SAP New Zealand Growth Fueled by Small and Midsize Enterprises Adopting SAP’s Innovative Software Solutions
Auckland, New Zealand — SAP Asia Pacific Japan has announced another quarter of double-digit growth across all markets for the second quarter of 2007, continuing to build on its momentum from the first quarter. With significant growth results in Japan, and fast growing markets such as India and China, SAP Asia Pacific Japan is poised to be the leading growth region for SAP.
Second quarter software revenue in the region grew 31 percent in constant currency to €107 million. Asia Pacific Japan1 Q2 software and software related service2 revenues grew 29 percent on a constant currency basis to €222 million. Total revenues in Asia Pacific grew 25 percent year-on-year in constant currency to €304 million.
SAP continued to gain share in the second quarter of 2007, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of share gains. Based on software and software related service revenues on a rolling four quarter basis, SAP’s worldwide share of Core Enterprise Applications vendors3, which account for approximately $35.3 billion in software and software related service revenues as defined by the Company based on industry analyst research, increased to 26.0 percent for the four quarter period ended June 30, 2007 compared to 25.1 percent for the four quarter period ended March 31, 2007 and 23.0 percent for the four quarter period ended June 30, 2006, representing a year-over-year share gain of 3 percent.
Investing for the Future in Asia Pacific Japan
SAP Asia Pacific continues to invest in robust growth and has added 811 full time equivalent people in the region so far in 2007, a 10 percent growth in headcount. Many of those employees were added at SAP Labs in the region as part of SAP’s sustained commitment to innovation-fueled growth. Growth across the region has resulted in SAP expanding its award-winning Shared Services Center in Singapore which delivers HR services to SAP employees across Asia Pacific and Japan.
Accelerating Growth to 100,000 by 2010
“SAP Asia Pacific Japan has had a tremendous year so far, with dynamic growth in key markets such as Japan, India and China,” said Ian Black, Managing Director, SAP New Zealand. “The continued adoption of SAP in the fast-growing small and midsize enterprise market has been key to our success in both Asia Pacific Japan and New Zealand. New Zealand has added many new names, fuelling growth and greater adoption within the SME market locally. Our customers have articulated what they need, and through this customer-centric approach and a talented global team, we look forward to building on the robust growth we have achieved in our established business. Particularly in this region, with all of its potential, midsize companies are looking to partner with a trusted industry-leader like SAP.”
As part of SAP’s goal to reach 100,000 customers by 2010, SAP Asia Pacific Japan has committed to triple its small and midsize enterprise (SME) customer base. The SME market already contributes more than 40 percent of SAP’s total software revenue in Asia Pacific Japan. In the small and midsize enterprise segment served by SAP’s channel partners, Asia Pacific Japan saw a 30 percent increase in software revenue year-on-year in Q2. Building on its commitment to empower small and midsize customers with new ways to leverage software for business growth and success, in the first half of this year SAP has announced more than 80 new additions to its portfolio of qualified SAP All-in-One industry solutions offered by SAP partners. SAP has also introduced enhancement packages for Business One, a new series of downloadable packages as part of SAP standard support that offers customers faster and more frequent access to new functionality, best practice tools and maintenance updates.
Business Process Platform of Choice
The wide acceptance of the Business Process Platform is demonstrated by the vigorous pace of SAP® ERP and SAP® NetWeaver sales. SAP NetWeaver sales grew 59 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2007, and at the end of Q2, SAP Asia Pacific Japan gained 88 new SAP NetWeaver customers, and had over 1,200 customers on the latest version of SAP ERP. Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) revenue grew 88 percent quarter-on-quarter, with SAP seeing many GRC firsts – including a win with PT Astra International – in Malaysia, Indonesia and China. Further empowering customers to make GRC management an integral part of their business and IT strategies, SAP announced earlier this year its plans to acquire OutlookSoft Corporation, a privately held provider of integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation software. Together with SAP’s financial capabilities in SAP ERP, SAP solutions for GRC, and the strategy management software from Pilot Software, SAP now has all of the pieces in place for a portfolio that supports CFOs to meet their responsibilities, particularly in non-automated areas of the business.
