May 2,2012 - SAP today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms” report. The positioning is based on evaluation of the SAP mobile platform, which includes Sybase Unwired Platform, SAP Afaria mobile device management solution and Sybase 365. SAP is recognized as a market leader for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. The Gartner report highlights, “Mobile application development has become a top concern for enterprises and their CIOs. According to the 2012 Gartner CIO Survey (see ‘Amplifying the Enterprise: The 2012 CIO Agenda’), 61 percent of respondents plan to enhance their mobility capability during the next three years, and 48 percent believe they will become leaders in their industries by fully adopting innovative mobility solutions. This Magic Quadrant assesses the major vendors of application development platforms that enable enterprise developers to design, code, integrate, test, publish and manage business-to-consumer (B2C), B2B and business-to-enterprise (B2E) mobile applications.”

May 1,2012 - SAP today announced the appointment of Geraldine McBride as president of its North America region. In this role, McBride is responsible for all of SAP’s business operations in the United States and Canada. She will report to Robert Enslin, president of sales and part of the SAP Global Managing Board. McBride rejoins SAP from Dell, where she served as vice president and global head for the Applications and BPO Services business, and most recently as vice president of Dell Services for Asia Pacific and Japan. In these roles, she led a team of more than 15,000 professionals building next-generation services offerings and process capabilities for Dell Services on a global basis across multiple industry verticals and market segments. During her tenure, she transformed Dell Services businesses to provide profitable growth; co-innovated with Dell customers to deliver data center, application development, application modernization, mobility and cloud-based solutions; and led sales and delivery of end-to-end Dell solution capabilities in key markets including the U.S., Europe, India, Japan and China.

May 2,2012 - WALLDORF — 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. “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.”