SAP Announces Availability of 2010 Annual Report to Shareholders and Annual Report on Form 20-F

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WALLDORF, Germany - March 21, 2011 - SAP AG SAP's Annual Report toShareholders including the IFRS audited consolidated financial statementsfor the year ended December 31, 2010 is now available, and SAP's AnnualReport on Form 20-F has been filed with the U.S. Securities and ExchangeCommission (SEC). Both reports can be accessed via SAP's Web site atwww.sap.com/investorandwww.sap.de/investor. Hardcopies of both reports canbe ordered free of charge:

(i) online at www.sap.com/investor and www.sap.de/investor,
(ii) via phone +49 6227 7-67336 or +1-877-727-7862 or
(iii) by sending an e-mail to investor@sap.com.

In the 2010 Annual Report, SAP reaffirmed its previously (January 26, 2011)published business outlook for the full-year 2011.

• Full-year 2011 non-IFRS software and software-related servicerevenue is expected to increase in a range of 10% to 14% at constantcurrencies (2010: EUR9.87 billion).
• Full-year 2011 non-IFRS operating profit is expected to be in arange of EUR4.45 billion to EUR4.65 billion at constant currencies (2010:EUR4.00 billion), resulting in 2011 non-IFRS operating margin increasing ina range of 0.5 to 1.0 percentage points at constant currencies (2010:32.0%).
• Full-year 2011 IFRS effective tax rate is projected to be 27.0% to28.0% (2010: 22.5%) and the non-IFRS effective tax rate is projected to be27.5% to 28.5% (2010: 27.3%).

SAP expects to hire in all regions in 2011, including in Germany.Also in the 2010 Annual Report, SAP stated that by the middle of the presentdecade, it aims to achieve a non-IFRS operating margin of 35% in averageannual increments of up to 100 basis points, to increase annual totalrevenue to at least EUR20 billion, and to increase the share of softwarerevenue generated through indirect channels by up to 40%, which would bemore than twice the proportion generated through indirect channels in 2010.In the execution of its strategy, technology partners are essential toadvance SAP's research agenda, to monetize in-memory technologies, and toenhance its solution portfolio.

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