Executive Board

The Executive Board is the governing body of SAP. Subject to the requirements of stock corporation law, the Executive Board is committed to SAP's interests and bound by SAP company policy. It provides the Supervisory Board with regular, prompt, and comprehensive reports about all essential issues of business, corporate strategy, and potential risks.

Learn more about SAP's leadership and governance.

Employees

With a reputation for providing outstanding career opportunities and a stimulating work environment, SAP is an employer of choice in the global software industry. In 2007, we added over 4,668 employees to our corporate family, of which some 500 were related to acquisitions. Our commitment to employees has also been recognized externally through several national best employer awards in Germany and India in 2007, including those presented by the internationally renowned Great Place to Work Institutes.

For more than 35 years, SAP has been guided by deeply held corporate values, which have given our company the strength and longevity to help shape the path of our industry, while influencing the success of thousands of businesses worldwide.

SAP values include customer focus, quality, and the unwavering pursuit of product excellence. In addition, the values consist of integrity, commitment, and a passion for ever higher levels of achievement, with the knowledge that our actions today will help define our industry now and in the future. Our values are reflected in every aspect of our culture, and continue to guide our efforts to be a best-run business. And already in 2005, they were reinforced by five new corporate requirements: agility, high performance, simplicity, co-innovation, and talent development.

In recent years, governments around the world have implemented a growing number of regulatory initiatives to ensure ethical corporate conduct. In recognition of this, SAP supplemented its compliance efforts in 2003 with our own Code of Business Conduct, which defines the standards that each employee must meet in all business, legal, and ethical matters.

SAP's employee family includes people of virtually every culture, race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, age, disability, marital status, education, and sexual orientation. This diversity is among our greatest corporate assets and results in an organization that is rich in cultural wealth and open to a broad range of ideas and perspectives. For more information, please see Diversity at SAP.

Facts About SAP's Workforce

Nationalities represented worldwide 124 Nationalities represented at headquarters (Walldorf, Germany) 75 Top five nationalities represented at headquarters German, American, British, Indian, and Chinese Percentage of women 30% Average age 37.1 Average seniority 5.2 years Number of intercultural and gender-awareness training sessions held in 2007 209 (more than 2,275 employees worldwide participated)