SAP Americas Announces Small and Midsize (SME) Partner Award Winners at 2008 North American Partner Meeting

LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SAP America, Inc. and SAP Canada, Inc., subsidiaries of SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) , named the winners of its 2007 Small and Midsize Enterprise (SME) Business Partner Awards, recognizing the top-performing partners in the United States and Canada within the SAP(R) PartnerEdge(TM) program, an innovative global framework that recognizes and rewards partners for their commitment and success in serving small businesses and midsize companies.

SAP presented the awards in Las Vegas, Nevada during its 2008 Field Kick Off Meeting (FKOM), an annual gathering of the company's field employees and partners to learn about SAP's sales methodology, best practices and new developments regarding its complete roster of business solutions for small businesses and midsize companies, including SAP(R) Business One, SAP(R) Business All-in-One and the recently announced SAP(R) Business ByDesign(TM). This year's FKOM hosted more than 600 partner attendees, a 10 percent increase over the previous year's attendance.

Selected from the company's wide-ranging North American partner base of SAP Business All-in-One providers and SAP Business One partners, nominations were evaluated on numerous criteria to determine winning partners in each product category. SAP Business ByDesign categories and awards will be incorporated into the company's 2008 SME Business Partner Awards activities. Below is a list of this year's winners.

    U.S. SAP Business All-in-One Partners:
    -- Partner of the Year Award, honoring the partner who delivered the most
       new accounts, performed best against targets and exceeded customer
       satisfaction measures, went to IDS Scheer of Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
    -- "Achievement of Plan" Partner of the Year Award, honoring the top
       annual revenue-producing partner, went to Answerthink, Inc. of Atlanta,
       Georgia.
    -- Customer Satisfaction Awards, honoring the partners with the
       consistently highest customer satisfaction ratings, were awarded to
       both Bramasol of Palo Alto, California and IDS Scheer of Berwyn,
       Pennsylvania.
    -- Growth Leader Award, awarded to the SAP technology and SAP Business
       All-in-One partner with the most improved revenue growth figures, went
       to International Business Machines (IBM), Corp. of Armonk, New York.
    -- Overall Top Performer Awards, recognizing sales and customer
       achievements among individual partner employees, were presented to
       Ernie Perno of Answerthink, Inc. and Jim Brown and Mark Hester of IDS
       Scheer.


    Canadian SAP Business All-in-One Partners:
    -- Partner of the Year Award, honoring the top annual revenue-producing
       partner, went to Le Groupe Createch of Montreal, Quebec.
    -- Customer Satisfaction Award, honoring the partner with the consistently
       highest customer satisfaction ratings, was presented to IDS Scheer of
       Toronto, Ontario.
    -- New Name Top Performer Award, honoring the new partner with the best
       combination of new customer accounts and highest revenue figures, was
       awarded to Open Business Process, Inc. of Calgary, Alberta.


    U.S. SAP Business One Partners:
    -- Reselling Partner of the Year -- Territory Sales, naming the reseller
       partner with the most impressive sales record in sales to independent
       companies, was given to Apollo Consulting of San Francisco, California.
    -- Reselling Partner of the Year -- Ecosystem Sales, announcing the
       reseller partner with the greatest amount of sales of SAP Business One
       solutions within customers' extended ecosystems, was awarded to Vision
       33 of Irvine, California.
    -- West Regional Partner of the Year Award, recognizing the reseller
       partner headquartered in the western United States with the greatest
       combination of sales, customer satisfaction scores and business
       relationships, went to Apollo Consulting of San Francisco, California.
    -- South Central Regional Partner of the Year Award, naming the reseller
       partner headquartered in the southern central United States with the
       greatest combination of sales, customer satisfaction scores and
       business relationships, was awarded to Navigator Business Solutions,
       Inc. of Pleasant Grove, Utah.
    -- North Central Regional Partner of the Year Award, announcing the
       reseller partner headquartered in the northern central United States
       with the greatest combination of sales, customer satisfaction scores
       and business relationships, went to Long Business Systems, Inc. (LBSi)
       of Strongsville, Ohio.
    -- Southeast Regional Partner of the Year Award, for the reseller partner
       headquartered in the southeastern United States with the greatest
       combination of sales, customer satisfaction scores and business
       relationships, went to Netsirk Technologies, Inc. of Sunrise, Florida.
    -- Northeast Regional Partner of the Year Award, recognizing the reseller
       partner headquartered in the northeastern United States with the
       greatest combination of sales, customer satisfaction scores and
       business relationships, went to Third Wave Business Systems of Elmwood
       Park, New Jersey.
    -- Rookie of the Year Award, recognizing the new partner with the highest
       level of monthly revenues, was awarded to Bluewave Consulting of
       Germantown, Tennessee.
    -- Evangelist Award, for the partner working most effectively to ensure
       the continued success of SAP Business One, was awarded to Achieve IT
       Solutions, LLC, of Hauppauge, New York.
    -- Excellence in Learning Award, honoring the partner with the greatest
       investment in training resources and the best demonstration of training
       expertise through sales and customer wins, was presented to Vision 33
       of Irvine, California.
    -- Marketing Excellence Award, delivered to the partner that experienced
       the most marketing success, went to Achieve IT Solutions, LLC, of
       Hauppauge, New York.
    -- Excellence in Customer Satisfaction Award, highlighting the partner
       with the highest or most improved customer satisfaction rating, was
       presented to Omega Business Solutions of Beaverton, Oregon.
    -- Solution Partner of the Year Award, honoring the solution partner with
       the best combination of sales, partner support programs, quality and
       innovation, went to Valogix LLC of Saratoga Springs, New York.
    -- Solution Partner Quality Excellence Award, recognizing the solution
       partner with the best combined quality of code, customer/partner
       support and solution documentation, went to Accellos, Inc. of Colorado
       Springs, Colorado.
    -- Solution Partner Leadership in Innovation Award, honoring the solution
       partner that best opened new opportunities for the SAP Business One
       solution and laid the foundation for additional growth, was presented
       to Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG) of Ottawa, Ontario and Broken
       Arrow, Oklahoma.
    -- Solution Partner Sales Excellence Award for Revenue, naming the partner
       that generated the most revenues for SAP via direct and/or indirect
       sales, was given to SoftBrands of Minneapolis, Minnesota.


    Canadian SAP Business One Partners:
    -- Partner of the Year Award, honoring a well-rounded partner with
       significant growth in customer account wins and high levels of customer
       satisfaction, went to Coastal Range Systems of Burnaby, British
       Columbia.
    -- Rookie of the Year Award, recognizing the new partner with the best
       combination of revenues and new customer accounts, was presented to
       J-Squared Technologies, Inc. of Kanata, Ontario.
    -- Top Performer Awards, delivered for consistently high levels of
       customer satisfaction and technical expertise, combined with
       significant growth in customer installations and annual revenue levels,
       were awarded to N'ware Technologies of St-Georges, Quebec; mCite
       Business Systems, Inc. of Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Zantek Information
       Technology of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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