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                Date: 1999-03-25
                 
                 
                SAP: Keine Umsatzzahlen mehr
                
                 
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      Mit den märchenhaften Wachtumsraten der letzten Jahre von  
40 Prozent & mehr  ist's anscheinend endgültig vorüber, für  
das Quartal I 99 gab die deutsche SAP, das grösste  
Softwarehaus Europas, erst gar keine Zahlen bekannt. Der  
Kurs ist binnen eines Jahrs mit minus 30 Prozent im Loch.  
 
Ruchbar wurde zugleich, dass SAP einem Grosskunden in  
Australien, der sich über die mühsame Implementation der  
SAP-R3 Software [Lagerverwaltung, Buchhaltung, & c & c]  
öffentlich geäussert hatte, Klage angedroht hatte. 
 
post/scrypt: Auf offiziellen SAP-CDs fanden sich im Jahre 98  
detaillierte Raster-Anleitungen für Führungskräfte, wie man  
von Mitarbeitern Persönlichkeitsbilder erstellt.. 
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HEIDELBERG, Germany--SAP said first-quarter pretax profit  
will be considerably below the year-ago level as sales fall  
short of expectations.  
 
The Walldorf, Germany-based company, which had a pretax  
profit of 331 million deutsche marks ($184 million) in the first  
quarter of 1998, did not release figures for the quarter, which  
ends March 31. Sales growth in the period will be slightly  
below forecasts for full-year growth of 20 to 25 percent, SAP  
said.  
 
The company's preferred shares have dropped more than 30  
percent this year on concern that SAP and its competitors  
face slowing growth as companies delay software purchases  
to focus on fixing their year 2000 computer problems. Rivals  
PeopleSoft, Baan, and J.D. Edwards have all seen sales  
slow.  
 
"It's the millennium effect, and it's affecting the whole  
industry," said Cornelis Bos, an analyst at ING Barings, who  
has a "buy" rating on the shares. SAP's preferred shares  
rose 4 euros, or 1.45 percent, to 280, retreating from a gain  
of more than 4 percent before the announcement. The  
company said at an analyst meeting earlier this month first- 
quarter profit wouldn't meet expectations.  
 
After years of profit growth of more than 40 percent on  
demand for its flagship R/3 software, which helps companies  
manage personnel, manufacturing, and accounting, SAP's  
net income rose just 14 percent in 1998 as Asia's economic  
problems crimped corporate earnings.  
 
Problems in Japan, which account for 8 percent of sales, will  
continue to plague the company in the first half, SAP co- 
CEO Henning Kagermann said at a press conference. SAP  
also faces waning demand for products that adjust  
companies' operations for the year 2000 and the new  
European currency. SAP's R/3 was among the first to  
account for those changes.  
 
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Klagsdrohung 
http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/idgnet/9903243sapsuit
                   
 
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"There is no solution because there is no problem" Marcel Duchamp 
http://www.heimatseite.com/revamp-duchamp
                   
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published on: 1999-03-25 
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