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SAP Opens European Shared Services Center in Prague, Czech Republic |
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New Center Helps SAP Employees in EMEA Support Corporate Strategy
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - September 21, 2005— SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today officially opened its newest shared services center, the SAP Business Services Center Europe (BSCE) in Prague, Czech Republic. Located in the city’s Avenir Business Park, SAP BSCE provides human resources (HR) and finance and administration (F&A) services to SAP branch offices in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Managing Director Eva Megová leads the center’s current workforce of approximately 132 employees, who support 70 countries in 15 different languages.
SAP Executive Board Member Claus Heinrich and Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Martin Jahn led this morning’s official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Following the ceremony, Prof. Dr. Heinrich and Deputy Prime Minister Jahn toured the new facility, joined by Karolína Bočková, chief operating officer of CzechInvest, the Czech Republic’s investment and business development agency.
“We are pleased that SAP chose the Czech Republic,” said Deputy Premier for Economics Martin Jahn. “The benefit of projects of this kind cannot be narrowed down only to just the investment size and number of jobs. Business support services bring with them state-of-the-art know-how and place the Czech Republic among the most advanced countries that are able to export intellectual work.”
SAP analyzed and evaluated 18 European cities to determine the best location for the new BSCE. The company ultimately chose Prague because of the city’s highly skilled and flexible workforce, advanced telecommunications and IT infrastructure, cultural compatibility and stable economic and political conditions. In addition, the city is ideally located within Central and Eastern Europe.
“As a high performance company, it is SAP’s strategy to effectively and efficiently support core internal functions such as HR and F&A throughout the global business. In addition to providing HR and F&A services to SAP employees, the center also offers customers unique insight into how “SAP runs SAP” in performing these services,” said Claus Heinrich, member of the executive board, SAP AG. “The new BSCE here in Prague, with its highly skilled team, is a key milestone in executing to this strategy.”
“In recent years the Czech Republic has become a more and more attractive location for investments with higher added value—for research, development and services,” said Karolína Bočková, chief operating officer of CzechInvest. “Our goal is to gain the maximum number of similar projects. Besides other benefits we also have a well-prepared state aid scheme—companies here can receive subsidies for their business activity and subsidies for employee training and retraining.”
Next Major Events: SAP TechEd® ‘05 in Vienna, Boston, Bangalore and Tokyo
SAP customers, partners and technical community are convening at SAP TechEd ’05 to learn how to turn IT infrastructures into enablers of business change and growth. SAP’s largest SAP NetWeaver® education event of the year is being held in Vienna, Austria, Sept. 21 – 23; Boston, Massachusetts, Sept. 27 – 30; Bangalore, India, Oct. 5 – 7 and Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 26 – 27, 2005. To encourage SAP customers, partners and developers to bring their peers to SAP TechEd in 2005, SAP is offering companies that purchase three conference registrations an additional fourth registration at no additional charge. For more information, please visit www.sapteched.com.
About SAP
SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software solutions*. Today, more than 28,200 customers in over 120 countries run more than 96,400 installations of SAP® software—from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize enterprises to suite solutions for global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver® platform to drive innovation and enable business change, mySAP™ 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. SAP industry solutions support the unique business processes of more than 25 industry segments, including high tech, retail, public sector and financial services. 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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