for Seeing Responding to Changing Competition Forces

"
Gartner defines agility as "the ability of an organization to
sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to
that change. Enterprise Information Management Capabilities of SAP NetWeaver(TM ) MDM Help
Companies such as Whirlpool Corporation Lower Operational Costs and Gain
Strategic Benefits

BOSTON, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today
introduced new capabilities of SAP NetWeaver(TM) in the area of master data
management (MDM) that will help companies achieve master data consistency and
accuracy across a set of heterogeneous systems and databases within and across
enterprise boundaries.
"SAP's comprehensive SAP NetWeaver MDM solution seamlessly integrates with
our existing investments in solutions such as mySAP(TM) ERP, " said Dave
Cosgrove, director for North American eBusiness, Whirlpool. With subsidiaries in more than
50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the
Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP.

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Whirlpool is successfully
collaborating with its distribution partners by publishing global trade item
information (GTIN) utilizing the SAP UCCnet-certified GDS solution . "SAP NetWeaver MDM
has enabled us to bring new products to market faster and significantly reduce
the time spent maintaining trade partners and items."
Global data synchronization is one manifestation of the complex problem of
managing master data today.

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McCoy said. Its worldwide membership consists of 62
societies and academies of science based in 50 countries, such as the
Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers in the U. The deployment of GDS for synchronizing product item information
with UCCnet is powered by the common SAP NetWeaver foundation . "As business processes cross the boundaries of
systems, departments and organizations, SAP NetWeaver MDM is the way to
complete, clean and correct master data." (Additional
information at http:/ /www. The factors
that could affect SAP's future financial results are discussed more fully in
SAP 's filings with the U.