Certified mySAP.com Service Partners More Than Triple in United States; Newly Certified mySAP.com Service Partners Provide Seamless E-Business Support.

Business Editors and Technology Writers

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2000

SAP America, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of SAP AG (NYSE:SAP), which is the leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, today announced that more than 70 new Service Partners have been mySAP.com(TM) certified in the United States in the past two months.

These new partners complement the 28 companies initially certified as part of the mySAP.com Partner Network and the more than 55,000 partners currently SAP(TM) certified globally. mySAP.com Service Partners offer consulting services in areas such as strategic e-business consulting, evaluation, implementation, knowledge management and continuous system integration for mySAP.com solutions. These partners provide SAP customers with the highest-quality solutions and services, helping them reduce time to market and ensure successful integration while utilizing the full capacity of mySAP.com solutions.

"The rapid growth of mySAP.com certified Service Partners shows that SAP is dedicated to working with partners to ensure customers have access to consistent, high-quality services, which will ultimately help them leverage mySAP.com solutions to their fullest," said Nicole Gallant, analyst, Software Partnering and Alliances, IDC. "SAP's new Global Partner Program, Partner Value Net, demonstrates its commitment and flexibility to supporting customer and partner needs in the e-business market."

The mySAP.com Partner Network, including the newly certified mySAP.com Service Partners, is now part of the mySAP.com Partner Value Net, the global SAP partner program launched at SAPPHIRE(R) 2000 Berlin, the SAP European user conference held May 24-26 (http://www.sap.com/sapphire/berlin). The mySAP.com Partner Value Net enhances SAP partner support and the delivery of proven, high-quality, comprehensive and customized e-business solutions.

"We are pleased to welcome our newest mySAP.com Service Partners to the Partner Value Net," said Cheryl C. Groover, vice president, Strategic Alliances at SAP. "The Partner Value Net extends our long history of integrating partners' capabilities into SAP business solutions to enable customers to maximize their business potential. SAP and the Strategic Alliances Organization will continue to work closely with our partner community to ensure that our mutual goals of superior solutions, return on investment and customer satisfaction are realized."

"MySAP.com has huge potential to solve companies' e-business needs, and we're helping companies tap into the full value of mySAP.com in ways uniquely suited to their needs," said Debbie Ung, senior vice president, Enterprise Systems, RWD Technologies. "Working closely with SAP enables us to deliver solutions based on mySAP.com that give companies the greatest possible advantage in e-business."

The latest mySAP.com Service Partners to be certified include 75 in the United States:

-- Abacus Software Group Inc.

-- Acsys Information Technology Inc.

-- AG Consulting, Division of ADP Inc.

-- Align Consulting Inc.

-- Alti America Inc.

-- American Appraisal Associates

-- Annance Consulting

-- Applicast

-- ARINSO International

-- The Baer Group

-- BrightStar

-- Bristlecone, Inc.

-- CAI (Computer Aid, Inc.)

-- Clarkston*Potomac Group

-- Compuware Corp.

-- Conley, Canitano & Associates, Inc.

-- Copfer & Associates

-- Cotelligent, Inc.

-- CSC

-- CyberTech Systems, Inc.

-- Cyntergy

-- DACG 

-- Delphi Consultants, LLC 

-- Delta Consulting

-- ea consulting, Inc. (aka Navicor)

-- EDCO Group

-- EMPLIFI

-- EPI-USE America, Inc.

-- Executive Consulting

-- FutureNext Consulting

-- Gamma Computer

-- Grom Associates

-- Horizon Companies, Inc.

-- HostLogic

-- The Hunter Group

-- i2i

-- Idea Integration

-- IMPRESS SOFTWARE, Inc.

-- The INC Group

-- IntelliCorp

-- Intelligroup

-- iS3C, Inc.

-- Kurt Salmon Associates-

-- MarchFIRST, Inc.

-- MAS Inc.

-- Metamor

-- Miracle Software Systems Inc.

-- Nexus Technology, Inc.

-- OAO Technology Solutions

-- Osprey 

-- Oxford Global

-- Patni Computer Systems 

-- Plaut Consulting, Inc.

-- Plus 1 Consultants, Inc.

-- Premier HR Solutions

-- Prescient Consulting LLC

-- Radiant Systems, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation

-- Rapidigm, Inc.

-- RealTech, Inc.

-- RSA Companies

-- RWD Technologies, Inc.

-- Science Applications International Corp.

-- SEAL Consulting

-- Siemens Business Services

-- SITA Corp.

-- SLI Consulting, a NEON Company

-- Softguide International

-- Solutions Consulting, LLC

-- Synergy International Consulting, Inc.

-- Syskoplan

-- VGS, Inc.

-- Walldorf Technology Group

-- Zen & Art of Client Server Computing, Inc.

-- Additional new mySAP.com Service Partners are not listed at

this time.

[pilcrow (paragraph sign)] The initial members of the mySAP.com Partner Network in the United States focus on services or application hosting and are also part of the mySAP.com Partner Value Net. With the addition of the newly named partners, mySAP.com partnerships in the United States numbers over 100. The initial mySAP.com partners are listed below:

-- Andersen Consulting

-- answerthink

-- AppNet, Inc.

-- Arthur Andersen

-- Cap Gemini

-- Compaq Computer Corp.

-- Corio

-- Deloitte Consulting

-- EDS Corp.

-- eOnline Inc.

-- Ernst & Young

-- Grant Thornton LLP 

-- HAHT Software Inc.

-- Hewlett-Packard Co.

-- HostLogic

-- IBM 

-- IDS Scheer, Inc.

-- Interpath Communications Inc.

-- iXL Inc.

-- KPMG Consulting, LLC

-- Origin

-- PricewaterhouseCoopers

-- Qwest Cyber.Solutions

-- Razorfish Inc.

-- Schmidt-Vogel Consulting

-- Siemens Business Services

-- Sun Microsystems, Inc.

-- Unisys Corp.

About mySAP.com Partners

[pilcrow (paragraph sign)] mySAP.com partners have been selected based on their experience, resources and market presence. Each is fully capable of supporting the requirements of SAP customers and mySAP.com solutions. These companies have significant experience providing e-commerce-related services in the areas of application development and integration, legacy systems integration with e-commerce applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integration, and e-commerce business consulting at all levels, across multiple industries. SAP customers can feel confident that these partners have been evaluated and approved by SAP based on their level and quality of service, experience and expertise with SAP solutions.

About SAP

[pilcrow (paragraph sign)] As the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions, SAP is leveraging its strength in industry-focused business software and the world's largest enterprise software customer base to deliver mySAP.com. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. mySAP.com allows people to harness the power of the Internet to work smarter, better and faster by optimizing supply chains, managing strategic relationships, reducing time to market, sharing virtual information, and increasing productivity and shareholder value. SAP is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." The SAP World Wide Web site can be found at http://www.sap.com.

Copyright (c) 2000 SAP AG

[pilcrow (paragraph sign)] SAP, mySAP.com and SAPPHIRE are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.