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Customers benefit from the complementary offer of products and service of both companies in WALLDORF and TGERWILEN (Switzerland), July 15, 2011 the SAP AG (SAP)”and the SAF simulation, analysis and forecasting AG (SAF”) plan the business of the SAF with the Swiss subsidiary of SAP, SAP (Switzerland) AG (SAP Switzerland”), to put together. For this purpose, the SAF in connection with a merger should be merged with the SAP Switzerland. The external shareholders of SAF should receive a reasonable compensation in cash in connection with the merger. The resolution of the SAF by entry of the merger in the commercial register will be used to set the trading of the shares of the SAF on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The merger is to be decided upon completion of the necessary preparatory measures at an extraordinary general meeting later this year. Layoffs are not provided in both companies. It is planned to receive the currently existing SAF locations as a competence centre for retail, forecasting and replenishment. SAF developed as a technology leader innovative software systems for a highly efficient IT-controlled goods supply management in trade and industry.

Many companies optimize their holdings with automatic forecasting and ordering systems of SAF, lower storage costs, and increase sales and customer satisfaction. SAF and SAP work together successfully since 2002 in a strategic OEM Partnership on the product and the sales page. About the main product of the SAF as part of the software offer of the SAP solution distributed forecasting & replenishment. In the wake of this successful partnership, SAP had acquired the majority of shares of the SAF in the summer of 2009 and currently holds a stake of over 94 percent. Technologies and solutions can be jointly developed and offered as part of SAP solutions for trade, through the merger of SAF and SAP Switzerland. We bring together the innovative strength of a lean little company with the potential for a global group in an optimal manner.